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The standard internet connection is no longer dial up but a DSL or cable modem. We can’t wait to dial a cell phone number; we need instant walkie-talkie contact, text and instant messaging. All around us speed is the prized commodity. Electrologists could be delivering a whole lot more if they would only make some technical advancement. Many people would forget the lure of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation if their local electrologist was competitive with the light rays. Since we know we actually finish our clients, we have the possibility to do “the John Henry” on the contest of permanent hair removal. If you have not updated your equipment yet, what are you waiting for? There are things the latest models can do that blow the former standards away, and that goes for everything from epilators to vision equipment, to the very chairs we use. Get an epilator with an insertion delay/automatic sensor, and learn to use it! If your insertion delay can’t go down to 0.1 seconds, it is limiting you from the fastest speeds you can attain. Learn rhythmic electrolysis. Like typing, you must slow down before you can speed up. Establish a rhythm and concentrate on perfecting your work with methodical movements and you will naturally move faster, while being in total control. Soon you will not be able to work slowly anymore. This is where a slow insertion delay will drive you crazy. You will need to insert a pause into your movements, just so you don’t get ahead of your machine. After creating your setting for the level of hairs you will be treating, select an area of skin to work on and envision a pattern of hairs to play connect the dots on in your mind. Now, treat each hair in rhythmic succession with a simple pivot of your wrist. If you are using the one handed technique, you then flip to your forceps and retrace your wrist pivots in backward motion, thus removing the hairs in the same pattern you treated them in. If you still have available hairs to treat, without moving the spreading hand, simply go back in and take the next set of hairs. Envisioning where you are going is important in establishing a rhythm with your treatments. As you get into the zone doing this, you will feel like a fine tuned machine. Spread, select, insert, push past anchor system, stop at bottom, just as treatment energy releases, withdraw, pivot, repeat, repeat, repeat, flip, retrace pattern with forceps. It is very important that you have an ergonomic workstation because without it, you will have poor body mechanics. You will also start sharing your profits with masseurs and chiropractors as a part of your weekly routine. Today we have practitioner chairs that have memory foam seats and adjustable arm rests that make us able to relax our head and shoulders, while sitting upright, leaving our arms floating in air. Instead of bending and hovering to reach the client who is lying on a vinyl covered flat slab propped up with pillows, all electrologists should have the ability to bring the client to them. This opens the door to longer treatment times and longer treatment days as well, both of which bring more money and faster clearance times for our clients. The first thing God did was bring on the light, who are we to ignore the importance of this treatment partner? The brighter your adjustable light source can be the more hairs will be visible, with more contrast and depth perception on the work area. From head mounted lamps, to swan neck accessories and fiber optics, we have a plethora of illuminations to bring us much more light than the circle lamps of the past. This brings us to vision. It is a simple fact that circuline magnifier lamps, although serviceable, are just not the best we can do. They don’t allow for good depth perception or the higher magnifications that can bring more client comfort by eliminating the guess work of hair direction and the insertion. Better vision means better, smoother insertions and fewer miss-insertion mishaps. Now bring this all together and you have a comfortable practitioner, delivering comfortable, methodical treatments that march across the skin of comfortable, well-illuminated clients, who will marvel at the insertion count you give them at the close of your treatments. (What, you don’t have an insertion counter on your machine? Well, you should! It gives those super hairy persons something to cheer about after spending an hour removing hundreds of hairs. They understand the large volume of work done despite what their uneducated eye can see.) In a short time you will be approaching the statistical limits of your modality. Your clients will fawn over the big bare patches you uncover, and you will reap the rewards of clients who are finished and happily telling others about you. Practically Speaking, we owe it to ourselves and our clients to always work towards higher levels of skill at a faster pace, without sacrificing the quality of the treatments. |
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