has anyone had it?

yes, i'm fully trained in it too. its horrid.

bleh. ive just started training as a beauty therapist and i had my first electrolysis lesson yesterday where we practiced sticking the needles in without the current. i havent even had the needles yet but im still shitting myself. how badly does it hurt from a scale of one to 10?

some people are ok with it, but for me it hurts so bad that i cried in my lessons. lol
it takes a lot of practice to get it right, none of the girls in my class liked that lesson.

i feel distressed

um...it will build character, lol.

sorry

i'll be brave. thanks for being honest though

I had it once, it's just like plucking...but abit more painful. Not overly bad though!

I've used an epilator and it was awful. I was bleedng out of all the little hair follicles and it was really painful. And that was with the frozen bit on it that's supposed to make it less sore but really just makes you cold ontop of the pain. I have sensitive skin though.
I want to try electrolysis to cut down on the amount of tmes I have to wax or shave because I'm lazy and crap at it.

i havent used it myself but i know a few people that have and apparently its awful and takes forever. im a total pain wuss but id choose waxing over electrolysis if its as bad as it sounds. it seems kind of outdated & old-fashioned now, i dont know why its still in practice really.

oh dear god. i dont even pluck my eyebrows

I had electrolosys done twice. I don't remember it being too painful. The first time I went in I didn't feel any pain at all, and they used tweezers. The second time they used some wax and that was more painful. Laser is the way to go!

you dont use tweezer or wax in electrolosys, a needle is inserted into the folical and they electrocute the hair.

I bought an epilator
Biggest fucking waste of my money ever
I don't think it actuallysuccessfully pulled out a single hair, it felt like the area had been sandpapered or VERY badly shaved & grew back in days
As well as the pain (underarms = AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!) and the bleeding
Hair removal makes me

Epilators are only really useful if you have a lot of time on your hands and you're kind of masochistic.

They work wonders on underarm hair if you can build up a tolerance. I could never get the hang of waxing, it just made all my leg hairs grow back ingrown (and i did the whole exfoliating moisturising thing).

How many electrolysis treatments do you need to properly erradicate the hair?

i have an epilator
its takes quite abit of time
but its worth it, and it hurts a LITTLE bit? but i cant shave my legs because they just BLEED and grow back
so i love it

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Tweezers are used in electrolosys to remove the "dead" hair from the follicle; the hair doesn't just vaporize. But the point is that you don't feel the tweezing action if the electrolosys is done properly because the hair is now sitting loosely in the follicle.

My beautician told me it only works if you have really dark, course hair.

The person who actually manages to invent a permanent hair removal method THAT WORKS will be a billionaire.

Electrolysis takes a long time, but it actually is permanent. It's laser hair removal that's not.

Actually a doctor told me that there is no such thing as a hair removal method that's 100% permanent.