I’m setting up some consultations for electrolysis among local practitioners and some small test treatments. I have a treatment on Thursday with someone I’m concerned about.
She is the sweetest person, with incredibly reasonable rates. She has been in the business for almost thirty years or something. She has lots of clients and a legitimate office (doesn’t prove anything, but it does indicate she’s making enough money to pay rent, and therefore has decent returning customers and/or word of mouth). She also has one great review on Yelp.
Despite all that, she seems so wrong on so many important things. I want to give her a try anyway, because good insertions/treatment and reliable sterilization is more important than book knowledge, right?
But she told me things like the perma-tweeze home tweezer is DEFINITELY permanent removal (all research says that’s not possible, right?)
She also says things like shaving the hair will cause it to go into the anagen phase, so you should shave every day for a few months prior to treatment. She says this will guarantee that every hair she takes out is actively killed. I said I know some telogen/catagen will be treated with my first full clearance and not killed. She said I was wrong about that and that I was quoting info from a “text-book” instead of real life. She said if I shave (not wax or anything else) every day for months, I will have 100% anagen hair. I’m confused.
She also says thermolysis doesn’t work pretty much. Only galvanic really works, and sometimes blend for the toes.
She also said that when she did her own bikini line, it took like twenty hours for the first clearance (that seems slow to me, but I don’t really know).
So, should I be worried? Or does she sounds decent anyway?
Edit: Oh and she uses a Gentronics machine!
She found one hair that she said was anagen and held it up and was “Finally! We actually GOT one!” I’m not gonna lie, that was depressing to hear.
