Electrolysis or Laser Hair Removal

EmerBaggott

Hi, I am thinking of getting one of these done...It is for a small area...But im wondering which is the most successfully, or which would you suggest me to go for? All comments & suggestions really appreciated *

RedXIV

My best mates GF did the electrolysis on me for one of her exams and i can safely say i had a bald patch from where she did it for about 3 months. It's grown back now so i don't know if you're looking for permanent or not, but electrolysis didn't seem too bad but its temporary.

P.S. I got it done on facial hair, i don't know if that matters

EmerBaggott

Hi Redxiv, cheers...Ya I was hoping for permenent results...But how many sessions did you have in order for those results to happen?

RedXIV

um just the one? she needed me for an exam and i hadn't shaved in a while apparently, according to her anyway, it can be permanent if done a few times but i can't give you 100% guarantee on that, just what i experienced.

sillyputty

Hi OP

I have been having laser treatment on hair since christmas only draw back with this procedure is the hair has to be very dark for it to work. It takes a long time to work - still quite a bit left so i will need a good few more sessions. I am getting electrolysis done on the fair hair in the next couple of weeks

EmerBaggott

How often do you have to get it done? Is it anyway sore or uncomfortable whilst getting it done or after? It's only a small area...So hopefully I wouldn't have to get many sessions

ecaf

I got laser done on one area and it was quite successful, but it can sometimes take a good few sessions. I take a few months break from it because it can cost a good bit and I was only getting a small area done.

I also tried it for facial hair but it didn't work because it wasn't dark enough.
I'm going to get electrolysis done it this evening , kinda dreading it as there is a small needle, last time I got it done by a trainee and she was just sicking the needle in and plucking hairs or something, but she didn't do it right.

The lady I'm going to has been doing it for 20 years, so I trust her better. She said that it is permanent but you have to get the hair at the right stage of growth to kill it off! So it could take 1 - 3 treatments per hair to kill it at the right time, well that's what I took from our conversation.

Oh yea, just to mention, laser isn't that painful, just a little bit hot when she goes over the area again, but on your face its a bit annoying because the flash of light always makes me jump, and it seems a bit more uncomfortable but maybe that's just because of the jumping.
The electrolysis is a little needle directed at the root of the hair, and I think there it might 'laser' each hair individually - I'll be able to say how bad it is after tonight.

pow wow

I've had laser done (for once having almost black hair has worked in my favour!) and would recommend it. It is pretty expensive though, but the hair bothered me so it was worth the money. It wasn't painful, but was a little more uncomfortable around that time of the month

You can't wax/pluck in between but you can cut the hair or shave it down (the root has to be present for the treatment to work). Mine was done over about a year at 8 week intervals. In my case the hairs grew back finer and finer until gradually they were gone completely.

EmerBaggott

Thank u all so very much, I think Im gonna go with the laser, although the recession hasn't helped at all in my plan But anyhow...Where did yea get it done, or where in Dublin would u recommend - price wise & experience & sucess rate? Cheers

PrettyInPunk

I got both electrolysis and laser done , def go with laser. I got my laser done in Free Spirit.. its grand, nothing special

Kate253

what about for bikini line? anyone have it done? how much are we talking??

yeahyou1212

I had a girl who performs laser on clients tell me that on facial hair sometimes it sparks additional hair growth. meaning it takes away the dark hairs, but white might grow in instead! I decided against it.

Ricecakes

Hey, I got the IPL(laser) therapy and so far its been quite good, upper lip was awkward , as i couldn't help flinch with the bright flash of light from the laser.
laser is best for dark hair that has those dark roots when pulled out, you may notice it when plucking your eyebrows for instance and hormonal hair growth especially, if you can wait untill sept/oct time and price is still too high, maybe try looking into a training college and attending a running salon there, I got mine done in dunlaoghaire and have to say, free is always good! :P
it works well for bikini line i'm told, but as the skin is tender and thin in these areas, discomfort can occur, but really its just like flicking your skin with an elastic band...which is alot better than waxing!

Electrolosis i'm told is more painfull, but works as a more permanent method of removal-also working on finer/lighter hair growth, with laser you may need maintainence sessions to keep down the hair growth, as its purely a method of hair reduction as opposed to removal.

Hope that helps...

wondering

I would say I have been taken for a ride too, but I went the recomended route. I went to gp got blood tests done; all hormone levels normal, got a referral to a dermatoligist privately, paid for this. Dermatologist said that it would take 4 sessions (in the private clinic in a private hospital), I was the perfect canditate very pale skin, and dark hair. a price per session was given i multiplied this by four,and thought that is doable.

Managed by shear luck to meet the laser technician who was a bit more knowledgable, and sugested 8 sessions. The nurse who was going to carry out the laser treatment did interject at this point to say and what about maintance treatments, to which the technician said something like she may not need them.

So away i went, got the money (I didnt eat dinner for two weeks to save the money, to be paid upfrount) and started the treatments. I have undergone 6 treaments so far, usually 4 weeks between treatments, but one week there was 5 weeks between the treatments which allowed a lot more hair to grow.

On the 6th treatment i was asked 'now you know this isnt perment?...' to which i replied well, em, yea.

I knew this, well sort of, but it was the first time it was mentioned to me, should it not have been one of the first things that was said. Instead i was lured with a brochure and pictures of fantastic results. I'll have to find the brochure and re check that it didn't mention this.

Anyway I have quite a lot of hair so i did think this laser thing was far too easy. I did think i would need some maintanance treatments. So i asked how often i would need these, and the nurse who has been carrying out the treatment sugested every 4 to 6 weeks.

At the moment i cant afford the petrol to the clinic so this extra cost of 1200 to 2000 yoyos a year is money i do not have.

I cant believe they have done this, (i am also annoyed at myself):( .

In the initial consultancy the first thing i did was pull out the calculator, as for when the session numbers doubled. every one was aware that I am very poor. This is a significant financial comittment that seams to be never ending.

If this was disclosed at the start I would have planned for it and not comitted what little money i have elsewhere.

My blood is boiling. I am a female with a beard, effectivly, i've been waxing, bleaching, plucking, hiding ever since i was 16, I am desperate to get rid of this and i think they know that.

What is worse is that i was thinking of sacrificing money i had saved for return to education to get other body parts done.

I am so so mad.

The Minstrel

I have black hair on the outside of my nose....yes I mean on my nose. Anyway, my girlfriend made me pluck it and now it grows back rapidly. Which treatment should I be going for? I'd like permanent removal...I saw an old man on the train the other day and my god he had long whiskers on his nose

martingore

I had some done on my beard here if its any help http://www.anubeauty.com/ thought they were brilliant ,specially for a guy