If you have like 70-100 dark coarse hairs on your upper lips and chin area, how many treatments needed to clear them completely?
Or maybe the right question is how many hours needed to get rid of them totally and no hair should show up again?
It depends on how many hairs there really are. If you are seeing 70 to 100 hairs during the course of 6 weeks or so, then you will need 15 minutes of treatment about once a month - and maybe diminishing times for about a year to 18 months.
If you are seeing 70 to 100 hairs total during one week, then you will need weekly 15 minute appointments, with diminishing time during the next year to 18 months.
If you are seeing 70 to 100 hairs every day (that you are then tweezing every day) then you may very well need 1 to 2 hours a week to begin with, and within 2 months about half that time, with similarly diminishing times for the next year to 18 months.
So, which one do you fit in? Are you currently tweezing? Was the hair a recent onset, or have you had a consistent amount for a long time?
Thank you for the reply, Barbara. Actually I am using laser (Gentle Yag) right now for my upper lips. I thought there was no electrologist in my area but then I found one (1 hour by train). I had my second laser treatment just two days ago. After my first treatment, after the shedding and new hairs showed up (week 4th to week 5th) I noticed that I had that amount of hair. The hairs on my upper lips area are not dense but they are dark and coarse, literally like the hairs on men’s upper lips. Before the laser I used to tweeze them everyday since my puberty. My hormone level is normal, though.
Completion hours is impossible to state, but - 70 to 100 hairs can take 10 minutes to 30 minutes - depending upon the modality your electrologist uses.
Once you clear those hairs, you will have other hairs cycle in, which need to be treated. Treating the hairs as they cycle in will keep you cleaned up and will complete the process - as long as your body doesn’t grow more (new) hair.