Electrolysis Gone Wrong
My client went to another Toronto electrolysis clinic weekly for 7 months to treat her bikini line. Despite spending over $2000 there was no reduction in the amount of hair growth. Plus she had a scar from the lady digging out an ingrown. “She really went to town on it”, my client said.
This downtown clinic is well known for being rapid fire pluckers. I was their client around 1999 and they used the poke-and-pluck method even then.
Bad electrolysis treatment left my client with a bikini area full of ingrowns. Many of them are so deep that I can’t remove them. Another indication of electrolysis gone wrong is that it is very painful. My client noticed the difference in my technique right away. She said the insertions didn’t hurt and I didn’t rip out the hair.
I don’t rip out the hair because with 45x magnification I can properly insert into the hair follicle. In addition, I deliver enough current so the hair slides out of the follicle. The previous “electrologist” just poked the skin and pulled out the strong, deeply rooted hairs of her bikini line.
I feel the pain just writing that.
Here is an image of my clients bikini area 6 days after her first treatment with me (sorry for the poor quality of the image but it’s from my microscope in 2015). The scabbing is a normal reaction to electrolysis treatment in this area. It’s the amount of ingrown hair evident from her previous treatments which is shocking. It’s normal to find one or two during a treatment but this woman had so many it actually interfered with the first treatment because I had to take time to lift them out of the skin before I treated the follicle.
If you are treating an area weekly for 7 months then you should definitely see a dramatic improvement by that time. I’m talking 90% plus reduction, you should be down to the stray hairs by then. My client was given the line “everyone is different, I don’t know when your hair will disappear” line from her previous electrologist. Every client at Follikill sees permanent results within 1-2 appointments regardless of their skin and hair type.
I am confident I provide permanent hair removal so I give my clients clear estimates of the time it takes to clear their hair. If someone can’t give you a straight answer on how many hours of treatment you need then you should keep looking until you find someone who can gives you a treatment plan with a projected end date.