Hmm, I don’t have that many hairs to do 30 minutes on the upper lip. It’s only been a week since I stopped threading. I would perhaps be able to tolerate half an hour, but what I can’t tolerate is going two weeks until many hairs grow, so it’s out of the question for now.
What I find amazing is that it’s been five days now and I only have a couple of hairs on the chin. I don’t remember any point of my life where my chin was soft for such a long period of time. Someone here had told me that after the 6 month mark, the difference would be huge, and I’m starting to realise it now. I’m amazed!!
Tolerating 30 minutes on the upper lip is related to the skill and very close to that, the equipment used by the electrologist. You can schedule weekly appointments to maintain the upper lip or you can clip the hair if you go longer in between the sessions. I would skip doing electrolysis if you are going do any temporary solution that PULLS out the hair.
Indeed, the first 6 months is the hardest, but you must stay loyal to the plan - 9-18 months and put in the hours that are needed to clear and maintain.
I know enough by now not to mess around with ANY type of plucking while treating an area. I was fine threading myself my upper lip until now because I thought it was convenient (and it is, in a way, I much prefer it to wax), but since I realised I can tolerate the pain of electrolysis there, that’s it. No more messing around.
Having good results on the chin has also helped me decide I should get rid of the upper lip as well, and I’m thinking about stray hair on my upper arms that bother me. Once you start, you always find more to treat.
I noticed I had some long dark hair in my upper arms and I told my electrologist to get rid of them today, and boy did that hurt!!! It wasn’t so much the pain, it’s just that I couldn’t control my reactions, I flinched all the time. She said it was normal reflex behaviour and it was all right.
I’d rather have my upper lip treated than this, lol. I thought arms would be piece of cake, but I was wrong.
The hairs weren’t many (around 20 in each arm) and I don’t remember messing around with them in the past, so I hope they won’t come back.
They (the hairs) should not come back if they were treated thoroughly the first time, but a new group of hairs will most likely appear, then another group, then another group, etc. We call these hair growth cycles and there is nothing you or the electrologist can do about this except to be there to treat all new hairs to come, until you reach “the bottom of the barrel”. Pretty soon, you run out of bothersome hair follicles.
I had a long session on the upper lip yesterday, and the area is slightly swallen even now, 24 hrs later. Is this normal? It didn’t happen the other two times
The swelling has calmed down now after three days, but I’m sad about the red spots. I can’t go anywhere without makeup anymore. Is it going to be like this for the whole next year? Should I ask my electrologist to lower the settings? I don’t get many scabs, but I’m worried about the skin pigmentation. At the same time, I don’t want to be undertreated and multiply the time needed to finish.
Upper lip is seriously proving to be so much worse than chin.
there’s no good reason for excessive marking/red spots on upper lip. Use of picoflash and an insulated probe makes short work of such areas with almost no skin reaction.
Upper lip is not a difficult area to be treated and can often be comlted in 9 months or so. Regardless there should not be excessive marking and if there is, thats a good reason for the electrologist to be re-evaluating their technique.
This is how it looks, treatment was on Tuesday, today it’s Sunday. We haven’t worked in the middle hair yet because I don’t really have dark hairs there so they can wait.
Does it look normal? Should I still look so red, or are the settings too much for my skin?
I’m almost a year into treatment on my chin, and this week I discovered sth that I wanted an opinion on.
It’s been ten days since I last visited my electrologist. I’m going approximately every three weeks now for a 30-minute session (upper lip that I started in June, and chin that I started last December).
The hairs growing on my chin must have grown so weak that by pulling them a bit with my nail, they go away. Is this normal? I tried doing the same with hair on the upper lip, but I couldn’t get it out. Is it because I’ve been treating the chin for a year whereas the upper lip for six months?
What are these hairs and why are they pulled out so easily? It feels so great that I can pull them out and not have them there bothering me until next session, but I’m worried I’m doing sth wrong and I should just leave them alone.
Wild guess here - Maybe those are previously treated hairs and they have been weakened by electrolysis? I would not pull them out if that is the case, but it shouldn’t be the case. When a hair is treated , we punch it so it is permanently disabled from ever growing again, however, I there may be a small percentage of regrowth.
I now regret pulling them out, it means they’ll come back one day, but they’ll be treated again.
I have suspected for a while now, that my electrologist might be undertreating me. There is no plucking sensation, but maybe the currrent she’s using isn’t that high enough, and that’s why the area of my chin doesn’t have hyperpigmentation at all, and it barely even swells. I’m sure some of the hairs are coming back, they’re just weaker and weaker. This means that it might take longer for me to have a permanent result, but I will get there, right? It’s not like it’s not working… It’s been a year since I started and the difference is big.
The problem is, there aren’t many electrologists in my country, so I can’t even compare. I’m lucky to have even found her, I’ll stick to her since it seems to be working, even if it means more time for completion.
