We’re not in the business of plucking hairs, obviously we want to treat the hair and then remove it without traction. We also want to keep track of what hairs we treated and I don’t know how she can return with the tweezers and know which hairs she zapped, especially if there is a jungle of hairs. There is definitely a no plucking policy that goes in effect when electrolysis is started on the client’s part.
Feeling a pluck for every single hair is not good and you told her so. Maybe she will improve for you, maybe not? Hopefully,you have choices beyond her if she continues to rush your treatments.
To help you with the confusion of different views presented, I think the common theme is and has been in the past, you don’t want to feel plucking. Other possibilities have been presented, but to go deeper with explanations and rationale’s would not be helpful to you. Let’s go back to the basic’s: you shouldn’t feel plucking for 30 hairs in a row that were “treated”. You did the right thing by telling her so.
Thanks for all the comments.
I did go to see two other electrologists for only 10 minutes each. However, they both were more expensive, worked very slow, and did not seem empathetic with me at all-- just get in get out that’s it. However, I did not feel plucking with them.
The reason I selected this one is because she has 15 yrs experience, had electrolysis done on her as well, she seems fast at zapping the hairs, and she cares about what I look like after I leave the session and overall she seems like a very caring person-- also she’s a nurse, so I figured she has some medical background which always helps. I was thinking that maybe the only reason I felt her plucking on the sides of my face is because I asked her to only get rid of certain hairs, not all… and on the upper lip I didn’t feel plucking at all because I wanted all hair gone from there.
The thing is, I am no expert and I have a limited amount of money… I definetly don’t want to waste a whole year of painful treatments, time and a lot of money for something that will not be permanent… and then I’ll have to just do it all over again.
Also, I know some of you are talkign about plucking shedding hairs and so on but I am pretty sure she plucked all sorts of hair in all sorts of stages-- again she told me that will help speed up treatment…
Let me put it this way. Assuming she was performing good treatments, you would not feel any plucking on the well treated hairs. You might feel a “popping” sensation on some of them, but not a plucking sensation. At that point, she might have been doing a thing where she treated a growing hair, and then plucked a shedding hair or two. Your experience of that treatment plan would be to feel the treatment energy, then nothing as she removes the treated hair, but then you would feel the plucking sensation as she actually plucks the shedding hairs for a cosmetic removal of those hairs without spending the time to treat them as well.
This would give you a visual first clearance, while maximizing her treatments on growing hairs, thus setting you up for a time when she treats all hairs visible, because they are all growing.
At this point, I am sure you now see why we say that one has to see as many professionals as you can in order to know what it is you are looking for, as no two are alike.
Ok- that’s exactly what she was doing…zapping hairs, then plucking the area she zapped grabbing both treated and untreated, shedding hairs.
So next time I go to see her, all the hair on my sides of face should be in the growing stage and I should not feel plucking at all, correct?
If I do, then that is a definite sign and I should switch…
I just wanted to establish some sort of standard by which I should judge if the treatments will be effective int eh long run or not.
where are you located btw? are there only 3 electrologists around? what method do the other 2 use that seem slower? how do you know they’re slow if you haven’t tried them yet btw or have you?
Lots of good advice and information here. I am just a client, but I do consider it important that I CANNOT feel any plucking during my treatment (microflash). When he treats a hair, it is immediately removed and I very rarely (<1%) feel anything from the tweezers. If you feel plucking, then there needs to be a good explaination for it (as suggested above). Find out what it is and then apply your judgement. BTW, I consider speed important so I measure both peak performance (for him, its about 9 hairs/minute) and the long haul (350 - 400 per hour).