There is an electrolysis school 20 minutes from my home here in Columbus. I would love to help future zappers, but have never been asked to pop in and help students one on one with their insertions. I would do this for free.
Some of us here on Hairtell offer pearls of wisdom about electrolysis care to others frequently. It makes some electrologists uneasy and I have had private messages basically tell me to “cool it”, which may be the proper thing to do, as this is not a schooling program website.
I realized something this past spring when I attended an electrolysis continuing education one perfect Sunday. As I sat around the lunch table, I realized that the younger electrologists I was talking to, were all doing laser in a spa setting or a medical office. Very few were performing electrolysis on a daily basis. One told me that she barely does electrolysis because laser takes care of most problem areas just fine.
If you don’t have skilled electrolysis experts actually removing hair on a regular basis, how will they remain skilled, especially if they are fresh out of school with less than a million insertions under their belt.
I do a lot of light colored accelerated hair on faces and I sit for hours. In the same day, I am treating specific hairs on the eyebrows or removing thick breast hairs. Toe hairs is the next job of the day. People want the hair off fast, whether it be for large and small areas. Not all hairs are coarse and dark, so not all hairs can be seen by a laser, but laser is easier to do and more lucrative, so it is only natural that the younger electrologists are shifting gears toward laser, but how are they fulfilling the needs for the clients with a full spectrum of hair structures and color?
Yes, when retirement is on the horizon, I wonder where the next generation of electrologists will be? Some genius better invent something fast that is better than electrolysis for hair that laser can’t affect because I don’t see too many younger electrologists honing their skills enough to do complicated cases that require speed and a strategy that punches hair for good the first time.
I have plenty of work, probably due to a shrinking field of highly skilled electrologists who will work on a client for more than hour, with the understanding that large areas can be affected or women’s faces with copious amounts of blond hair can be tamed.
I hope my observations are all wrong, but the words extinction, horse buggy whips and T. Rex keep dancing in my head.
I only want to learn how to kill the hair!! not apply makeup and do hot rock massages! So frustrating. Someone start a school in NZ!!