Hi there! I’m new to the site and I can’t seem to find a forum where people discuss the thinning out of hair.
You see, I’m about to turn twenty. All my life I’ve been dealing with excess hair, especially on my lip and stomach. Instead of doing the smart thing and simply let it go, I began waxing and shaving troubled areas. Of course, thing got worse. I now have very coarse hair on my stomach. Waxing this area makes it look funny, since I have a hug bald spot in the middle of my natural, fine hair.
Please, please, please refer me to some information involving hair thinning practices. As a young woman, I want to enjoy this time of my life. It’s hard to go to the beach, wear cute clothes, or anything else involving my mid-drift.
Electrolysis can thin out an area more easily than it can be used to clear the area to bald.
LASER might also be helpful here… if it doesn’t stimulate more growth, or damage the skin.
In any case, reducing the number of hairs is easy.
Welcome to hairtell.
If you find an electrologist in your area that can perform the faster forms of thermolysis with the advanced technology that comes with the best epilators offers, then you will solve your problem within a year or eighteen months. If you can get word of mouth referrals, all the better for your search process. I have done many abdomens and the thinning process works beautifully!! That’s the advantage of doing electrolysis. We select individual hairs that are ugly and leave the whispy blondies alone so you look natural.
Electrolysis is the best option and it’s truly permanent for any color or size hair that is selected.
I am a mom of a 12 year old girl who has facial and body hair. I have learned so much from all of you. I have never dealt with any of these issues and am learning a lot from this site. My first step is to take her to a doctor to rule out a hormone problem or tumor. After that, I will assume it is hereditary, because my husband is olived toned and dark hair. He was adopted, so we don’t know what his family looks like. Anyway, if everything checks out medically for her, can anyone suggest the best way to deal with the hair until she is the right age to get electrolysis? I don’t want to make things worse, but we have to get through Jr. High and High School. I know she will blame me if the hair becomes coarse. Should I just bleach and tweeze? Also is 18 the age people can do electrolysis? Why can’t people do it at a younger age?
Unfortunately she is light skinned with dark hair. Make up sometimes covers, but not always and not all day. It is difficult to reapply make up and get to class on time.
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds.
If you can find a good practitioner, you could start now. You did not include your location in your profile (please add it now) so we can’t help you find someone in your area.
What ever you do, don’t pluck, or tweeze, or wax, or anything that rips the hair out of the skin. That will only make the hair grow in darker, coarser, and maybe distort the follicles. All of which will make the hair more noticeable, and harder to remove later.
If you find someone good, she can be hair free, and almost care free, in no time. Since she is so young, she would have to do treatments on a schedule that would reduce in both time and frequency, but would continue until she stopped growing new offending hairs. That may be when she is 16, or it may be when she is 25, depending on why she is growing hairs in places she doesn’t like. The good thing, however, is that it is possible to LOOK like you are finished, while your hair removal is a secret between you, and your electrolysis provider.
You may also want to take our standard advice:
Avoid Artificial Sweeteners like the plague (they can cause unwanted hair growth, and don’t actually help you lose weight)
Read the book The Diet Cure, by Julia Ross
Make sure that she is drinking enough water (and that her water doesn’t have chlorine or fluoride in it)
And check back in with us to keep us up on your story.
We live in Maryland, between Dc and Baltimore. If you can recommend anyone that can create the miracle you mentioned above, I will be eternally grateful. I am throwing the tweezers out now.
I don’t remember the names of anyone that I can personally vouch for (sorry if I am forgetting anyone) but I would start my search with:
Do It Now! Electrology
Bina Aspen (202) 518-0800 or (301) 588-4124 Specialists in Male Hair Removal.
If they do lots of guys, your hair will be a paid vacation.
We have also had some positive feedback for:
Elain Pristouris Roulidis in Vienna, Virginia, or of Vienna Skin in DC
You can also get lists of people to try at these links here on the site.
http://www.hairtell.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/55/1/District_of_Columbia.html
Another way to find out what people are saying about workers in your area is to put the names of cities close by you into the search feature and read some of the posts that come up.
This is why we ask people to put their locations in their profiles and to tell us about what great hair removers they have discovered, as we can’t look under every rock to find where they are all hiding, and get sample treatments and consultations from them all to boot!
Do let us know who you choose for the work (and please do get several consultations before picking someone. You will find many people you would love to have over for a backyard bar-be-que, but you need to tear yourself away from them long enough to check out the competition so you will actually have some idea of the difference between the workers in your area.)
Thanks. I will follow your advice. We probably can’t get to do our in person research for 2 weeks, so I probably won’t get to start treatments until the middle or end of May. I am not sure I should start then because my daughter is going away for a month’s time in June/July. That would be too long between treatments, right?
I will definately post on this forum our experiences once we get started so other people from my area can know if there is someone good to go to or bad to stay away from.
Actually, if one got to first clearance, one would have 6 to 8 weeks one could take off. Even if you did not get to first clearance, the work done would not be in vain.