Some of you may know that i was seeing someone for electrolysis on the area under the eyebrows. It was a very small area and after many treatments for over two years plus i began to wonder why it was taking so long.
After reading this forum for the first time i realised that my blind trust was horribly naive as i had been given absolutely no plan or instruction and had been innocently plucking between times of seeing her with no idea that this would affect outcome. My practioner knew as well but said nothing. I would ask if there was anything i should know or could do to make this work as best as possible and she had no comments other than hormones can affect treatments. In a 20 minute appointment there were aprox 20 hairs removed but I was just so happy that treatment was underway and a dream was possible to achieve! We got along very well ,i felt comfortable with her and over that time much was shared and she felt like a friend! I always looked forward to our sessions and she was clean and seemed professional.
LOTS of money and time later , the same hairs still appearing in this same small area and finally i came here and was shocked when i read about eyebrows being treated in so few sessions and that there is definitely a protocol for successful results! I was educated by reading this forum and am forever greatful but it also kind of broke my spirits in relation to continuing to see my tech. I called her office to ask the name of the machine she used , she would have NO REASON to suspect anything as to date our relationship has been excellent and to my surprise they would not release that info to me! After all this time with her i was not allowed to get the name of the machine?!! It has been a difficult , heartbreaking issue for me because it is a small town and i am not sure how or if i should even bother letting her know how disappointed i am by her lack giving me key information and weather i could even find anyone else to continue.
So though i have been feeling so super disappointed about her i did not really want to let it go of continuing electrolysis as i figured that all would be lost if i didnt try to finish the job. And also with what i have learned on this forum and all the sucess stories,I really hoped to treat other areas with electrolysis.
This is a small town and there is very few choices and generally i find levels of professionalism very low. Yesterday i went to the one other person who advertised as a pro electrolysist with 25 years experience. This time i knew and asked for a consult before i just sat in the chair and proceeded like i had before.
What a huge disappointment. Her office looked dirty and her table a mess. Her hands were super shakey and i felt bad for her but it scared me to wonder how can someone with such bad shaking handle a needle ?? She knew nothing about laurirer probes which is fine . When she went to do a test session on my eyebrows i was shocked that she did not clean the area at all. She also continuously was touching my eyebrows and her hands looked dirty (no there was no gloves which is fine if her hands looked clean but…) and her nails even dirtier!
Then the cherry on the cake was when she would put the probe into the skin beneath my eyebrow, steady her shaking hands by resting on me and then nothing would happen! It was a very slow process but it also was with my previous practioner. She fiddled around, inserted the probe again and tried several more times but her machine just did not work! It worked a couple times and then stopped again while i sat there with the probe in my eyebrow and she would turn around wondering why the machine wasn’t working.
I was so turned off, that i cut the session short , was nice ,as i am not into hurting peoples feelings, but suggested she may need to have her machine repaired and thanked her for the consult.I knew that i would not be returning.
She told me she did not know why that was happening and told me how great her machine is and how it is computer controlled to know levels of energy needed as it reads moisture content etc. Her machine did not look like a computer controlled device to me, in fact it looked ancient, of course i cant say is not a good one ,and she has been doing it for a long while so it must work fine, but i doubt about the high tech aspect of it. It was called a Compublend by Fischer. Is that a great machine?
The last straw was when at the end of treatement she did not appy anything to my eyebrows. No alchohol, no with witch hazel, nothing…!
I had to change my days plan just to get back home to apply astringent to my eyebrows afterward as with her dirty hands i just felt really vulnerable.
I feel so disheartened! I just cried and felt totally bummed ut. I gave up on the eyebrow area and plucked the entire area that i had let grow out in hopes of treatment. It may be possible to travel for laser but not electrolysis due to the regular sessions required. It costs me at least 300- 400 $ just to fly to the closest cities. I feel like there is no hope to do what so many are able to do for their hair issues. Ive been down and bummed out since…
thanks for providing a place for my cyber tears