I feel like I'm walking into the girl's bathroom here, but the topic reminded me of the one time I let my mother take me to get my eyebrows waxed. Holy shiiiiii- Who likes having a burning face and the weird after feeling?

Epilate everywhere except face. That is electrolysis. About to go in for my 3-weekly hour long visit. Haven't used pain relief in ages. Just do it. Under the nose hurts but so what? The pain stops.

I think it is just that once you get it done for so long (both epil and electro), you get used to it a bit. With epil, you must must must keep it up. Let them get long again and it hurts a lot more.

Quote from: Frank on August 15, 2014, 05:32:50 PM
I feel like I'm walking into the girl's bathroom here, but the topic reminded me of the one time I let my mother take me to get my eyebrows waxed. Holy shiiiiii- Who likes having a burning face and the weird after feeling?

I love waxing my eyebrows.  2 minutes and it is all done

Did laser for everything, nearly everything that is.  That includes face.  Now I just need to finish the joy of electro for the non-dark hairs (may their color not be named) and then will be pretty good on hair removal. 
Overall cost was not absurd due to finding an inexpensive startup a few years back.  I think over 5 total body zaps I spent <$700.  I've moved since then and don't know if they are still around.  Worked well except for some stubborn areas above my lip and on my chin. 

The irony is that I need some extra hair on the top of my head.  It's cute how we have hair or fat where we don't want it and not where we do want it.

I'm just going to have to book some Electro sessions to get rid of what's left. I don't even feel like using my lasers anymore because I know against these white hairs even with carbon dye they are largely ineffective.

Ali

I use a home electrolysis one touch it works very well removes the hair at the root permentley takes time though and foe the hard to reach places you need someone to help

Jealous.

Those are not within my budget... Yet.

Got first full face laser done today!!!

Y'all were not kidding about that upper lip!

Quote from: Tori on August 20, 2014, 09:44:56 PM
Got first full face laser done today!!!

Y'all were not kidding about that upper lip!

That first session on the upper lip was BRUTAL.  I'm so glad I did that before I went full time, otherwise I would have had eyeliner and mascara running all down mah face.  I always need to remember waterproof makeup on laser or electrolysis day.

It sure was eye watering. Hehehe. I went in all andro today so good thing.

For me the corners of the chin hurt way more than the lip.
Congrats on day one! Just wait until they decide to turn up the setting (:

Hehehe. They promised to do that next time.

Yeah..the chin hurts...

I took two Aleve before the appt. and used Alocane. I apparently didn't apply enough Alocane. **cry**

Beauty is pain no pain no gain
Second laser appointment on my face really did not hurt the only place that somewhat her was left cheek Jolle line and not that much I just kind of move my leg

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?

Same boat here soon enough, Jill.

Quote from: Jill F on August 21, 2014, 02:10:05 AM

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

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

YAY?

Jill

The fun is about to start.  Probe by probe.  Another 3 hours of galvanic for me tomorrow.  Almost finished.  The end is in sight!

Safe travels

Aisla

Given I've only got sparse white hairs yet left to clear (I have no beard shadow without makeup) I'm hoping 2 to 3 sessions will clear my face. I'll do my own legs and arms with my lasers and IPL. Anyhoo, not looking forward to the pain.

Ali

Okay, this may seem like a dumb question, but....what is an epilator, exactly? 

I've seen it mentioned before, and I've seen home laser systems and the like, but what is it?

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.