been looking through posts and have seen people listing results however cant find much on cost....

Mine costs $15 per quarter hour for electrolysis.

usually hour long sessions? or until they go over the complete area?

You may also use Groupon and see if they are promoting any discounts. I know large cities like here in Seattle would probably have more choices. There are many more coupons for laser hair removal then electrolysis but Electrolysis is permanent and laser is not.

So far (beard only) I've done about 20 hrs of unanesthetized blend-type electrolysis at ~$90/hr and ~22 hrs of anesthetized thermology-type at ~$110/hr for a subtotal of roughly $4000.  I anticipate no less than 120 additional anesthetized blend and maybe another 20 of unanethetized (touch-up) for a grand total of maybe $15000 plus the $4k already sunk? 

I am having the clearings done at E3K in Lewisville, TX and the touch-ups in between here in LA/CA.  I've done a bunch of other electrolysis on other areas and some lasers as well, so that's really only for my beard.  These are really rough numbers, but it certainly ain't cheap! 

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I've recently gotten some touch-up zapping done from a fantastic electrologist at $100/hr.

Back in the day it was $60/hr, from someone not as good... it ended up taking about 300 hours.