I’ve got patchy coverage with hair over my shoulders and about a palm-and-a-half-sized patch covering the area along the top half of my tricep. Basically, the density/thickness in those area was like this guy’s:
My hair coverage is weird. I have light hairs over the rest of my upper arm and skin over my scapula is hairless. However, the middle upper part of my back and back of my neck is similarly as hairy as those patches on my arm.
Anyway, right now I am getting treatment just for the shoulders and and the upper area of my upper arm. The hairs were indeed coarse at the start.
I’ve been going one hour a week, and the results are satisfactory. At first, it took the electrologist 8 or 9 hours per arm (we alternate sides every week) to pass over everything, then about 6 hours to pass over everything again, and now it’s taking about 4 hours to pass over each arm.
How reasonable is this progress? I’m paying $55/hr, by the way. And I recon we’ll be done by the time we get to 75-80 hours at this rate. I might consider then taking care of the upper back, which has about as much coarse hair as my shoulders and arms (so another 75-80 hours). I’m thinking about going to someone else to work on the back right now just to see if another method might be faster. There’s this electologist I’m considering who uses a newer Apilus machine but charges $70/hr. Should I give it a short, or do I already have a good thing going?
If I were you, I would give the other a try and keep an open mind. Some people buy the newer machines, and yet continue to use them as if they were older machines. In which case, you would find that the two practices would be about equal in capabilities. Now, if, on the other hand, the lady with the Apilus is using the auto sensor, and PicoFlash, then, she could possibly remove double the hairs your first lady removes in an hour, and in that case, $10 extra bucks per hour is underpriced!
Give it a go and see where it takes you. This is why we tell everyone to get as many sample treatments and consultations as you can before you settle down with anyone. The differences between practitioners can be as wide as the grand canyon.
Well, thermolysis, especially the microflash or picoflash kind, will remove at least twice as many hairs as blend per minute, usually more. So it’s definitely worth giving it a shot and trying the other person out. If their skill is great, it will definitely save you money in the longrun.
How can you know if someone’s skill is good enough from the beginning? I would like to go to this woman who does picoflash, but I don’t want to end up like all these people who paid thousands of dollars and 6 months later or even longer realize that the treatments didn’t work.
That is just a myth started by people who did galvanic and/or blend, who “tried” thermolysis and got poor results.
It is the same thing as someone who learned to drive on an automatic “trying” to drive a stick-shifting manual transmission car and proclaiming that the cars don’t work, and are unreliable.
As we keep telling people here, thermolysis is the modality where the placement of the probe is MOST IMPORTANT, and secondarily, the treatment energy must be adjusted to compensate for both the insertion accuracy, and the type of “hair roots” being treated. As such, thermolysis is the hardest thing in electrolysis to get good at, just as there are lots of people who can drive a stick-shift, at the cost of a burned out clutch every other year, as opposed to those who shift effortlessly, and their passengers never feel the jiggling whiplash of the car staggering and sputtering.
In conclusion, Thermolysis is EXACTLY as effective as galvanic and blend, WHEN DONE PROPERLY, BY A SKILLED OPERATOR. Additionally, just because someone is a master at galvanic, doesn’t mean they can perform blend all that well, and certainly doesn’t mean they can do a credible thermolysis treatment. (I would also point out that since there are some schools that only teach ONE THING, so there are people who were only taught thermolysis and don’t even know how to do blend or galvanic and vice versa) It is my opinion that anyone in this business who wants to be worth their salt should make sure to be able to perform competent treatments in all three modalities, as there will come a day when one has a client who will do best with something other than your usual comfort zone treatment.
