Diary

Today it was time for my first electrolysis session: Removing facial hair with the aid of electric current. This is said to be an extremely painful procedure and although I know I can handle some pain I have to admit I was quite nervous again.
They take one hair at a time in a pair of tweezers and pull it to the side a bit. Then a needle is inserted into the follicle and an electric current is sent through the needle to kill off the follicle forever.

Fortunately I completely trust my skin therapist Eefje, so I submitted myself to her treatment without hesitation. She gave me a little metal rod to hold in my hand. "That is for leading the current back to the machine", she said. Of course I know that an electrical circuit always has be a closed loop for a current to be able to flow, but I thought the current found its way back to the machine through the hair and the tweezers. Not.

Well, this treatment certainly is not a pleasure! I do use Emla cream for this to sedate my skin, but still it hurts just as much as simply pulling the hairs out of your face with a pair of tweezers. Only in this case the pain lasts longer, because it takes some time before the hair will come loose. Particularly in my case, because my hairs are very stubborn.

I will have to come back for a treatment like this every week from now on. It is no exception for this treatment to take a year for covering your whole face. Another nasty detail is I am not allowed to shave a few days before the treatment, because the hairs have to be long enough to be able to grab them. If I haven't shaved for a few days I feel just like a porcupine! Fortunately the hairs are white and not very noticeable to others.


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