Electrolysis – What a shock!

So yesterday was my first electolysis appointment. My friend, Angela, had been badgering me for a year to go with her to The Elecrolysis Institute and I, in typical fashion, had been saying, “yeah well eventually”. Eventually is Becki-speak for “I’m interested, but have no clue as to why I’d even want to do that, how I’d do that even though I know I probably should do that”.

The Institute, located in Tewksbury, MA, is disarmilingly small. I half expected something like a building from Harvard, I mean afterall, with a name like Institute…well it wasn’t quite like that on the outisde. But it was more than that on the inside. First a bit though about my complete lack of directional ability. I don’t have an internal compass, or if I do, it needs it’s battery fixed or a major overhaul. I’ve gotten lost in the best places: my home town trying to find the grocery store, with explicit directions to locations right out on the street, to offices within the building I work in. You name it, I get lost in it. So it was no surprise I got lost coming here. Ah well, late as usual.

So the actual procedure wasn’t as painful as I thought it might be. We tried a bunch of places on my face: The less sensitive cheek area (that was actually more sensitive), the more sensitive upper lip area (that was actually less sensitive). We pretty much stuck with the Thermlysis approach, though at one point we tried FLASH Thermlysis. We tried different areas. It was okay. The reddness wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Though I worry about being ready for work and being ready to do what I need to do. I think I was more worried about the zealous joy the electrolygist had in zapping my face and plucking the dead hair follilcles from it. Truth be told, aside from the clear sadistic enjoyment they had working on me, they were about the nicest people I’d ever met. They were very welcoming, and as they put it, “we don’t care who ya are, as long as you’ve hair we can zap from your face”. I had fun (you read that right, fun at an electrolygist’s office).

To learn more about electrolysis, (and all hair removal methods) you can checkout the amazing Hair Facts consumer watchdog site by clicking here also, TransGender Care has a nice write up describing electrolygy at this link here.

(pic of person being electrocuted from I’m Fantastic Photos, used under Creative Commons License)