I am getting electrolysis done by Ghitta in Melbourne. I have been going every week for the last 3 months and sessions are 30 min long. I still haven’t achieved my full clearance. The area is face, area is chin, upper lips. I almost had a beard when I started. She says it will take another 4-5 weeks at least. I wanna know if going every week is the solution or should I ask for marathon sessions
I would continue with what your electrologist has recommended as a good course of treatment.
When it comes to purely thinking about clearing an area, then how many hairs/min the electrologist can remove as well as how much hair you have are both factors. I think you’ve done about 6 hours work over 3 months which really isn’t a lot at all when it comes to the face.
If you check out my sister’s diary below - her first sideburn clearance took 1.5hrs and Josefa works at about 25-30hairs/min on the face. Obviously, not many electrologists can offer this or safely perform this kind of work on the face. I mention it so you can figure out how long it would have taken for first clearance if the work was at a slower pace.
You can certainly go in for longer weekly sessions at least if you are distributing the work every session over different areas (I personally only had about 15-20 mins max on my upper lip every week). I would discuss this with your electrologist. She knows your skin and what is most appropriate for the kind of work she performs.
Electrologists all have different strategies, skill and comfort levels for treating hair in the beginning months.
My individual way of treating clients that present to me with facial hair is to get the hair off as fast as possible by doing longer sessions. To clear a female beard like this:
I need about 6 hours. I will do it all in one day or we can split it up by doing three hours one week and three hours the next the week. NOTE: I would only do this much work on a woman’s face with the equipment I choose to use and with the probes I choose to use only because I am comfortable doing marathon sessions with one of the best set ups for electrolysis care in 2014.
If your electrologist chooses to go slower then she has her reasons for doing so. She must work within her comfort level (skill - # 1) and within the boundaries of her equipment.
I tell my clients to fasten their seat belt and be patient on this hair removal journey. The first six months is the hardest if you have a lot of hair on your face. That is why I like to do long sessions up front to get the hair cleared ASAP and then the plan becomes removal for NEW hair, every three weeks, in order to keep the newly cleared areas hair free. It is a real psychological boost for the hairy depressed, who not only have hair, but who have skin problems due to the hair itself and the temporary methods that have made it worse.
A year later, when marathon sessions are done up front:
I will come back later with some statistics.
Thanks a lot you guys. She uses Aplilus Platinum Pure and once told me she can go 20-30 hairs/minutes. The picture that dfahey have pasted here, i had a similar density but my hair were more concentrated towards the chin and are slightly more softer that than (sorry i dont have pictures of my own).
I did keep a diary though
1st week - left side (side lock, cheek and neck)
2nd week - right side (side lock, cheek and neck)
3rd week - chin and throat area started but not completed (this is where the density is highest)
3rd week - chin continued and clean up on left and right side
4th week - chin and a bit of everywhere
5th week - bit of everywhere
6th week - bit of everywhere
7th week - bit of everywhere
8th week - upper lip
9th week - chin
10th week - mostly left side
11th week - bit of everywhere
12th week - mostly chin area but of everywhere
13th week - clean up on upper lip and bit of everywhere
14th week - mostly left side
15th week - chin
Also another thing that bothers and i cannot tell since i have never had full clearance, she tells me that the hair that come up are not the hair that she has treated before, they are all new hairs and i don’t think that is the case, i can tell this specifically looking at the upper lip area.
What are you thoughts on that?