New to treatment. Does this sound right?

[color:#000099] [/color] Hello. I am a female with blonde hairs along my jaw line at the chin and under my chin, perhaps a legacy of a crazy thyroid before it was removed. I never plucked or waxed them. There is only one practitioner near me; the next closest is 2 hours away. The local woman has been in business 25 years and uses something like microwave or shortwave thermalysis.

The first time I went the removal of the hairs was worse than the zap. Pulling them out was painful; she said because they were coarse, had been there a long time and had huge balls on the end. Other than some brief mild redness, I have no reaction or scabs. I go every 2 weeks, and she clears the area in 30 minutes. I had been 3 times, didn’t notice any impact yet. She indicated each time she zapped they would come in softer and finer and eventually stop growing. Is this correct?? The follicles require multiple zaps to die? She indicated it would take a year or two, with visits becoming more infrequent over time. Sound right? Although I typically have a high pain tolerance, I find the zapping quite uncomfortable. I can’t imagine anyone sleeping through it. Yesterday was my fourth visit. She says she sees a difference already. Although she also said I started with a full beard which makes me think she is confusing me with another client. I would welcome your feedback that this treatment plan is typical. Thanks so much.

It would take 9 to 18 months to finish anyone, as it would take that long for each hair you have to show itself at least once, and the balance of the time to get any hairs that were missed the first time around, assuming you kept to the schedule.

James, do please forgive my confusion. Are you suggesting each hair needs only one zap, and it typically takes 9-18 months for each hair to reveal itself and/or get hit? If so, that sounds different than her explanation that each hair requires multiple zaps to eventually die. Thank you for your help.

Yes, you understood me correctly.

Many professionals have been taught to give that explanation, because people accept it better than what I told you.

What you see with you eyes is you had work done, and “the hairs grow back in 4 to 6 weeks”. What no one dares tell you is that if you want to see how good your electrolysis was, you need to do a before picture, a picture when the treatment is done, and then wait a year and take another picture the same day, one year later.

Sounds simple, but many people don’t understand the meaning behind that fact that the hair you have in january is not the hair you have in may, is not the hair you have in october and so on.