I think we much have started at similar times! For me, I know I’m not getting the darker hairs (or the DARK hairs) any more - nowhere near the same rate. But I still have sooo many hairs - just light and almost unnoticeable. It will be all done with soon enough 
What made you decide to choose electrolysis for the nipples/breast area over laser treatment? Was it because there are only a few hairs? Am curious as I’m wondering which to choose for my nips.
use electrolysis! I would not want a laser beam that near to my chest. It can’t target specific hairs and there aren’t enough hairs in that area usually. There will be so few hairs that it will not take very long at all to achieve a clearance. I have maybe spent an hour so far and the hairs are 98% gone. Currently I have a total of twenty hairs in the area
My chest is another area that has responded well. Tonight I had an hour on stomach/chest and achieved the clearance I wanted in both areas.
Lele, emilily is so right. Choose electrolysis.
For the nipple area, electrolysis RULES! We can precisely target all hair structures. Very coarse black hairs, medium brown hairs and long, fine blond hairs. We can see’em all. Laser can’t do that. You will need between 8 and 15 clearings over 9-18 months. The hair should slide out. You shouldn’t feel any tweezing. Doesn’t matter if you have 13 hairs per side or 130 hairs per side. It is one of the easier areas to get under permanent control, as in, NO MORE WORRIES.
I would not have laser in the area mine are around areola only breasts like all of your body have hundreds of clear/blonde vellus hairs if that’s what you call them. I would 100% not want to induce any hairs onto the actual breast.
I started out after leaving for 2 months with around 8 around each nipple / areola nearly 5 weeks since my last appointment electrolysis I have just 1 hair today which looks dark blonde in colour not brown and is a little too long for my liking. I have had these hairs since I was pregnant with my daughter 7 years ago, where as my chin hairs probably about 2 years ago started, the areola hairs at present are showing better progress i.e not only lower in color but much less coming in.
What really speers me on it the areola area and a hair I had done on my left hand.
The areola really is much much better the chin hair is what I am struggling to get under control in amounts but the colours are much better only a few dark ones come more dark brown than black and never thick anymore.
I had 1 very long thick black hair come in on my left hand every couple of months after tweezing out for around 18 months, on 2nd treatment I asked her to zap it too for me about 9 months ago now I called it my witches hair it has never returned proof electrolysis did work.
The only worry I have now is that they are thinner and paler but still worry me and visible to me and my husband although he is very lovely about it and extremely loving.
The lady who treats me is in her mid 60’s wears glasses and even with the microscope seems to struggle to see them she can’t see them I have to tell her were I want done and sometimes hold the hair so she it under the microscope before treating
She is very good in my opinion when she see’s the hairs but she’s struggling to see them now so I have wondered about trying someone else younger with perhaps better eye sight? I think this maybe why they are still coming in she doesn’t pick them all up anymore? where as when they were thicker or black she could see them all.
I am sticking with her for now as I do not think she is mistreating me and that is my biggest fear in going anywhere else.
1st July 5.5 weeks after last appointment been in for a 10 minute electorlysis session.
I have 1 black hair just under chin but had around 12 hairs treated that were thin some long blonde some brown I saw one curling up from underneath pulled up the skin and there was 4 so I got her to treat them and it seems she saw a whole bunch more 
I also had one under my lip treated never touch that area before never seen a dark one there.
I have the corners of my upper lip treated as I had done for last 4 or so appointments about 5-6 on each side.
Had one weird small stumpy black hair that appeared on my belly removed where the hell that came from I don’t know.
Had just 1 hair removed from areola which is the real success story.
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many hairs removed, 10.5 months in very upsetting.
I will say as I have said before though I no longer get thick black ones just thin brown ones that still stand out to me but no where near as bad as they were.
Why I am getting her in new places? perhaps its hair sight or I need to go back to GP for tests again unsure I said after last round of tests that I would give this 12 months to see improvement and I definitely am at present around breasts other area’s disappointing though.
She actually said to me today it was the first time we’d done my upper lip and I was like no 4th couldn’t remember at all doing it previously, the whole conversation on which needle to use after I got a small scare on first treatment which is pretty much gone now. She also had to get me to show her a few hairs as couldn’t seem them so although I do love her from getting rid of the hairs she has I walk away again concerned what’s going to happen next and whether things are going right.
The has also been a 25% increase in price which I didn’t know about until after treatment when paying Its still not expensive £15 instead of £12 but would have been nice to know before hand when I called to book.
For the americans that’s about $21 to £26.
If I was 100% certain without a shadow in my mind that things were working in all area’s I would be paying her a heck of a lot more! if needed.
Going to try and enjoy the hair free days for as long as they last.
Haha prices schmices My electrologist (who is not as expensive as the one I went to 4 years ago!!) has a sliding price scale - shorter appointments cost more per minute. Anyway it is still like 30 pounds for 15 minutes, so I think you’re doing fine!
Being able to get these clearances in a 10 minute session also means that you are getting close to being done because if there was still a substantial amount of hair it’d be taking much longer to get clearances.
Electrologists see plenty of clients - you only see yours for 10 minutes every month or so - fair enough that she doesn’t remember.
It’s too bad that you’re getting some hair under your lip. Hopefully things continue to improve, though.
Emily I have always had 10 minute sessions for clearance that has not changed in the whole 10.5 months of going to electrolysis, I never went for long sessions. 4 months ago I did add in my upper lip because I don’t think I ever needed the full 10 minutes more like 5 so I could get the full 10 mins cos that’s the min I have to pay. she only does the corners of the upper lip though would like the rest doing too.
thanks all for the advice! I had a laser consultation where a dr told me electroylsis didn’t work, it didnt remove hairs at the root, breaking them in the hair shaft… pssshttt BS.
Didn’t think about the implications of having laser near chest, but will have to build up to having electrolysis: the embarrassment + the idea of having a needle near my nipples… am one of those people who find nipple piercing of my friends gross.
One very stupid question, how can you tell if there is tweezing? i mean is it very obvious?
I haven’t felt plucking so wouldn’t know.
I however am frustrated at coming away from my last appointment 2 weeks ago without getting full clearance cos she says she couldn’t see the hairs, they have grown longer and now I need to snip them before going to a school assembly or my son on Friday and being completely embarrassed.
Again I am considering trying another clinic which isn’t registered to see if they can give me full clearance at appointments, my current electrolysis is only removing the really obvious ones and I guess now that some are thinner she doesn’t see them being elderly?
As you say though it is embarrassing going along to an electrolysis takes time to be comfortable especially dealing with area’s like nipples.
And the worry that they may pluck puts me off undoing all the good work that has been done previously.
Well disaster has stuck again found a dark hair on my neck today 1st one ever what is with these random hairs popping up in new places, hope I won’t get more in this area so hard to disguise hairs on neck 
I am going in for another treatment on Friday this will be officially 1 year after starting treatment. The area’s I have been doing since the beginning have worked well I do still get hairs but not many and they are thinner and paler. However on the last 3 treatment I’ve been getting random hairs in new area’s I’ve had 2 zapped on my belly and one under my lip. I have since found one on my neck and one in the middle of my chin to be treated this time these are thin but black I have only ever had hair at the bottom of my chin and just under. It seems like its a never ending process my hormones have been tested and all normal and taking the meds to reduce testosterone could increase my chances of other health issues with are common in my family I was told my issue was probably just heredity before I started electrolysis. Hence me going down this route but it seems its never ending if new hairs in weird area’s appear a year on. I am very upset and scared.
Went for electrolysis yesterday 1 year from starting.
Chin well she had trouble finding any which she has for last 3 times, really frustrates the hell out of me because I feel they are quite obvious.
She says we all have thin dark ones and only seems to want to treat thick ones. I think her eye sight is perhaps not what it used to be she does wear glasses? or she just doesn’t feel they need doing?
I pointed them out to her using my mirror and she then went oh how did i not see that, I thought she had got them all because she zapped in all the area’s I wanted doing.
However this morning in bathroom mirror I’ve found 2 that I asked to be zapped still there.
Really frustration as I had about 4 in area zapped 6 hairs isn’t that much would have liked them all gone.
She also did my upper lip but left some really obvious ones again I asked if she’d do some in middle of lip as she only does corners of mouth and then she found loads that she was ignoring before, I’ve said I want any dark hairs on upper lip done.
I understand you can’t treat them too close together though.
I had 2 done around each nipple these were very pale brown and thin I don’t think my husband would have notice them really so I think this area is just about done which I am very happy about and told her so, I’ll keep getting any that may come in done but no longer hide them away.
I am just quite sad that she is not seeing all the ones on my chin anyone.
I have to do lots at the end of the month and its my birthday early next month so if the ones on my chin get any longer so they are more obvious to people or I get anymore come in mean while I think I have to try somewhere else for a consultation. I find it hard to trust anywhere else.
The women I have been seeing has shown me in the last year she is capable of doing good electrolysis and had killed some horrid dark ones that have never come back, I don’t want anyone that will not do it properly its on that I am not getting clearance that I consider elsewhere.
I lack the confidence that she’s able to finish the job with the now thin ones. I have had hair come in new area’s but they are not often I hope it should only be another 6 months for the treatment to be fully complete.
I may then only need to go in once or twice a year to get any new random ones that pop up.
Lots to think about.
13 days since last treatment and I’ve lots of little thin ones at the bottom of my chin some that she missed on last treatment and a couple extra to boot. Really annoying 1 year on that I would be getting these hairs after only 13 days. I’ve been trying to ring another clinic to try them out more close but never seem to answer.
Helen, I do read your posts occasionally.
I’m wondering if your electrologist has informed you that your chin (and face) is never going to completely stop producing those “somewhat longer darker” hairs. I mean … never!
With the kind of case you seem to be presenting, I would always tell such patients that the best they can hope for is removal of all the “nasties” … and then, probably, the best we can hope for is one or two treatments per year to stay ahead of the “finer/longer/darker” hairs that you will be producing from now on.
I can remove, say, the fully-developed chest and back hair of a man and this area will stay clear forever. Similarly, once completed, eyebrows are done for the rest of the person’s life. Not a woman’s face.
I think you are now approaching the “on-going fiddling” stage (usually 12 - 18 months in), and you are now noticing the smaller hairs: a few here and there. The kind of hairs you find in your special mirror with the right lighting?
If you are expecting electrolysis to completely render you hair free (on your face) … forever … and to never see another hair, you are going to be eternally frustrated. It’s not going to happen.
Indeed, I have had clients that need no treatment for a couple years or so. However, they always manage to “fertilize” a few hairs that need a 15-minute treatment here and there. If your electrologist has not told you this important “detail,” that’s really a shame. It “is the way it is” in nearly all cases.
I know we get small clear / pale blonde venus hairs but I was hoping to be rid of all dark hairs even thin ones.
I was told that later on I may get new ones and may want to come back for a touch up but from what I was told this would be years down the line with any hormone changes like menopause.
My breasts are all but complete I only get 1 or 2 blonde ones every 8-12 weeks that really don’t bother me and hubby wouldn’t tell I just get them done as I go in for the facial hairs.
I wouldn’t mind if it was once or twice a year but was hoping would be years for the thin ones I have now but I get 2-3 every couple of weeks If I left them for months I’d get a nice grow on don’t think I could do that I am a women who likes to stay pruned as it were
The hairs have been much better on the face going through this process I just wish they wouldn’t pop up so soon.
I have been tested twice for hormone issues all fine.
My mum is disabled so I can not talk to her she’s not able to, but she does have the same issue with facial hair so I just assume its hereditary.
I often wonder whether some of these hairs have been there for a while but I can see them grow and pop threw so they do seem like new ones too. Hair goggles is a nightmare you do worry a thick black one may return but touch wood haven’t had one of those in ages.
I have bought birthday and xmas gifts for my electrolyisis I do appreciate what she has done for me. I get upset over the thin hairs being there but as long as I keep getting them cleared so I don’t get a forest I can go out of the house and no longer lock myself away which is a massive step.
As I say I just wish the process was once or twice a year.
I do appriciate your explaining that to me because I’ve never heard it mentioned on here and it wasn’t explained that I would have to go in for top ups every year.
Going to her for tops ups maybe an issue though since she is having trouble to see the thin ones. My husband can see them but says you have to be up close to my face tilt my head at certain angles to see them so the average person on the street isn’t going to take the mick.
However If as I say I left them for months more being there would become more obvious than the small amount I get.
Because of this I am booked into somewhere more local next Thursday to test them out and see if they are able to pick up the thinner ones.
I also only started the upper lip 4 months ago so I get the thin chin ones whilst concentrating on the upper lip now.
Funny but I have never been upset by upper lip hairs most women I know have them and just use dipilator creams but I would prefer to be rid for good than temp measures.
I have cancelled the appointment with the closer salon after speaking with them again to confirm where to park it turns out I would have to park in a busy pub car park and walk around the front of the building which is in the town center again very busy.
They are a specialist electrolysis and laser clinic so I do not understand the so public location its a busy area.
I shall wait until I can see my usual electrolysis or find somewhere else that is more private.
At present its a 40 min drive when I walk out of the house my upper lip is red and blotchy by the time I’m home its about vanished but that’s a good 40 mins.
I would not feel comfortable having a 5 min walk in an extremely public area just post treatment.
I always bump into someone I know when I am shopping in the area its the main high street.
Yes Helen, there are specific areas on both men and women that are constantly in flux. Actually every area in and on the body is changing, it’s just that we don’t easily recognize it. It’s called “aging.”
When men come to me with ear hair, they are always warned in simple terms: your ears are never going to stop producing hairs.
Once a man gets to a certain age the “billions” of vellus ear hairs begin to slowly get larger. These hairs accumulate over his entire lifetime. The only success I can have is removing the hairs we see at the moment. But this will be an on-going situation for all the years to follow.
Of course, knowing this does not deter the guy from saying, “ALL my ear hairs have grown BACK! Is this ever going to work? What are you doing wrong?” (I can’t write what I usually say to the guy: but there are a lot of “Fs” and Sses" in the statement. With humor, of course.)
Similarly, I usually don’t recommend removing leg hair from men, because it naturally thins out … and pretty quickly too as testosterone levels decrease. In a man’s 40s, he usually has less than half of the original leg hair (thickness and hair count). Leg hair steadily declines until you get those hideous “old man hairless legs!” I have them now and it’s disgusting!
I wonder if I can get a toupee for my legs?