I built my own hair electrolysis machine
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Full disclosure, I may or may not have caused some scarring having attempted to do this in a very rudimentary way with some 9volts when I thought that it was purely the heat from the electricity that we were after. This seems to be a vast improvement over the nightmare I came up with, even with the car battery as at least you've got voltage regulation.
>this board contains one or more chemicals known to the state of california to cause feminization :3 :3 :3 :3
You are a legend and an inspiration.
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 same speed as what the pros do? It takes around 20 seconds for removal of the whole hair (about 10 seconds of current plus 10 seconds tweezing, inserting needle, etc.) in the video. My tech can usually remove around 200 hairs in an hour, which comes out to about the same (200 / 60 = 3.33 hairs per minute = around 18 seconds a hair).
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.
I imagine there's a way to genetically alter yeasts to make estrobeer while they're at it, with the side benefit that the alcohol would serve as a natural testosterone reducer for a double d whammy.
Sidenote a fallout game in portland should totally feature this
I'm already up to several thousand in spend doing it the traditional way (which has been very helpful!) but it's not sustainable even on an upcoming big-tech salary.
thanks <3 hazel
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.
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.
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 run in to hundreds of thousands, but very few people will be able to afford that.
I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking.
Women are expected to not have beards, and having one or any beard shadow will get you seen as "a man" very quickly. It's both for safety, and reducing the amount of dysphoria we experience.
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I looked at the arm hair in the video, than at my grizzly arms and totally forgot about facial hair!
That sounds super expensive, isn't there a trend to do that abroad?
I remember seeing Istanbul airport full of hair transplant patients, apparently people go there to have more hair at an affordable cost, maybe the opposite is also available at less than $100/h?
There's cheaper places than where I go, for sure, but operator skill is a big part of electrolysis. It's the difference between getting scarred or not, and it's the difference of a hundred hours time spent because the operator wasn't using enough power.
The reality is that it's just time intensive, and there's not many good experienced operators around where I live
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.
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 phase to return for her to get the next batch. About 10 trips in all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth#Growth_cycle
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
A fun related story about how even nominally professionals need adult oversight when working with high powered lasers.
I'm kinda curious what was sum of the damage in the end.
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.
I don't remember ever doing that without protective glasses, but evidently I did at some point.
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!
Now if you just want to do your arms this is like down to a few hours. Not so bad?
That cracked me up!
Kudos, amazing design.
That said, if you have a 3D printer these days the process of ordering a board with full PCBA from PCBWay/JLCPCB/Aisler and printing the case yourself is pretty easy.