Hi! Is there anyone else here who has been doing electrolysis consistently for multiple years and who still has not reached the maintenance phase? I'm bi-gender, transfemme, and not especially young. Although I've been on low dose HRT for some time now, I don't take a large enough dose to make a significant impact on facial hair, so I've been getting electrolysis since early in my transition. I have done some laser as well, but being not especially young, I have a significant amount of white hair that the laser treatments can't touch. I have been having weekly appointments for six years. As of a couple of years ago, I increased them from an hour a session to 1.5-2 hours per session, and I've had a number of long sessions with two electrologists. My facial hair is greatly reduced, but there's still enough of it to be a problem. I have been doing electrolysis for six years. I'm lucky I'm even able to pay for it, but it is driving me a little insane, trying to figure out when I'll finally get to the point where it's just maintenance, touching up my face a bit here and there, but where I can roll out of bed and confidently go to the girl side of my closet without feeling I need to both shave and use foundation (and everything that goes with that). I'm just trying to get a sense of how out of the ordinary my situation is. I believe that the great majority of other transfeminine people I know are either young enough (and with a suitable hair/skin color situation) to be able to do laser instead of electrolysis and/or are on full feminizing HRT and therefore have a much shorter process. I haven't spoken to anyone else who has been doing electrolysis for as long and as amply as I have. Thank you!
