Anyhow, it’s my first time posting in the forum, and I’m seriously considering electrolysis after years of being told it was a scam. I don’t think it is, hence me wanting it done.
My question is how long a period of time would you be willing to perform a clearance on a person. I saw somewhere someone who did a clearance for 13 hours but I doubt that is the norm, or that he/she would repeat such a long clearance on the same person, but maybe, I don’t know. I’ve read tackling electrolysis aggressively can speed up the process, so if I were to go full-head on, and request long hours assuming money isn’t an issue, would the electrologist limit the hours?
Or does it just depend on each individual electrologist? Or is there a recommended time slot to get a clearance done?
Thanks~
My electrologist works for two continuous hours, others can work for three or four. Different electrologists have different needs, but most will take a short break somewhere between two and four hours.
It really depends on how big the area is and how dense the hair is. Some electrologists may have the equipment and stamina to work for a few hours in one area to clear all the hairs and without causing too much skin trauma (due to their skill, machine, probes etc), while others won’t work for more than 20mins in a small area. Some of the electrologists on HairTell would clear an upper lip in one sitting. My sister had this done with one of them. I had my upper lip work done a few years earlier and would have 20min sessions every 1-2 weeks in the beginning. I never had a full clearance, we just kept working until it was minimised enough that the remaining hairs were too fine and small to be bothersome, and then maintained this look until hairs to be treated stopped appearing. This worked fine too.
The key is just to find a good electrologist and then work out a treatment schedule with them. It may require you going in for a few hours one a month or longer, or shorter weekly appointments.
It all depends on where you are located, and potentially how far you are willing to travel. While some practitioners, like myself, are willing to work long hours on one person, others limit what work they do and how long they will do it.
Personally, my clients get full clearances once every 6 weeks when they are coming from out of town, while those in town sometimes choose to come once every 3 weeks. at any rate, they get full clearance in one or more days (as needed) if they allow enough treatment time to clear the area they are working on.
Thirteen hours of work would be done with breaks for meals every 3 to 4 hours.
The electrologist may limit the time she/ he works on the same area if it is the facial area. She should not come back to the same area the next day or anytime before a week after treatment.
Not every electrologist is physically capable of working marathon sessions, so check around and then travel if you must. There is nothing wrong with traveling to find an electrologist that will work longer than an hour. It is not an insult to your local, talented electrologists who do not want to work longer than an hour or two. It may in fact, be a relief that someone else is willing to do this kind of focused, physically draining hard work in order to get you cleared and maintained. I have told my new clients who travel to see me, that I can do the hard part of getting the major portion of hair off and then when the percentage of hair decreases significantly, they can start seeing their talented, local electrologist who can keep them cleared within an hours worth of work.
Personally, before attempting an extended clearance sesson, I insist on doing one shorter/ average length treatment, just in case I encounter a case of poor healing.
There is nothing wrong with CAUTION. The more mature woman might have type 2 diabetes and not even know it. This can happen at any age, however, age alone is a factor to consider, especially if she is overweight and/or if diabetes runs in the family. There are many medical issues that can have an effect on results. Healing could be affected if she has any one of them. The longer it takes to heal, the more apt she is to get infected because this disease makes the patient easier to become infected.
There is nothing wrong with this approach, Christine. I do this as well for my new locals when the situation calls for this approach, but not often, since electrolysis is such a low risk procedure. However, when someone comes to me for a long session and they have flown in or have driven three, four, six hours to get here, I can’t do a 15 minute or even an hour appointment, send them back home and wait for a week to see how their skin reacts. I wonder if Jossie, Mike, James and the people at Electrology 3000 in Dallas do the treat and wait approach for their out of towners?
If people don’t like this marathon approach, then they can stay local and still get permanent hair removal on a different time schedule with a skilled professional electrologist that won’t work for more than an hour.
Long-term, full body. Of course I am expecting this to span out over the course of several years, but considering the ridiculous amount of hair on my body , it would be worthwhile.
There are very good clinics around here, but I still haven’t checked if they do long hours. If that’s the case and I have to fly out somewhere, its a decision that I’m willing to make.