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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 ivraatiems »

throwawa-486297 wrote: post #58
ivraatiems wrote: post #57

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I get electrolysis (from a professional, not DIY, lol) and it does hurt a fair bit, but it's not intolerable for me. It's roughly the pain of tweezing a hair, only repeated a couple hundred times per session. I put on a podcast and just kind of get through it. If this has been done appropriately and safely, it should be similar. One thing I will mention, having watched the video, is that I think this goes about the s…

oh wow, your tech must be real slow. Mine will do a hair every 5 seconds. But she’s been doing it for 20 years. I find this invasion of hacker news by trans women talking about hair removal delightful and hilarious. (Of course, we were all here all along.)

Yeah, my tech is a trainee. I'm sure one who's been doing it for years would go faster, but she's inexpensive and I don't mind helping her learn! The results have been solid so far.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

holistio wrote: post #48
chiph wrote: post #43

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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.

Yeah, every decade it seems it's a new horror. Nostrils, then ears…

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Post by cyberax »

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #32
jaggederest wrote: post #26

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https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-i-got-my-laser-eye... A fun related story about how even nominally professionals need adult oversight when working with high powered lasers.

lol, nice to know that I can go blind just randomly while working on the street. I'm kinda curious what was sum of the damage in the end.

With high-powered lasers, you can go blind instantly. I also worked with lasers (in a lab, with all the safety precautions), yet I have slight eye damage in one eye.

There's a small burnt patch on my fovea, so if I look at something like a regular grid (e.g. a page with text) with the damaged eye, the grid becomes warped at the point of focus. And I found out about that only when I was doing a regular planned eye exam (I was wearing corrective glasses).

This type of damage is extremely common with lasers, and it can stay invisible and compound until the brain runs out of its ability to do fixes in post-processing.

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Post by AntiUSAbah »

stirfish wrote: post #31
AntiUSAbah wrote: post #24

I did not get all the transgender references in the comments but gemini found it without issues. Nonetheless, great thing to have this. You can have a great default 'shave', can get rid of your ear hair, the hair on your toe nails. I need this

The hair on your toe nails??

Ah no, sry on my toes behind my toe nails :D
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