I was surprised to read about people completing eyebrows in 8 sessions. I have been having electrolysis done on my eyebrows for around 3 years and it is still growing back! My appointments are not so regular but still I have been working on not much hair for a very long time. I just assumed that was normal
until i read , how much faster it should be going. What questions would be good to ask the practitioner about this ?
Hi Danika,
Three years seems a bit to long. How often are you having your appointments?What are you doing to the hair in between appointments?
My appointments are sporadic but have had at least 45- 50 appointments just on the eyebrows . Between I pluck .
Danika - there is your problem. You CANNOT pluck or do any root removal during electrolysis treatments, you are undoing all the work your electrologist is trying to do.
I am very surprised that when you started, she did not tell you that you must adhere to absolutely NO root removal whatsoever.
I wouldn’t worry about the plucking you’re doing, I’d be more concerned with the plucking your electrologist is doing, at least your plucking is free. 45 to 50 appointments and you’re not done. If I was your electrologist I’d shoot myself if I didn’t die of shame first.
This is where electrologist should monitor your progress!
Hmmm come to think of it I was never told anything in terms of care or what to expect. She doesnt treat very thin or light hairs either those I still have to pluck so it really hasnt been that much . I guessI have been taken. I supposed I should have done more research. I will go see her again, one last time . What to say ???
This is what consultations are for. Your electrologist should have given you some before,during and after instructions.
If you want permanent hair removal, it is not going to happen if you are going to keep plucking just because your electrologist cannot remove those fine hair. STOP plucking and you might want to see an electrologist who is comfortable removing all types of hair.
I am preparing to have a chat with the person who has been doing my eyebrows who NEVER informed me that I was not to pluck and has been treating this area for soooo long with not too much results.Although i kept asking her about it what i maight be doing wrong , why it was taking this long etc i was only told that perhaps it was hormones and nothing else. No guidance at all.
I will be nice as we have had a great relationship over the years and i am a good hearted person. BUT i do want to talk to her about this . So for one week I have called to simply to request the name of the machine she uses. At this time she has no idea that I am going to have a chat with her and so she would have no reason to be weary of me. I did not get a call in response to my request though i called and asked kindly, every day for a week! Then today when i called to leave the request again the secretary tells me that they can not release this information!! So i can not know what the name of the machine being used to treat me was??? Oh boy i can see that i will get nowhere with this. I am tired of this unprofessionalism.
A bit off topic, but who cares which machine is being used, as long as it’s a real epilator? Some are more gentle on your skin, true, but the skin reaction hasn’t been your complaint here.
I, sometimes, get a call asking what machine I use. I don’t keep a secret of which machines I use or of anything else. My stuff is good stuff. But then, they thank me and hang up. Those are usually the people who direct their research down the wrong path.
those who care about pain? those who want an electrologist that is concerned enough about patient comfort and treatment efficacy to spend the small amount of cash it takes to upgrade to the latest equipment?
I am a DIY’er and I have an apilus SX-500, it is a nice machine and probably the second best available… but having used a platinum I can say for sure there is a perceptible difference between the two. And frankly if I’m paying someone $100/hr or thereabouts to treat me then I feel they should be using the best equipment available.
Thats true. Sorry its just that I know so little in this area. It wasn’t till i found this board that I was informed that you are not supposed to pluck between treatments!
I was never told this and had total trust in my practitioner. We have basically become friends and i wish no harm at all. But this information has hit me hard and shown me that I can not just lay back and trust my practitioner to inform me . I need to do my own research and not assume that I will be told correct, or (any in this case) instructions! Reading here how many times people are asked what machine and what settings are used I thought at least having the machine name might help in figuring this out! I respect where you are coming from !
PS. I dont know what a “real” epilator is! Thus the question . PPS. The reply above was to yb!
Hi Danika,
You started this thread about eyebrow growth and my response will focus on this issue.
The area with the fewest number of hairs in the growing phase are the eyebrows.
Approximately 90% of eyebrow hairs are in the resting/shedding stage.
This means that we are not able to get a high kill rate - that means that clients will see some regrowth in this area.
Elderly women have faster results with eyebrow electrolysis; that is the population that might finish quickly with fewer treatments. As women age, the eyebrows are one of the areas we experience less growth, having nothing to do with electrolysis. Simply plucking that area will also show less growth - for that population.
Ask your electrologist for a treatment plan. You mention that your appointments are sporadic. Are you going in once a week or every other week or once a month?
If you are not happy with the customer care, are you ready to move on to another electrologist?
No, basically, all “needle” epilators kill hair. The better ones do so more gently for the surrounding tissue. Since you’re not complaining of pain or side effects, which machine is used on you is pretty much immaterial, and what’s important is the electrologist’s skill.
t4ngent, he’s not complaining about pain, he’s complaining about not having his hair killed, and that is the issue that I’m addressing. Do you prefer less comfort and good results, or all the comfort in the world and no results? Right.
Hi Arlene, Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps the electrolysis would work out a deal to finish as a way of compensating this but I dont think i should even continue with that person. I will be nice but I also want to ask her about this lack of information .
I suggest that this thread gets read from the start so I dont repeat the explaining the situation that got this thread going. Basically I was never told not to pluck and had no idea that that was an important part of doing the job to the best it could be done. It has stretched treatment time out for a long while and cost alot .
yb- thanks for that info. Its not too painful just once in a while . I have a few brown spots from needles but nothing too bad. She was never able to treat fine hairs which i was ok with. Also though i asked for only the hairs far from the actual brow my partner and i notice that one eyebrow has defiantly been made thinner than the other which was in an area i really did not want treating.
Overall i am disappointed and feel like i lost money, time and my skin was poked at for nothing. Dare i expose that thin skin to more prodding? I still like the woman and wont be hard on her. It just sucks for me.
I may spend the money to complete the job with someone new though there aren’t many to choose from round here. Or maybe its best I just pluck what reamins and let it be , sounds like with more time it doesnt grow much anyhow…
Even if you plucked, 50 appointments over 3 years is an appointment every 3 weeks or so. I’m having a hard time visualizing this. If you plucked your eyebrows in those 3 weeks, what did you have treated at your appointments? Just a handful of hairs? How long were your appointments?
my appointments were usually half hour in the start and then went to about 15 - 20 minutes. They were usually about 15 hairs or so, a rough guess. Yes my appointments were sporadically over 2 years or into 3 i would have to see if i can find that exactly. I didnt keep regular notes. I just thought that once a hair was treated it was done , or that it might come up again but whenever it wa treated was good. I did not know that time between or plucking mattered or made any difference in overall success. . I was uninformed. Sometimes there was months between appointments sometimes weeks. Yes i would guess at total of near 50 appointments . I wish i had kept notes . I just assumed as long as I was working on them it would get done. If I HAD KNOWN That you had to not pluck during this time i think i would be much better off today.