I am a 26 year old female planning to start electrolysis in a few months when I move as there is no one within a 40 mile radius to me. When I move I will be around a few that seem to have excellent reviews. I have hairs on my face, lots of blonde hairs that are very long and black hairs randomly under my chin, on my chin and on the side of my face. I used to tweeze but I read that can cause more hair growth. So, I’ve been taking a razor and shaving my face counting down the days to start electrolysis. Today in the sun I looked at my neck and saw a bunch of dark hairs ive never seen before. Can shaving make the hair on the face dark? Or is this a myth? Am I doing more harm than good? There’s no way to start electrolysis till September and I’m worried I am going to make the treatment longer than it’s supposed to be!
If you keep shaving or tweezing your hair before the electroysis session, it is obvious your treatment will be very, very long.
You should leave your body hair alone.
about the “myth of shaving is making the hair darker”, I will let other specialists with more experience, to respond to you.
In my opinion, just leave your facial hair alone…
Shaving does not affect hair growth. What you’re undoubtedly seeing is all the hairs that you had been plucking that are now slowly growing in. There can be a huge amount of hair that you don’t know about, if you’re plucking every few days!
I think you’re right to be switching to shaving now. That way most of the hair will be present when you go in for your first electrolysis appointment, in September. 
The best advice my electrolysis gave me regarding chin hairs is nail scissors the hair on my chin with only a few random hairs, if you take razor to them you send up shaving the normal hairs that aren’t an issue and making them stubble if you leave the hair it will grow back normal as your only shaving and not removing from the root but the stubble doesn’t look too great if you then have a larger area to shave, you’ll want the electrolysis to move more than you originally wanted or needed.
I personally used the scissors to cut the hairs as close to the skin as I could. With the upper lip I still used hair removal cream as she said this was fine, but now I use scissors here since I’ve had around a years treatment on the upper lip. There is still a lot their but I now feel comfortable enough just to use the scissors as I did the chin and nipple area which is now gone for good x
thank you! Helen what kind of scissors do you use to cut the hair? obviously they have to be small lol but where would I find them? eyebrow scissors maybe?
Yes eyebrow scissors will be good.
Hope the link works these are the scissors I use I just lift or tilt the head to what ever angle needed to see the hair best and cut it right up to the skin, you’d never know the hair was their it will grow back again in around 5 days time for me depending how fast you grow.
I don’t have to bother doing this with the chin any longer since its all but clear but I use them on the corners of my upper lip.
This allows you to target just the hairs that bother you.
Shaving does not make the hair grow course. It just cuts off the soft fine taper of virgin hair and leaves the hair shaft with a blunt edge. Tweezing, waxing, and other methods that remove the hair from the root will cause a topical stimulation of the blood supply and cause the hair to get thicker over time. Your hair growth surge can possibly be systemic or topical growths. The trimming suggestion was good for a temporary fix.
Lets not forget shaving is also only a tempore fix too using scissors only the hairs you want removing are blunt apose to all the normal villus hairs too, only electrolysis will kill for good in skilled hands good luck with your journey.