Hi Ella! I just saw your post. I have a few things to say.
First, you have GORGEOUS skin! You are so lucky! My skin was really torn up by all the plucking before I started this journey.
Second, I totally understand how bad it looks TO YOU. I had some people tell me it wasn’t very bad (on here) and I know they were trying to be encouraging, but it felt bad TO ME. So I understand where you are coming from.
If you have not done it already, start shaving. Your hair only needs to feel a little stubbly for the electrologist to be able to zap it. For me, that means I can stop shaving on Sunday morning for a Tuesday evening appointment. Up until my last treatment, I was stopping on Monday morning for a Tuesday evening appointment, but the hairs seem to be finally slowing down so I need to move it back a day now. With that amount of growth it is enough for me to FEEL and it is visible if someone is looking really closely at my face, but not enough to actually be noticeable.
Don’t pluck at all! Not with tweezers, not with your fingers. Every time you pluck a hair, it gets thicker, darker, and stronger. Every time you don’t pluck it and your electrologist zaps it, if it comes back at all it will be thinner, finer, weaker, and shallower.
Everyone here seems to like thermolysis the best because it is the fastest. If you can’t find someone you can trust that does thermolysis, you can still get some treatments with another method. Every hair that you treat is gone for at least 6 weeks, if not longer (or permanently). All the hairs will eventually be permanently gone, but some of them take more than one treatment. Galvanic and blend will kill the hairs too, it just may take longer.
My hairs were a lot denser and closer together than yours, and I think they were thicker too. I am sure you can get clearance faster than me, especially if your skin is less sensitive. I’ll be posting a picture before my 5th hour of treatment next Thursday, so you can see the progress I have made so far.
Oh yeah, I found that doing the hairs on my face (front of chin mostly, for me) before the ones under my chin helped me to feel a lot less conspicuous. I’m pretty short and I’m pretty sure other people can’t see under my chin as well as I can when I look in a mirror. The upper lip is going to hurt but they can give you a cream to put on first. You will feel a lot better when you get clearance of that, and your cheeks, and the front of your chin.