Home electrolysis kits
Magenta!!
actually work? If so, which one and where did you get it?
I have heard of some kinds that send the electronic pulse down the
hair shaft to the root, rather than using a needle. Has anyone used
one of them? I would like to avoid the time, pain, and expense of
seeing an electrologist.
(Please E-Mail as well as post, I spend time in alt.homosexual but
I am just beginning to venture forth into alt.transgendered and
soc.support.transgendered. I guess I consider myself somewhere
inbetween...)
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Karen Patrick
Hi Magenta...
I have a friend who has had excellent results from the "One Touch" by
Inverness (home electrolysis) If you can learn how to handle it
it will work (I've used it too) However...PAIN is individual, it
may hurt more or less than the folks you pay for.
By the way..there is a product called EMLA (pronounced emm-lah)
you ask for it at the pharmacist ($20-40 in Canada) which is an
over the counter, non prescription, skin topical cream...you put it
on for an hour and it "freezes" the nerves...sort of like ora-gel
for the face...doctors use it for sensitive people when giving needles.
If a pharmacist asks you what you want it for, just say..for electrolysis,
and they will sell it to you.
The One Touch is available at a number of major dept stores, I think
it's still around $40 (Canadian) Consumers and maybe Sears in the US.
If you DO use it, maybe practice on an arm first...you want to be
careful not to "force" the probe or you could break the skin surface
(bad!) I had a friend do this rather persistenly and she wrecked
part of her face (it grew back thankfully with the help of a dermatologist)
BUT my other friend (& the hours I used it) had no problems.
It's just not for everyone.
Karen Patrick
(Hope that helps)
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>Does anyone here know if any at-home personal electrolysis devices
>actually work? If so, which one and where did you get it?
>
>I have heard of some kinds that send the electronic pulse down the
>hair shaft to the root, rather than using a needle. Has anyone used
>one of them? I would like to avoid the time, pain, and expense of
>seeing an electrologist.
>
>
facial hair (very unlikely on a male beard), nothing that isn't a
professional level machine will work, IMOH. The jury's still out on
the efficacy of the "tweezer" machines (even the pro ones)
Perhaps you should wait till the laser method is perfected...
Greg Berryman
> Does anyone here know if any at-home personal electrolysis
> devices actually work? If so, which one and where did you get it?
I've got one. Yes, it works as well as the professional ones. It is/was made
by Inverness (I think that's how it is spelled). I bought it at a local
Eckerts Drug Store a few years ago. I havn't seen one since then, so I don't
know if they still make them.
I do have a 800 number for them at home, so if anybody cares I'll send them
the number after lunch today.
All that said, I should point out that doing it yourself takes a _lot_ longer
than having someone else do it. You have to work in front of a mirror, insert
the probe into the folicle, wait for a few seconds, remove the probe, pick up
the tweezers, and pull the zapped hair (if you can find the one you were
working on.)
If you have somebody else to do it for you, you will have to make a minor
modification to the thing.
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> I have heard of some kinds that send the electronic pulse down the
> hair shaft to the root, rather than using a needle. Has anyone used one
> of them? I would like to avoid the time, pain, and expense of seeing
> an electrologist.
My guess is that this kind won't work on heavy hair if it works at all.
Samantha
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Joan Tine
> Does anyone here know if any at-home personal electrolysis devices
> actually work? If so, which one and where did you get it?
> I have heard of some kinds that send the electronic pulse down the
> hair shaft to the root, rather than using a needle. Has anyone used
> one of them? I would like to avoid the time, pain, and expense of
> seeing an electrologist.
Hair doesn't conduct, so such devices are pretty questionable.
Electro is no fun, but if you start early and take it slow, it just
becomes part of the routine...and it's a lot easier on the purse. I
only went on Saturday mornings for an hour, and spread it out over a
couple of years. It was a lot more managable. By friend Karen
L. would have much longer sessions, and had to have her dentist inject
her with lidocaine for the pain...then the next day she would be
swollen up like a chipmunk. As a general rule of thumb, patience is a
virtue. The slower you can do changes, the less it ages you, and
there is also the side benefit of allowing your mind to adjust to
what's happening to you. That way you are _really_ sure it's what you
truly need and want:).
> (Please E-Mail as well as post, I spend time in alt.homosexual but I
> am just beginning to venture forth into alt.transgendered and
> soc.support.transgendered. I guess I consider myself somewhere
> inbetween...)
HOLD THAT THOUGHT! :). We, all of us, are "in between", but most of
us are afraid to recognize the fact. This is what is meant by
proverbs like "life is a journey". Everything is a process, and
people who think they've reached a steady state--and are still
breathing--are usually mistaken.
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