best way to remove facial hair?

[Guest Vidia]

Hi girls..,

Could somebody help me suggeting me which is the best way to remove the facial hair?

- laser

- electrolisis

- pulsed light

- any other?

thankyou!

Vidia

[Guest Donna Jean]

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Honey.......that is a BIG question.......

Laser is expensive and doesn't work well unless one's skin is lighter and hair darker...But, it removes a lot at a time...

Electrolysis is the only "Recognized Permanent" hair removal....it's painful and usually takes a long time (one hair at a time)

Pulsed light is another form of laser and I know little about that......

I've had 65 hours of electrolysis so far with at least that much more to go....

Do your homework!

Huggs

Dee Jay

[Guest Ney'ite]

I will second the Electrolysis comment. I personally feel it is the best. I have no experience with laser, and as DJ said, there are some criteria in order for laser to even work.

[Guest Nova Maria]

Hey Miss Thing...

Electrolysis is the most popular method, because it's proven, beyond any doubt, to permanently remove hair. It works with all types of hair and on all parts of the body. The downsides are pain and price...a decrease in one generally leads to an increase in the other.

Laser is considered "permanent hair reduction." Laser technologies cannot destroy every single hair follicle. Also, laser only works with some types of hair; people with very light hair or very dark skin generally don't respond as well to the laser.

Here's a link to a site I really like: http://www.hairfacts.com/ Andrea James started it, so all the information is pertinent to trans women.

Hope it helps!

Nova

[Guest Vidia]

Thankyou ladies for your support..!...,

im begining my HRT the 1st of April and want to begin also removing my facial hair...,

for what i have read i will let hormones do their work of removing my body hair...., i hope it does... (i have the doubt if it would diminish the hair in my torso..., does it diminish it?)

lots of love...

Vidia Veronica

[Guest Vidia]

Nova

the URL you wrote is incredible!.., i appreciate a lot helping me with that link...

Cheers,

Vidia Veronica

[Kyla666]

I been looking into laser for about 5months now to remove my face/neck hair "a LOT of reading LOL" From all the time i been looking into it this is what i can up with..

For me "Light skin Dark hairs" i'll get Laser done then Electrolysis for any light color hairs left. Electrolysis cost like 2x-3x more then laser =/

Right now my biggest problem is finding a GOOD place to go to.. Cheap in price and Good in not messing up my face lol

[Guest Fionnuala]

Electrolysis is the *only* way to permanently clear an area of facial hair. It's pretty much unavoidable.

That said, my strategy when I got my face cleared was to start with laser, which got rid of enough of the dark hairs that I didn't have a problem presenting as myself. The place I went to had a special program for transsexual people... 5 full-face treatments and 5 muzzle (lip/chin) treatments for $1500, and free touch-ups. That got rid of probably 80% of the dark hair on my face. After the third laser treatment, we started electrolysis on the white hairs. And if there were areas where dark hair came back, they zapped that with the laser for free.

What I am finding now, probably a year and a half after I finished is that quite a few of the dark hairs are coming back, mostly on the underside of my chin/middle of my neck. There are few enough of them that we get them with electrolysis; no more laser. I had a very heavy beard, 60/40 pepper/salt... I've had about 80 hours total. Still quite a bit of white hair left on my neck.

I had SRS a few months ago, but will be going to electro for some time... sigh... c'est la vie.

[Guest KarenLyn]

I had laser done close to 15 years ago and have had hardly any regrowth of the black hairs. Those that did come back are much finer than before. Like everyone else has said, the clean up needs to be done with electrolysis and the time depends on how much needs to be done.