Whoa…Big Red Flag! What are you supposed to do with the needle? Take it home and lick it clean? Arrrrg. Hand washing and donning gloves would be something you’d notice.
I’d keep shopping for an electrologist.
You need to insist on hand washing, gloves, a new disposable needle each visit, sterilized tweezers, etc. Ask about this. Those who follow the standards of care will love the opportunity to tell you and/or show you, those who don’t, will make excuses on why it’s not “really necessary.”
And if there are any electrologists out there reading this who skimp on gloves and needles because of the expense, RAISE YOUR RATES by $2.00! You give the rest of us a bad rep!
Electrologists are supposed to be sterilizing tweezers. We all learned how to do this. There are several steps we must take before we actually get those tweezers in the dry heat sterilizer or autoclave. Ask your electrologist, if you go back to her, to show you how she sterilizes her tweezers. Ask her to show you what a biological moniter looks like and how she uses it. If she responds, “Huh?”, then RUUNNNNN FAST!!! Well-trained electrologists know all about biological moniters.
Choice, I don’t know about you, but I’m personally sick of some electrologists that run dirtball offices. There is no one monitering these work places, so dear consumer, you are on your own to check out these details regarding hygiene. Just watch and think about what you see.
If there is a licensing board for electrologists where you live, Atsui, and you feel the need to report certain things that you observe, then I would encourage you to speak up. That doesn’t leave you off the hook for anything you may have done to your newly treated area. I think you know what to do now. You have got to do things to avoid infection in the first 24 hours especially.
Some electrologists may not be in a situation to afford a modern epilator, I know I wasn’t for several years.
Some electrologists may not have the hand-eye coordination to remove 10+ hairs per minute.
But there is absolutely no excuse not to run a hygienic practice. The thought of someone carrying their needle back and forth to appointments makes me want to scream. The thought of someone touching my skin with unsterile tweezers makes me nauseated.