I had a consulatation today regarding the hair in the chin area and was told that it would take two years for all of the hair to be removed. I was expecting 6 months to a year. Has anyone ever completed treatment in less time than expected?
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make sure you get more consultations and sample treatments
I don’t know you, but I could clear a transgender beard in that time. I can’t imagine your chin alone needing that much time without slow treatments, or not getting full clearances.
Thank you. I was kind of taken aback by the two years. She said that it’s because I was a chronic tweezer. I have my first treatment this week for 30 minutes. When she went over everything with me she basically reiterated everything that has been mentioned on this board. I’m hoping for the best.
Two years is way too long for chin area, with or without tweezing prior to geting electro. treatment. My old electrologist tried to sell me same stuff, but i went to someone else who managed to get my treatment done in 2 months.
It is essential that you stop tweezing. I had a client who kept saying that she was no longer tweezing, but what I saw indicated that she was. She finally came clean and admitted that she had been tweezing the whole time and would stop now.
Wow, I’m so glad I read this! I had a consultation for my chin a couple months ago and was told the same thing. I didn’t go with that person for a variety of other reasons (your dog is running around where you do your work? no, thank you), but that had me pretty discouraged.
Thanks!
With good and regular treatments, it takes about 12 months after your first clearance.
I had my first treatment and it wasn’t bad at all. I didn’t really feel anything other than a little bit of heat. I also bled a little. Is that normal? She suggested that I see an endocrinologist to rule out any hormonal problems. If there is a hormonal problem, will that have an effect on the results I can achieve with electrolysis? All of the dark visible hairs were removed during that session and i’m going back in two weeks.
The bleeding would definitely concern me. It sounds like she was missing the follicle and poking into the skin or something. (Maybe the needles were way too long?) I am a beginning DIYer and I have never caused any bleeding on myself other than one tiny superficial scratch.
How much bleeding was there?
Actually, depending on certain things (like recent use of aspirin) one might bleed during electrolysis treatment even without the electrologist making an error.
In the average situation, however, bleeding should not occur.
James, I had no idea. Should the average person not take aspirin before an electrolysis session? It did help a little with the pain on my upper lip.
Medications that are prescribed by a doctor should not be discontinued. Off the top of my head, these include aspirin, Coumadin( warfarin) and Plavix. Certain dietary supplements cause the blood to thin like fish oil and ginkgo. Ginger and garlic can be included, as well. The electrologist should be made aware that you are using these things.
As we get older, our capillary walls become more fragile and the skin becomes thinner because the fat that protects the capillaries decreases. I find this to be true especially when I work on older womens’ eyebrows. Got to be oh so careful with those insertions and with the selection of the probe size.
I shy completely away from from working on people that are taking coumadin.
A missed insertion can cause bleeding, so the first thing to do is get those insertions just right. No electrologist makes perfect insertions 100% of the time, but if puncturing the follicle wall seems to happen several times, then they need to go back to the basics of perfoming a proper insertions and get it right.
Tea Tree Oil is good at coagulating the blood and stopping any bleeding, so it is a good thing to have handy during treatment, just in case one does get a gusher. Ten seconds with a tea tree oil soaked cotton pressed in place is usually all one needs.
If you have a hormonal problem causing the hair to grow that means that your body will be developing NEW hair in the future due to it. So you will need to get touchups on new hair in the future when that happens, or get on medication etc to control the hormonal imbalance etc that’s causing it. Electrolysis can only remove the hair that’s growing now. It can’t prevent your body from developing new hair.
ok. I thought that once the hair follicle was destroyed that new hair wouldn’t be able to grow there again. I guess that’s not true?
Destroying the follicle’s hair growing ability is the goal with electrology treatments, however, you have at least 5 million hair follicles on your body. (More than apes, but they grow a higher percentage of hairs at one time.) ((Found that in some science article.))
Humans rarely grow hair from all their follicles, but if there are hormones influencing hair growth, some people continue to see new growth (from dormant follicles) after previously growing other follicles have lost their ability to grow a hair. That is one reason that some clients will have treatments throughout their lives - to keep cleaned up.