I found an interesting video of electrologist doing lidocaine injection on face before treatment. It’s rare to see anesthetic injection procedure as majority electrologists are not allowed to do injections themselves (legal regulations) or don’t have access to provide lidocaine injection for pain management.
Oy … sorry you found this. First the procedure she is doing is so antiquated it gave me goosebumps. Also, this person was so over-treated that it’s stunning … now in the USA getting proper care and treatment (in Beverly Hills with Lana and a plastic surgeon … thank GOD!).
Of course most of my colleagues will assume that the over-treatment took place because of the anesthetic. The disaster took place because of ancient techniques. (That machine? WHAT THE HELL was that?) … Brazil … it HAS to be better than this in Brazil?
I have to agree on almost every account. This video was pointed out to me by my charming boss about a week or so ago as example of poor treatment. I only made it part way through before coming to the same conclusion.
The ancient machine and what appeared to be poor insertions and forceful plucking in some instances did stand out. But I wouldn’t recognize this as over-treatment because there wasn’t blanching of the skin to my eye. The swelling wasn’t severe compared to some photos I’ve seen over the years. I remember one blogger posting about her facial clearings with Electrology 3000 where they do marathon sessions on a full beard. The person’s face looked like a swollen chipmunk, much severe than in this case, but all swelling subsided without issue.
You didn’t see the after photos that are posted on the British site … probably private at this point. Horrific.
She was using galvanic ( DC current which reacts chemically not thermally. So , no blanching.
This was galvanic? Doesn’t straight galvanic require minutes in each follicle? She was treating so fast like she was working with thermolysis.
I wasn’t aware of the history and that you know this guy’s case.
he states so 43 seconds in
it also would not be the first time a client didnt even know what type of electrolysis they are getting. There is a language difference between electrologist and client, so this would not surprise me.
Yes, I heard him say it, but he was just reading some paper. I highly doubt this was galvanic or even blend.
It was Thermolysis … some old zapper from the 1950s? Or a relic from some doctor in Paraguay?
This video would be good propaganda for some electrologists that continually insist that thermolysis is inferior to galvanic.
This outdated, barbaric way of removing hair is certainly NOT the standard today and causes much unneeded angst and caution in the minds of consumers and doctors, alike. There is nothing in that video that resembles what delivering modern, effective electrolysis, (SPECIFICALLY thermolysis) to the consumer today looks like.
There was no aspirating before injecting the anesthetic. Mistakes can be made even though she was going intradermally. The whole thing reminds me of a back alley abortion (well, maybe not that harsh?)
Yeah … this “modality” nonsense has to stop … when will it?
I really like Alana, but her latest video (posted on the AEA thing), says that since she uses 16 - 32 needles, she goes 30 times faster than a person using thermolysis.
Time for a spanking?
See, the limitation is the speed of the human hand … it can only go so fast. If you zap a hair in 1/10 of a second, that doesn’t mean you can remove 10 hairs per second … anyway … “screw it!”
I personally greatly dislike the “how many hairs I can treat per minute” thing … because that’s not the issue. I mean, I can wax the little bastards out faster than anybody can zap them with any modality … I mean, if it’s just “hairs per minute.”
DAMN!
I was gasping at the heavy steel slant nose tweezers.I guarantee they have never seen the inside of an autoclave.
There was a frank discussion on Electrology International concerning a picture posted attributing ice pick scarring to doing thermolysis. To me, it looked like cystic acne scarring. You can imagine what followed.
I could feel the hair on your neck rising all the way from Columbus Dee.
I tried to be nice, Seana.
I think we all were. It does come off kind of Susan Laird’ish doesnt it? I dont expect thermolysis practitioners ( of which I am one I guess, it being 95% of what I’m asked to do) to take the assertation that scarring is being inflicted with thermolysis , when there is ZERO evidence to the contrary sitting down.But to make such an asertation then act surprised when you are challenged on the facts you’ve misrepresented?
Funny thing is I went on my own galvanic fueled fascination and I still love to do the blend when I can and I think it’d be helpful.
The hissy fit that she threw was pretty unprecedented from what I’ve seen at Electrology International, which for the most part is composed of much better behaved professionals.
I guess I’m not a member of “Electrolysis International” (?) so I missed the fireworks … well, the “stupid” really.
Yes indeed, we have a lovely (in my neighborhood) that says that DC causes ACID to form in the blood and destroys the liver (or was it the kidneys?).
We have an engineer (odd friend) in Holland that has instructed everybody that when doing the blend, and if you see “DC froth,” you must turn down the DC, because the froth (lye) will scar your skin. (Never mind that DC users has been doing this for 150 years). Oh, and he has never done electrolysis … not one hair.
Mostly these ancient goofy arguments are based on BAD SCIENCE and people making wild assertions based on nothing … maybe a photo … maybe something somebody said … maybe ONE piece of evidence.
It’s nonsense. It’s based on lack of education and having no understanding of the scientific method … AT ALL!