I built my own hair electrolysis machine

Post by nagaiaida » Mon, May 04, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #39

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 think she meant that going to a place to get it done for the whole body costs that much. It still sounds expensive, but who knows. Though, I have no idea who would want to sit through something that takes ten seconds per body hair. I got a light hair removal device and it's waaaaaaaay faster and cheaper.

anyone with skin that makes laser/ipl inapplicable, for one

Post by nar001 » Tue, May 05, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC

AntiUSAbah wrote: post #74

throwawa-486297 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree but HN always seemed more conservative or at least less queer than the "usual", personally I'd have assumed "hilarious" was meant more in a sardonic way, a reverse of the usual than literally hilarious

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