The test of a real woman... hair removal.

[Jenniferinutah]

Electrolysis reallytruly Sucks. I definitely foresee PTSD problems in the future regarding the needle and that noise it makes

[Evelyn K]

The thing is that the total pain factor seemed like (Hairs that get zapped X Level on machine = Total pain) to me.  The first few blasted away the most hairs total, but they were on a lower setting.  By the time I was on session #12, there were very few dark ones left.  I literally told the nurse to turn it up to "11" (That's a common Spinal Tap reference/musician joke BTW, for those of you that are younger than umm, 35ish. I mean, right, that movie came out like 30 years ago or something...).   Her response made me laugh out loud.  I mean, I had no idea about the settings on these things, but her response was pertty much verbatim, "OK, really?  We already had it up to 10 and a half on the last session.  Are you sure?  Most people can't take that."

Of course I can take it.  I'm trans.  This is a walk in the park.

Anyway, every session got easier to take, even when the intensity went up because there were exponentially fewer hairs to zap at each subsequent session. By the time they got to "11", there were probably fewer than 50 to zap. 

Now I can't find any dark ones left, so it's all electro from now on. 

YAY?

Was your original hairs light colored? 11 sessions? Geez. I'm down to about a 70% reduction on my 2nd zap alone. And I had an average density beard.

[Jill F]

Was your original hairs light colored? 11 sessions? Geez. I'm down to about a 70% reduction on my 2nd zap alone. And I had an average density beard.

Well, I had a beard of every color.  The reds, blonds and grays didn't get "seen" by the laser, so I had the taser done for those. (Razor, laser, taser, right?)  So far I've done about 75 hours of electro over the last 14 months, and I'm guessing that I have about 2% of the beard left to go.  The good news is that it's all blond/gray now, there is nevermore a shadow to give me away and I only shave a couple times a week now.

[Ravensong]

Ravensong,

It is kinda hard to properly describe but an epilator is an elictric tweezing device. Mine has 72 rapidly spinning tweezers which pull my body hairs out kinda quickly and by the root. It is like tweezing or waxing in that sense. It may take multiple passes in one sitting with the epilator to get all the hairs in an area.

If you can afford it, the best way to epilate is to start with a full body wax, and then epilate weekly from there on in to maintain the smooth hairlessness. Waxing is much faster, so that first full body epilation can be hours of hurt. It took me three hours the first time... but my epilator was cheaper than a single body wax.

Maintenance epilation takes a fraction of the time and hardly hurts in comparison because you are never ripping out as much hair at once. Also, when hair grows back, it may come back finer (getting rid of the guy hair!) and therefore, more able to pull by the root.

Thanks Tori.  That explains a lot now.