I just came back from the worst consultation for hair removal ever. I live in Wellington, New Zealand and the hair removal options here suck. I was recommended to Shannons by someone reliable and had high hopes. The woman I spoke to shattered them. She shattered the reliability of electrolysis, the possibility of ever getting rid of the hair, and shattered the confidence and belief I had in all of the information and advice and personal experience given on this site. I’m so confused, heartbroken, and frankly, don’t really wanna live if there is no chance ever in my entire life of ever becoming free from this nightmare I deal with.
Here, in short, is what the beautiful blonde woman with naturally sparse and fine body hair and a black soul told me:
-Electrolysis can’t kill the hair the first time. It can take 6 to more times to kill a single hair follicle forever. SO, areas like the arm (which I wanted, along with every place else) is impossible and won’t work and that I should use IPL (is what she told me).
-When I asked her about lower legs, she smirked and said that was impossible because there was too much hair and that I should just wax! As if I don’t try that already and would be sitting in front of her if it actually worked for me…I wanted to smack her.
-I asked her how many hairs usually gets pulled out per minute (a question I read from a post that should be asked at a consultation) and all she could answer was “Depends on what is being used, since with galvanic, its slower and some hairs just slide out while others are tugged out, so you can’t really measure…blah blah blah” so basically, I DON’T KNOW.
-Hair is in different stages of growth at all times (true) and that you have to get it in its exact stage in order to kill it or else you have to attack the germs and/or shrink the pore which the bulb grows in, in order to permanently remove the hair and that this takes several times on the same hair follicle (Um, never heard this before?? Sounds like laser to me…or make believe? Kill the germs because it makes the hair follicle grow? what??)
Here’s some background information I got from her:
-One of the machine brands they use is Sterex, (or something very similar in name, starts with an S) Galvanic epilator.
-People having just facial hair done like the upper lip have been going for more than 20 years, still! What chance does that give me?!
-They don’t use mixed, just galvanic and thermolysis. Galvanic would be used on my face…its much slower but reduced chances of scarring, she said.
-She said most people who come to get electrolysis only get face, underarms, and nips done pretty much, and anywhere else on the body is just not done!! (because, I guess, there’s too much hair or something so they don’t recommend it??)
I don’t know what to think and how to feel, I’m just numb. Is she actually right? About any of this? This is the ONLY place where I live that was highly recommended, I mean this is the place. I don’t know what to do and what to think. None of this seems right. I don’t want to do IPL or laser again, the results were just not good! And not worth the precious money. I’m so lost.
