Electrolysis On White Chin Hairs

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#21

@Barbara CPE - Thank you for your input. I had an hour appointment this morning, and talked to my electrologist more about the tugging issue. I explained that I was on a forum receiving this information from professionals. I asked her to try some hairs with three shots each: left, right, center, and see if they slid out easier without tugging. I could still feel significant resistance, like they were being plucked as an untreated hair. When she uses the normal one or two shots, the tugging varies from mild to intense. When she is pulling on the intense end it feels similar to simply plucking them.

So, I’m going to spend another hour there on tuesday doing this same thermolysis auto method. After that she suggested we could try blend which takes longer. I said that if the hairs will slide out easier and get a better kill ratio then we should do it that way.

I have also read a page of information about blend on the site hairzapper.com which is a bit scary.

“Blend is complex for operators to use and all too often, this process is badly set up and skin damage is often the result. The primary difficulty is the determination of how much thermolysis produces coagulation and not desiccation.”

According to that info, blend is very tricky to get right and there is a significant chance of scarring in deeper layers of skin tissue which won’t show on the surface until much later up to a year.

http://www.hairzapper.com/blend.htm

I don’t know if it’s ok to ask for others opinions on that particular page of information because of professional conduct etc. But if it’s ok I’d like to hear from anyone on the hairzapper.com blend page, and perhaps if anyone can recommend a link to other information about blend, I’d like to read up on it.

#22

Well I just searched HairTell and found the thread on hairzapper.com. A lot of good information has already been presented on that subject (shoulda checked first)

In that thread I found some testimonials by a few people who have had great success with thermolysis on coarse hairs. So I feel a bit like I’m out of luck since that is the method I’ve been treated with ($3,300 worth) I’m sure with a proper tech I would be only going for touch ups now. How depressing!

Here are the quotes from the other thread:

Originally Posted By: orangecode
Thermolysis works. If you find the right person with the right training and the right tools and the patience, you’ve struck gold.

Response Posted by Caith721
100% agreement from me. Thermolysis with an Apilus Senior machine has been a godsend for me, precisely because the electrologist is highly skilled and experienced. My skin is fair, tender, and ridiculously sensitive. In the last six weeks, all the whiskers (and I mean COARSE, THICK, STIFF hairs) have been cleared from my lip lines, the corners of my mouth, and beneath my lower lip. On my upper lip, 2/3 of the hair has been removed, and tomorrow will be a marathon session to complete the remaining 1/3.

If thermolysis is so terrible, why am I so incredibly happy with the thermolysis work being performed for me? Following each weekly 60-to-90 minute session I have almost no swelling whatsoever, and very little redness. Both of these resolve within another 60-to-90 minutes. With my skin, that is a miracle in itself.

#23

Brielle,

ALL MODALITIES of electrolysis work. I routinely perform thermolysis on 95% of my clients, everywhere on the body and face, for all kinds of hair structures. Hope you can iron this out with your electrologist so there is no tugging. Maybe she should demonstrate blend to you. If she is willing to give it a try, all the better. You really need her help, since there is no one else in your area.

Any modality that is performed well will not damage your skin, so don’t freak out by what you read on hairzappers.

#24

If I may stick my nose in here, has anyone considered the possibility the machine is failing ? I have seen them lose part of their output power without failing completly.

Some transistors live forever, some don’t…

#25

That is brilliant, Mike. Of course that could be the problem! How would you suggest that to this electrologist if you were Brielle?

#26

The sequentium, right? They do fail long before others give up.

#27

I’m sorry but generally I find these problems only when an electrologist calls to complain about the probe all of a sudden not working. They generally have it in their mind that they have a problem before they call so it is easy to approach.

Unfortunatly it’s usually the opposite and they are wondering why the insulation stopped working like it should and we find the machine is running out of control.

I’m pleased to say that so far, I’ve never heard either of these complaints about an Apilus machine. I can’t say for sure, but from what I’ve seen, I suspect they have fail safe circutry built in for just such an occurance.

Also, I would be remiss if I did not mention that Texas Electrolysis Supply has an excellent repair and calibration service for a lot of older machines.

#28

I hope that I’m getting this: I will try to find a treatment setting she uses that causes the hair to come out without tugging. I believe it will have to be blend because the thermolysis settings aren’t achieving a ‘no tug’ state. If the hairs slide out easily then that means at least that they are being treated, weakened and eventually will not return. Is that correct? If she can’t find any settings to let the hairs pull out without a tug, I will stop treatments.

The next nearest electrologist is three hours drive and I don’t have a car, so that will likely not be happening.