thanks vespa susie…cant wait until its all over <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />…
btw the extra finer hairs that i got…i got em after having had laser treatments <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />…now m having to have electrolysis done on hairs on i never had 1-2 years ago.
hi, i went in for another session of electrolysis this week she had me booked in for an hour cause this time i wanted both the sides both(left and right) in one day
so anyway she said i dint have much growth and she was right i been observing the area for a week and even though i feel some stubble on both sides…last week she said they are old hairs if they dont grow and i been feeling them this week too…and there hasnt been much growth of new hairs this week
so it only took her 30 minutes altogether to do my left side, right side…and even in that time she did abit of below chin and she tried about 4-5 hairs on forehead(said wanted to see how they are) …as later on i would consider forehead because the dumb laser practicener ran the laser there a few times too and i have finer hairs growing there now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />…and the electrollogist told me that forehead usually doesnt take that long…she told me about one of her clients who had her about 1 inch of her hair line moved up n now after 13 treatments overall a year only really finer hairs are growing and she only comes in for each month…im not considering moving hairline <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> but will get her to get those finer hairs later on
so yea she said i was doing really well and if i had this type of slow growth then it was gona be a easy process for me and i could go in for like 30 minutes only to get both sides done and if i missed a week that would be ok too…so this is good news for me hopefully my growth cycle stays this way and she doeesnt fall behind <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
so yea she did the treatment did the roller thing and applied her custome made crea.
my skin looks kinda red and under chin area i noticed red bumps but its been only 2 hours or so and the redness usually goes away in by another 4-5 hours maybe less and i will keep applying her custom made cream.
my skin before i went in for treatment today, considering last weeks 1 hour electrolysis treatment had healed quite well i dint have any red bums/red dots just in a few areas tiny very lil scabs but that doesnt bother me as i was told they only temporary and i can cover them up with styling my hair a certain way <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />…and after 2 days i even started applying my pigmentation cream which is good and stoped it today <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> and i been drinking lots of water about 2 litres a day and been taking 2 flexseed oil pills(1000mg each) and 1 vitamin E pill(167.5mg) to speed up the skin healing process hopefully and sumtimes i take a vitamin C pill too(1000mg) lol
i have to say after starting this treatment im not as uncomfortable going out in public as much as i was before…as the hairs are all gone and the ones that do come thru she gets them each week <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> anywayz il keep updating.
i got a question…before starting electrolysis i used to exfoliate my skin with a facial scrub(came in a bottle dont mean a loafer or wateva)…anyway i used to do that 2-3 times week now ever since i started electrolysis i have stoped as im scared it may damage the recovering skin or so currently i go for electrolysis every friday…when can i start exfoliating even if just once within the week?..is it ok to do so?, or will exfoliating damage the skin <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Wait 3 to four days after treatment, and don’t do it closer than 24 hours before treatment.
ok thnx james…so il probly do that on wednesday…anyway one other thing…i remeber when i went for the consultations a couple of places one of them asked me if i was pregnant…if electrolysis is such a safe method whats being pregnant got to do with it just curious <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
i had another treatment today…and again my time reduced <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> she had me booked in for an hour but i wwas 20 minutes late still even in that she only did 25 minutes on me…she said i had a very small growth rate and she thinks 90 percent of my hairs are not in growth phase and i think she is right i myself cant see any hairs when i do look in the mirror <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />…she said its good i got a slow growth rate and she can keep up easy this way but the bad bit is il have quite a long treatment until she can get all the hairs
so anyway i had 25 minutes done altogether…even in that she did like i think 8 minutes on left side and about 8 minutes on right side the rest she did here and there…a bit on chin…and told me that area looks cleared now…shez probly rite as id seen only 10-20 hairs there to begin with…she told me that she knows i wont let her do my upper lip…so i said ok go ahead but do the corner bits for now…she did some there but not much as she said they are dead hairs mostly…then she did some on forhead…and said again most there are finer dead hairs…so then she really wanted to do some on my eyebrows so i said ok go ahead lol <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />…n these ones i felt more…and each time she kept saying a thick black bulb…actually it kinda felt like plucking but m thinking its not plucking it maybe just that the end bits the black bulbs were thick <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />…and i felt more pain there too then any other place she has done so far…and at end she did the roller thing and applied cream
she told me she may do the forehead area properly after i like shave it or wax or sumthing that way she can only get the hairs in growth phase and not waste my electrolysis time so i told her i’d probly bleach it so next session she gona do a test patch of bleach and see how my skin reacts to bleach first coz m concerned about pigmentation from bleaching and then the week after that when i go in for treatment probly bleach the area and the week after that finally do the foreahead lol
as for my skin there wasnt much redness afterwards what if any was went away in an hour or 2…as for skin update from last treatment i had tiny scabs in some places but thats it other then that skin looks pretty much normal
anyway il keep updating
ok i had another appt today.
again i had booked in for 40 mins to an hour at least
but overall she only did 20 mins.
i feel like maybe she kinda rushed abit maybe m paranoid…even though i cant see much growth she DID SAY oh uv had abit more growth this week yay <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />…yet she did both sides plus about 5 0r so hairs on side of upper lip area all in 20 mins…
i feel like she rushed as some client came in who was late!!..and was booked in for some beauty thing with another person but the person left thinking the client not cuming so my electrologist told the women to wait up n she gona be done with me soon…so i think thats why she rushed yet if there was no…
n another thing i felt more of the plucking sensation today <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />…i no she plucked in my lip area coz she told me she was plucking them as they were all dead hairs and she would love to work on the growing ones on that area so told me is gona pluck those old hairs so the newer ones can start cuming through…
but other then the lip area i did feel plucking kinda feeling when she was doing the sides…
also she told me i had 3 ingrowns <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> man n all this time i thought they were damn pimples coz i had 3 red bumps in that area so i thought they were pimples but she told me they are ingrowns <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> and owww it kinda hurt when she was trying to get them to squeez out…dont no if she actually managed to get em out or what cant see exactly
wel i dint like todays appt at all but the appts i had b4 were good…
anyway my skins been pretty much good and back to normal except for those 3 red bumps which i thought were pimples but now i know beta they are/were ingrowns…
so yea 20 mins of electrosis done today then she did the roller thing and applied her cream.
she also did a lil test patch of bleach near the neck below ear area to see how my skin reacts that went ok so told me i can bleach next week the forehead and she can start on that the week after.
but really can sum1 really have tht much slow growth that its been my 4th week now so likei shaved a month ago…1st week had 40 mins, then she did 30, then 25 and today 20 mins…is she being a slacker m i just paranoid <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
just updating…skin from last treatment pretty much normal…a few tiny lil scabs…i had one white head on side corner of lip and i noticed an ingrown near chin. the white head went down as i kept applying her cream for 2 days.
anyway i had another appt on saturday…i think it was probly an hour as i went in 1130 and came out about 1230, but thing is she also did some bleaching for me so dont no how much long that took and well she only charged me for i think maybe 31 mins or 35 wel she charged me $43 and i no that 30 mins cost 42 dollars and 45 mins cost 53 dollars so must have been something from the 2 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />…she dint charge me for bleaching either which is kool said since its to help make her life easier for electrolysis she wont charge me
so anyway she did both my side area, some on lip and a few about 5 hairs between eyebrows…she plucked out some of the dead hairs out on the lip area and some on between eyebrows which is a bad thing but i duno i guess she knows best <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />…
anyway she bleached my forehead area, and underchin and neck area, the bleach is kinda noticeable on the forehead from closeup but i guess il have to live with it and few weeks those hairs will be out…just for the first time i did it as i dint want to shave and the hairs there are fine so i thought bleach mite be a beta option.
anyway she took out tht ingrown on my chin area, did the roller thing at the end on the treated areas and applied her cream.
i dont like the plucking of old hairs but i really hope this lady is genuine n m not gona have a disapointing time at the end of this like i had with my laser. things are going good at moment…so far its been 5 weeks of treatment of about between 40-20 mins each week…as she been saying to me my growth of growing hairs been slower n the rest are old hairs i hope she is rite
Hi Simran, I assume you are darker skinned by your name?
If so, please also register and post (copy and paste from here) your nice detalied experienced on http://www.darkskinlaser.com/forums
in the electrolysis section as it will provide darker skinned patients evidence whether eletrolysis works and whether or not is casues pigmentation and skin changes in darker skinne patients in every case. Post like yours will help darker skinned patients determine between choosing electrolysis and laser (or a combo of both which is probably the best for larger areas it seems). Thanks.
i had another about 33 minutes treatment done this week . i was abit late but she could have done more if she felt need to do so as she dint have any other appointments after mine.
she worked on both my sides, about 2-3 hairs on chin and the rest on my forehead. the hhairs were sliding out easily…i kinda felt a tug now n then but i asked her about them and she nicely explained to me some hairs thicker or so and may feel like a tug but if it was still attched she would know when she trys to slide em out and she would re do it , if it did hapen…
so anyway she did the roller thing at the end applied her cream…
so anyway i was talking to her about makeup n she actually applied the powdered one to see which one suit my skin rite on the treated area <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> but then i asked her wudnt applying makeup be bad so again she told me these were those mineral makeup n they dont clog pores or do any harm quite beneficial actually.
anyway got another appoitment next week. and she told me she going away for a week after tht so im gona have to miss a appointment <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />…she did say i could get it done by the other person tht works there but then i dont wana have 2 ppl working on me n she told me it be exactly the same just different pair of hands…do u guys think this is a good idea, i told her after my laser expereicence i prefer only one person so she booked me in for when she cums back told me shed be quite busy as everyone wud be wanting treatment then so i booked myself in advance <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
anyway my skin is luking good no ingrowns or anything n healing nicely. i had forehead bleached last week n i could actually see the growing black hairs so now i no what she was talking about before anyway wil keep updating
hi,
just a lil update and something that im worried about too.
today i noticed a lil round hole/puncture mark/scar about 2mm in diameter on my left side area where i have had electrolysis…i was looking in the mirror close up doing a checkup as i have another session tomorow i had not noticed this mark before but today i did and im worried now…what is this?..is this a bad sign that my electrologist has made a scar on my face? will it go away ??
please reply anyone? who may have nay idea on this <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I would need to actually see what you are talking about to comment.
james i emailed you the picture
Thanks for the picture. I don’t have time to really get into it now, as I am late for leaving for Houston Texas. I have forwarded your information to a good friend who can return mail to you sooner than I can, and will have a reply to you long before I can find the time based on my schedule starting now. She will tell you what it is, and how to work it out.
I just wanted to let you know that someone other than me will be answering you in a matter of a day or so.
but i got a reply email saying send the number etc to talk on the phone…it be kinda hard to chat on phone due to time difference and also since i dont want anyone at home knowing about my electrolysis…can you please tell your friend to reply by email rather than phone? else m happy to wait for your reply
i had a 1 hour appointment last week. as my electrologist is gona be away for this week so il have to miss a week
so anyway in that she did about 20 mins on left side, 20 on right and the rest spent on doing forehead a abit tidy up of upper lip area as she had extra time left and asked me if i wanted any other place.
so yea i dunno if maybe the current may have been abit high, i felt the pain abit more but yet still bearable.However this time i had those red marks/bumps and quite a few of them on the side area for about 2-3 days the bumps on foreahead and upper lip were noticeable from close up for about a day or so
anyway now 5 days later the skin is pretty much normal the side area theres some brownish marks like fading blemishes from those red bumps that i had. and theres tiny lil scabs as usual.
anyway thats all for now
The brownish marks could be a little hyperpigmentation. If you still have them at your next visit, point them out to your electro. She may be able to minimize you getting them. But they are a common side effect for people with darker skin tones. I got them on my upper lip and chin (heck, i had even gotten them on my chin just from tweezing!). If it is hyperpigmentation, the good news is that it will fade once you stop having treatments so often. Mine all have.
i dunno the marks could be hyper pigmentation guess il find out once i do stop treeatment for a few weeks…
anyway i missed a week of treatment as my electrologist was away, was booked in for an hour today but was abit late so had 45 minutes done but even then she told me that she got all of them , i.e. the ones she thinks in growing phase
however to me it seeemed that there are still alot missed…not the old hairs as i no they are kinda long but the new ones however i dont no maybe she knows beter and did get all she thinks that are in growing phase…
man its been soo long and i still have not had my first clearance yet…as i can still see alot of the old hairs which have not been touched on even once…i know this is the longer route but i guess i am saving time and money not being wasted on dead hairs…
today the treatment was abit more painfull but still bearable but i guess thts cause i havnt beeen drinking much water and kinda been skipping…oh well il uptake on it this week…i noticed i been geting about 2-3 pimples on the cheek area and today she told me its cause i got hair stuck under the skin there, thats why the pimple <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />…
so yea today i had both sides done abit under chin and the rest on forehead, and abit upper lip…under chin i had about 5-6 so she got em all…so yea next week m gona go early and tell her to do full hour costs me cheaper anyway that way…
also i had a question i was thinking of using rose-hip oil for healing skin and preventing pigmentation…but doesnt that have like vitamin A and i think i reead vitamin A can increase hair growth? is this true???
Vitamin A helps the hair you already have grow more healthily, but will not recruit hairless follicles to grow hair.
so i guess still a bad idea to use it as it will make the growing and old hairs stronger?..so m assuming electrolysis will take longger <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />