I've had to cut back on electrolysis to a couple two hour sessions a month.  I'm just curious what other girls are doing.  I felt like I was was falling behind until a girl said she also does only two sessions a month.  So maybe things are really O.K. 

Kathy

I haven't even started though I'm not trying to present female as of yet but if I wanted to shaving and heavy makeup would hide it for a couple hours. I've been wondering whether to go with laser or electro. Don't know which i should go for. How many sessions have you had so far and how many do you think it will take. I've been wondering about this so it's a good topic I'd like to learn more about people's experience and to get an estimate about potential cost.

Kathy, it depends on how much hair you have to be removed. What stage are you at in hair removal ?  If you have a full beard and mustache , it will take years to have it permanently removed by electrolysis. It will cost you thousands of dollars. I can't remember how much i spent. It wouldn't surprise me if i spent over $10,000. Electrolysis is a long slow process. If you have a lot of dark hairs. It would be much cheaper and quicker to go with laser. Then switch to electrolysis to remove the lighter hairs.

Two hours every Wednesday

Quote from: Joanna Dark on February 23, 2013, 07:39:36 PM
.... I've been wondering whether to go with laser or electro  ......  How many sessions have you had so far and how many do you think it will take. ...

If you have dark hair laser it always fast and easier on your skin, but it doesn't work with blond or gray hair.  Electrolysis can take 200 or 300 hours.   But the machine my electrologist uses is a faster 27 Mhz machine so it'll take far less time (I hope).  I'm only on my second month and had two one hour sessions and three at two hours.  But she's almost done a first clearing on my upper and lower lip, and chin, plus started on my sideburns.  With my light thin beard she thinks within 20 hours she'll have my face, under chin, and sideburns pretty much done to the first clearing.  Yay.  Hair grows, matures, then falls out and goes dormant.  So there's always dormant hair folicles that start growing, and suddenly the beard comes back and electrolysis goes on.

Quote from: Deana on February 23, 2013, 08:23:00 PM
I can't remember how much i spent. It wouldn't surprise me if i spent over $10,000.

I figure it's going to cost at least $14,000 here in California.  But I can't do laser.   

Quote from: MyKa on February 23, 2013, 08:47:52 PM
Two hours every Wednesday

Mine was two every Monday, because I saw real progress that way.

Kathy

Quote from: Deana on February 23, 2013, 08:23:00 PM
Kathy, it depends on how much hair you have to be removed. What stage are you at in hair removal ?  If you have a full beard and mustache , it will take years to have it permanently removed by electrolysis. It will cost you thousands of dollars. I can't remember how much i spent. It wouldn't surprise me if i spent over $10,000. Electrolysis is a long slow process. If you have a lot of dark hairs. It would be much cheaper and quicker to go with laser. Then switch to electrolysis to remove the lighter hairs.

I would recommend two hours a month over a hour at a time (x2). Much better chance at getting the hair in the best stage of its development (to kill it) which translates to saved money.

I had very light facial hair or so I thought, but it still took a good 100 hours of zapping to get to the initial clearing. The thing is though, once you are at the initial clearing you have to stick with it and keep showing up otherwise it's gets to be too much to keep clear. If you go full time it can get complicated if you have facial hair that you need to grow out so that it can be treated. I myself used to go every week just for the sanity of keeping my face clear. The way I myself knew was the amount of time between shaving. When I went full time I was literally not shaving. All of my facial hair was removed weekly from electrolysis. If I did shave it was for an area that might not get treated that week. After about a year of electrolysis was the point where I never had to put a razor to my face ever again.

Quote from: Flan on February 24, 2013, 01:23:22 AM
I would recommend two hours a month over a hour at a time (x2). Much better chance at getting the hair in the best stage of its development (to kill it) which translates to saved money.

Yeah.  I'm definitely staying with two hour sessions, and maybe three hours when I can afford it.  I barely have any sensations from the 27Mhz machine so three hours wouldn't be a problem.

Quote from: Zumbagirl on February 24, 2013, 06:29:17 AM
..... it still took a good 100 hours of zapping to get to the initial clearing.  ....  When I went full time I was literally not shaving. All of my facial hair was removed weekly from electrolysis. If I did shave it was for an area that might not get treated that week. After about a year of electrolysis was the point where I never had to put a razor to my face ever again.

I'll do whatever it takes, and if 100 hours can be done by next year I'd love it because that would still fall into my Full Time schedule. 

And getting to a point where I'm not shaving when going Full Time is exactly what my electrologist would like for me.  She's post-op and is very open about my progress, and shares her concerns for cutting back any further.  But I'm going to Northern Michigan again for 3 or 4 months this summer, and if the only electrologist in the area has a problem with working on a T client I'll be travelling that 100 miles every week.  And that adds another $50 per session.

Thank you girls.
Kathy