I recently had a marathon session done over the span of three days. october 7-9th. The first two days were 5 hours and the last day was 3. I did it under lidocaine injections so I didn’t feel anything. The pictures marked in blue where taken september first, and then pictures marked in red where taken in October 24th. 9 days after treatment I started seeing regrowth under the skin. A couple days later my neck started getting many ingrowns under the skin. Is this all normal?
Im sorry but this has been overtreated.Im asssuming this was done at E3000? I have to be honest and say Ive never liked their work.Its not likely thatthis will cause major scarring long term…but honestly my advice is not to repeat the experience
Seana
Can you explain more why you think so? I suffer from a lot of cystic acne from shaving everyday and I wear makeup to cover everything, which I assume both don’t help, so that might be what you’re seeing? If i’m wrong let me know.
Yes, overtreated. The thing I have learned with numbing the skin is that the client cant tell you that hurts, you have to read the skin as its easy to go to far. It will go away in time but far out , that’s not real good for you …
Try using an electric razor to prevent the shaving reactions. Keep the electric shaver cleaned well with sterile wipes and oiled, your skin will look better and your electrolysis will go better as there will be less skin infection present 
How could you tell it was overtreated?
Experience, i looked, assesed and concluded my observations.
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I’m sorry but I feel like that’s kinda vague? How can I personally look for signs of over treatment? I honestly don’t see anything wrong. And If I’m wrong at that assessment then I would like to know what signs to look at for/ signs I currently have.
The shape size and extent of the resulting lesions. And because I know what occurred here. Here’s the thing with working with a local anesthetic. You are changing the conductivity of heat by adding moisture to the skin not normally present In So doing you cause energy from one follicle to be transmitted to adjacent follicles much more easily. When you then clearcut , that is clear all the hair especially on dense areas like the chin the result is what occurred here. . I notice there no frontal shots in your images but I can see enough underneath to see the swelling associated with overtreatment.The results of this type of treatment, honestly are never very good regardless of where you have it done. One of the few people inthe US I’ve seen do this kind of work well is Kelly Morrisey in Oak Park Illinois but I dont think you’d ever catch her clearcutting under anesthesia. It’s just too much trauma to the skin over a short period.WE can also get a very good glimpse at your starting hair density, by looking at the unttreated areas on the sideburns. The evidence shows because it’s all right in front of us I think this is also what Maddy was alluding to.
I don’t see any issue with your skin. I’m the before pictures you had blemishes already. Considering the amount of treatment done you would expect swelling. I use local anesthetic all the time and a microscope and I don’t see any difference in treatment outcomes or trauma because of Xylocaine being injected.
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just based off the photos, I don’t see signs of over-treatment. Signs of over-treatment typically are oozing immediately after treatment and over-sized scabbing (I only see a few larger scabs in the pics but could be non-electrolysis related) and the op didn’t state they experienced any ill effects immediately post treatment
The pics show some scabbing and hyperpigmentation which is temporary and could be due to both electrolysis and non-electrolysis reasons
That being said, op says they are experiencing ingrowns in the area that was treated. 1) could be non-electrolysis related if they experienced ingrowns normally after shaving but also could be electrolysis related if the zapper broke the hair while epilating which would usually indicate under-treatment imo
In most cases where I’ve see ingrowns like this, it’s just a normal part of the process because clients are shaving between appts and shaving is really a common cause of ingrown hairs. The great news is that as you continue with electrolysis you’ll see less as less ingrowns because those hairs will be permanently gone.
*edited to clean up grammar (typing with a baby on my lap lol)
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