So, I’m thinking strongly about getting electrolysis between my eyebrows. I am still curious about one thing. See, I am very self-concious about having to let the hair grow out before/between treatments. I totally understand that I can’t tweeze them once I’ve started my sessions, so I will definitely shave or clip them. Which brings me to these questions:
After the first electrolysis session, all the present hairs are completely removed, then another cycle(or group) of hairs arrives say a week or two later(depending on the client), and the next session completely removes those hairs, right?
I am wondering if it is typical, after the first few sessions, for the incoming hairs to become thinner or less noticable. That way I wouldn’t spend a year or more with this embarrasing, dark stubble every other week.
Does it get any easier after the first few sessions?
Please help!
Thanks so much!
P.S. I am fair-skinned, with thick, black hair if that means anything.
If you schedule yourself properly, you won’t ever have stubble after the first appointment.
Electrologists can treat hairs that you don’t even see yet. So you can shave leading up to your first treatment, then come in either every week, or every two weeks until your electrologist tells you to go to 3 or 4 weeks out, and then you may get up to 6 weeks in between appointments before it is all through.
You will need to be working on this over the course of at least 9 months, but more probably a year. Your total time may be 2 to 4 hours total over that time, spread out over 6 to 12 treatments.
What do you mean, “electrologists can treat hair that you can’t even see yet?” Do they go in under the skin? I thought you have to let the hair grow out a little before getting it treated?
The point at which a hair is above the surface is NOT the point at which you notice the hair (unless you are in the habit of looking at yourself in a 10x’s magnification mirror) and the general public won’t notice a hair until 3 weeks after an electrologist could have worked on it.
As a “for instance” I can work on your hairs just 12 to 24 hours after your last shave. Once a full clearance is done, one can keep up with the hair by making sure to remove them before they get to the point of being noticeable to normal sighted people standing 4 feet away. (sorry, bald eagles will notice your new hairs much sooner.)
But since finding fast electrologists who do long appointments is so hard, many people fly in to see me on a regular schedule, because we can get first clearance in the first meeting, and then they just come once every 6 to 8 weeks after that, leading into the time when they can come once every 12 weeks.
Yes, during the next session (and all subsequent sessions) all the visible hairs are removed.
So, how often are you tweezing? Daily? Then you need your treatments to be 5 to 7 days apart in the beginning. Expect about 8 weeks of this. At the end of 8 weeks, you will have less hair, but stay on a schedule of regular clearing to get done the quickest.
Are you tweezing weekly? Keep weekly treatments for that 8 weeks, and then the frequency of your visits will decrease.
Barbara- you mentioned treatment for a daily tweezer to be every 5-7 days and a weekly tweezer once every 7 days for the 1st 8 weeks…so am I understsanding correctly that a person who tweezed daily could be going in at the same frequency as a weekly tweezer? (I used to tweeze daily and I’m going in for an hour once a week and want to make sure that is enough- I hope so b/c it is an hour drive and $70 an hour!)
In the beginning, one is in need of lots of time just to get to the point of First Clearance. Later, one is just trying to keep the area cleared. The frequency of appointments is a function of how quickly the tweezer will see hairs in the treatment area. A daily tweezer who got Full First Clearance in the first appointment, would be distraught to find that there would be visible hairs just 2 to 3 days after treatment. You can’t convince her that those hairs were not treated by the electrologist, but are formerly tweezed hairs finally poking their heads above the skin’s surface for the first time since the plucking that took place days or weeks ago (depending on if they broke off, or came out cleanly)
I once had a woman who was a daily plucker, who had an artificial sweetener induced hair problem who demanded three full clearances a week so that she would not succumb to the temptation to pluck. By the end of the first month, she was down to one treatment a week, and by the 12th week, she was down to a full clearance every 3 weeks.
Yeah I would like to get treatment more than once a week at least for a while because we are no where near first clearance but she is booked up and I’m lucky she gets me in weekly. I don’t think there are any other good electrologists in my area but if I were to find one would it be offensive to see two different electrologists at the same time?
I am working at home right now so I don’t have to go out much and be tempted to pluck when I see all the hairs that remain but I just want to make sure it is not affecting my overall process going only weekly and not getting full clearance each time.