Hello, I’d like to ask Michael Bono and dfahey a question about electrolysis. I’m a 25 year old male and my ethnicity is caucasian. I have excessive hair growth on my lower and upper arms, my shoulder, my chest, and my back. I’d like to get this treated, specifically by Michael Bono since he lives in Santa Barbara and I’m from Bay Area. The only thing that I’m afraid of is these few questions that I hope you can answer. Will getting such a large amount of treatment done on my skin be dangerous to my health? Will this cause a skin cancer to form later on in my life? Will there be hormonal changes or decreases in testosterone levels because of this hair removal? Will my skin look normal and natural after the treatment? Another thing that stops me from getting my hair removed is that what about my children, I’d hate for them to develop hair on them because of my genes while their father is clear of hair because of electrolysis. These are all questions that cross my mind and stops me from getting treatment done. Thank you for the help!
Welcome to the Hairtell community, city.
No, there is no risk of getting cancer when doing such a large area. After a century +++ of doing electrolysis (150’ish YEARS!) we have proof. Your psychological well being is worth more consideration than your worry about electrolysis causing cancer.
Your hair removal project will not cause hormonal changes.
Your skin will look natural after the treatment because Michael Bono will make sure it does. You won’t be hairless, so worrying about your future kids comparing themselves with their father, well you will still have hair. Perhaps they won’t be as hairy. It depends on the characteristics they inherit from their Mother, too. Try to fall in love with a woman who isn’t hairy, ha ha!
You are still developing your hair patterns, most likely, so you may need some maintenance along the way to age 40.
All good questions, city. Can you take some pictures and share with us?
And, yes, SF is “THE City,” for most of us on the Central Coast. “La La Land?” Well, since you are in SF, you DO get it! (Nobody, except a Californian, will understand this silliness so I won’t even try.) Fun stuff.
Specifically, electrolysis is a burn: a controlled and purposely placed “burn,” but a burn nonetheless. Humans have been getting burned for millions of years (I’m including our hairy ancestors here), and the skin fully knows what to do with a simple “thermal” burn (you know, “evolution?”). All the worries you express? One thing about electrolysis is that it’s safe and proven, as Dee states, for the last 150 years or so! ZERO problema!
You are also living in one of the best Cities in the world for, well, world-class electrolysis! There is no need whatsoever to journey to Santa Barbara for treatment … I seriously mean this! Do your checking and go over the recommendations found here on Hairtell for “finding the right electrologist.”
The really funny thing is that, indeed, I do have a lot of out-of-town patients. However, not ONE of them is from California! If I may be outrageously Chauvinistic, I do think the best electrologists live here in California. People are not driving up (or down) the State to see me, because they have found great practitioners in their own town. We have two great schools here that both turn out excellent operators. Check the EAC website and phone the electrologists in your awesome City!
I need to get up there this summer.
Yes, there are MANY great professional electrologists in California, but I am wondering if there are many that will take on large areas and work marathon sessions for cases like poster “city” describes. That is why I think he was wanting you, Mike. I have a guy that is from San Francisco that comes to me every three months (he conducts business here every three months). I have given him a couple names of electrologists near him and I was hoping he would see them in between his visits here. He was just here last week and hasn’t arranged for consults, so I can’t offer those names, and say anything for sure because I have no feedback to offer.
You can just get consults and see who is willing to take on an area that is bigger than a chin and upper lip and see where it takes you. If you want the names I gave to my Bay Area client, just private message me.