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Guest Cynthia Of Creation

How much did it cost you to fully remove alll your hair through treatments?

How much for full body hair removal treatment

how much was it for you to fully get rid of your beard?

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I've probably put in about $1200 for the face and $1800 for the brazillian in laser treatments (face has electrolysis too). The face still has a long ways to go, although the dark hair is almost gone. Probably will need to spend a few hundred more for the brazillian. Most of the hair is gone, but have gray hairs still remaining. I haven't even touched the rest of the body.

The cost really depends on what kind of hair you have. If you have dark hair, you are lucky and it will cost a lot less. You still will probably run into 5 figures.

Jenny

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Hi Cynthia

Well I was not lucky enough to have facial hair that was treatable by laser, too light / white. I do regular electrolysis sessions on my face 2 hours per week. I have about 126 hours completed at this point and the service costs me $70 / hr, I;ve spent over $8700 so far, plus travel time (1 hour round trip) and vehicle expenses (gas, tires, oil) I estimate I will need about 200 hours of electrolysis to complete my facial hair removal project, that's over $14,000, not trivial for me, so worth it however to have a smooth face again.

Then there is "down there" before GCS, that will be something like 10-20 hours of electrolysis so add another $1400.

The rest of the body hair, legs, arms, and upper torso, has become so insignificant with HRT for me that all I have are some small expenses for razors, and wax kits.

Cyndi -

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Guest Sarah Faith

Well I haven't done any hair removal except on my face because HRT is slowly reducing my overall body hair. But I believe my laser place charges about 200 dollars for full chest/stomach area treatments, a little less for back and shoulders. That's per treatment.. Really depends on how thick your body hair is, I know with my treatments to remove my facial hair they charged me about 120 per treatment for the first 6 treatments then after that it was considered maintenance and they charged half price.. but I've probably spent close to 1000 dollars on hair removal so far.

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Well I haven't done any hair removal except on my face because HRT is slowly reducing my overall body hair. But I believe my laser place charges about 200 dollars for full chest/stomach area treatments, a little less for back and shoulders. That's per treatment.. Really depends on how thick your body hair is, I know with my treatments to remove my facial hair they charged me about 120 per treatment for the first 6 treatments then after that it was considered maintenance and they charged half price.. but I've probably spent close to 1000 dollars on hair removal so far.

The place I go has discounts for 3 and 6 treatments. After the 6 treatments, it is half price for that particular area, but only if you get the 6 treatments. I will have my 9th treatment in the lower area, and probably last, coming up soon. I've gone over 4 months without treatment, and not many dark hairs have resurfaced. What's leftover will have to be done by electrolysis.With the 6 treatments you have a payment plan where it needs to be paid off in 3 months.

Jenny

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Guest nomnomnom

I've probably spent 1500 AUD so far on face, chest and belly button area. That's 150 each session for 15 mins.

now I'm getting my armpits done. Its a weird feeling.

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Hi Cynthia,

I may have set a record for least treatment required. In fact, I never kept track of it. I'm guessing that I had around $2,500 worth of electrolysis total, including perhaps 10 hours of pre-SRS electro. My body hair was zapped by my genetic background, apparently - it all went away in my 20's.

I should go back to get a few stragglers on my lip, but haven't had the time...

Love, Megan

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Guest Cynthia Of Creation

Hi Cynthia

Well I was not lucky enough to have facial hair that was treatable by laser, too light / white. I do regular electrolysis sessions on my face 2 hours per week. I have about 126 hours completed at this point and the service costs me $70 / hr, I;ve spent over $8700 so far, plus travel time (1 hour round trip) and vehicle expenses (gas, tires, oil) I estimate I will need about 200 hours of electrolysis to complete my facial hair removal project, that's over $14,000, not trivial for me, so worth it however to have a smooth face again.

Then there is "down there" before GCS, that will be something like 10-20 hours of electrolysis so add another $1400.

The rest of the body hair, legs, arms, and upper torso, has become so insignificant with HRT for me that all I have are some small expenses for razors, and wax kits.

Cyndi -

I feel like at a 1000 for the machine adn equipment and getting the knowledge your self you could afford to do it yourself

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OK im not including costs of razors because that would be there regardless because without the treatment your going to buy razors anyway, thats my logic

so the machine cost me 280 but ill just take that out and just go for cost of cartridges average i spent

Aprox 100 to remove the hair on my face i assume it will take about one more head and it will cost then 130

if you average the machine in thats 410 its going to cost me for full facial hair removal however, the cost for

the rest of the body will bring that cost down. Plus i dont have to worry about my appointments, i zap my self three days in

a row in the same spot thankfully my skin can take it. and it does a lot more as a appossed to only 1 day what a bit.

I also have what i think is very thick hair. It probably would have removed all my facial hair by now if i hadnt deviated from

my face. I also found some other things does and donts with the Silk'n Flash N Go to help the process.

However sadly to say i dont know about light skin light hair or dark skin dark hair, all i know is you can by the machines and stuff for about

the price of a lap top,

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Hi Cynthia

Well I was not lucky enough to have facial hair that was treatable by laser, too light / white. I do regular electrolysis sessions on my face 2 hours per week. I have about 126 hours completed at this point and the service costs me $70 / hr, I;ve spent over $8700 so far, plus travel time (1 hour round trip) and vehicle expenses (gas, tires, oil) I estimate I will need about 200 hours of electrolysis to complete my facial hair removal project, that's over $14,000, not trivial for me, so worth it however to have a smooth face again.

Then there is "down there" before GCS, that will be something like 10-20 hours of electrolysis so add another $1400.

The rest of the body hair, legs, arms, and upper torso, has become so insignificant with HRT for me that all I have are some small expenses for razors, and wax kits.

Cyndi -

I feel like at a 1000 for the machine adn equipment and getting the knowledge your self you could afford to do it yourself

Hi Cynthia -

Yes, I could buy a machine and probably learn to do it myself, however there are some intangables with person I go to i'll mention here, she has become a friend and confidant, she is like my 2nd GT in many ways, we discuss very personal issues, she knows of "our" issues quite well, gives me all kinds of breaks on time and supplies (numbing cream). I trade computer consulting for time in her chair for example. For me it's part of the journey and the human touch, I think I'll stay with going to her, she is very skilled, sometimes I almost fall asleep in her chair during treatment. I am seeing very good results, and her kill rate (effectiveness) is quite acceptable.

Cyndi -

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