I am brand new to this type of form site.
I am a new student in Electrolysis Training.
We are not using a textbook in class, just photocopied material. I would like to find a good reputable text book if anyone could recommend one??
My course is only about 150hrs and I am felling that many, many more hrs are required to beconfident.
Does anyone have any infomation on education programs available in Ontario Canada or even on line for the theory part?
Help?
Oh! There are so many books available!
Prestige Electrolysis Supply: http://www.prestigeelec.com/cgi-bin/local-net/shopzone30.cgi/st_main.html?p_catid=49&sid=7glBmg2U9FEE3ln-23110523560.28
Texas Electrolysis Supply…(dot com)…a little more difficult to search, but they would have the same books.
This is the text book that electrology students rely on:
Electrolysis, Thermolysis and The Blend
This well illustrated volume is a valuable reference tool for the electrologist encompassing all phases of electrolysis. Despite being 20 years old, this book still remains the definitive text of electrolysis. Hard cover. 1968. By Arthur Hinkel.
$37.95
This book is a must have.
The Blend Method
New “Revised edition” now available!
Regardless of which blend epilator you are using, this book will help you master the Blend Method. With over 400 drawings and 180 photographs, you will find this an indispensable straight forward manual that reveals all aspects of the blend method. The practical hands-on approach is simple and refreshing. This book is a must for any electrologist using the blend method. 1995. By Michael Bono.
$42.00
This is also a “must have” book.
Cosmetic & Medical Electrolysis and Temporary Hair Removal
This practical manual (35 chapters) describes in detail all practical considerations of electrolysis including galvanic, thermolysis and blend. Hair growth and temporary hair removal are reviewed. The reference guide (12 chapters) discusses the scientific foundations of electrolysis, hair growth, training, regulations, etc. Hard cover. 480 pages. Over 100 illustrations. By R.N. Richards M.D.
$57.75
I wish you the best. These three books have been the most helpful for me as I began my career.
Thanks so much for your info on the text books. Is there one that is more appropriate for a beginner? The basics is what I am after. I have already spent about $1500 on my classes and am really reluctant to continue at this particular school.
I bought the Hinkle book used on Amazon last month for $10. It is very comprehensive but as a beginner you can skim through it and jump around for the parts you want to read. I’d use it more as a reference. I go back and re-read sections as I gain experience. I also have the Bono book (new from TES). Its an easier read but does focus on the blend although it does cover the other methods.
Michael Bono’s book would be my first choice, “The Blend Method”.
So, your school uses Hinkel’s book as part of the curriculum?
Since “The Blend Method” was written in the mid 90’s, it is logical that the author emphasis on this method. The blend makes things much easier for electrologists.
Mr. Bono postulated by a method that would get the 75% elimination in the first clearance. How can you not love the Blend?
In the 90, the flash was very impractical, useless needles left with only a few insertions, because tissue remnants adhered to it. The same happened with the Thermolysis when you want to work thick hairs in a second. The Blend avoided all these problems.
In my opinion, this man whom I admire deeply, wanted to create in his book the essence of our beautiful and hard profession. The author not only upholds the highest degree of effectiveness of Electrology, he also argues for a quick and painless treatment. He offers the keys to avoid overtreatment. He describes different strategies that can be tailored to the needs of each client.
The Blend method is a book to know how to read between the lines, is much more than a particular method is the result of a lifetime of experience and wisdom.
I am sure that Mr. Bono also defend the flash of 2010 if he could see that the results are identical and the current application time is less than 1 second.
The school I am at doesn’t use a text…
The info is just photo copied.
I asked about a text and the teach said she “would absolutely not recommend one”.
Another red flag??
Nohairnewby, a school that does not recommend the student read all the texts as possible, should not be called school. You must collect all information you can, even though this information may be outdated. This will give you a perspective on the evolution that has occurred in our profession.
You have lots of information here in Hairtell, every comment on James, Dee, Arlene, Christine, Barbara, etc, is a source of information.
You must also take notes on your personal observations and contrast your own experience with that of the great masters. If your notes match what you have read, great!. If not, make it known here and we all learn a bit more. The soul of electrologists contains a part of scientific, a part of artist and much of humanity.
Enjoy the books!
That has been my GUT feeling.
No education is ever a waste…
The teach really gets defensive.
She confuses me with her vague instruction.
Sometimes the heat with the electrolysis is enough to send me through the roof.
She keeps saying that I am overly sensitive.
We haven’t learned anything about proper positions of ourselves and the clt.
Everything seems so awkward, and painful. I feel the heat so bad, and one of my fellow students is insistent on inserting the probe, or needle completely… I think this is wrong and we need to check the depth of the hair. I can’t even make suggestions or I get myself into trouble.
Thanks
Oh My. Did your instructor ever go over a chart that describes hair structure and the cycles that hair goes through? Your last comment made me wonder about that…
Have you talked to anyone from COPE?
http://www.electrolysis.ca/e_training.asp
Has anyone at your school mentioned this organization?
Barbara, I have read the page that you mention and in the paragraph “Normal hair growth cycle”, probably there is the key that explains the reason of which in the school of Nohairnewby the teachers recommend to introduce the needle completely in all the cases.
Nohairnewby, one of the most common mistakes is to think that the papilla remains always in the same place, “The Blend Method” extracts you of this mistake in his first pages with very didactic drawings.
Your impressions are correct, the needle must not be inserted always completely. In follicles of thin hair your companion of studies passes of the target in a couple of mm. Said differently, it is like to drive for a highway and to discover that you have left behind the correct exit that you should have taken to come to your destination. It is necessary to reverse.
Hair cycles and growth was just touched on. Maybe 5 mins worth of info. I don’t know of any reason to introduce the probe fully, I think the instruction is so poor and the girls are just playing with settings on the machine.
I asked the last class to see the manual for the machine we are using and got an extremely dirty look from the teacher. She let me see it but I can’t take it out of class and can only see it during class, which I am busy with papers and practice to read the manual.
I contacted COPE with no response before I signed up for the course.
I contacted them again when all these red flags were coming up in class, apparently there is no program that is reputable in canada.
The info came too late.
I will even travel to do a course. Is there any education on line??
I will get a text but will have to order it. I always ship to a US address because shipping to Canada is 4 to 5 times the cost. I just came back from Erie and don’t plan on going until feb. I have to figure out when I can go pick it up over the boarder.
I don’t know weather to hang in with the course and buy a machine and research on my own???
I just want some quality instruction and can’t find it.
Frustrated…
I ordered the Hinkel book, suppose to arrive by Jan 11th.
http://www.bonoelectrolysis.com/
Well, this page confirms that my words were correct.
Mr. Bono defends (in the year 2011) an electrolysis fast, effective, safe and painless.
[size:14pt]You’re lucky if you can travel to be treated by him!![/size]
I just noticed he has published a new book:
Treatment Strategy for Electrology Regrowth, Wound healing, Overtreatment
(English, 2011)
by Michael Bono
Copyright: Tortoise Press
Library of Congress: 94-90336
ISBN Number: 0-9642682-3-X
Has anyone had the opportunity to have a look into it?
Not yet, Beate, but I’ll ask it tomorrow. All that is signed by Bono is a guarantee of success.
News to me! Where can I get a copy? Nothing on Amazon.
Yes, my friends, our collective grousing and prodding have egged dear Michael to pull the edited chapters from the dust heap, brush them up, and update them.
If you can’t get the book ordered from the usual electrolysis suppliers, go directly to Tortoise Shell Press, and order direct.
I will update this post with the address soon.
James I would bet more than a Donuts, you’ve influenced a bit by the decision of Mr. Michael?
If so, we have one more thing thank you.
However I am quite surprised about one thing:
Some readers of “The Blend Method” state that is outdated or emphasizing one method. Have we read the same book? or perhaps because of my limited knowledge of English I have done more to understand the ideas that the author wanted to convey?
Correct me if I’m wrong:
1.- The traditional Blend requires 4 seconds (minimum) for each hair (which of course is a fine hair, thick hair requires more seconds). Then I wonder, is not Mr Bono who uses Blend 3 seconds to remove underarm hair?, you do not think he is pursuing a faster electrolysis? I think so.
2.- In all cases of body illustrated in his book, he claims that only are sufficient 3 clearances to finish the treatment, which system of permanent hair removal can achieve the same results 17 years later? None. In my opinion he was a visionary who was ahead of its time so that even today his advices and teachings remain equally useful.
3.- In his book he describes all kinds of tricks to avoid pain, but places particular emphasis on collaboration between the physician and the electrologist for infiltration of local anesthesia. If doctors have been interested a little more for the binomial “Electrolysis-anesthesia” as they were interested in the binomial “Laser-anesthesia”, things would be very different for the millions of hairy people who are not laser candidates.
4.- The author devotes almost a chapter to explain the difference between growth and regrowth. In my opinion, too electrologists never come to understand both concepts, how do they intend that the client (which ignores the dynamics of hair cycle) understand these differences, if even we ourselves know our own level of effectiveness?
Finally, I am convinced that the author does not emphasize a method but an idea:
[size:14pt]One bad experience with ANY electrologists hurts us all![/size]
Time has proved him right. In my country, Electrolysis has been practiced so bad that practically nobody trusts it. 