My Electrologist Eric, who by the way is an actor as well, hey who isn't in this town?? Anyway he gave me a print out from the February 17th edition of Sunday Styles in the New York Times. Basically this article is all about laser treatments for hair removal, chemical peels and rosacea associated skin treatments. My god it's amazing, let me give you some examples of what I read.....

"A Wall Street administrative assistant went to an Upper East Side spa to have hair removed by laser from her underarms (ouch!).  The procedure was extremely painful, she said and four days later, she broke out in blisters and was treated for SECOND-DEGREE BURNS by a dermatologist.  Months late, she said she has cigar-size areas of discoloration. No skimpy little tops for her then this summer....

Another...

In October 2000, a senior executive at Salomon Smith Barney considered herself lucky to land an appointment with a visiting Hollywood facialist, who was offering skin treatments from a suite at the luxury Rihga Royal Hotel in Midtown. But her microdermabrasion treatment - a machine sprays aluminium oxide crystals to sand off the top layers of skin lightly - was not what she had hoped for.  "My face had burned patches," the woman said.  "One of them was three inches in diameter on my cheek.  I was terrified it would leave a scar.  It's taken about a year to heal."

So basically what's happening is a new mass consumption of high tech cosmetic procedures like laser hair removal, chemical peels and microdermabrasions, that unfortunately are getting into completely the wrong hands and hence are causing rather a lot of anguish with rather a lot of rich New York broads.

Originally developed by physicians, these treatments, which promise the dewy luster of youth, have in the last two years moved out from the fluorescent lights of doctors' offices and into the candlelighted, eucalyptus-scented interiors of skin-care salons and are being performed by non-physicians such as facialists and massage therapists.

According to an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Eastern Virginia Medical School, "the equipment is more powerful, there's less supervision, less training and more people are getting the services, which is leading to a fairly dramatic rise in people being injured, sometimes permanently."

So basically girls be warned, DO NOT gamble with your skin, stick with the waxing by your favorite Russian woman, and your monthly facials by that cute little Asian girl Uptown. It's not worth it. For me? I'm sticking to my Eric, he's a great electrologist, very chatty, smells good and isn't creepy like you might imagine. He's also a fucking brilliant electrologist and doesn't charge me the full amount if it takes him less than the 15 minutes that is my allotted time, for my hair removal....now THAT my friends is quality service.

Oh Sharon if you happen to read this and your ever going through that nasty racist Geneva Airport, could you pick me up some more cow mugs. The one out of my two collection is chipped and cracked and I looovveee my cows and desperately want more.....

Right then that's about enough for me to be beginning the weekend with.  Will now go and read the New York Times