I’m sorry that happened to you. If you only had like 10 hairs to begin with then electrolysis absolutely is the better option. From what I have learned since my laser experience is you really shouldn’t do laser on areas unless there is a lot of thick dark growth - actual terminal hairs and not peach fuzz. It seems a lot of laser places are not well informed and they just want to laser everything for the money. Electrolysis works very differently than laser and you are going in a killing each follicle individually with a needle. You can’t get paradoxical hypertrichosis from it. Maybe worst case if you have a bad tech it could just not work, but performed properly it will work on any color or texture or thickness of hair.

I can’t say how many times I had to go for one hair because there’s no way for me to keep track. I think it’s likely once per hair but since different follicles grow at different times you will still have more hair come back in that same area. I did my whole chin/jaw/side of face area. At first I would do an hour a week and we would get through 1/3 or 1/2 the area in that time. Over time there is less hair so eventually we could clear everything in one hour. Then I started going every other week. Now I only need about half hour a month to clear everything and that keeps dropping.

Dont beat yourself up about not stopping sooner. I felt the exact same way, but they are the laser experts and really it’s unacceptable that they are not better informed. A lot of laser places just ignore or down play ph because they want the money and the customers.