help please - One Touch needles

Hair Removal Methods Do-It-Yourself Electrolysis
#1

(N.B. I know you don’t recommend home electrolysis, but I’m completely housebound and can’t find a home visit beautician. I’m a 58 year old female and desperate because of the thick dark hair now growing all over my face especially on my chin. It’s been made coarser by using Rio home laser and tweezer ‘electrolysis’.)

I’ve just bought a One Touch machine and am wondering if it’s possible to fit ballet needles to it, and if it is - how please?

The One Touch needles are very expensive and bend easily (I ruined the first one practicing the technique beforehand on ripe pear!). As I previously stupidly bought a professional thermolysis machine and then realised I had absolutely no idea how to use it, I have a lot of spare ballet needles.

Also, I’m doing OK with the thick hairs but am making craters on my face removing the finer hairs - I get the needle in a little way for these and then it moves further in or wriggles when I put my wet fingers on the touch pad. Please have you any advice?

Is the lye supposed to start coming out as soon as the needle starts to slide in, or am I doing something wrong?

thank you for your help.

#2

The lye can take up to 15 seconds to appear depending on the settings. I have used the OneTouch on and off for a year, and I do NOT recommend it for the face. It’s too hard to control and the probes are too thick for the finer hairs. It’s great for arms and legs (even if the probes suck).

If you can find a way to fit professional probes on the machine, then maybe you’ll have more luck, but the OneTouch is just too clumsy a machine for a place like that as it is.

Sorry, I’m sure you didn’t want to hear that. Just be careful, okay?

#3

If we could set you up with a hair removal partner, the two of you could trade work on each other (after you both have dutifully read one or both of the HairTell Bibles. The Blend Method by Mike Bono, and/or Cosmetic and Medical Electrolysis/Electrology by Meharg & Richards) and done some learning self work on your own leg. Nothing beats the feedback you will get from poking your own leg, and the sympathy you will gain from feeling your own mistakes.

The two of you could then go in half on a real electrolysis machine, and for the cost of a short time with a professional, you two will be on your way to hair-free and carefree.

On another note, even if you did get a Ballet probe to fit into a One Touch, the spring that makes the probe retreat and move around would continue to make use of the product less useful than an inexpensive used professional unit purchased off of Ebay, or a pawn shop.

#4

I found a way around the spring dilemma, James. :smiley: Yay!

You just bend the needle at a right angle at the exact spot it comes out of the tip of the probe holder. Then instead of inserting straight ahead, you hold the probe-holder parallel to your skin (or close to it), and just insert sideways. The spring is no longer an issue, AND I seem to maintain terrific control of the insertion (it is actually easier for many angles when working on yourself).

#5

Thank you all for your help, I have ordered Mike Bono’s book.

That’s a great idea of bending the needle, thank you Kitty!

in addition to the One Touch I have also bought a brand new professional thermolysis machine from ebay, but think it was a big mistake as it might cause burns whilst I experiment to get it right.

#6

Yeah, starting on galvanic is safer. Does the machine do blend?

#7

No, just thermolyis.

#8

We tell everyone that thermolysis should not be tried until one has gotten good at galvanic, and then blend. Practice with your One Touch, and later, do the thermo when your insertions are less suspect.

#9

thank you for your kind advice, my insertions are very suspect at the moment, I’m going to practice on my legs for a while. My upper lip looks like a colander & I’ve only done a few insertions.

#10

Each hair I remove with the One Touch (I’m still terrified of the thermolysis unit I bough) is leaving behind a ‘crater’ that scabs over. This is healing up in time, I’m being very careful about hygiene.

The One Touch stylets seems too large for most hairs - is this the problem please, or am I just rubbish at this? thank you

#11

The probe is DEFINITELY too large for most hairs, it’s not just you. The original probe I got could fit if I really wiggled it, but the replacement probes are huge and only fit into about half of the follicles on my arm. I can’t imagine ever being able to make that probe fit into a single follicle on my face. The hair is so much finer there.

This is one of the largest reasons (aside from speed) that I am investing in a professional machine now.

#12

Thank you kitty, you’re right - the problem has been worse since using the replacement stylets, but they soon wear out, they bend and become useless very easily.

Guess I’ll have to fire up that dreaded thermolysis machine …frying tonight :eek:

#13

Start very low and and gradually and carefully move up the energy. Watch the skin closely. If the surface looks a little angry or seeps clear fluid, back the energy and timing or both back down. Those One Touch devices are cheap and may be good for working on less than 10 hairs.

#14

Hi I’ve been looking around for “The Blend Method by Michael Bono” and a lot of places do not have it in stock. Even used copies cost around 60$. The one place I did see it for 40$ was here at http://www.clareblend.com/new_page_2.htm all the way at the bottom. I haven’t called just yet to see if they actually have it in stock or not, but I wanted to ask here if anyone knew of anywhere else that has it at a cheaper price?

How come it is out of stock in a lot of places? Too old? Not famous enough? Sorry, I’m not a book guru so I wouldn’t know how that works! Thank you for listening to me though!

#15

Go here if you want it. It’s $42.00.

http://www.prestigeelec.com/cgi-bin/local-net/shopzone30.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=391&p_catid=49&sid=7glBmg2SkHeB9-T-53110034218.21

#16

Speaking of blend, I’m scared to use it. I’m good with galvanic, but blend seems overly complicated. I’m thinking I will just practice with galvanic and then thermolysis on a low setting.

Is this unreasonable? I will only have one pedal, so I really am worried blend will be too difficult for me.

#17

Blend can be tricky. I found going from galvanic to blend to be much more difficult than going from blend to thermolysis.

The Bono book discusses blend using two pedals, one for each current. I ended up just using a single pedal and learned how to adjust each current to coordinate with the setting on the timer (after a lot of trial and error.)

When you get galvanic down pat (and your insertions too), give blend a try, very low setting and take your time as you learn. When you go from galvanic to blend, the reaction will happen much much faster and it is easy for it to get ahead of you and overtreat the follicle.