So I’ve gotten electrolysis treatments in the past, several actually. For the most part they have been successful, and I wonder if people experience the same thing I did, resulting in the following question topic:
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This is an interesting question. Clients have had their backs completed faster than their faces. When I entered the field, I found this perplexing until I realized that our faces have much more hair follicles per square inch than any other area of the body. So, these hairs are very dense. Therefore, in most situations, completely clearing one inch of body hair vs. one inch of facial hair – body hair will clear faster.
Therefore, it might seem that facial hair is more difficult to treat.
I assumed this. It seems like hairs on my neck, especially closer to the bottom of the neck, were killed quicker than, say, hairs on the corners of my mouth. Those seem to never want to die even after my electrologist stated she was using a pretty high intensity. They were growing back slower and slower but they simply would not die after several visits (more than 10!) The hairs on my face do seem to feel thicker and denser than other places on my body.
One of the main reasons we are always telling people to come in for a consultation so that we may give answers for your particular situation and proposed treatment areas is the constant variability of the human body. While one may have 300 to 500 hairs per square inch on a man’s face, that same man may have a range of 25 to 75 hairs per square inch on the chest and 5 to 15 hairs per square inch on the back and arms. Women, on the other hand don’t usually have the same amounts of facial hair, but since this hair is stimulated into being at different random times, there is often no set growth cycle, as there would be on a man’s face. A full clearance on a man grants him sometimes 3 to 4 weeks where he doesn’t shave and no one notices any hairs. A woman can have a full face full of new hairs 3 to 7 days after a full clearance! Maybe not as many hairs as were just removed, but enough that she wants (demands?) another full clearance days to a week later.
I once had a woman who was a perfect storm of hairy. She was 450 pounds, eating so called “diet foods” (which are full of hormonal disruptors and fat triggers), was sensitive to Monosodium Glutamate, (which can cause PCOS) had plucked her entire face every day, twice a day, for years and had a certain heritage that made her more likely to have lots of hair anyway. When we started working together, I could do 4 to 5 hours on her on a Monday, and by Friday, there was already another 3 hours of work available to do on her face again. We decided to meed up every Monday, Wednesday and Friday until the problem retreated enough to go to once a week, then one every 2 weeks, then 3 weeks, and finally, once every 6 weeks. In the end, we had once final treatment 6 months after our previous treatment, to get those last pesky hairs.
You may be happy to note that I was also able to help her go from 450 to 135 pounds and delete lots of heartache in her life during the time we worked on her hair removal program. After all, since the thing that caused her to be 450 pounds was also causing her to grow hair, it was all part of a holistic approach to solving her problem.
James,
Can you share how you helped your client lose the weight?
Thank you
You are the only male electrologist I ever heard of! 
How did you assist her in losing so much weight? What foods did you recommend?
There are several male electrologists across Canada and the USA, females do by far outnumber the males though. Several of these practitioners became electrologists because they had difficulty finding someone to provide treatment. I wonder why most female electrologists do not treat men, does anyone know? Is there anyone who might be able to shed some light on this question?
All the electrologists I know (I’m in Virginia, USA) treat men and women. I would think it would be bad business to send a man away simply because he’s…well…a man. I suppose the hairs would be more difficult to treat??? But not impossible (I don’t know! I’m not an electrologist!)
Where do I begin…
The personal nature of electrolysis causes many practitioners to refuse men due to many issues. One’s significant other may have jealousy problems with someone of the opposite sex being your client. Single women often don’t feel safe being contracted to spend hours alone with someone of the opposite sex, and some clients have actually developed infatuations towards their practitioners.
On the more professional side, most schools don’t actually have much hands on training on men during their programs, if any at all. Most graduates of programs don’t realize that working on a man is a different set of treatment energies, and insertions.
As for the client with the weight issue…
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a certain young man was a personal trainer. He left the field, because people who could afford to pay for a personal trainer, often really wanted someone to pester, fight with them, and dominate them into being fit. While I was all for giving a person information and helping them work on progress, I was not into pushing someone to get something they said they wanted, but did not have motivation to earn.
What this client and I were able to do was eliminate the fake food-like products from her life, slowly introduce exercises that she could perform, and slowly ramp it up while INCREASING the amount of food she ate, and the number of times she ate per day. We just had to make sure she was eating the right stuff.
Often, I think about helping more people like her. Trouble is making it pay to do so. It is a very time consuming thing, and one thing I have little of is time… But who knows, maybe its time I walked into the electrolysis sunset, and hosted a life changing retreat instead.
Very interesting…
I would absolutely LOVE to have a male electrologist. Body hair is not the easiest thing to talk about, especially to someone of the opposite sex so to have a professional working on you who just happens to be a guy would really be comforting in my opinion!! I suffer from idiopathic hirsutism and it is especially bad on my face so needless to say, I spent much of my younger years in hiding!
As far as the weight loss thing, I’m actually trying to gain weight! 30 years old and two kids, I’m barely 110 lbs!
There is a DVD called Raw Vegan Muscle. You may want to check it out.
A friend of mine once had a bet with the Late Joe Weider about being able to pack on fabulous amounts of usable muscle. Had he not got sick and missed one week due to being bed ridden, he would have won the bet. He came in just 5 pounds under on the appointed day… the secret is increasing the number of times you give your body nutrition, staying on schedule with that feeding plan, and doing short, high intensity work outs that max out both your weight bearing and aerobic capacity.
Of course, this is a generalization of what it would take a book to describe… Oh, yeah, my friend wrote 4 books trying to describe this.