I have a pretty general question that I can seem to find an answer to - all the information I find is very contradictory.
I suffer from excess hair growth, but my hair is not thick and coarse; rather, all the areas on my body where one would have see-through peach fuzz are covered with peach fuzz that is dark and longer than it should be. So if you see me from 3-4 feet away I look perfectly normal, but if you look up close you see that my peach fuzz is dark and long.
I want to know if that situation should be treated with electrolysis or with laser. I keep hearing that both methods do not work on peach fuzz - does that include dark and long peach fuzz?
I want to do electrolysis on my face, but I am not sure that going one hair at a time on this peach fuzz is possible, not because it’s not noticable (it is!), but because there is quite a bit of it.
I would really like to hear some opinions on the matter, I am very depressed and desparate over this… would pay any amount of money to solve it, if I knew there was away…
Electrolysis works on any color of peach fuzz. Laser does not see this thin hair no matter what color it is. Your only option is electrolysis. Any reading you have done about electrolysis NOT being an option is totally and laughably FALSE. So it is good you have come here so we can tell you how this is acheived.
I personally work on facial hair that is numerous and very fine, no matter what the color, no matter what my feelings are about the persons desire to remove such fine hair. All this is possible hair by hair under certian conditions:
You must find an electrologist that has the stamina to work on you for more than a couple hours at a time in the beginning.
A highly skilled electrologist must do MicroFlash or PicoFlash thermolysis. These modalities can only be used if the electrologist has a computerized epilator like the higher end Apilus’s or a Silhouet-Tone VMC, to name a few that I am familiar with. She/he can remove hair one by one at a fast tick-tock pace if she uses no foot switch, but rather enables the auto sensor mode. The sensation is better with the Picoflasher (defined as someone who uses 27MHz technology with either an Apilus Platinum or Pure epilator), but MicroFlash thermolysis (13 Mhz technology)“ain’t” all that bad as far as sensation goes. I used that for a long time and did marathon sessions that were very tolerable and effective, too.
The electrologist should have surgical magnification so she/he can see the hairs that need treated.
The electrologist needs a halogen or LED light source and she/he needs to know how to position a client to get something we in the business call the “shadowing effect” for optimal vision enhancement of those tiny hairs.
The proper size of probe needs to be used to match the hairs diameter. I only use gold or insulated probes. I don’t like stainless steel.
If these principles are not in the plan, you will get frustrated by lack of results or slow progress and will give up. Know that it takes a year to 18 months of regularly spaced appointments. Most clients feel great relief by month six, even though they are not quite finshed yet.
Where did you hear that both methods do not work on peach fuzz? Laser doesn’t, but electrolysis works even quicker on fine and peach fuzz type of hair compared to coarse hair because it’s weaker.
Are you female? How old? What areas bother you most?