Alas, I was thrown into full-time after only around 30 hours of electrolysis, basically first pass clearing done from the lower lip to chin, and that was about it.
I set up all my appointments on Mondays, and my last shave is Friday morning. I have short stubble on Saturday, just enough to roughen the skin to the touch, and visible stubble on Sunday. Monday, well, the only person who will see my is my electrologist.
My hair styles generally cover the cheeks and the rear portion of the jawline. OK, not great.
I've also gotten familiar with Ben Nye concealer, the Cover All SK-1 four color wheel. I actually use 3 of the 4 colors for my skin tones. I brush this stuff lightly so it colors the hairs and makes them a little less obvious. I apply my foundation (Tarte Amazonian Clay Full Coverage) with a stippling brush and it adheres well to the hairs coated with the concealer. This gives me skin-colored hair, which passes casual glances at a few feet. I'll build my daily look on top of this.
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,217010.msg1921004.html#msg1921004I do pretty much anything on Saturday, on Sunday I'm with a pretty accepting crowd at a Unitarian Universalist church, or at home. Monday morning I head out for electrolysis.
My electrologist has concentrated on clearing the dark hairs in the beard and mustache area that are visible with my hair in place. That pretty quickly got me just gray hairs that were easier to hide. She's been working on clearing the upper lip and keeping the lower lip to chin area cleared, and expanding the cleared area to the sides and below the chin. After 51 hours, the mustache is gone except for some immature hairs jut waking up. The lower lip to chin stays clear. The beard is gone out to roughly an inch on each side of the mouth corners and almost an inch below the chin. The new longer straight hair wig almost completely hides the remaining hair.
I never did try just growing out a small area, preferring to give the electrologist carte blanc to go after whatever seemed to be most visible. Sometimes she'd zap all the new dark hairs. Sometimes she'd work on growing out the cleared areas and re-clearing new growth in those areas. We've been hitting the upper lip pretty heavily recently.
So, wigs, makeup, and controlling where I'm seen when it gets obvious are how I handled this. Not fun, but it is temporary.
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