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I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by stirfish »

kategorybee wrote: post #40
holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I'm a trans woman who's had a lot of electrolysis. Almost all of us get permanent hair removal on our face if we can afford it. Laser is far cheaper and quicker, but not everyone can get it since it needs specific hair and skin colour combinations. Electrolysis on my face and neck has cost me tens of thousands. Think $100 per hour, and it taking 100-300 hours to complete typically. Full body hair removal would easily…

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I was hung up on the arm hair.

Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by chiph »

holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Also a hairy man. I got a small amount done about 20 years ago because I didn't want to end up with "old man ear hair" like my relatives (TMI, sorry).

At the time, a visit was $60. It wasn't painful but I did feel a twinge/shock for each hair. Multiple visits are required because of how follicles work - they grow hair in phases. The technician would treat the ones she saw, but then I had to wait until the next growth phase to return for her to get the next batch. About 10 trips in all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth#Growth_cycle

Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by kategorybee »

stirfish wrote: post #41
kategorybee wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a trans woman who's had a lot of electrolysis. Almost all of us get permanent hair removal on our face if we can afford it. Laser is far cheaper and quicker, but not everyone can get it since it needs specific hair and skin colour combinations. Electrolysis on my face and neck has cost me tens of thousands. Think $100 per hour, and it taking 100-300 hours to complete typically. Full body hair removal would easily…

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I was hung up on the arm hair.

Thicker and longer arm hair is still a masculine trait. Testosterone thickens hair all over your body. Feminising HRT does revert body hair for some people (but not facial hair, it's a biological quirk), but usually not enough to where cis women are if you started out hairy

Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by holistio »

kategorybee wrote: post #40
holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I'm a trans woman who's had a lot of electrolysis. Almost all of us get permanent hair removal on our face if we can afford it. Laser is far cheaper and quicker, but not everyone can get it since it needs specific hair and skin colour combinations. Electrolysis on my face and neck has cost me tens of thousands. Think $100 per hour, and it taking 100-300 hours to complete typically. Full body hair removal would easily…

Thanks for the clear answer!

I looked at the arm hair in the video, than at my grizzly arms and totally forgot about facial hair!

That sounds super expensive, isn't there a trend to do that abroad?

I remember seeing Istanbul airport full of hair transplant patients, apparently people go there to have more hair at an affordable cost, maybe the opposite is also available at less than $100/h?

Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by holistio »

chiph wrote: post #43
holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Also a hairy man. I got a small amount done about 20 years ago because I didn't want to end up with "old man ear hair" like my relatives (TMI, sorry). At the time, a visit was $60. It wasn't painful but I did feel a twinge/shock for each hair. Multiple visits are required because of how follicles work - they grow hair in phases. The technician would treat the ones she saw, but then I had to wait until the next growth…

The ear hairs just started appearing a few years ago, I don't like them either, I might actually also get them removed.

Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by artifach »

holistio wrote: post #34

I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Is this something that M2F trans people typically do? Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Re: I built my own hair electrolysis machine

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Post by kaikai »

BizarroLand wrote: post #9
WillMorr wrote: post #8

Hell yeah. I feel like if the world ended there would be a group of trans woman with a wind powered experimental estrogen generator inside of a week.

I mean, it's just a fancy hydrocarbon, and in some form or another can be extracted from female mammal urine. I imagine there's a way to genetically alter yeasts to make estrobeer while they're at it, with the side benefit that the alcohol would serve as a natural testosterone reducer for a double d whammy.

Can confirm, I’ve extracted estrogen from my own urine.
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