Is there anyone out there that is completely done or close with their electrolysis treatments and is it what you hoped for?
You can search the electrolysis threads and read about many successes. Most clients who are finished don’t bother coming on these boards anymore because they have solved their problem. Search for ‘laserhater’s’ posts. I guess I could encourage many of my clients to come on hairtell who are finished and fill this thread with answers to your questions, but then it looks like self-promotion. Right? They would do it if I asked. From faces to backs to arms, ears and toes, they could tell you that it works and it doesn’t take a “million years”.
Many electrolysis clients are finished and they are ecstatic that they don’t have to chase hair anymore. We can only hope that they see your question and then tell you about their personal stories. Until then, I’ll buzz off like a bee… :whistle:
I’m nearly done, and pretty happy. I am having my entire trunk treated, front and back. I have had 7 laser sessions(Lightsheer XC, most recently 43 joules) which reduced hair. And I have had 65 hours of electolysis over a ten month period. I am pretty smooth, only a few sprouts in the treated area. Still have chest to complete, almost entirely white hairs the laser couldn’t get. Of course, I’ll have to wait a few more months to be sure of the permanence. But for right now, it’s great! The laser got a lot, but the electrolysis gets them all.
Sailor
thanks for the reply, sailor
thats great and i cant wait for me to get started…i thought that i would have to put in quite a bit of hours more than i do now… i am doing all electrolysis, no LHR…my question…if you did all electrolysis and put in the appropriate time for that, do you think you would have been done earlier, the same, or later…and generally speaking, were your electrolysis treatments painful
Diana
Take a look at the topic “Electrolysis. No Proof It Works” and you will have some testimony from those who are done and happy.
Make sure that you look at all 3 pages, but pages two and three are of special note.
As a male I had quite a bit of hair. Electrolysis is quite a bit more painful than laser. Laser covered larger portions of my body and did so far more quickly, but couldn’t get all the hair. Laser probably got about 70% or so, and seems to knock regrowth out for about 90 days. The combination seemed about right. I will know better in six months.
“Pain” with electrolysis depends on practioner skill, epilator and vision choices and how the client comes to the session. If one is dehydrated and has had little sleep or is stressed out, you will not be very comfortable. I have been told by many of my laser clients (who are now electrolysis clients) that laser hurts like hell, more so than the electrolysis they are experienceing with me on an Apilus Platinum epilator especially. There are other epilators that help with comfort isssues as well, but the word pain should not describe electrolysis if one has ponied up to purchase the better technology available today. “Uncomfortable” for some areas to " very tolerable" for other areas is a better description when electrolysis is performed correctly.
Seventy percent reduction for laser is very good. Come back in six months and share the results for sure, if not sooner! One whole year without any treatments to remove hair is the true test for laser and electrolysis results.
Dee
I’m at the 6 month mark and I am so so so so happy!!! I know I am not done, but if all I had when I started was what I have now, I would have never went for electrolysis! I have saw my skin improve dramatically, as well.
Praise the Lord for hairtell!
“ImOSM”, you remind me of my own Sistine Chapel. My personal Agony & Ecstasy job.
I had a client who had a testosterone problem (yes, ladies, men can get that too. This poor guy had a body hell-bent on activating every last follicle in the beard zone of his face. All 1,000 or so per square inch!) As a red blooded male, he did not want to do drug therapy (after all, it did have some perks) but he did not like the fact that looking from side to side was a good way to saw off his shirt collars (they would literally fall off the shirts at unpredicatable times) and even when he shaved, it looked like he had not shaved at all 3 hours later.
My secretary was convinced that he was twins, and that every other day they were switching on us, and sending in the other twin! I would clear out a cheek on Monday, and by Wednesday, there was enough hair on the cheek to start over on the same cheek. (hell, if the appointment lasted 3 hours, by the time I was finished, the area we started in already had new hairs breaking through the skin’s surface. I could have just started over right there.)
Well, this up hill boulder rolling continued for 2 years, at which point, I proudly announced, “Congratulations, you now have a normal beard.” The client then happily announced, “I have decided that I have shaved enough for one lifetime when I was shaving 3 times a day or more. Take It All Off Doc!” :o and thus we embarked on another 3 years of work. Now days, even HE looks better than I do!
Of course, he had something that I don’t. He had ME to do HIS work. I don’t have ME to do MY work on ME! Where are those cloning machines we were promised?
It takes a lot of trust on the clients part and talking and teaching on the electrologists part to get the client relaxed enough to believe that electrolysis works well no matter the hair structure or hair color, no matter the color of skin.
A skilled electrologist, using the best technology available today, including vision wear, can help hairy people overcome the curse of too much hair. An unskilled electrologist using antique equipment may do her best to please, but she has many hurdles in her/his way that will often frustrate the most trusting client.