My Experience with Electrology 2000

By Jennifer Alexander


I am a fairly new transgender woman who is just beginning to live full time as a woman. At least I am trying my best to do that. I am 44 and as most of us realize there are many steps to do during the transition. I am not here to debate what anyone should do or how to do it. I am not a counselor or therapist and my main recommendation is to always seek a therapist who specializes in gender identity issues.

Like most of us we need to get rid of our facial hair. I hate using the word beard, even though that is what it is. I just want to get rid of my woman facial hair. I don't want to shave. I have blond hair but no matter how close I shave it each morning, by noon the little hairs on my lip begin to show through my make up and the shadow begins to appear. I am also like many other transgender women.


I want to get rid of this facial hair yesterday.
I don't want it to hurt my skin.
I don't want any pain.

I have had many people give me all kind of advice on what type of electrolysis to do and who to go to. To be honest, everyone has their own opinion and it is probably the best decision for them.

After, a lot of thought and research I chose to go to Electrology 2000. By the way, I am in no way financially connected to them. I just think that this is a wonderful service for the transgender community and I want to share with you my experience.
Electrology 2000 is located at:

2765 Trinity Mills #405
Carrollton, Texas 75006
214-416-3390
It is owned my Jo Bren and Ruthann Piriano

Electrology 2000 now has a home page! Electrology 2000 You can email Bren at Jo Bren

I just went there last week and had a wonderful experience. I arrived at the Dallas Fort Worth airport on Monday and Bren and Ruthann picked me up and took me to the motel. They have several motels which they recommend and of course I chose the Motel 6. It is not the least expensive motel six in the world at 39.00 a day. But it is very nice motel with a great ice machine, which is important, and it is close to Electrology 2000. They also have lots of restaurants right next to the motel.

Every day Bren picked me up and then took me home after the sessions. I caught the super shuttle to the airport to go home, but they would have taken me if I wanted them to.

Now I am no electrologist and I actually don't understand everything they did. Here are some of the things directly from their brochure..

Electrology 2000
The painless alternative
The medical approach to permanent hair removal.

* No regrowth
* No scars
* Predictable treatment time
* Protects skin glands
* Protects collagen
* Protects elastin
* Protects surface epithelium
* Researched by Dermatologist
* Sterile and safe

Conventional Methods
Why Scars and Regrowth Occur

Bare Needles deliver current to the entire length of the follicle, injuring everything but not killing all the cells that grow hair. Any surviving cells will regrow the hair. Repeated injuries to the other cells from retreatment will cause scars to form. The face is one of the easiest areas on the body to scar, but who scars and regrowth anywhere at all?
Electrology 2000, the painless alternative ...

The insulated Bulbous Probe
The insulation on the probe prevents injury to any of the tissues except the hair cells. Because we don't diffuse the current over the entire length of the follicle, we get a complete kill of the hair cells. Insulate Probe protects everything except the Hair Cells. Only the Hair Cells have been destroyed no hair will ever grow here again.

Patients are seen by appointment only. We try to adhere to appointment times but sometimes we may run over, after all we want all of your hair off, too. All of our electrologists have been carefully trained and any of them can do your work. We reserve the right to choose who will do your work that day if for some reason you scheduled electrologist is not available. To reserve large blocks of time, we ask for a deposit to protect our electrologist from last minute cancels and no shows. We accept cash, visa, MasterCard, American express. Consultations and estimates are always free.

Electrology 2000 is the result of research by dermatologist as well as years of successful clinical practice. Just why our technique is not more widely practiced is probably because of the level of precision required to perform in properly. It is not magic, it is a combination of what we use and how we usu it. It is a skill. Each of our electrologists undergoes training for 9 months and must consistently prove their skills and reliability before they earn our creditation and right to work on the general public. We routinely monitor their quality and continue to push for perfection. Our best advertisement is the success we enjoy with our patients.

The number of hours required to finish an area is much less than with conventional electrolysis because we are not having to treat the same hairs over again and again like you will with conventional techniques.

Electrology 2000 uses a technique that was researched by two different dermatologists to prevent scars and excess injury to the delicate facial tissues. The same method works wonderfully well on other areas of the body as well.

Our motto is: "If you hate to shave it, we can get rid of it forever!"

Because we are mammals, we grow hair in cycles, which means that only about half of our facial and body hair is growing at any time. Because of this, we treat an area once a month for the length of the hair growth cycle. At that time, allow the hairs have grown in once, been treated once and are gone. The cycle time is predictable and unique for each area of the body.

Now more from Jennifer:

And guess what ..... they were great. It took three days for them to remove all of my facial hair and it was almost painless. I will be honest and tell you that some of the lidocaine shots hurt. But the alternative between several stings of lidocaine and about 30,000 stings of electrolysis is a better alternative for me. There is swelling and redness. They did the upper lip the first day and it really did swell up. However the rest of the face did fairly well. They give you some ibuprofen to take to prevent infection and help the swelling and pain. Also, they give you little plastic bags to put ice in when you get back to the motel so you can ice down the treated area. I have to go back about another five times each six weeks to have the dormant hairs removed as they begin to grow out.

I can not express to you how happy and satisfied I was with them. They are a first class organization and a very customer oriented company that really cares about your life style and most importantly your face. Because, I had about four days growth of hair on my face, I kind of had to fly on the airline in my male role. It took me a while to dig out two of my last sets of male jeans for the trip since I have long since thrown most of those guy clothes away. However, they always referred to my by my female name and used the pronoun she. Bren is a transgender woman and wants this business to welcome transgender women and make it a very open and friendly place for us. All of the electrolysis treat you the same way as a woman. It doesn't matter that you don't have any makeup on, are not dressed very feminine and have this facial hair. They treat transgender women all of the time. In fact, they have many contacts of transgender women whom they are more than willing to put you in contact with.

It has been less one week now since they finished with my face. I thought I would wait a little while before I wrote this article so I could tell you the true results. My face is so smooth and there are no scars. The swelling is gone.

It takes about 70 - 90 hours of Electrology for them to do the entire face over all of the sessions. They keep a very accurate log on how much time they actually work on your face. They don't count, the time you go to the restroom, or breaks, or lunch or when they are briefing you on the techniques. They charge you for their actually work. They don't even charge you while you are getting numbed up with the lidocaine. They charge you for the electrolysis work. Sometimes two electrologist work on you and sometimes just one. I don't know how they figured that part out. But they have a strategy on how to remove the hair on your face in the best possible way. Ruthann is also, very experienced with dermatology and spent many hours explaining to me about how to take care of my face and skin.

My costs:
Electrology 26.82 hours at 88 dollars and hour = 2360.16
Airfare from San Francisco to Dallas=340.00
Motel 6 four days at 39 + 5 dollars tax=176.00
Food - I didn't eat that much but spent about=60.00
All of this totals: $2936.16

I do have to make about five more trips. However, each trip will cost only about half of this because the sessions are much shorter.

Now I know this looks expensive. But here is the way I look at. It doesn't hurt your face, it is almost painless, and it is the quickest way around to get rid of our facial hair. So if I end up needing 70 hours of electrolysis at 88 dollars and hour that will be about $6,160. Ok, if I went to someone else who did conventional electrolysis I am sure it would take about 300 hours over several years and about an and inch at a time. Let's say I got the best rate deal around at 30 dollars and hour (and that is a good rate). 30 dollars and hour times 300 hours equals 9000 dollars. Plus, it will take a lot of time and thousands of painful bee stings on your precious face. I know of many transgender women who have spent 600 hours of electrolysis on their faces and still are not completed.

Again, I am in no way taking any shots or saying anything against any other electrologists or any other way to do it. Every electrolysis I have met cares about us and wants to help us. Everyone must make their own decision for themselves. I know it is expensive. But you know I am a transgender woman and this is something I must do. I don't really have a choice and I don't want to shave my face the rest of my life.

Please feel to write me and tell me what you think.
Write to Jennifer
Hugs to all of my friends,
Jennifer



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