This is why it is so very important to select a skilled electrologist.
May I clarify once again that the skin reaction is not electrolysis induced. Electrolysis gets blamed for everything. We don’t know all the facts in this case beyond what the poster told us. It appears that the owner of those legs was a little too zealous “digging” at the ingrowns with whatever “tool” was used. It appears that this became a daily ritual to reduce the anxiety of having ingrowns. The questions that I had asked above were not answered by the poster. Was she using a safety pin? sterile lancet? sewing needle? razor blade? This is not the kind of damage you get from even a poor electrolysis practitioner, especially one who did not overtreat or did not cause much sensation. We don’t even know if the poster was performing electrolysis on herself.
Yes, this is why it is so very important to select a skilled electrologist. In the meantime, TIME will heal this if it is left alone. Topicals with vitamins haven’t been proven helpful, but it makes the user feel like they are doing something meaningful.
You need someone who can untrap those ingrown hairs without creating this much damage. Good vision and lighting and proper tools would do as much.
To make it so that no future hairs grow this way, properly performed electrolysis would be the ticket. I don’t have a single client who has any such visible remainder one and a half years after completion of treatment.
You need someone who can untrap those ingrown hairs without creating this much damage. Good vision and lighting and proper tools would do as much.
To make it so that no future hairs grow this way, properly performed electrolysis would be the ticket. I don’t have a single client who has any such visible remainder one and a half years after completion of treatment.
Thank you for all your comments. I am sorry that I forgot to answer your question. I used a sterile needle as my electologiest said me. All these three years as I had electrolysis done legs looked tolerable, and never with such bad conditions as now. It all started after my last treatment when hairs simply stopped to grow normally, only as ingrown. And I believe that I am not diabetic.
Oh, I did not know that topical with vitamins are not effective. If you know= what is effective for treatment sores from removing ingrowns and then to treat hypepigmentation, please, could you tell me? I would be very very grateful to you!
Yes, this reaction is not possible from the most amateur electrologist. It was the post electrolysis interference, with the sterile needle, that has completely traumatised your skin. I would recomend taking zinc to aid in skin healing and taking the previously recomended advice of correcting the ingrowings with electrolysis. Electrolysis ,was originally discovered by an opthamologist, who first used it to sucessfully treat ingrowing eyelashes.
These lesions have been produced by the hair removal wax. Ingrown hairs by repeated extraction of the hairs. This is not related to the injuries of Ekade legs.
Ekade, your legs should look like after a year of Electrolysis …
Other legs…
More than anything in the world I wish that my legs look like on last photos! I am glad that for others they do!
To dfahey or somebody else who could know: I know that you said that time will heal this if it is left alone and topicals with vitamins haven’t been proven helpful. But apparently now ‘time healing’ is not working very good for me.
If you know what is more effective than topicals with vitamins for healing inflamed sores after removed ingrowns. And what to do with this hyper pigmentation to treat it as soon as possible, please tell me. If you do not want to call brands here, please, write me a private massage. I would be so grateful to you! Thank you.
There are three things you must do 1, no more picking ever 2 electrolysis to get rid of the ingrowings 3 Take zinc and vitamin C to promote internal healing. The contiual re opening of these lesions has not allowed skin healing and created this massive pigmentation problem. How often were you picking? I am trying to learn from this because like the other electrologists, I have in over 30 years practise, never seen anything so extreme.
There are three things you must do 1, no more picking ever 2 electrolysis to get rid of the ingrowings 3 Take zinc and vitamin C to promote internal healing. The contiual re opening of these lesions has not allowed skin healing and created this massive pigmentation problem. How often were you picking? I am trying to learn from this because like the other electrologists, I have in over 30 years practise, never seen anything so extreme.
I completely agree with Christine (who I admire sincerely).
1.- Allow skin to do job.
2.- Interrupt handling ingrowns immediately. (Except in professional hands).
3.- Use shaving, while waiting to deal with Electrolysis. [color:#660000]DO NOT USE SYSTEMS AVULSION HAIR!!! [/color](tipe: tweezers, wax, removing hair machines)
The reddish color of these lesions is a sign that healing is still active. As the skin will recover the natural color of your skin again. To speed up the process I TRETINOIN applied topically.
Laboratories say this:
“[color:#3366FF]Tretinoin appears to act by increasing mitosis and epidermal cell renewal.
The studies employing microscopy showed an increase in collagen type 1, while ultrastructural studies showed an increased number of anchoring fibrils in the papillary dermis of photodamaged skin treated with tretinoin.”[/color]
3ª case of legs:
thank you!
Please keep us up to date with your progress ekade, and we want to see some lovely photos in a few months.
Hello! Here I am again. More than a year after my last post here, but unfortunately, the situation as bad as it was before! UGH! Hair are keeping and keeping grow in my skin! I hoped that after removing them once, they would stop it, but I guess that they are ingrowning in the same places again and again! Apparently, the skin are scarred, and it has to place to go, but inside my skin! My life is nightmare! I do not believe that my legs will ever cure again!
Hi ekade,
I’m reading your thread for the first time, I just went back two pages. I’m not sure if you’re male or female but I assume female.
Your problem is that you keep removing them. Ingrown hairs do eventually make their way out but they must be left alone. I know what you mean about some being stuck inside, if they cause an infected cyst, then you can have them removed by a profession (a doctor or such) but only these! If they are just stuck without causing a problem the best thing is to leave them. Exfoliate with an exfoliating mitt a few times a week on DRY skin. And moisturise daily after a shower. I use Rosehip oil which is very good for skin healing and scarred skin.
My legs used to look like the legs on the previous page displayed by depilacionelectr, worse in some places. I had a few sessions of laser and now I do not get ingrowns anymore. The hair I have left grows normally and I try to leave it, just shave one a month. I had so many scars and some of the very bad ones are still not completely faded but on the whole the skin is smooth and clear.
I do not know if your hair is dark enough or coarse enough, but if it is, and you cannot find a good electrologist, do some research (very important!) into Laser and perhaps try this.
I didnt saw your legs, but I had allso problems with ingrowths on my shoulders - I was epilating the hairs since august 2010 and the result were many wounds, looked really bad:(
I decided to go for laser to get rid of the ingrowing hairs - after that I had just a few (10-20)ingrowing hairs, what was really good.
Laser (GentleLase and hight settings - 30J on 15mm or 20J on 18mm) will burn all the hairs inside your skin and after that it should be fine - 1 session should be enough, but maybe you will need 2 to get rid of all ingrowing hairs…