They’re just trying to look out for you.

It’s best to believe in the human good; otherwise, the world is a miserable and irredeemable place.

Just trying to help my community, friend. No need to get defensive.

FYI, that is a standard length probe, not short. I'm struggling to find a good picture of the short probes, but the insertable length is about half that of your probes. They're pretty uncommon. Ballet only makes them in size 2 (for those unfamiliar with electrolysis probes, size refers to the diameter of the insertable portion of the probe).

So I still suspect you're going deeper than necessary. I've never had a client where I needed to bottom out a probe on the upper lip like that. On the neck I might. But I am not saying you won't get extractions like this. Galvanic is the most forgiving on depth of the 3 modalities, since the lye will flow to the target area anyway. But you are at less risk of puncturing the bottom of the follicle if you go a little shallow vs a little deep.

That's wild, but also very impressive that she was able to build it! The nice thing about galvanic electrolysis is that it uses a very low power (my work machine doesn't go above 1mA DC), which means you aren't likely to majorly hurt yourself. Scarring is still possible with poor technique. My only question is how do we verify that the machine is outputting the energy it says it is? Truth be told, this is something I wonder even with professional machines.

The video where she demonstrated removing a hair made me SCREAM! Your skin should not be dimpling like that when you insert the probe if you're doing it correctly. If this were a professional electrologist, I would report them to the state board if there is one. It takes a lot of stretching of the skin to do a proper insertion. You wouldn't try to put your sock on your feet without holding the sock with your hands, would you? Same concept. Hair follicles aren't rigid tubes, they're like a deflated balloon. Our skin is stretchy and we need to eliminate that variable to get our straight probe inserted without puncturing the walls of the follicle. It also looked like the hair wasn't fully treated by the way it resisted being pulled out. A properly treated hair will slide out without resistance.

Like I said, I would not recommend self-insertions if you can avoid it. Finding the right insertion angle is so much harder when you can't adjust your viewing angle, and getting the right stretch on the skin is so very important.

Side note, I think her units of lye calculation is actually for blend, not galvanic. The heat from the HF current in blend increases production of lye by something like 4-7x. I'm gonna need to find my old textbook to verify, but generally speaking, galvanic treatment times typically range from 20sec to 3min per hair.

oh wow that's cool, i've been following this one (alt link) but updates have been very slow. the one you linked looks pretty much production-ready, i might have to try building it soon...

Thank you so much for the detailed response! I really appreciate reading about the process and the early mistakes, I definitely would have the same fear of over treating

Cool. What brand?