One touch ok for already scarred face?

Hair Removal Methods Do-It-Yourself Electrolysis
#1

Hi I have been twee-zing my chin area for the better part of 20 years and have noticed for the last 10-15 I have developed darker skin in the affected areas. Not only do I constantly break out but I constantly tweeze without a mirror anymore, I just pluck by feel basically.
I just recently began exploring the permanent removal of these chin hairs, but my biggest fears are these.

  1. Do I have to let the hairs grow out for electrolysis because if so, I may have close to a beard and as a girl, how do I hide that?

  2. Being on a limited budget, would the One Touch work as opposed to nothing else I can afford?

  3. Will the One Touch leave my face more scarred than it is now?

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have lived with this shame for far too long and didn’t even know that I had an option. I want to feel feminine 100%. It’s time.

#2

For the few hairs you guesstimate that you have, it would be better to see a professional electrologist. Clearing the group of hairs that are showing now should only take no more than 15 to 20 minutes or less. If you are tweezing everyday, you have more than 10-15 hairs because hair grows in cycles. Any method of electrolysis will work if it used correctly, so don’t focus too much on that aspect.

You are irritating your skin and the immune response is hyperpigmentation and breakouts from dirty hands or dirty tweezers perhaps? Swab the area with an antiseptic before and after tweezing and sterilize the tweezers and that may help with the breakouts. Permanently eliminating the hair means you can just leave your skin alone to heal over several months after the hair is successfully treated.I wouldn’t call hyperpig scarring as most of it will fade with time. Pitting and dermal collapse is scarring, but it rarely happens if you are seeing a well-trained professional electrologist.

An electrologist just needs about 1/16"-1/8" to see the hair and treat it. If he or she says they need more than that, then they probably need new vision aids. Clipping or shaving the hair is acceptable or you can just go and get the tweezed hair as it pops through the skin for the next 12-16 weeks. They will be short appointments, but you won’t be tempted to tweeze in between as opposed to having scheduled appointments once a month.

I would never advise you to use a One Touch on your face in a DIY self help fashion. It is hard to use and you could scar yourself permanently. People with limited budgets have discovered creative ways (short of robbing a bank or becoming a pole dancer for the summer) of figuring out how they will pay for electrolysis. If you want it done bad enough, you will figure out how to get it done. No different than any other goal in life that requires money for goods or services. Way back when I had electrolysis, I had a choice to work double shifts and holidays and that is how I paid for my electrolysis. It wasn’t easy, but I did it and all the areas I wanted treated were cleared up within three years and I have been very happy and smooth for decades.

Welcome to hairtell, thanks for your post and sincere good luck to you anab.

#3

I am housebound and can’t get to a clinic.

The one thing that I have had real success with using the One Touch is on the many dark, thick hairs caused by tweezing my chin. They have nearly gone now and there is no scarring. The advantage is that they can be treated daily as they emerge.

It is causing scarring on my upper lip where the hairs are much finer and the skin seems thinner. The One Touch needle is very thick. I am unable to get the insertions at the right angle to do the sides of my face.

I use the One Touch without the plastic tip so that I can insert it to the right depth without bothering with the annoying spring.