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One thing eludes me... We have thousands of hair follicles, how is that supposed to work in a finite amount of time?
Now if you just want to do your arms this is like down to a few hours. Not so bad?
One thing eludes me... We have thousands of hair follicles, how is that supposed to work in a finite amount of time?
One step at a time? Quick back of the envelope: Assuming 30k body hair follicles, at 5s/follicle that's 42 hours. Now if you just want to do your arms this is like down to a few hours. Not so bad?
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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.)
But the hacker scene itself has quite a high and open trans culture. At least on hacker events, camps and congresses like from the ccc, i see quite 'a lot' of trans people.
And that for years if not decades by now.
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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.)
I do not understand why you would describe it as hilarious tbh. But the hacker scene itself has quite a high and open trans culture. At least on hacker events, camps and congresses like from the ccc, i see quite 'a lot' of trans people. And that for years if not decades by now.
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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 exa…
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In general, experimenting at home with these kinds of light intensities is NOT a good idea. Way too much risk of accidental eye damage.
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.
And thought, Hey, that wasn't very smart! And Wow! I am (temporarily) blind.
It wasn't an eye-threat-level laser. Thankfully. Which is why one wears bandgap glasses when working with those: it's SO easy to mess up!
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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.
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…
Laser is also often (usually?) not permanent (I am the right combination of fair-skinned and dark-haired). And hella painful from personal experience, though I can't compare to electrolysis.