couple of questions

I just have a couple of questions. I’ve been getting my eyebrows done every week. I’ve had 11 treatments so far. I was just wondering when I should start to see some sort of results? Also I’ve read on this board that you don’t really have to go in every week. You can go in every 3 to 4 weeks. I was wondering if that holds true for eyebrows or is that for the rest of the body? I’m just worried that I won’t be able to easily hide my hair in that area, and I know if I let it grow for like 2 weeks it will take my electrologist over an hour to do them and I’ll be super hairy. Should I just continue to go weekly or is there an actual good way to hide brow hair?

If it takes 15 minutes every week to keep the brows looking like you want them at this point, then that is a good plan. Later, it won’t take as long, and you will start to find that you don’t have anything to do unless you wait 2 or more weeks, as the treatments wind down.

Yes, what James said.

How long are the treatments now, compared to 11 weeks ago? You shouldn’t be spending the same amount of time now that you spent in the beginning, since electrolysis progressively clears the hair you have.

You can see a difference in the amount of hair, can’t you?

Treatments are 30 minutes. Sometimes I go for an hour so she can get some hairs on my cheeks as well but even those appointments are mostly spent on my brows. Honestly she could probably spend the full hour on my brows to get every single hair. Like on the sides. The only difference I see is in the texture of the hair. Some of it is thinner but overall I’m not seeing a reduction. She always says…wow you have a LOT of brow hairs. She means she can see all the hairs underneath my skin that haven’t even popped out yet.

I’ll be going for treatment 13 in a couple of days. The way the hair is growing back is odd though. You know how a hair looks when you pluck it and it breaks off, that’s how the hairs are looking growing back. It’s like its not growing back right. Not all my hairs are doing this but the really thick black ones are. Is that normal??

Eyebrows! I hate doing eyebrowns! They take so many treatments and it frustrates me. Most clients get frustrated too and never understand why so many treatments are necessary. (Humm, maybe plucking for 20 years?) However …

“I’ll be going for treatment 13 in a couple of days. The way the hair is growing back is odd though. You know how a hair looks when you pluck it and it breaks off, that’s how the hairs are looking growing back. It’s like its not growing back right. Not all my hairs are doing this but the really thick black ones are. Is that normal??”

No that’s not normal. Classic “IR” (instant regrowth)? Of course, then again, these are eyebrows and they are always a “messy” affair. Did I say I hate doing eyebrows?

When we see this, we need to be considering what we’re doing wrong…a little under-treatment of the follicle perhaps? Bad aim in that follicle? Too shallow of insertion? It still sounds like you are getting somewhere, since it’s not all the hairs and you are seeing finer growth.

:grin: You know what I hate doing worse than eyebrows? The middle upper lip near the nose. Most people struggle and sneeze and tear. Most say it doesn’t hurt that bad, but they sure don’t act like it. So odd.

Since I went for training on the Platinum, I LOVE doing those little bitty hairs at the edge of the nostril and in the filtrum! OMGosh, how the right pico settings and the shortened time between pulses makes a difference in the sensation and the ease of release!!! Clients used to allow me to do 3 hairs at an appointment, now they will let me do 3 minutes worth of hairs at an appointment…and…surprise (!) we are getting DONE with the treatments.

Well, this is true Barbara. The Apilus Platinum is a much kinder epilator sensation-wise, but there are some people I have to do the ten hair countdown on, but usually, when those endorpins click in, they tell me to go ahead and do ten more and on and on.

There were some hairs treated near my chin this week that were every bit as sensitive and painful as those beneath my nasal septum. I think it’s simply the presence of nerves so close to the follicles, and the thinness of the skin in that area. When my upper lip beneath my nose was treated it definitely evoked a few tears, but only as a physical reaction, not an emotional one.

Regarding eyebrows, I’d guess that repeated plucking, waxing, or threading is responsible for stronger, deeper and/or curved roots. I’ve had my brows waxed every month for the last two years, and fortunately the majority of those hairs did not grow back.