Hello everyone,
I hope the holidays have been going well.
My long-overdue electrolysis success story post is finally here. As a few of you know, I turned to Hairtell in desperation 4 years ago, when I was at the end of my rope with facial hair. I just could not stop the hair from appearing every single day! Here is a thread where I first described my situation and posted my picture.
Here are the before and after pictures. The before picture was taken in December of 2009 while the after picture was taken this morning (December 2013). It took me about 18 months to get to being consistently like I appear in the ‘after’ picture i.e. by mid-2011, my face has been as depicted in the ‘after’ picture.
Before:
After (my chin is not swollen - I was smiling so my chin appears bigger):
At the time I first posted (2009), I lived in New Jersey and I started traveling to Buffalo to see James (I think I saw him 2 times for the first clearances), and then I moved to Ohio and would see Dee regularly. The first few clearances with James and Dee involved marathon sessions, mostly because I was traveling from so far away and it would not be economical to only work for an hour. However, after those first 6-8 or so marathon sessions, which sometimes lasted from the morning until the evening (like 10am-4pm or something like that), I saw a dramatic improvement, and the treatments tapered down. I started seeing Dee every 2-3 weeks or so, and the treatments were for 2 hours each time, instead of the marathon sessions we used to have in the beginning. I don’t remember the total number of hours of electrolysis I had in all (Dee probably has the number in her records) but it was well worth the effort.
My chin became really clear after the first few clearances but it took about 6 months before I had the guts to start wearing my hair up. By Month 9, I started letting people get close to me when they talked to me (I used to habitually step back in the past). By the end of 18 months of treatment, I was effectively the same as other women out there – my chin looks wonderfully smooth today.
I see an electrologist here in CT every month or every 6 weeks. We spend maybe 20 minutes on my face, but it’s usually to remove small numbers of fine hairs that I have become obsessed with (yes, you develop an obsession with hair that other people cannot see. Sometimes I tell my electrologist “I can see a hair there!” and she assures me that nobody else but me is looking at my face like that) – the face is perfect now, if I must say so myself. We have moved on to my belly hairs, which are not nearly as bad as my face was, so that also does not require much work. I think the belly and the stragglers on the chest will be done by May.
I can’t even begin to describe the difference this has made. I have not tweezed in years – yes, that’s right: YEARS! I have finally convinced my sister to go for electrolysis.
So if you’re out there worrying about whether or not electrolysis will work for you, if you have the right electrologist and you have the patience to see this through (it took me 9 months to be really confident again and about 18 months to be certain that the hair monster has been slain), and if you have the discipline to stop plucking, electrolysis is a wonderful, wonderful thing!
Good luck,
OrangeCode (Two-years-of-tweezeless-bliss) 