Today I had my first taste of electrolysis. I had laser hair removal (reduction) a few years ago but nothing since. The laser helped a lot but as it’s not a permanent solution, many hairs grew back. Now, after a few years it’s gotten to the point that I feel rather embarrassed about my facial hair (again!).
I got a word of mouth reference by my therapist to a local lady who’s been at it for 20 years. She charges $15.00 for every 15 minutes; quite reasonable imho.
I talked to her for about 20 minutes then she was like, "why don’t you hop up here and I’ll do a couple of test hairs?" My adrenalin sky-rocketed at that point. I have to confess that besides the monetary issue, the other reason I haven’t started electrolysis was because of my fear of the pain. It took me a couple of minutes to settle in and let her start. All the while she is being rather cool about it and telling me not to worry about a thing.
I had envisioned this painful like electric shock but honestly, I was all worked up for no reason. It literally felt like tweezing a hair out of my face and a little like a pin prick. However as she went on to the second, third, fourth and fifth hairs, those five little pains started to collectively feel sore. She told me that the first couple of treatments are going to be painful but I think that the pain will be manageable without any sort of numbing cream or novacaine.
If I was to compare a laser pulse to an electro tweeze I’d say that they both are probably about the same level of pain. I was all worked up for nothing. Monday is my first treatment.
My name is Erin. I was not always named Erin and I was not always a girl. One could argue that I am not a girl, perhaps a boy or both; maybe neither.
You wouldn’t happen to be talking about Neomi? I want to go see her. -Jaime
No, her name is Mary Moffitt. I haven’t been back to see her and won’t because I don’t particularly care for her style and electrolysis just hurts so much!