Electrolysis - My experience - Did I get jipped?

Hair Removal Methods Professional Electrolysis
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I am a 28 year old guy. Growing up I was never really a hairy guy, but it seems in college and mostly after college is when the hair on my chest, shoulders, arms (triceps/biceps) and back really started to grow. Being self conscience about it, I decided to get electrolysis done with a focus on my shoulders and arms (triceps/biceps). From 2005 – 2008, I received over 150 hours of Electrolysis treatments at $75/hour costing me a grand total of around $10,000. My electrologist was certified, licensed and doing it for over 10 years. I stopped treatments in 2008 bc I wanted to save money for other things, like a house and realized at that point it was going to take a lot more time and MONEY to reduce the amount of hair in the areas I was focusing on.

I never realized how much I spent on Electrolysis until I actually just recently added up the total cost. Thinking about it now, it was a pretty big waste of money. I still have hair in the areas that were worked on (shoulders and arms (triceps/biceps). The amount of hairs was only reduced, not completely clean as I had hoped, so I just shave those areas now. I feel kind of jipped that I spent $10,000 and I don’t have anything to show for it. I feel like e-mailing the electrologist and giving her a piece of mind or at least trying to get something for my money. When I first started going to her, she said that if I decided to do electrolysis that I have to commit 100% and do as many hours as possible. I thought about that today, if I did 100% completion I would have spent $100,000!

If you are a guy thinking about electrolysis for your back, shoulders, arms, etc. I would probably recommend laser hair removal. I never did it bc I thought that it would just reduce the hairs I had and not completely remove them, but here I am today, $10,000 broker, and I just have reduced hairs. I always wonder if it would have been better to do laser, but at this point I have already spent too much.

Always keep track of how much money you have spent, and how much hair has been removed. I neglected to this bc I didn’t want to think about the money since I was so embarrassed about the hair.

For the Professional Electrologists out there, did I get ripped off? Should I e-mail the Electrologist letting her know how I feel? This industry makes me pretty bothered, since it takes advantage of people and charges high prices. Thank you reading and hopefully this makes someone else think twice before moving forward with Electrolysis.

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Do your own due diligence. Nobody can do it for you. Sorry you had a bad experience, but you probably don’t have any recourse with the practitioner. I mean, you could scream and complain, but I doubt anything would come of it.

I’ve had a good experience with electrolysis, also spending $10,000 but having virtually 100% clearance on a much larger area than you. It could come down to you having an inefficient practitioner, but you might not have ever known if you didn’t compare him or her to other professionals.

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You do not need an electrolysis professional, you need to Bryce.

Edit: Oh sorry, I arrived late.

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Bryce what areas did you have treated and for how long?

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Thanks Roma18. Exactly the questions I had for Bryce.

depilacionelectr - What exactly does “You do not need an electrolysis professional, you need to Bryce.” mean?

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Bryce is living proof of the effectiveness of Electrolysis. He is a consumer with an unbiased perspective.
Any electrologist involved here can demonstrate the effectiveness of Electrolysis well done. But apparently our graphics tests are unreliable because they may have been rigged.

Look for Bryce’s diary and see for yourself the valuable document of this consumer. I have not heard of any scientific study of Electrolysis is more rigorous and more impartial than this boy.

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Okay, I reviewed Bryce’s Diary posts, but it looks like he went with a combination of both laser and electrolysis and is still working on completion.

Bryce, did you just generalize/estimate that you did the same as me for $10,000 and are clear? Did you do a combo of both laser and electrolysis?

I only did electrolysis, but from the sounds of it, my electrolysis wasn’t as quick as yours.

Is it from your experience, that for $10,000 it should clear pretty hairy shoulders, back and arms using electrolysis?

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Bryce did a test to compare between the two methods. He had electrolysis on one side of his body and Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (L.A.S.E.R.). At some point, the Electrolysis side was finished, while the L.A.S.E.R. side was still growing hair, so he moved to finish the LASER side with electrolysis and called the comparison over.

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If one reads my diary carefully, he or she will see that I did my left side with laser+electrolysis vs. my right side of only electrolysis. I am not finished, but making very good progress on the left side (which took an extra year because of the laser treatments). The right side is totally finished (with the exception of a few areas that need a little more treatment because my first practitioner died).

I will continue to update my diary with data, but I will wait until I’m mostly finished with the work in order to close the case. I haven’t quite spent $10,000, but imagine that will be around the neighborhood all told. It might be a couple thousand more.

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After it’s all done, I’ll probably always be a consumer of electrolysis, because I want to attack new areas of hair. High on my list of priorities are the back of my neck, about 1-2 inches on the lower part of my neck in front (collar catchers), thinning stomach and chest, ears, nose, and a few others. It makes grooming much easier.

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My best advice: go try new practitioners. Don’t spend another minute with someone you feel is feckless.

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Feckless: not fit to assume responsibility. Careless, irresponsible. Great word to describe some people, no matter what profession.

Look NJ guy, I don’t have enough information about the details of your experience to tell you what may have gone wrong here. All I can tell you is, personally, I have treated many guys with hairy backs and they end up baby smooth in the end. The more aggressive you are up front with getting cleared and then going forward with properly timed maintenance, the faster you will be able to enjoy a nearly hair-free back. The soft blond hairs left behind are not noticeable, so that is what I mean by nearly hair-free. My most dedicated men are happily on their way in about 14 to 16 months. A few cleanups may be needed over the year after being finished?

This is all achieved if the electrologist is properly using MicroFlash or PicoFlash thermolysis, a large probe, auto-sensor mode, proper levels of intensity and timing and has the stamina to devote two or more hours at a time to push, push, push forward to clear a large area. I start at the shoulders and do the upper quadrant first. I clear and maintain, clear and maintain, clear and maintain. When the client sees vast improvement over a period of months, they understand that this works and want to get going on the bottom quadrants.

This requires hard work and impeccable dedication on your part and it requires stamina and physical hard work with good equipment on the electrologist’s part. In my opinion, even though blend electrolysis is a very good mode, it is not appropriate for a hairy back. The better flash modes that are offered to all modern electrologists today are simply awesome for cases like yours and I would advise you to explore the possibility of finding an electrologist that cares about getting you from hairy to clear as fast as possible.

Lastly, when you condemn electrolysis as being a waste of time and money and advise hairy men to get laser on their shoulders and backs, you are offering advice without a deep knowledge of either modality. Laser may work well enough or it may actually stimulate more hair to come in action. Electrolysis will get every single obnoxious looking hair, IF all factors are present for doing this correctly. It is the ONLY thing available with assured permanent hair removal. It is technically more difficult to do, so that is why people can’t always find the best person with the best setup for doing this correctly. Maybe that was your case. Poster Bryce has shared his story with no bias. It would do you well to read what he says.

Electrolysis works. Hair is tough. It is not easy to stick to a plan that will get you hair-free, but if you do, you will not regret investing your time and money in something that free’s you and makes you feel well-groomed. The hardest part may be finding a dedicated, caring, well trained and fully equipped electrologist that is truly your partner for getting you hair-free within a two year time frame - maximum.

Dee