Ingrowns and redness months after electrolysis?

Hair Removal Methods Professional Electrolysis
#1

I have been having electrolysis on my neck and upper cheeks now for about 2 years. It has come to a point where there is a lot less hair and I do not have to go for treatments that much. So with that said I have taken a couple months off to give my skin a break! But the thing is even though it’s been about 3-4 months since my last treatment “and I do have hair that still grows in these areas” I still have alot of redness and ingrowns!?!?

This happens especially when I shave over the area that was treated. My neck especially! It gets beat red and you can actually see the whole area that has been treated cause it all gets red and the rest of my neck stays its normal color. Also a couple of days after the hairs that do remain in the treated area, when they grow back they all become ingrown and make my neck even more irritated!

i don’t know if this is the normal process of electrolysis being that I’m almost all done with treatments so the hairs are a lot finer causing these ingrowns and irritation all together and this will get less and less as less hair grows back? Or this is something I need to be worried about. Cause I have never gotten ingrowns in these areas before I started electrolysis or any redness when I shaved. At least not anything close to the extent that I do now!

#2

Your hairs are in final stages of getting killed by electrolysis…go to your electrologist and get rid of the ingrowns…

#3

Thanks madhu, anyone else have any input on this???

#4

From what I understand the neck is a particularly sensitive area and pigmentation there can take up to 9 months or longer to resolve.

What bothers me about this is, that after 2 years “the hairs are a lot finer” but it don’t sound very close at being done. Obviously a great deal of energy is being used if your neck still shows redness after 4 months, so why are there still hair there?..

#5

Mmm, is the area red or pigmented? When you press your skin does it go white ie pushes the blood away or does you skin colour stay the same, if it stays the same it may be pigmentation that can take 3-9 months to fade. Redness may be a sign of over treatment. It also sounds that your treatment may have been a bit hit and miss, the fact the hair if finer is good however ingrowns can be a sign of tweezing!!
With traditional electrolysis and if you have been following a proper treatment plan you should be finished within 2-3 years on these strong hairs.