With bikinis comes the ‘hair harvest’
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
Maxine Hayes has good
news for the hairy.
Hayes, Eugene’s first regis
tered electroiogist, is anxious
to dispel all fears and miscon
ceptions about hair removal.
It’s a relatively painless pro
and it doesn’t "cost $100 per
hair” as one of Hayes’ clients
thought.
A “Hoffman Dial-a Matic”
epilator enables Hayes to op
erate. The machine looks like
something out of grandma’s
basement. It’s a black, heavy
looking object with two white
dials staring out.
The epilator has a three-inch
plastic holder for the needles
Hayes uses. Don’t faint. The
needles are minuscule, only
about one-fourth inch long and
5/1,000 millimeter wide.
A magnifying lens/light set
up helps Hayes locate un
wanted hairs. She stresses
she does not break the skin or
enter'the blood stream, but
inserts the needle in the
papilla, or skin opening and
guides it into the follicle, or hair
root. She says she “knows”
when the needle is at the root,
because she can “feel” it,
“If I meet resistance too
soon, I know I’m at the follicle
wall rather than the bottom,”
she says.
Once at the bottom, Hayes
applies the electricity, then re
moves the hair with tweezers.
Hayes' method is not true
electrolysis but rather ther
molysis, which uses electric
heat and not electric current to
remove hair. A foot pedal and
the two dials control the
strength and duration of the
heat wave.
Most of Hayes’ clients are
women, although men come in
also, like whose who have
"eyebrows that grow to
gether,” giving them "a con
tinual scowl,” says the elec
trologist.
The big hair harvest comes
before bikini season for women
who want hairs removed in “all
sorts of areas,” Hayes says.
She stresses she doesn’t do
armpits and doesn't like to do
upper leg areas.
Some people go wild and
want all the hair removed from
a hair-infested area, according
to Hayes. She discourages
over-enthusiastic customers
and explains it's wise to leave
the “lenuga hair,” or peach
fuzz. This is especially true for
the face since as the skin ages
the lenuga hair hides wrinkles.
“I’d be angry if someone de
nuded my upper lip," says
Hayes.
Because many times people
are nervous before their first
hair weeding, Hayes insists on
a consultation session before
the actual operation. Often dur
ing the session she will remove
a hair or two so the client
doesn't feel squeemish come
‘harvest ’ time.
“I know what it’s like being
on the other end of the needle,”
says Hayes.
Quite a few years ago, her
mother, also an electrologist,
was to remove some hairs from
her chin and upper lip area.
Even though she trusted her
mother and knew all about the
process, she worked herself
into an extremely tense state.
Exhausted with worry,
Hayes fell asleep during the
operation, only to wake up to
her mother saying,‘‘Okay,
honey, you can go now."
If a client is overly-anxious,
Hayes says she can feel it
through the skin.
“I can feel tenseness under
my hands. The skin tightens
up, the tissue is tense.”
Her fingers have become
“very sensitive,” she says as
she cleans and recleans her
tweezers and fiddles with the
dial-a-matic controls.
Hayes began her practice
about 18 years ago in a
dermatologist’s office after
graduation from the Golden
Gate School of Electrolysis in
San Francisco.
Being in a doctor’s office
“gives people more confidence
in my ability," says Hayes.
If someone has an ingrown
hair or a particular skin prob
lem, she says she could have
the doctor look at it. She says it
provides an extra protection
both for her and her clients.
Both Hayes’ parents influ
enced her decision to become
an electrologist. Her father, a
radio buff, instilled in her an
early interest in electricity and
its possibilites, she says.
“He used to have radio sets
all ovei the house,” she recalls.
If an electric storm came up
he’d have her disconnect the
antennas from the house.
Hayes’ mother convinced
her that electrolysis would be a
good profession. Her mother
told her, “There is no sense
just getting together with a
bunch of women in the after
noon to drink and tell each
other your problems."
People come to see her “for
all sorts of reasons,” she
laughs, but she adds that no
thing ever offends or surprises
her.
"My job is interesting. I love
it. It’s intense work. Many peo
ple would find it monotonous,
but for me, every lady and
every hair problem is differ
ent.”
Youth battle affirmative action rules
By RICHARD SEVEN
Of the Emerald
The Young Americans for Freedom,
(YAF), the nation’s largest conservative
youth group, has announced the formation
of an anti-affirmative action task force.
The task force will produce material on
opposition to all phases of affirmative ac
tion, in addition to sponsoring speeches
and writing articles.
YAF member, Ken Bohem, calls the
group of approximately 55,000 members,
“libertarian conservatives active in all
necessary concerns.”
Bohem says, "We don’t think the gov
ernment should have the right to admit and
give special priviledges to students by race
rather than ability.”
Oregon currently has about 100 active
members working against affirmative ac
tion along with other concerns, according to
state chairer Craig Armstrong. The Univer
sity currently has no YAF chapter, but Arm
strong says it’s his goal to build one this
year.
According to Armstrong, the Allen Bakke
reverse discrimination case is “an example
of affirmative action running out of control.
"Affirmative action promotes racism by
saying that someone is unqualified be
cause of his race,” says Armstrong. “We
feel individuals are unique and should have
the right to prove themselves.”
Armstrong says the state’s YAF role in
this “keystone case” is to issue pamphlets
against affirmative action.
Black newspapers and other minority
representatives have complained about af
firmative action programs, according to
Bohem.
“Many minority students don’t want their
education cheapened by race privileges,”
says Bohem.
The national YAF office is currently work
ing in support of Allen Bakke, the white
student who claims discrimination because
the University of California - Davis medical
school refused him admission while admit
ting minority students of lower qualifica
tions.
Marcos DeFunis, who filed the first re
verse discrimination suit in 1970 and is now
a lawyer, submitted a brief in support of
Bakke to the Supreme Court.
This spring, YAF members will sponsor
debates and seminars at many college
campuses. They also plan to distribute lit
erature and support legislative proposals
that would outlaw preferential treatment in
government hiring and education.
YAF believes it represents the views of
the majority of young Americans. They cite
a Gallup Poll showing that 83 percent of
Americans under age 30 reject preferential
treatment for women and minorities while
only 11 percent support it.
Bohem says YAF receives most of its
support on college campuses from 20-21
year-olds.
Armstrong says Oregon’s YAF member
ship is growing rapidly and urges anyone
interested in becoming a member to call
him at 1-281-4886.
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