Well first of all, I dont compare myself to Michael or Jojepha. Or Dee, or Beate, or emancipated elect, or any of the other professionals here that I learned from . It’s not that I dont have faith in my work, but yes to a certain degree every electrologist is different . I think it’s a a respect thing? I do me.
Every electrologist, uses a different strategy. I use a thinning approach generally and rotate areas until it is possible to clear the entire face in a single session. I consider this point my “first clearance” and I have never had it take me more than 30 or so hours except in a single case ( the one I described to you previously) .
Your electrologist seems to be using a different strategy, called the clear and advance strategy. It’s as you decribed you clear an area, and then reclear it and advance into new untreated areas each visit. One isnt right and the other wrong, they are different ways to get there.
That said, lets draw some comparisons, because, I feel, 37 hours is too long to be clearing one cheek. As a matter of fact, lets do some financial math.
$1500 US, is approximately $1930 CAD, so lets call it $2000 ( nice round number). What have you gotten, versus what you would have recieved for the same money with me, Michael, or Dee. I charge $90 an hour CAD ( just put it up $5 yesterday) and $410 for a 5 hour package. So in my clinic, you could get 25 hours of electrolysis for about the same amount of money.So what is the difference in results?
The cheek, is one of the easiest and fastest progressing areas on the face to proceed. Compared to the chin and neck this is honestly not a whole lot of work. If I can finish a case in 100 hours ( and I can) then $8000 is enough to give that 100 hours needed.The area that we would spend the MOST time on? the chin, and neck. These by far are the densest number of follicles on the human body.
Recently, I started a pre-hrt transgirl with minimal growth. She had a LOT less hair than you, but I gained first clearance in about 5 hours. The entire face. Really! You’ve had Michael here saying he rarely exceeds 85 hours on a beard case, which is pretty consistent with my results or anyone elses.
So the question is, do you have faith, that repeating and doing another 37 hours to the other cheek, leaving just 11 hours total treatment time left to do the chin and face, is going to be efficient enough to complete the job? I dont believe so.Looking at the progress thus far in the number of hours so far, I feel it will average 150 or more hours for this eectrologist to complete the job.
Remember when I said, if it’s taking more than 100 hours something is wrong? I consider myself a pretty fast and efficient electrologist. There is one case however I took more than 100 hours for a beard case. It was mine. I never recorded the numbers, but I do have a good feel for how much treatmentI was doing and it was somewhere in the 150-200 hour range.Why? Because I was a rank amatuer at the time and working on myself and slow. The treatment was inefficient. Your electrologist seems to be, going about the same pace as my DIY job. She does however seem to be doing very good work, but I highly doubt she will be able to finish the case in as many hours.My treatment was COST effective because I dont charge myself. It wasnt time effective.
Now, all of this is, comparing apples and oranges. Your electrologist IS making progress. My efficientcy will not be the same as Michaels, or Dee’s or Josepha’s. We are all different. We have different skilsets, and different efficiencies.
So does all this mean your electrologists treatment is bad? NO! If you are looking at it on a pure cost/effectiveness perspective, actually, she’s doing ok. Will it take more than 100 hours to finish the job? Most certainly. Will she bring in the finished product at less than $9000 total cost? Well you got 37 hours of electrolysis for $2000 CAD and if we extrapolate that would mean you could get roughly 160 hours for around the same cost as 100 hours in my clinic. Can she finish the job in 160 hours? I think so, or pretty close. So on a pure cost/effectiveness ratio calculation, your electrologist is actually doing alright. It WILL take longer number of treatment hours for her to get there, but her reduced price per hour, is what makes it cost effective. Is it treatment time effective? Not so much, but you are going to get there either way.
It comes down to this. Michael has been fond of saying "what is the TOTAL TREATMENT TIME that is what is the total time, to complete the job, start to finish. Now what is the financial cost of that treatment time. If we are comparing apples and oranges to determine cost effectiveness, your electrologist is doing alright , her cost/ percentage of the total treatment time, is actually about the same as my own, or Michaels , or anyone elses. IT might take her longer to get there, but the cost/effectiveness calculation is approximately equal.
Seana