Electrolysis how many hairs per hour

Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. McGinn - Thank you for the Gift of Life. Hi Elspeth, Quote from: Elspeth on January 05, , pm. Interesting, I had been assuming the regrowth that occurs after a treatment was mainly different follicles which were not growing a visible hair at the time of the last treatment, and that any follicle which is properly zapped with electrolysis should be dead permanently.

I had thought that any follicles which do grow back after being zapped must not have been well zapped the first time; for example maybe the needle not inserted far enough to reach the root of the follicle, so just burning the shaft. If you're right, then it's even more complicated to figure out what treatment is most effective. I hate having to do this, but I hate having a hairy face WAY more, so I will put up with whatever I have to, just don't want to waste more time than I have to.

E sounds better all the time, if it just wasn't so far away I guess I also need to investigate topical anesthetic. Today the pain was beginning to get to be a bit much for me. I can tough it out, but I really don't want to have to put up with that. Acting is better. Topical anesthetics are They're really expensive. Also, they're a pain. Emla requires the area to be hermetically shut off with the cream as soon as it's put on, and you have to put it on, I think, about 2 hours before the appointment.

Plastic wrap for food does fine on an arm or a leg, but how the heck do you manage that on a face? And finally, they don't always work as well as you'd think. I tried it on my arm, and followed the instructions as well as I could. Then I used my epilator. Still unbearable. Regrettably in most cases there are no shortcuts to hair removal. I know several post op women of several years, occasionally have to drop in to their electrolysis and have a freshen up.

Facial hair can be just so persistent. This lifestyle didn't come with the wham, bamb, thank you Ma'm option. And yes if the machine setting are not correct for your hair type, the original site can regrow, albeit somewhat mutated. About the only fast, but not completely permanent way to go is to dope yourself up on analgesics, have a topical anaesthetic application and book a few hour sessions.

I'm a woose and only book an hour at a time, but I know of several patients that do the hour jobs. They look and feel like zombies when they are finished, but it's effective. Good luck and I hope it's as painless as possible for you Huggs Catherine. I have read about people going to their dentist to get shots of Novocain. That would certainly do the trick, but I am sure it's not cheap, and just the complexity of having to arrange two appointments back to back seems pretty impractical.

Besides, I'm not sure most dentists would accept to inject stuff like that out of nowhere If I were you, I'd just take the highest safe dose of Advil, and suffer in silence. I suppose mileage will vary, but yes, it is very painful. You get kind of, sort of, used to it after a while. My electrologist seems to be pretty quick. At my estimate, she does about hairs in an hour. There are about 30, hairs on a typical male face, I believe, which would come out to about hours to clear my face, and that's about what she estimated when I started this process with her.

I can stand about an hour at a time. The upper lip, for me, is the most painful, and I'm usually crying after a couple hairs have been removed there. My electrologist can put a numbing ointment on it, but honestly, I don't feel much difference. I try not to interrupt her while she's doing it, so I just look forward to the hour being over and I can go to Starbucks.

It hurts. All I can say is, just try to tough it out. The process is slow, but effective. I am watching my beard slowly oh my god so slowly melt away.

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Quote from: Zumbagirl on January 06, , am. Lots of people can't get past the hairs treated per minute thing but this isn't always a good indicator of how quickly you're going to be finished, kill rate is what matters. There is no set speed at which electrologists can be expected work. There are several factors that can slow down or speed up the work pace.

Some of these are:. Like the genital zone, for example. It takes more than one attempt to effectively remove them. Speed is relatively meaningless if most of the hair grows back. Assuming I have a very high pain threshold, approximately how many hairs do you think my electrolysis should be able to zap in 60 minutes?

Think about this. You hire someone to do some home construction. To answer your specific question. A blend operator can remove one hair in a couple seconds: about 2 seconds in each follicle. See, an electrologist can pull-out hairs like a demon … but, the hairs might and often do ALL grow back! Not to disparage your question, but this is what ALL clients ask and what many electrologists promote too. There are actually too many variables to answer this question without working on the person yourself, and even then, what ever answer one gives has more to do with what you personally believe you can do, not what others are capable of doing.

Some would even think the previous poster was saying that removing 30 hairs per minute in blend was an average speed. Of course, that misunderstanding would not be what the poster was attempting to convey… at least I hope it was not…. When I had blend on my face by a semi pro they were averaging seconds treatment time per hair! And then you have to consider growth cycles.

Many of those hairs wont be visible for months after you started. Time wise, if you are putting enough hours in, it will still take over a year to finish the job just because some of the hairs might not be treatable until then. If the question you are asking is how much MONEY it will cost to complete the treatment, this is something only your practitioner can answer.