pictures: https://imgur.com/a/9CTojyq
the red marks are from me scratching
Hi… I had a SINGLE clearing done on a large area of fine dark almost vellus body hair and now THREE YEARS LATER there are STILL ingrown hairs there. They feel like hard bumps and I’m 1000x worse off than what I started with. This has made me basically depressed. I had NO idea something like this could happen.
It is clear to me by now that they’re not coming out on their own. I’ve tried topicals and exfoliation, yes. I avoided seeing any more electrologists for a long time because I had frankly become afraid of the whole process. I just hoped this would ‘resolve on it’s own’. Well, that clearly isn’t happening. So I am overcoming my fear of electrolysis and asking all you guys for advice.
So, have you ever seen anything like this before? Am I the lucky victim of the single worst electrolysis session ever in history? How could this happen?!
And, importantly - can ingrown hairs like this even be removed with more electrolysis? Wouldn’t it be hard to see the follicle lumen if you first have to dig out the hair? I’ve no idea btw how deep they’re stuck. I’m afraid there might be hundreds of them… It’s like the person didn’t actually destroy a single hair she touched???
P.S. I am in Europe, so if anyone has any contacts with Josefa I would be eternally grateful if you could tell her about my case because my understanding is that she’s the electrolysis God. I’ve seen her results too and they were beautiful. Sigh. I of course wish I’d gone to her from the start. I know I would feel safe in her hands.
Thank you so much to anyone who read this far.