Okay, it’s been four days and most of the worst inflammation has calmed down. Here’s a photo showing how much of my chin got cleared last Saturday. (Obviously, there’s still two angry spots in the center.) We’ll continue clearing the hairs you see remaining Thursday morning, and that will achieve first clearing of my chin, requiring a total of five-to-six hours over three weekly sessions.
It required 30 to 40 minutes to treat the hairs remaining around my lips and the chin area first treated last week. Margaret found several near the corners of my mouth that I had not seen yet. She continued clearing around and beneath my chin, and this week there was no serious redness or lymph drainage.
Working in the chin area is going much faster because the hair roots are not as deep and they’re not curved. I’m really glad I decided to treat my lips first and am now mostly done with them. It was slow and often times uncomfortable, but it’s been very much worth it. 
I had a sad 
realization this morning. I was checking my appointment card when I remembered I didn’t have an appointment this week. My electrologist is out of town for the state board’s annual meeting this week, which she’s been helping to organize. Well, at least my skin gets an extra few days to recover.
I was wrong, it’s not the state board meeting this week. It’s a different CEU training topic altogether. I’m still missing my weekly appointment. I think I may have become addicted to pinpoint heat applied to my facial hair follicles. 
Or maybe it’s just the personal attention of a caring professional. 
I had a lawyer tell me that he had to figure out a new place to work on when I finished his face, back and chest, because… my treatment table was the only place he got to take naps! 
Well, I definitely can’t nap during treatment, but I do take the opportunity to enjoy some very peaceful, soothing music while getting treated. Margaret says other clients seem to enjoy the music I brought, as well. It helps calm them, much as it does for me.
yeahbuddeh asked for a newer picture to see how well the redness and swelling around my lips has resolved. I couldn’t get quite the crisp focus I usually do this morning, maybe my face is just out of focus today? 
My chin still has some pink/red coloration, but that’s decreasing day by day.
excellent results on the upper and lower lips!! im jealous!
I’ve been very pleased with the results all around my mouth. What few hairs are re-growing are very fine and white, and extremely easy to treat/remove. This picture was taken 24 hours after shaving my cheeks and chin, but not anywhere around my lips. If you look carefully, you can see two of those hairs on the right, just beneath the nostril.
so your upper and lower lip hairs are gone. and you dont need to shave them anymore right? well until the next cycle comes in in a couple months right?
Exactly. I don’t shave those areas at all, and Margaret catches any new growth each visit as we continue working on my chin. I have a regular weekly two-hour appointment, and it only requires about 30 minutes to clean-up that new growth. The remaining time is spent achieving first clearance on my chin.
I can tell you I feel more fine hair on both my lips than can be seen in that photograph. That’s why it takes 30 minutes, even when it doesn’t appear like there’s much hair.
We spent most of two hours Wednesday morning performing maintenance on areas already cleared twice. Despite this, Margaret did a good job advancing on my chin. She’s now cleared it down to the bottom, but not yet below the lowest point. There was much less redness and swelling from today’s treatment, although I did apply an ice pack for 45 minutes to help keep any possible swelling away.
Can you update a recent picture of the upper and lower lips? Are you pretty much done with these areas or waiting for the next cycle of hairs to come in?
Margaret is treating whatever few (ten or twenty) fine white hairs re-appear there, every week. Since the second full clearance, that’s all that’s been very slow in appearing. I’ll get a new picture posted this weekend.
I noticed something interesting Thursday morning. When I went to bed Wednesday evening I did not wash or moisturize, only applied antibiotic cream, and there was no pinpoint redness then or Thursday morning when waking up. After I washed my face and applied moisturizer, that’s when the pinpoint redness began appearing. I think I may need to switch moisturizers, or at least apply a toner like witch hazel before moisturizing.
It has been my experience that when it comes to healing, less is often more. I advise people to keep it clean and dry and in order to speed healing, use Tea Tree Oil overnight, and if they want to use something during the day, go for Aloe Vera Gel. Other than that, just wash with a pure soap like Ivory, African Black Soap, or Glycerine Soap, and keep it dry.
James, I don’t believe it’s bacterial at all, as I use an anti-bacterial soap and the redness never gets any worse after it first appears. I suspect there’s some sort of alcohol or other irritant in the moisturizer that’s causing it, in which case an astringent/toner should help close the pores and prevent it.
I never said it was bacterial.
There are so many skin irritants in products made to be put on skin. Lanolin is a notorious irritant, and comedogenic, but there it is in a slew of moisturizers, shampoo/conditioners, and so on.
I suspect that witch hazel will help you as well.
i used to use a moisturizer and my skin was always dry if i didnt use it. lately i haven been using it at all and my skin is not flaking off all the time as it used to. moisturizers contain alcohol and that causes the redness. part of the reason also why i stopped using it. the cosmetic industry is a big scam
Here’s the latest, taken Saturday morning. It’s not as well-focused as I’d prefer, but I think you can see enough detail.
Another two hour session this morning. I asked Margaret about skipping the maintenance/cleanup around my lips for a week and just continuing to clear my chin, but she prefers to keep everything cleared at every visit. I can honestly respect that strategy. Each week, it’s taking less and less time to treat the few remaining hairs growing back in.