Is it reasonable to expect to pay 110 plus tax per hour for a good quality electrolysist ?
Uummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… I know of great electrologists who charge anywhere from $60 - $100 per hour. Much depends on the overhead to run a business. Remember, if a particular electrologist is quite skilled, has a modern set up that allows her or him to go at a comfortable, push forward speed, can do short appointments or marathon sessions, will work you in to give appointment times that are outside the normal work day hours, to deliver something PERMANENT, then they are worth every penny you spend.
Yes, you are getting something PERMANENT, unlike getting your hair cut and colored, unlike those monthly manicures, unlike those monthly massages, unlike getting waxed every 3 - 6 weeks. Unlike anything that you have to repeat over and over again and spend money for over and over, year in and year out.
The money spent for electrolysis is temporary, for a certain period of time, because you are paying for something that is PERMANENT. Capice!
Hi Danika.
You have been doing LHR and electrolysis for a long time now.
I suggest that we look at the big picture but it would help to know your age.
You just started clearing your sideburns with electrolysis. This should be simple enough; a very easy area to treat and in good hands, you should see progress within the first few months.
Now lets examine what could be going on with your brows.
You indicated that you started 2 years ago and see no progress.
Even if your visits were infrequent, you see no difference in the amount of hair present? How often did you have the area treated?
Look very carefully - do you see lots of tiny veins in the area? The tech. might not want to penetrate as deeply as is necessary in such a capillary rich area.
My suggestion: find an electrologist who has the ability to do slow thermolysis and very fast thermolysis and also can administer blend.
Have you asked your local electrologist why there has been no progress on your brows? What was her response? Ask her to join this discussion and we will try to troubleshoot together. Or you can continue looking for electrologists, as you have been doing, and hope you get lucky.
In terms of price. Your eyebrows could be completed by now and it could have been done well by one charging $50 an hour or $120 an hour. Price is not an indication of skill.
BTW, if you are over 40, you will be surprised at how often those eyebrow hairs stop growing after tweezing.
Hi Arlene,
Thanks for your comment. Ive been too busy to get here so I missed your response. I can tell from your reply that you don’t know much about my history . To adequately answer your post would take a while as my story is in many previous posts should you care to peruse them.I will attemp some sort of answer!
I would not say Ive been at this a long time?
LHR I have undergone within this year. I am at my 4th of hopefully 6 treatments to give it a fair chance. I could write a book on the consults and experiences I have had. Its been mostly disappointing and mind boggling the lack of truly skilled laser techs out there who dont seem to have much knowledge ! Scary actually! Well thats another story. At this point I am giving it a chance. In that effort I have had no sun for one year. Cant do this again so only hope something will come of it. There is very limited choices here for LHR so it is far from ideal.
Regarding my eyebrows , Yes I saw my first electrolysist and put total faith ( and lots of money too!) in her for over 2 years . I had no outside knowledge and was just trusting her instruction and procedure. When it was taking so long to see results AND I began to search outside for info , I found this forum I read how little time eyebrows should take, began to educate myself further , i realized that
1 . You are not supposed to pluck between treatments which she had never told despite my questions as to how i could help to make the treatment work! When i started to ask her questions related to what I had learned she got very strange with me and despite all the time, money and fairly intimate friendship we had developed she would not even tell me the name of the machine she used! It was heartbreaking to be honest , and I came to the sad fact that she was mostly plucking my eyebrows during that time, I let her and it all go .
I tried to find other electros of which there are very few practising where i reside. They were horrible ! Read past posts on trembling hands, old machines that didnt work, no pre or post sanitizing, money charged for time at the office not time where work was done etc. I have come to the sad fact there is no one here in my town. I pretty much gave up hope.
When I travelled out of town I tried to find “electros” and went to many consults to try to find a quality practitioner. That wasn’t easy, time consuming, somewhat scary, expensive , and can alter an entire trip for certain. YEs I did have some some electro done on a tiny bit of my sideburn area in one city which was alright, and much better than what I had experienced at home, though it left me with a tiny scab for each insertion and no ability to continue treatment. I had hoped to achieve a clearing like i had read about Josies work but that was too hopeful. The young lady who I went to in that city was the best of who i had found there but she had very poor magnification and so it much of it, in fact most of it, was not done.
This summer I had been in another city which is very far from me and not easy travel to frequently. I did happen to find a top notch electro several days before i returned home. He had excellent magnification, and skill. He treated a tiny portion of my sideburn area as sadly i only had a half hour with him, and it was perfect! NO plucking sensation at all. Not a mark left behind. Beautiful work. We had a great session together and he even said i was a perfect client, as i try to be pleasant , understanding (and even entertaining if they wish as I have compassion for that type of diffiuclt job !) and had a very high pain threshold so he was easily able to use his instrument at full capacity and go full tilt. It didnt hurt one bit. It was expensive (for me ;)) at 110 plus tax and up per hour but he was worth the price for his quality skill. Unfortunately i don’t live near there so I really do not know when of if I will be able to continue.
PS no veins in my eyebrow area.