Hey guys and girlies,
I know there’s millions of treatment threads and diaries on here, but I thought I might as well add to them with my own and as there’s not many English ones hehe.
Right, to start off with i have done my research properly this time (AMMAGAD!) and spoken to 3 different electrolycists (and am in the process of speaking to the 4th).
Lady #1: Rang her up from a recommendation from a couple of people, when I spoke to her I found her quite abrupt and just not generally very helpful and she seemed to want to get me off the phone as soon as possible (to the point where she texted me her new address) even though it would have been a maximum of 3 minute call. She wasn’t in with a client either. I did book an appointment with her, but I had been ill for the past couple of weeks and I still was when it came round to the appointment, so I ended up cancelling it. I have been reassured that she is quite sweet really and just seems a bit abrupt on the phone. However, she uses a non computerised epilator and Iv’e heard the magnification isn’t amazing as well. I would also have to get on 3 trains to get to her, which I wasn’t nuts about either. Although her consultation was free, which I was impressed about.
Lady #2: Her consultation fee was £10, she does time slots such as 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes and so on. She cost £33 for 30 minutes and then another reduction in price for 45 minutes. She uses traditional shortwave diathemy (thermolysis) and blend, which wasn’t to my liking.
I had my upper cheek bones and kneck treated, my cheek bones have calmed down a lot although my kneck has still got quite a few red dots and a couple of scabs. I was counting the hairs and she was removing about 3-5 a minute with tradtional SDW (thermolysis), although she did talk quite a bit - informing about the hairs and what they looked like and so on, which she said she wouldn’t do in the next treatment. I think she also is a bit of a maximiser, blast the hair as much as possible without damaging the skin.
Lady #3: I then went to a lady called Sara based up in Harrow/Middlesex. She was so sweet and really put me at ease. She uses the Apilus Cleo as well, which was good. I tried Flash, which was quite a different feeling to traditional Shortwave Diathermy, it shoots 2 shocks (I’m guessing she’s using that multipulse thing) and it’s still much quicker than SWD. My skin reaction was also significantly less (although I only had my upper cheek bones treated, but she did try both modalities on me). It does cost slightly more to be treated with Flash (however, this price is the same as most of the electrologists on the market charge for traditional SDW), but she does offer clients the option to be treated with traditional SDW at a much cheaper rate (which may sound a bit odd, but if you look at it in the way that a client cannot afford the usual price tag of electrolysis for a period of time, they do have the option to be treated with a cheaper version).
It really was quite amazing how much faster flash was than the traditional electrolysis and the reduced skin reaction, Iv’e always believed James, Dee and everyone else that this is the case but it’s still a bit of a eye opener when you first experience it.
Although the only problem is the travel, on average it’s a 6 hour all round trip on the train from where I live (and I hate using the underground), but the main problem with this is it causes problems with my highschool work, especially as Iv’e got my A level exams in 6 months.
Lady #4: This lady lives very close to me and Iv’e been trying to get hold of her but it has been quite difficult, but when I do I will update this post for everyone.
With all these treatments I have made sure I keep my aftercare going well, wipe the area with a salt water solution and apply fresh Witch Hasel gel day and night. Stay out of the sun, don’t wear tight clthing around the neck e.g. Scarves and so on, no swimming (not that I’d want to with this body hair problem) etc.
Pain wise I can handle it quite well, I did find it quite painful though when i was treated around the top of my cheek bones near the eye area, but nothing I can’t manage.
So in conclusion what Iv’e decided to do is postpone my electrolysis until late June when I will have finished all of my A levels and should have hopefully been successful in getting the trainee job Iv’e been working towards up in central London (then it won’t seem like such a long journey, as I live in a county a little way outside of London).
In general though, I really don’t mind travelling the extra distance though simply because Sara is so friendly, she’s a member of the BIAE and she uses a computerised epilator (to get all this in one is like gold ust in England unfortunatley). I know this is a bit early to be starting a thread, but I figured I’d just shove some information on the site about English practitioners and then start posting my experiences on this thread when I start in June.
As a little note, all of the electrolycists I went to are BIAE members (British Institute and Association of Electrolysis).
Kind regards,
Benji
I would love to go with someone who uses Microflash however, to find someone that has the equipment alone to offer this type of treatment is honestly like gold dust (as Sterex is the main brand in England and they have yet to go computerised). Then if you chuck in the other two ingrediants, lighting/visuals and skill, we’re talking about buying a plane ticket to the US every month to get that type of treatment. And there would be no doubt that I would if I could afford it, screw the jet lag.