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you a guide line of about 100 hours.

Cost: This factor varies from one place to another depending on method, what the traffic will bear and on how highly the operator rates herself. I should say that the lowest you'd ever find would be $10 per hour and the highest about $20. $14 is a good gen- eral figure. Taking $15 as a round number you can see that this means an investment of something like $1500. In most cases, however, not only shortness of cash but shortness of time will limit you to 1 or 2 hours per week. Even so this can run between $50 and $200 a month depending on how much time and money you can and do devote to it.

Duration: On the basis of 100 hours at 1 or 2 hours per week you can see that it will take 50 to 100 weeks or 1 or 2 years. At first glance the time and money involved are pretty discouraging but like everything else in life it is a matter of how badly you want the result. If you only get a chance to dress a couple of times a month when the wife is gone obviously this investment would be a waste. On the other hand if you are fortunate enough to go out a great deal, the saving of time, sore face, and nuis- ance of shaving plus the satisfaction of the extra conformity of a smooth face will make it very worth while. This decision therefore will have to be made with consideration of a lot of different factors.

Results: If your operator just skips around here. and there you will not be able to notice any results and may become discouraged, so most of them start in a small area here and there (you can't work too long in one area). This way, after 3 or 4 treatments, you have the satisfaction of finding a smooth spot on your chin or cheek and, feeling hopeful and en- couraged, you go back for more.

Discomfort: Let no one kid you, electrolysis by any method is not painless. People vary in their pain threshhold and a given person finds some areas more painful than others. The upper lip, particularly in

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