My Electrolysis Journey

Hair Removal Methods Professional Electrolysis
#81

Appropriate settings used will vary greatly depending on the area, their equipment, skill, and other factors. There isn’t a fixed setting for a given skin and hair type so it is impossible for us to tell you what settings they should be used. Settings can even vary from treatment to treatment, depending on one’s hydration etc.

You can’t see your electrologist inserting the probe and doing their work, especially on the face, so you can’t really tell if they are using a suitable needle. You could ask your electrologist to show you the needle and the hair being treated through their magnifier though.

They should at least be using a needle that matches the diameter of the hair, if not the largest needle their equipment and skill allows to be safely and accurately inserted into a given follicle.

#82

Hi

I read all your posts. Could you please tell me the Dorking electrogist contact details and how are your pores now?

thanks

#83

Hi Sarah1234,

I’ve been crazy busy, so sorry for not being able to reply sooner. The website for the electrologist was posted by stopit… I think it’s epilsoft.co.uk.

Pores are looking good since using the technique James recomended.

#84

Hi all,

I have been really busy and so haven’t had time to post or do much else for that matter! I wanted to post the pictures I have for 5 days post treatment two:

Left side:

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Right side:

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As you can see, the hair has come in almost entirely now apart from the treated areas where the hairs have been removed with electrolysis treatment. It makes me sad to see these, but helps me accept what is there. This is as bad as it gets, it can only get better from here surely.

#85

Awww, you make me wish I was visiting London this year.

#86

It’s ok James, I am learning that life isn’t always what you want it to be. I really want to go to my Electrologist but work hasn’t let up for the last three weeks. I am now bleaching the hair and making the best of it. I find some people look/stare, but I no longer turn away or cover my face with my long hair, let them look… I am thinking about visiting the electrologist based in London, as it means I can work on the train journey up to her. Will update once I know what is possible.

#87

These are the clients I love to work on. So challenging. If you can just get to someone who is fast and skilled enough to remove these hairs in one session and then keep punching away, on a regular schedule, without a lot of scabbing you will be happier sooner. Can a train ride get you this?

#88

hey pokka, glad youve popped back up on here, i was thinking about you the other day and wondering how you were getting on. I think its amazing how you have accepted your situation. I to am feeling abit better these days, not because the hairs gone, because it hasnt, but because i know im doing all i can to fix it and to be honest being sad all the time was tiring!!
Hope you get full clearance soon, let me know how you get on. We will get through this in time, im determined one day to not have hair on my face! Also your really brave for posting your pics, it upsets me to much. Im sure it will only get better from here and if your bleaching them i bet its not that noticeable to others. take care, bec xx

#89

Hi Dee, I have figured out that it may well be the only way to get exactly that… I had a consultation with the lady in London, who uses an Apilus SX500, on Tuesday- as I was able to take care of my emails and calls on the train up. The area has scabbed much more than it has done before, but she told me in advance that this woud happen as she wants to use the apropriate energy for the follicle diameter. What else can I mention… Oh, she also uses custom finer probes that she orders specifically. Her website is Electrabeauty.com if anyone wants to have a look. She is very knowledgeable and I feel comfortable with her, so it’s just a case of figuring out times now as both she & I are busy. I am in a real rush, as I shoule be out of the door right now… but I’ll upload the picture I took to send the electrologist so you can see them too.

Here are the test pics taken this morning (right side of face):

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#90

Hey Bec,

I was thinking of you the other day too, wondering how you were doing with your treatments. I’m glad you’re doing well, being sad is tiring and a complete waste of energy :slight_smile: , I agree. Bleaching has really helped me, it’s my magic vanishing trick :wink: You take care too xx

#91

This scabbbing is not necessary and should never be considered normal, in my opinion. That is all I will say about your pictures.

#92

Although in the end, her treatments will work, and your skin will heal, I am conscerned that she states that she gets specially made probes. If she is getting them made especially small, she is causing more pain, and a higher blow out ratio. Additionally, she could be using too much energy regardless of needle/probe size.

When will practitioners learn that better vision and lighting is the key, NOT smaller probes?

I must say that I liked her web site, and that I think that it may be that you have shallow hairs where the scabs are. Anyway, without treating you, I can’t say for sure what I would find to be the best treatment protocol for you.

#93

Dee & James,

Thank you for your professional feedback on the test consultation pictures. I am very grateful to both of you for your input. I am really stuck now in that case. What to do? …

I think the best thing to do is talk it through with the electrologist after the weekend and see what she thinks. I emailed her the pictures and she said that the healing is inline with her expectations. She is concerned with arresting the hair growth caused by laser treatment and therefore feels the treatments needed for this is significant.

I will take another couple of pictures on Monday and post them as soon as I can.

#94

Hi Pokka,

Sorry to hear you haven’t been finding time :frowning:

You’re not alone. It’s been a long time since my facial hair has been unbleached (I’d say 9 years) and it looked exactly like yours… even worse I’d say as my sideburn hairs were very long (1" or more) all the way down to my jawline. My younger sister is in the same boat too… she doesn’t even have respite on her forehead - it’s full of obvious hair.

James, Dee, I really wish there were electrologists even half as good as yourselves in the UK.

Just seen your most recent photos too. Now I know everyone’s skin reacts differently and yours seems quite sensitive but I think since your looking for a new electrologist, you should go for a consultation with mine. She would never be satisfied with causing this kind of skin reaction. She uses blend on me and as you know, apart from temporary redness, I have no other skin reaction. I know you would prefer someone with an Apilus but shes not slow with Blend and she does manage to dispatch the hairs with minimal treatments.
Maybe you can get her to do one side with Blend and the other with Diathermy?

She’s based in Islington, it’s about 10mins from Islington tube (5min bus, 5min walk).

#95

Great suggestion.

#96

Hi Stopit,

Thank you for your kind and reassuring words. I think you are most certainly right, I need to try out another professional. The whole daunting process is starting again… I just hope I can find a solution that I can fit in with my current schedule.

Hope you are well. Best wishes,

Pokka

#97

hey guys! esk ive just typed this really long post and then my laptop died…gurrr!! anyway i will retype as its really important i speak to you!! couldnt beleive it when i read your recent posts.

Do you remember ages ago i posted asking for advice as after i had electrolysis my skin reacted badly. I had pin point red scabs and a few little pits (which are starting to go!). Well it looked exactly like yours. Anyway after getting advice from people on here like dee and you and stop it i decided to go eleswhere. Now i was really upset about this as i had invested time and money travelling to nottingham to see someone who i belived to be the best in the country, so knowledgable. She really did seem like a great electro however after four clearances with her i just could not trust that my skin would heal so i go eleswhere. What concerned me the most was that she accepted my reaction was normal and unaviodable. When i read your post tonight i was like oh my god thats my electrolysis!! I used to go to her in nottingham where she is based. She works in london a couple of days a week.

So we are from other ends of the country and have travelled far to the same electroysist!!

anyway, my skin looked just like yours. After advice from you and stop it i now go to someone eles. After dees commenet on ur pics im sure i made the right decision, i had 4 sessions with her. I know she seems so knowledgable and im sure she is. At first i was so impressed and excited to find her, however i just had to look at my skin and realised i could not continue to work with her.

Write back and let me know what you think

bec xxxx

#98

Hi all,

I also wanted to give an idea of how sensitive my skin can be; i can’t use soap based products, scrubs or fragrances… so I tend to use salicylic acid based products for exfoliation once a week instead. I have to spray perfume on my clothes to avoid skin irritation.

I was wondering if scabbing is maybe something I, considering my skin type, can’t avoid…? the only treatment I’ve had that didn’t cause any scabbing was the lady based 40 minutes from my home.

Plus, I found a tea tree product I can use without irritation! It was rec’d on the london electrologists’ website. It’s the boots branded one, called Boots tea tree and witch hazel toning lotion

#99

oh gosh. what a coincidence! i wish it were only a good one.

bec, i’m not sure if you ever mentioned who were where using by name or website. if not, it’s really important that do so, so that others can easily tell who you were unsatisfied with and your experience with them.

but it’s really lucky that you noticed this and had the same experience. it should make Pokka’s decision on whether to continue or not a whole lot easier.

i know i keep banging on about my electrologist but i really am satisfied, moreso after i read other people’s experiences. i don’t know whats happened with thereish as i haven’t seen her on the forums in a while but she seemed satisfied with her too. Sista also had a consultation and hopefully we will hear her updates when she starts her treatments. so Pokka, i do hope you give her a try, it’s really not hard to get to her from central London. I work near Euston, it takes me less than 25mins to reach her after work.
please try and go for a consult. i can’t say that she’ll be the one but if you can have a little bit of blend and a little bit of thermolysis, it will be a good comparison for you.

i just don’t know who else is good in/around London except what i’ve heard of Sara in Harrow. but she’s apparently very busy and doesn’t do longer than 20min appointments… not useful if one is traveling far.

#100

Hey Bec,

I hate it when that happens - luckily my computer goes into hibernate now, so I don’t lose what work is one there at the time now :slight_smile:

My god! It’s crazy small electrolysis-world we’re living in! Thats the one, she works in London once every couple of weeks. I have to admit, I was really concerned when she said that the healing was inline with her expectations, as I thought she might have let me know beforehand if that was the case… She did say when we spoke on the phone on Thursday that the energy will be higher for the initial treatments and then lower as we go on.

I am feeling very confused right now. I wish I could find a way to make this work.

Hope all is well with you, Bec. How are your treatments coming along?

Pokka xx