Do you have any before pictures?
The first couple sessions for hair like yours can be the roughest you will ever have. Soon the skin will settle down , there will be less hair to remove and the hairs will be farther apart.
I like doing total clearance on cases like yours, but I feel confident that I can do that. Other electrologists would choose to scatter their work and revisit the area in a week or two. We are all different in our approach and we do what we know best.
You just stopped tweezing, so EXPECT the hairs to come forth fast and furious over a three to four month period. Don’t get discouraged. You have more hair than you think you have, so push forward.
The reaction is definitely red and noticeable. Perhaps this could have been minimized by using insulated probes or a bigger probe, using a proper amount of energy for the proper amount of time. Tell her about it. Show her the pictures . She may choose a different strategy or she may like what she is doing now for those very coarse hairs. She definitely should ask or you should volunteer information about how you healed.
What aftercare instructions did she advise for you? I like tea tree oil and aloe, but you have got to go easy on the TTO! If you use too much, you will experience prolonged redness and flakiness. Use small dabs and then put the purest aloe vera gel right over top of that.
We all like less skin reaction on facial areas because we know that it is hard to face other people with lots of redness or even scabs. This kind of stuff scares people and it is a bad advertisement for electrolysis!
As hard as we try to minimize a reaction like this, some people have very sensitive skin or they make matters worse by using their own ideas for aftercare. I had a young man recently that was beside himself because he said the electrolysis session I did turned his skin greeny-yellow and he was cracked and red. Turns out, he bought a cheap aloe brand with WATER listed as the first ingredient, alcohol was next and aloe vera was the fifth ingredient, followed by green and yellow dyes. My instruction sheet was specific about ingredients to buy and not to buy, but it probably ended up on the floor of his car after the first appointment. We figured out what the problem was and all was well.
So, it would behoove you to report this to your electrologist, so she can talk it over with you. We are really nice people who want the best for you and we appreciate the feedback from our clients so we can teach or choose a better strategy.
