Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

I let my face rest (i.e. did not shave) for a week. The results are less bad than I imagined it would be.

( Still Not Pretty )

We'll see how things improve over the remaining treatments. I hope for the best, but expect to need electrolysis as well, as that doesn't have anything to do with the color of the hairs.

Today was the third of nine laser treatments to remove as much of my facial hair as possible. As usual, I put on the numbing ointment at home, then drove to the M-Spa where the nurse-technician put on my eye protection (metal eye covers) and proceeded to zap me.

( After the Zap )

As expected, as the number of dark hairs diminishes, the effectiveness of the treatment also declines, because it does not work as well on gray hairs. But I started going gray in my late twenties, which I know to be genetic as both my father and my mother's father had similar early graying. I postponed my gray hair a bit until after ConJosé in 2002, but I threw away the bottle of Grecian Formula the day after the convention, deciding that I did not need it anymore.

There's a bit more to tell here, but I'll leave it to kayla_allen to give the behind the scenes, and that means you have to be a DW member and apply for access to her journal to read it.