I have been cursed with very fine, light “peach fuzz” type hair covering my chin, neck, cheeks, etc.
I get a handful of coarse hairs on my chin - but 99% of the hair is this very fine and light, but there is a lot of it.
I’ve started researching electrolysis…does anyone have experience getting this type of hair removed?
yes, electrolysis is the only way to go on this type of hair and it’s actually easier to kill since it’s weak.
I’ve also had some of this type of hair removed. You need a practitioner with very good magnification. One electrologist, which I really liked alot, didn’t have the equipment to be able to see it, so I switched to another who could and have been getting excellent results.
Hi Hairless in LA, can you pl elaborate on the type of maginification your previoous elctrologist was using as well as what the new one is using who you are happy with.
What would be even better is if you could add what lighting, machine, probe and aftercare you are using for this type of hair.
Thanks!!!
So does it follow that you would need less treatments on this type of hair, or not because of hair cycles etc.? I have fine hair all over my shoulders, back and front but sadly it’s very dark and visible unlike other women…I’m dying to get it treated 
It takes a minimum of 9 months for all hair in an area to cycle through and show itself on the surface of the skin one time.
the more coarse hairs can take 2-3 zaps even in the right phase. you will still have to go through the phases of growth, but it may take 1-2 zaps to kill the finer hair.
One of my clients is on a twice monthly schedule for this same thing. She has a few coarse hairs on the chin and at the corners of her upper lip. We spend 45 minutes every two weeks clearing the coarse hair and then thinning the fine hairs. She will not be done in 9 months because I am not clearing every hair on her face - it would be too hard on her skin!
I wish I could answer your questions better than this, but this is what I know. They both use glasses-type magnification lenses, but the electrologist I go to now has a stronger, more precision pair.
She uses an Apilus machine, doing microflash. I’m sorry, I never paid attention to what kind of light she is using.
As far as aftercare, for the last two appointments, she has applied a prescription anti-bacterial cream before I leave. I do nothing after that. I used to get a lot of red marks and scabs, almost at every insertion, but since she started using the cream, I only get a handful… or less.
Again, I apologize for not being able to be more specific. If you’d still like to know more, I can find out on my next appointment, but that’s not for 5 more weeks.
Since I am dealing with this type of hair on my u/l, and also being treated on an an Apilus, I am just keen to get any related input as you said you txs were going excellent. Do you get much tugging on our hairs anymore, are you able to get complete clearance each time? I wonder how many hairs are considered a minimum speed for an electrologist using microflash. Any info you can get would be a plus.
Thanks!!!
Speed depends on the area being treated. I can do 13++ hairs a minute with microfalsh on the flat back or arms (open territory), but the small hairs under the delicate nose slow me down to about 6 per minute (crowded, cramped alley). Poor vision and lighting equipment can definitely halt the speed as well. Client sensitivity is another factor. So, this is a hard question to answer because of the variables involved with each case.
Dee
You are dealing with a very visible area, while I am not. I think Dee’s answer is the best information you can get as far as speed.
I feel very little tugging, even on the fine hairs. Though, this last appointment, I was aware of a bit more than usual. We are, at least, at the point now where I get complete clearance each time, but this is after a year’s worth of appointments approximately every six weeks. (There was a time during the year when I had to go longer between appointments because of money issues, but then I got back on schedule.)
I guess its such a small area that I was expecting to get at least one full clearance by this time. The problem is that the area is such that long appts are not advisable. Most we have done is 1 hr appts a couple times and she gets very uncomfortable after the 45 min mark, yes I said she 
Its pretty painless for me, the most pain is the tugging and of course a bit of hot sort of burning sensation sometimes after we have worked on it a while.
I think the rate of re-growth for fine hair is actually much more than for coarse hair, at least that’s what it seems like in my own case. We have to keep spending enough time on the u/l that the lower really doesn’t get done. And I have been going very regularly, weekly at first, every two seeks since.
I will keep at it I guess, and re-evaluate again in 6-8 appts. Thanks for your input dee and hairless.
you should be coming in as often as possible to clear the area, so that you’re only coming in to get the new hairs that came in that after, and therefore leave with no hair each time. if that means having treatments twice a week at first, you should do that.
hi lagirl, she only works the one day a week, childcare situation. and last three times I have had more scabbing then usual so I thought better keep it to every two weeks to give time for skin to fully recover (even tho scabs are gone in 4 days). I thought hard about what’s happening and the only thing I can come up with is that I have been drinking less water in the last month or so. This next appt I am planning to go well hydrated, if I scab less or not at all, I will go try weekly appts again.
I have a technique question, do any of the electrologists here keep both probe and tweezers in one hand while they use the other for stretching the skin?? I am sure it slows the process, but could it affect insertion quality?
I use the one-handed method. I could never master the 2-handed method, my left hand and the tweezers plus the stretching just did not get along with each other, which slowed me greatly.
I don’t think it would (or at least it shouldn’t)have an effect on the insertions.
I am a one hander type as well. It does not slow the electrolysis process at all. I’m thinking quite the opposite maybe true.
Dee
I learned both one hand and two hand techniques, and I did not like the difference in the ease of insertion with 2 handed technique. I also like the quality of the stretch one handed technique gives, including the ability to keep one area stretched while one removes many rows of hairs without losing or compromising the stretch.
I am not saying that all two handers are slower than one handers, but I sure worked faster in one handed technique than two handed technique the whole time I was working with both.
Wow, this is the frst person I notice doing that, had no idea it was so common. But I guess I can’t blame how long its taking for clearance on speed. Must be really hard on the joints of the hand to keep rolling back and forth every hair,though. Add to that the strain from the vision equipment, my electrologist says the loupes are really very hard on her eyes, she’s been thinking about exchanging it for a magnifying lamp, oh how I hope she doesn’t do that.
Tell her to same her money and her eyes!
The Magnifying Lamps are even worse!
Only ONE EYE can focus and the other is looking at a blurry image. NOW HOW STRAINED DO YOU THINK YOUR EYES WOULD BE THEN?