I let my facial hair grow for over a month. Went for a long session. Had blend. I have been going weekly. As of one week after my last treatment (it has been 2 weeks since that lonnng clearance) I have only 10 coarse noticeable hairs, the rest look much finer. Is this considered progress?
You are posting about blend in the laser forum. Do you mean to ask your questions about laser or blend?
Either way, It is too soon to know if this is representative of progress.
thx for the feedback! When can one attempt to quantify whether progress has been made or not? (3 months, 6 months…?)
Depending on the work you are doing and the schedule you are following, as soon as three months, and frquently by six months, you have enough of a stable change to see the difference. You will not, however be able to be all but done untill you have worked at least 9 months.
I’m new posting here, but saw this thread and had additional questions on progress. I have had two 30m appointments for my chin hairs and am expecting to have a full clearance at my next appt next week. I’m confused however because I don’t know if it’s normal that I have not needed to do any shaving in the treated area since I started treating 2 weeks ago. could it be that i am just in some 'eye of the storm" so to speak and should expect a huge wave of hair to show up soon?
if nothing changes, i can’t see there being enough for her to do more than 15m every 2 weeks if that.
(i have dark, coarse hairs, dark skin, 30ish female)
As has been stated many times, if you get full clearance, you can go 3 to 4 weeks without noticing any hairs in the treated area. The electrolysis provider can treat new hairs you don’t see, as soon as a week later if the magnification is good, but you can enjoy the look and the feel of being finished for a few weeks from the very first clearance, and that coasting time increases as you continue the process.
15 mins every 2 weeks will eventually become 5 minutes and that 5 minutes will eventually happen once every 4 to 6 weeks. This is why most hair removal professionals have a manditory minimum charge. I have literally had people come in for what amounted to a 3 minute treatment. It takes me longer than that to say hello, prep, wrap up the treatment, say good-bye, and walk them to their cars.
That’s great news, thanks for taking the time to respond. After dealing with this for 14 yrs or more, it just seemed too good to be true.
That’s only if you didn’t used to tweeze before starting treatment, right? I just had a 1 hr appointment 1 week after my last and I had so many coarse dark hairs on my chin. Even the electrologist commented. All I can think is that it’s a new growth cycle (hopefully the last as I’m 6 months in), or hairs from the bad electrologist I used to see. We scheduled weekly appointments for every week until New Year’s, and she said that after that I should only have to come in every 2 weeks to clear a whole area.
We have a saying in the industry. “Tweeze only the hairs that you want to KEEP!”
If you tweeze your hairs, it could take 6 to 12 weeks of NOT tweezing for your hair cycle to get back to normal. What this means, is that you could come in, and I could clear your entire treatment area, and you would start seeing a face full of hairs in one to three days. This is really bad, since tweezers are some of the most impatient people when it comes to wanting to see concrete proof that reduction of visible hairs is occuring.
I had a lifetime tweezer who required 3 hours three days a week in her first month of treatment because she did not want to have any visible hairs on her face, but also would not shave in between treatments so that we could just do it in one shot on one day. Three months later, we were on a regular schecule of treatments once every 2 to 3 weeks, and it all turned out fine in the end.
Does that mean that since the bad electrologist was tweezing instead of effectively treating hairs, it could take 3 months for the new electrologist to get things under control?
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That does make sense, since I’m having hairs come out the day after treatment like you describe.
This all depends on how fast a full clearance can be done. If in a day, you will already be in maintenance phase in one day. It would still take 3 months for you to probably feel like you are a world better, although the amount of time needed to take care of the problem will be shorter and shorter with every clearance.
One more thing. Sometimes there are two hairs in a follicle, or two very close to each other. One is thick and large, and the other a little smaller (or the same size) and the hair remover must choose to take one and not both, in order to save your skin from the possibility of over treatment. In this case, one may see what looks like a hair sticking out of the place that was treated. sometimes this even causes one to see a hair growing out of a scab. Rest assured, that it doesn’t mean the hair grew back in one to 4 days.