I have been going to an electrologist for about 6 months and I think she is effective and pretty efficient. She has been doing it for many years and she is nice and comparatively affordable. However, what concerns me is that she talks too much during appointments. She works and talks at the same time but I cannot help but think that it takes away from her speed. I respond to her conversation because I do not want to be rude but I really do not need any talk to get through an appointment and I would prefer to get the most results for the money I am paying. After appointments, I often feel like I am not completely satisfied because I have doubts whether I got the most value out of them. What is the best way to ask her to not talk during appointment without hurting her feelings? I am not even sure if this really affects her speed, maybe I am just being paranoid? She has been doing this for about 17 years, maybe she can keep her best speed and talk at the same time? Just wanted to see if other people with electrolysis experience (or electrologists themselves) have an opinion on this?
I suggest that when you are about to lie down, mention that you would like to use the time to relax and get some rest and say, “I hope you don’t mind if I use this as quiet time”. If she continues talking throughout treatment, then pretend to fall asleep. Hope this works for you.
Gosh I talk all the time when treating clients but no one would accuse me of being slow talking at the same time or not. It just becomes another distraction technique Others prefer to close their eyes and chill out to the music playing. I have a few clients that describe their weekly sessions as “the best hour of my week, like getting a fine massage”.
If she’s been operating for 17 years, no way by talking is she beng slowed down in my opinion.
Seana
These are definitely helpful thoughts, thank you so much ladies!
I’m pretty loquacious, but not when I’m working: maybe music, maybe a movie (if the client prefers). Normally I remain dead silent when I work; and often tell the client to stop talking as well (so I can get to work).
I remember my own electrolysis sessions when I was able to "zone out’ and thus reduce the pain I was feeling … but this required total silence. The "chatty’ electrologists would ruin my "alpha stage,’ bring me back to the treatment and consequently increase my pain perception. I did encounter an electrologist who had genuine logorrhea.
I also despise "small talk’ … and find it absolutely annoying. To answer the poster’s question: yes, I believe the talkative electrologist is going slower and not concentrating on the work. My thought is: “I’m paying for electrolysis not to hear ‘your life story’.”
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY! During my consultation, I stress that I’m really a friendly person, but when I work, I’m in deep concentration (zen mode), in order to get as much hair removed per hour, so the client gets value for their hard earned money.
Everybody is Italian when they talk on the table. Arms are moving, head is moving, feet are criss-crossing back and forth… and alas, I am slowed down and sometimes I miss the target. I hate having to remind the client not to move or talk.
I generally speak a lot while I’m working, using my voice as a distraction, and, empirically speaking, it doesn’t slow me down much compared to the people I work on without really speaking at all. I try to read people to see whether they’d prefer a talkative or quiet session.
That said, when a client is speaking to me, particularly if I’m working on their face, it can slow things down considerably. I have one woman in particular that just never stops talking despite working on her jaw and upper lip and, what should be a 10-15 minute session ends up taking me 30-45 minutes instead, with the quality of my insertions and even removals being much, much lower because of it.
If a client intuitively picks up on the right times to speak, it doesn’t have nearly as much impact.
You can use a device with headphones during the session, so she will understand your message without using words.
Right! Try answering a question with a needle in your jaw. It’s scary!!
Right to the bone …
YES Calibaby …
Once a talkative clients made a sudden comment while I was working on her chin hairs (and ignored my admonition about talking while working one her face). I felt the needle bump into her jaw bone. Luckily it didn’t break.
I have a few more horror stories about sudden movements, hand gestures and talking during treatment. Basically, it’s "bad ju-ju!)
Practically speaking, while the practitioner talking to you does NOT slow the work down, (the practitioner should be in the zone) what does slow the work is the movement of the person being worked on when talking back if the work is being done on the face. So if she is just telling you about her day, not expecting you to talk back, it’s probably harmless on the numbers. At the same time, you can certainly spend the time with headphones on listening to what ever you like that will make being stone still more manageable.
Just don’t be offended if she puts on a Berkely Lecture series, or a Mongolian Throat Singers CD to keep her company while she works.
I have one lady who will not be quiet, even though I remind her to close her eyes and think of bunnies, chickies and lambies. I have the same conversation with her every appointment. So what I do every time she starts talking, while I’m working on her lip or chin is, I sit back and stop working. She finishes up her thoughts and then says, “whoops, sorry”. No words exchanged and I have her cooperation.
My Mongolian Throat Singing CD wasn’t a big hit with my clients.
I had a person who I had finished everything but the upper, lower lips and under the jawline. We had very little to do on the cheeks and neck and then I would have to fight to get a zap or two in before this person would start babbling. As the detail of the work was too fine to play “Hit the moving target” I would say some version of “keep still and watch the movie” (which I had playing on the screen above her head) It was fruitless; on and on and on it went. I would sit there with my hands in the air, a-la “Don’t Shoot” style until the mouth would close and let me get another 5 hairs before this person would be firing off the next anecdote.
(it’s amazing how many Electrolysists, Massage Therapists & spas, bought the Mongolian Throat Singing CD’s 
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Here is a nice example of Mongolian throat singing. Some of the others I have heard sound like big bull frogs. I really like this one.
Just don’t respond, close your eyes, and she’ll eventually get the picture.
My electrologist can be really chatty with other clients because the culture where we live expects people to be very friendly and talkative; otherwise is seen as rude. With me, she barely says a word, maybe one sentence every 20 minutes. Before and after the session we talk as much as we want but not during. She figured out by my body language and lack of response that I didn’t care for talking. Come to find out, neither does she! She just does it because clients expect it.