The electrologist said the machine she uses in Fischer Model F5 Pro Epilator. I also asked her if she knew what her magnification is. She said she did not know. She just uses a lamp with a bulb inside it. Isn’t that a bad thing if she doesn’t know? I don’t want someone who can’t see any hairs.
If this vision setup works for her, then great. You will never know unless you give her a chance to perform. Her epilator is a good one. Go check it out. Get other consults as well so you can compare sensation, speed and healing factors.
Most electrolysis practitioners use circle lamps because that is all they were given at school. It is easy to understand really, the school pays $150 to $300 each for those lamp set ups, loupes would have to be special ordered for each student, and would cost way more. Stereo microscopes would cost $15,000 each if purchased new. Now do the math for even a 10 person class size.
So, you see, most electrolysis workers have never looked through a set of loupes, or a scope. She doesn’t know what she is missing, and unfortunately, you have to order these things in order to try them out.
The loupe companies will let you charge the set, and give you an unconditional money back return policy if you don’t like them, but most people don’t want to order them if they don’t think they will keep them, because, well, most people don’t trust moneyback guarantees. I wonder who killed that trust in hair removal specialists?
Anyway, I can vouch for the integrity of the moneyback guarantee. I had ziess loupes, and I returned them after using them for about a month. It was then that I swallowed hard and committed to purchase the stereo scope that I had tried out.
Yeah, but isn’t it bad if an electrologist doesn’t invest in his/her equipment. She then said she had great natural vision. That really doesn’t assure me especially since I would be paying almost as much $60 vs $70 per hour for the one I have here. Maybe I should just go home once a month to get it from one I trust.
The cons of not having surperior vision is that blonde and fine hairs are harder to see, follicle opening not seen properly leaving to much room for insertion error, and the fact that those hairs that are just putting in an appearance will not be spotted until joe public does. The idea is to get them early and get them before they become visible to everyone else, that way your looking finished even before you are. Hope this makes sense!
Hi there the electrologist must have a magnifying lamp. They must be out of their mind not buying one, Even if you have 20/20 vision you cannot magnify the follice. Yikes people who think they are professionals…ahhhhh If the hairs are light or blond an electrologist can work on light hairs if they have the product that they can buy at their supplier for these issues. Go for a free consultation if they offer them. If they don’t find someone else.
This is a great time to point out that the lighting and the vision equipment must work together.
Back when I was working with a circle lamp (Hey, that’s all they taught us at school. I had to become a Maverick to break out of that box.) I went from using a 3 diopter to a 5 diopter, and even bought a 9 diopter lens before stepping off the cliff and going to loupes, and then the Stereo Microscope.
When I knew I had to make a change, in order to do the job I was being paid for was when a 55 year old MTF-trans client of mine booked another appointment just 3 days after we had finished asking me to remove “the rest of the hairs.” I could not see what she was talking about, but I sure could feel what she was talking about. I had to pinch the skin and roll it a little until I caught the glint of the disk of the cut hair glaring against the light source and try to do the insertion like that.
When I moved up to loupes, I probably did myself and the loupes a disservice, in that I attempted to use them with a cirle lamp for light. I saw a larger image, but the poor lighting left me with little extra clairity of vision. It was not until I got the Stereo Microscope that I stumbled upon big vision coupled with an adustable halogen light source that made seeing clear, white, blonde and vellus hairs an easy reality. In fact, I had to pause and look at the person’s face in normal vision in order to know what people would be seeing, instead of working hairs that no one but me, and a client obsessing in a 10x’s magnification mirror would see.
So, magnification is important, but the lighting is a contributor in this venture that gets a whole lot less attention than it should.