Electrolysis worries

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I’ve been having electrolysis done on my upper lip area 1 hour a week for the past 5 months. The electrologist doing this told me she is using the blend method.
I barely feel anything when she inserts the probe thingie… Then there’s a buzzing kinda sound for 10 seconds and some pain when she does the “electrolysizing” :whistle:. Not much pain though… but the middle of the upper lip, the edge of the lip, and right under the nose kinda suck :eek:…but I don’t feel I need a numbing cream or something like that. I’d say that I do usually feel the hairs being pulled out, but it rarely feels just as if I had plucked the hair out with tweezers. In the last few sessions though, a lot more hairs have been coming out with very little to no resistance. But some still feel “kind of” like they’re being plucked …and there have been times when I was like, “ouch, that was a plucking”. I’ve asked her about that before, and she said something about how some hairs are thicker or have bigger roots or something…
She usually seems to spend more like an hour and 15min on my upper lip each time I go (but she sometimes answers the phone ) …She seems to be able to ‘mostly’ clear the upper lip in that time. There’ll usually be some scattered darker hairs left, but nothing really thick, black, and majorly obvious (usually).

I don’t know the name of the machine she’s using…

She uses some sorta magnification thing with a light that’s on some ‘arm thingie’ and she moves it into position over my face.

At this point the hair on my upper lip is less dense than when i started, but it looks like I have quite a bit still. She told me that each hair would have to be treated about 7 times in the growth cycle before it was permanently removed… I don’t know if that’s right? …it seems like if every hair on my face will have to be treated 7 times in it’s growth cycle… aaaa! this’ll take forever …I’m also wondering if it’s supposed to take an hour to clear the upper lip area? I have the rest of my face to get to as soon as possible and I really need to be rid of this facial hair like yesterday …aand another worry; I’m worried about what the electrolysis is doing to my skin. The skin texture on my upper lip looks kinda rough like i have big pores or something… is that normal? is it likely to get smoother looking after I’m done with the electrolysis?

Thank you so much for any help

[James_W_Walker_VII]

Everything you say you experience during blend electrolysis on the upper lip is normal. When starting out on an upper lip, the follicles are densly packed and the hair root systems are crowding each other out. When the treated hair is removed, especially if it is a thick one, it must squeeze past the other root structures an will pop out as if it was a pimple.

Club Hairs, or shedding hairs with no further growth occuring, often require a pulling out as they are held in place by a larger, roundish anchor system. Once again, you would feel a POP when the hair comes out.

Everything your electrolysis provider has told you is correct, but when she said “every hair requires 7 treatments” she was fudging in order to avoid a longer explaination. That explaination is available in all its longwinded glory in our regrowth thread, which is located here:
http://www.hairtell.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/8979/all/Regrowth_charts.html

As for time per hair, blend requires at least 7 seconds per hair for the treatment energy to build up. Compare this to the 60 seconds or more required by Galvanic, or the blink of an eye required by Thermolysis, and you can understand why people like me do most work in thermolysis. Clients like you want progress fast, and lots of hairs worked on.

Don’t worry about your skin, it will heal well, and once you are doing less work spread out over a smaller area, it will look better. When you get to the point of no treatment in the area at all for 6 months your skin will come to look like those airbrushed models.

Finally, you don’t have “big pores”, you just have never seen your skin with the hairs removed. That was the space those hairs were taking up in your skin. I know you don’t believe it, but its an illusion that your pores are somehow streched out.

[bsd2009]

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Thank you James I feel better now…

I wonder if I should ask her about thermolysis…