Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.
How it works
- Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
- This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
- Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
- Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.
If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.
Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary
Slow and Expensive, but Effective and Precise - Especially Good for Brows
Electrolysis is the only permanent hair removal, and you can get it all over the face and body, including eyebrows. Unlike laser hair removal, electrolysis doesn't carry the risk of paradoxical hypertrichosis. It works on all skin and hair types without risks of burns.
HOWEVER, electrolysis is WAY more expensive... the going rate in my area is $110/hour. It's one hair at a time, so you could easily spend an entire hour on just your eyebrows (the first hour of many if you want to get permanent results).
It's slow, and you probably won't see great clearance in just a few sessions like you might with LHR.
It hurts. They put a tiny needle into each hair follicle and send an electric current to destroy it. It is a lot more painful than laser hair removal. I recommend numbing cream for sensitive areas like upper lip.
That said, I still recommend it as long as you know it'll probably take more than one year of regular sessions and thousands of dollars to treat an area. I like to work on small areas like eyebrows and sideburns and clean up strays left after LHR for large areas like legs.
I had been wanting electrolysis since I was a hairy little girl, but I only started about 2 years ago after several months into a stable job. Over $4,000 later, I'm still not done, but I love it.
Electrologists say everybody is different and are loath to give an estimate for how many treatments you need, and I get it. They don't know. The internet is a lie. I read online expect to have roughly 12 sessions to treat an area. I'm still not done with sideburns after 34 sessions!
I have done just electrolysis on my sideburns (no LHR), and my first session I spent almost the entire hour ($110) on just the sideburns. The first few sessions were mostly spent working on sideburns, but time spent on sideburns has been going down. I have done 34 electrolysis sessions that included sideburns. I'm still not done, but now I go about once a month (I used to usually go twice a month) and the electrologist removes what's left of my sideburns in around 5 minutes and spends the rest of the time on other areas.
It would've been cheaper to get LHR on my sideburns and then get electrolysis for the strays, but I was concerned about the risk of paradoxical hypertrichosis and didn't want to deal with shaving my sideburns since I always tie my hair up for work. A benefit of electrolysis is that you don't have to shave before treatment and the regrowth looks more natural (not stubble). It's also precise, so I didn't worry about the shape looking too straight or crooked.
I highly recommend electrolysis for eyebrows if you find a skilled and directable technician. I used to never let anybody touch my brows, but my electrologist convinced me. I didn't let her shape them. The electrologist gets rid of obvious strays and consults me for any borderline cases. I've had 24 sessions of electrolysis that included brows, but I'm not sure the total amount of time spent on them because I always did multiple areas. There are fewer strays and they're finer than before. I can go over a month without touching them, and they still look neat.
If you know exactly what shape you want and can find a good electrologist, I highly recommend getting electrolysis for your eyebrows. In the long run, you'll save time and money if you normally get them waxed/threaded. I never let anybody wax/thread my brows, but I used to tweeze them myself. Tweezing was time-consuming, and I worried that all the pulling was damaging for my skin. I love electrolysis because with the right electrologist, you can control the shape exactly down to each hair. Personally, I love a faux-natural brow, just messy enough to pass as untouched.
I'm not sure if I'll ever "finish" electrolysis because the human body is covered in hair, and I noticed that my no-sideburns is relatively smooth so the rest of my face looks hairier. I started doing almost my whole face, including the tip of my widow's peak which is growing in the wrong direction. A slight change in hairline can make a big difference in your appearance.
Unlike laser hair removal, electrolysis depends highly on the skill of the technician. I've been to several electrologists and found the difference in speed and pain to be astounding.
Try out a few electrologists because a fast electrologist can be more than double the speed of a slow one.
In short, electrolysis is much slower and more expensive than LHR, but it is permanent (after many, many sessions) and doesn't have the risk of extra hair growth or burns. Electrolysis is more precise because it's hair by hair so it's perfect for perfectionists/ control freaks.
Prepare to spend a lot of money if you start electrolysis because not only will treating one area take a lot of sessions, but you'll likely want to do more treatment areas as you notice when one area gets smoother, surrounding areas look hairier.
HOWEVER, electrolysis is WAY more expensive... the going rate in my area is $110/hour. It's one hair at a time, so you could easily spend an entire hour on just your eyebrows (the first hour of many if you want to get permanent results).
It's slow, and you probably won't see great clearance in just a few sessions like you might with LHR.
It hurts. They put a tiny needle into each hair follicle and send an electric current to destroy it. It is a lot more painful than laser hair removal. I recommend numbing cream for sensitive areas like upper lip.
That said, I still recommend it as long as you know it'll probably take more than one year of regular sessions and thousands of dollars to treat an area. I like to work on small areas like eyebrows and sideburns and clean up strays left after LHR for large areas like legs.
I had been wanting electrolysis since I was a hairy little girl, but I only started about 2 years ago after several months into a stable job. Over $4,000 later, I'm still not done, but I love it.
Electrologists say everybody is different and are loath to give an estimate for how many treatments you need, and I get it. They don't know. The internet is a lie. I read online expect to have roughly 12 sessions to treat an area. I'm still not done with sideburns after 34 sessions!
I have done just electrolysis on my sideburns (no LHR), and my first session I spent almost the entire hour ($110) on just the sideburns. The first few sessions were mostly spent working on sideburns, but time spent on sideburns has been going down. I have done 34 electrolysis sessions that included sideburns. I'm still not done, but now I go about once a month (I used to usually go twice a month) and the electrologist removes what's left of my sideburns in around 5 minutes and spends the rest of the time on other areas.
It would've been cheaper to get LHR on my sideburns and then get electrolysis for the strays, but I was concerned about the risk of paradoxical hypertrichosis and didn't want to deal with shaving my sideburns since I always tie my hair up for work. A benefit of electrolysis is that you don't have to shave before treatment and the regrowth looks more natural (not stubble). It's also precise, so I didn't worry about the shape looking too straight or crooked.
I highly recommend electrolysis for eyebrows if you find a skilled and directable technician. I used to never let anybody touch my brows, but my electrologist convinced me. I didn't let her shape them. The electrologist gets rid of obvious strays and consults me for any borderline cases. I've had 24 sessions of electrolysis that included brows, but I'm not sure the total amount of time spent on them because I always did multiple areas. There are fewer strays and they're finer than before. I can go over a month without touching them, and they still look neat.
If you know exactly what shape you want and can find a good electrologist, I highly recommend getting electrolysis for your eyebrows. In the long run, you'll save time and money if you normally get them waxed/threaded. I never let anybody wax/thread my brows, but I used to tweeze them myself. Tweezing was time-consuming, and I worried that all the pulling was damaging for my skin. I love electrolysis because with the right electrologist, you can control the shape exactly down to each hair. Personally, I love a faux-natural brow, just messy enough to pass as untouched.
I'm not sure if I'll ever "finish" electrolysis because the human body is covered in hair, and I noticed that my no-sideburns is relatively smooth so the rest of my face looks hairier. I started doing almost my whole face, including the tip of my widow's peak which is growing in the wrong direction. A slight change in hairline can make a big difference in your appearance.
Unlike laser hair removal, electrolysis depends highly on the skill of the technician. I've been to several electrologists and found the difference in speed and pain to be astounding.
Try out a few electrologists because a fast electrologist can be more than double the speed of a slow one.
In short, electrolysis is much slower and more expensive than LHR, but it is permanent (after many, many sessions) and doesn't have the risk of extra hair growth or burns. Electrolysis is more precise because it's hair by hair so it's perfect for perfectionists/ control freaks.
Prepare to spend a lot of money if you start electrolysis because not only will treating one area take a lot of sessions, but you'll likely want to do more treatment areas as you notice when one area gets smoother, surrounding areas look hairier.