I thought I should give my experience with the One Touch home electrolysis set and ask others to tell theirs. It worked to remove hairs permanently for me on certain areas.
I got a small One Touch home electrolysis set about 12 years ago. It cost $20 then, and is listed at $35 now. Some areas I treated with it have been permanently hair-free now for 8 or 10 years. It worked best on areas where the hairs were straight and dark and I could see clearly which direction the follicle lay under the skin. My successful areas are between the eyebrows, front of the chin, accessible parts of the lower leg, and a mole on the face. The sides and bottom of the chin were not so successful, I guess because I couldn’t see the direction of the follicle without pulling and distorting the skin. I don’t know why the upper lip was not as successful, though I think there was hair reduction.
When I first got the machine I didn’t understand about sliding the needle right into the follicle, and I wasted some time poking the needle straight into the skin. Once I figured out how to slide the needle into the follicle it was effective. I would listen to radio programmes or audiobooks and just sort of space out at the windowsill in the sun, poking away for half an hour once a week or so.
The machine stopped working after a few years and several replacements of battery or needle.