WNBC’s June 4th Ask Asa segment featured a report on reasons for finding a qualified electrologist:
WNBC.com: When electrolysis goes bad
</font><blockquote><font size=“1” face=“Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif”>quote:</font><hr /><font size=“2” face=“Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif”> “I was laying in the bed and could smell my flesh burning,” Jacqueline Kelderhouse said.
Kelderhouse has seen the worst and the best electrolysis can offer. After the skin-burning incident she sought a different practitioner.
“She got hysterical and shrieked and said, whatever had been done to my face had scarred, and she wouldn’t even touch me,” Kelderhouse said.
Looking back she realizes what a gamble it was.
“I was getting services, not knowing about the equipment, the people that were using the equipment, the credibility or validity of the equipment or the service,” Kelderhouse said.
That information can be hard to come by in New York. The state licenses nail and wax specialists, but it doesn’t regulate electrolysis, its practitioners, or procedures…
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size=“2” face=“Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif”>Check out the link for more interesting information!
[ June 05, 2002, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: Andrea ]