Murach, did you read enough of Bryce’s posts to understand that he drew an imaginary line down his body and had L.A.S.E.R. done on one side, and electrolysis on the other side. Later, when the electrolysis side was done, and the L.A.S.E.R. side was still growing hair, he called the comparison over, and started electrolysis on the former L.A.S.E.R. side, in order to complete the job. Like Aesop’s tortoise, the Electrolysis had won the race against the Light Fast Rabbit, because unlike the rabbit, the tortoise actually finished the race.
James, I personally haven’t had any laser treatments on bikini or underarms in over 3 years now at least and I still have my 99% reduction. On those specific areas with dense coarse hair, I would do the exact same thing if I had to do it all over again. Electrolysis couldn’t compete there.
Of course, I also had electrolysis on entire abdomen, eyebrows, upper lip, and nipple area, and haven’t had treatments there in about 2 years now either with great results as well.
That’s great, LA Girl, but I don’t think there is any way of knowing, ex ante, whether one will get great results with LHR. I had all the prerequisites, including dark thick hair, white skin, and aggressive settings. There wasn’t much reduction on the shoulder/neck/back. Lower back seemed like it might have worked.
Oh, well given that in the past his half-n-half comparisons of his back would just experience regrowth, I assumed it was true to this day with the most recent pic. If he really managed to permanently fix half his beastfuzzed back finally, then thats awesome.
Btw bryce, im curious if any factors contributed to your hairiness. Can you list anything significant about yourself that might be relevant? For example, do you eat a lot of meat? Were you just as hairy 10 years ago?
I am but one data point, therefore cannot disentangle the 1000 possibilities of why I am hairy. I suspect the main factors are genetic and related to where my ancestors are from, rather than drinking milk with hormones or a lot of meat. My back, chest, and shoulders sprouted hair at 14 and got to full hairiness at 18 or so.
Within the year I will have my shoulder/back hair conquered forever. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner (but who has $10,000 laying around at 18).
Then it’ll be on to other nuisance areas, such as the back of the neck, bottom of the beard, and perhaps thinning out the chest some. But, in all honesty, I would be very happy not to bother with the chest at all. Plenty of women find it sexy, and frankly I raise an eyebrow at completely hairless men the same way some raise an eyebrow at overly hairy men. There’s a happy median for me.
depilacionelectr, it would be great if you or a mod could delete your picture post. It’s irrelevant to my diary and frankly I don’t want people thinking I sprouted a vag. (joke)
James, please delete the photo. Thanks!
Picture? What Picture?
James, sorry to give you much work.
Bryce, the worst thing of all is not that you are sprouted a vag, is that you are born without it. In this case, you’d be a woman (what a tragedy!), without vag (worse tragedy!), half hairy (absolute calamity). (joke)
Josefa
I am the most half hairiest person in the world, I’d wager.
Hahaha!
Hi Josefa:
I’m going to have to work on my Spanish humor. I’ve got the English humor pretty well figured out though!
I guess its all in the delivery, kind of like a stand up comedian.
Alicia
Oh No Alicia, Humor Spanish and English are very similar. Look at my president ZP, Ups, sorry I wanted to say, Mr. Bean. No doubt the great Bean govern better.
Bryce, try to use the Emla, your electrologist will raise the intensity and speed up the end of your treatment. Use it 2 or 3 hours before each session, with occlusion of plastic wrap. Then you will be the MACHO less hairy of the world. A big hug and encouragement.
I’m not worried about the speed, really. I like the current intensity just fine! For the first time, electrolysis mostly comfortable.
What makes electrolysis mostly comfortable for the first time? What is different?
A general note to others reading this: EMLA has to be used cautiously on large areas, especially if it is occluded with plastic wrap. AstraZeneca makes EMLA. They can be contacted about using this medication on large areas for electrolysis. I’m thinking they wouldn’t recommend this.
Thus, I’m back to the original question about comfort. The better epilators available today allow the electrologist to use deadly speed with very tolerable levels so the client can lay on the table for several hours for treatment and thus get finished faster.
Dee,
The epilator is the same between the two electrologists. After observing insertions between the two women, my belief is that my first practitioner put the probe in far too deeply and had to compensate by cranking up the intensity. The new practitioner rarely makes a deep insertion and has the setting down lower.
Bryce
Thank you, bryce. The hairs on your left side were treated with laser. Insertions may not have to be as deep since laser most likely have reduce the size of the hair. Pardon me if you are still hanging out on the right side only, so thus, the laser explanation would not apply. You look really good and I think your journal is stupendous- the best on this site!
I suppose that’s possible. I wouldn’t have thought that the depth of the hair would be affected by the laser. Figured that would be genetic, and, although the laser might make it thinner, the depth would remain the same.
Thanks for the compliment. I just wanted to share, since there are probably a lot of men out there who are frustrated like I am. Soon, however, I will not be (and it’s already much less).
Bryce, would you mind posting the laser settings that were used? I looked through all the pages, but couldn’t find them in the diary.
Dee, I agree with your recommendation message. Your comment is very appropriate.
However, I believe that these warnings should be aimed at consumers of laser. In them the use of this anesthetic is much more indiscriminate. The insensitive area required in the first clearance of electrolysis is not a potential hazard because it can never be very extensive. For further clearances where the hairs are very isolated from each other, is enough to apply a “touch” for every hair or group of hairs. Most of the area is free of hair, hence the application in those free areas is unnecessary.
In any case, follow all the recommendations of Dee.