After a couple hundred hours of electrolysis how close am I to done? Currently (if I may use that word) at a two week interval, hair removal on the main area of my face is under two minutes. When I go in I see maybe three hairs starting to form under chin, one or two dots above lip but she finds a couple dozen roots with her magnifier. If that's all I was doing I'd have a 15 minute appointment every couple months for the next year and then stop.
The reason I'm still there two hours every two weeks is - touching up sideburn area, an occasional stray near eyebrow line, a few in the ears (the joys of passing half century mark). Electrolysis in the ear sounds and feels like a tiny paintball gun. Last few visits, everything above the shoulders was 15 minutes on a two week interval. And then 60-90 minutes working on genital area... seven times now, finally getting quite clear. Any remainder of the 120 minutes is used for rest of body, almost nothing left.
None of this involved injections and I have never used the correct EMLA method - no saran wrap or whatever to keep the EMLA from evaporating. Two ibuprofen 30 minutes before and a dab of EMLA around mouth, jaw line and neck (I don't bother with that any more). In 200 hours I used up 3 tubes of EMLA. I bought two in Australia (over the counter there) and one in Canada. For genital area my electrologist sprays on some numbing stuff.
Going this far with electrolysis isn't necessary for areas other than face or non-GRS genital area. Laser removed the majority of my body hair but didn't get all of it. We know HRT thins out body hair but I had reasons to do this backwards. I hate to use the term perfectionist (don't be shocked) but after getting this far on electrolysis I might as well complete it. Starting out with a full thick beard (the typical 40,000 roots), 2/3 of this zapping was necessary and 1/3 was just being picky.
