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BOSTON ELECTROLYSIS® EDITORIAL©

Author Kimberly Williams, R.E., Dean, Boston Electrolysis®, Scientific Writer©

EXPOSE ALL ABOUT THE  AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY ASSOCIATION HOAX

IS THERE CRONYISM AT THE AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY ASSOCIATION?

AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY DIPLOMA MILL ONLY $300.00 

WHAT IS A CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ELECTROLOGIST?

INCLUDING THE AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY ASSOCIATION LACK OF  CODE OF ETHICS

Lets get the facts straight and to the point, and it is my professional opinion that after successfully completing and graduating three and one half years at Miss Kelly’s School of Electrology in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1979. My next step to professional state licensure was to take the Massachusetts Dual State Board of Electrologists requisite 500 hours of Theoretical courses of Endocrinology, Histology, Biology, Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology, Dermatology, Hygiene, Sanitation, and Electricity, coupled with 600 Hours of Practical Application, followed and monitored and tested by a Massachusetts State Board of electrologists. Most people were unaware that Diana Kelly, R.E., R.I. founder of the Kelly Practical Technique and her sister Lila Kelly, R.E., R.I, had established par excellence in Theoretical Sciences, mentioned had established Miss Kelly’s School of Electrology as the best Electrolysis School in the United States of America!

WHAT IS THE YEARLY MEMBERSHIP TO THE AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY ASSOCIATION?

Ask yourself why you would want to pay three hundred to five hundred dollars per year to become a member of the American Electrology Association, for an examination that can not be used in states; that require electrologists to become a professionally educated, licensed, and registered electrologist? In addition, I quote Google’s Artificial Intelligence because they categorically state, “Because “AEA” stands for several different organizations, your yearly membership cost will depend on which group you are looking to join:American Economic Association: Membership is scaled based on your annual income. It costs ($100) for individuals making ($105,000) to ($200,000), and ($150) for those making above ($200,000). Student and low-income rates are ($25). Nonetheless, I would like to ask who are the members of the, “American Evaluation Association: Regular professional membership is ($212) per year, while an electronic-only membership costs ($199). Student membership is ($97). However, who are the members of the, “Arizona Education Association: Associate membership dues are ($48) annually.” Who are the (Active working educators dues vary depending on your specific local and county branch).

Who are the Actors’ Equity Association: Requires a ($400) initiation fee, base dues of ($85) twice a year, plus working dues (2.5% of earnings). American Emu Association: Active US membership is ($125) per year. Check with the specific organization to view all tier options and register: Review complete pricing at the American Economic Association or American Evaluation Association Portals. 5 sites include AEA Membership Dues | Annual Income | Membership Dues for 2026 | $105,000 to $200,000 | $100 | Above $200,000 | $150 …American Economic Association and Join the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Regular Membership: Appropriate for the majority of non-licensed certified professional electrologists. Regular Standard Membership ($212) includes subscriptions to tw…American Evaluation Association AEA Associate Membership – Arizona Education AssociationHow Much Does It Cost? Annual Associate member dues are $48. The American Electrology Association dues are determined by the American Electrology Associate Delegate Assembly. In my professional opinion the AEA states, “There is no Association…Arizona Education Association.” However, when you look at all the charges and ask yourself why are you really paying so much of your income to become an uneducated non-licensed Certified Professional Electrologist?

Also you ask yourself why you want to become an uneducated non-licensed electrologist?

NONETHELESS IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION! 

Here Are the Basic Standards of Practice 

It is my professional viewpoint the American Electrology Association does not possess a dual-state-board examination for their so-called true or false and multiple choice examination based on quasi0theoretical medical sciences. This proves that the American Electrology Association demonstrates a lack of human contact and the ability to generate quality electrologists that can comprehend basic “Theoretical Sciences of Endocrinology, Histology, Biology, Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Electricity. No doubt about it, without a living professional, licensed, and registered electrologist instructor in the Theoretical Classroom and Practical Application Electrolysis, Licensed Instructors which raise and increase your professional skills, knowledge, abilities with consistent standards of educational excellence with currently recognized  acceptable professional standards that a competent state board of electrologists have a class in “Theoretical Sciences” and “Practical “Application”.  It is the best and only way to learn, because you cannot ask your online computer to clarify an issue, since the teacher is a non-intelligent form of artificial intelligence that cannot think or ask a question. Therefore, it is my ‘Professional Opinion” that consumers are not aware and fail to realize that without a Massachusetts State Board of Electrologists to ensure that your Massachusetts State Board of Electrologists produce the best quality state licensed and registered electrologists in the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts are well educated, trained, tested, licensed and registered with an excellent professional reputation for your safety. By the way, the American Electrology Association has not made the effort to petition one of the 17 states that have failed to set up a state board of electrologists since its inception and creation in 1958.  To this very day, the American Electrology Association produces non-licensed electrologists who run amok in seventeen states, with one after another non-licensed state by breaking one professional rule and regulations after another.  It’s obvious that American Electrology Association members who are non-licensed Certified Professional Electrologists defy the law and violate the laws and rights of Massachusetts Licensed & Registered Electrologists by illegally using my Trademarked business name Boston Electrolysis.  Please visit the link to see the truth of the matter. To me it’s most disappointing after sending letters of complaint to the American Electrology Association, the American Electrology Association refused to enforce their own Code of Ethics regarding honest advertising. 

For three months Maria Di Nicola, Certified Professional Electrologist profited from the illegal use of my Trademarked business name Boston Electrolysis, while the American Electrology Association executive members refused to stop their member Maria Di Nicola from illegally using my trademarked business name Boston Electrolysis where my websites Http://www.Bostonelectrolysis.com and Http://www.Boston-Electrolysis.com have been online for Twenty-Six Years. My Boston Electrolysis websites are the largest source of free qualitative information on the Internet, which informs the consumer with information, and it’s apparent Maria Di Nicola’s illegal advertising posted their fake Boston Electrolysis listing on Mapquest.com and when clicked on the link that said, ”Web”, you were illegally redirected to Maria Di Nicolas website Senzapelo.com. This went on for months and cost me lost income, so Senza Med Spa Profited from my trademarked business Boston Electrolysis website in addition to usurping my professional reputation as a state licensed Massachusetts Licensed & Registered for forty-forty-four years with a perfect record. 

The American Electrology Association executives refused to intercede and stop Maria Di Nicola’s trademark infringement while advertising as Boston Electrolysis. It’s my opinion that the American Electrology Association has not not improved nor has it been instrumental in establishing one state board of electrologists in seventeen states without a functioning competent state board of electrologists to protect innocent consumers from quacks, scammers, and substandard substandard poorly educated and non-licensed electrologists who provide treatment that only worsens your unwanted hair problem. Consumers have the right to ask their instructors how can one expect an American Electrology Association member who is a non-licensed, uneducated, electrologist to be allowed to train a another wannabe non-licensed electrologist whose intent is to avoid being professionally educated, which cheapens the status of all state-licensed and registered electrologists in thirty-four state board of electrologists that that have sacrificed their time and made the sacrifice and effort to become a state-licensed and registered electrologist.

FACT, THE AMERICAN ELECTROLOGY ASSOCIATION HAS NOT SPONSORED ONE STATE SINCE ITS CREATION IN 1958 TO CREATE A POLICY TO ESTABLISH STATE BOARD OF ELECTROLOGISTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HAS NOT ESTABLISHED ONE NON-LICENSED STATE TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF ELECTROLOGISTS IN THE FOLLOWING STATES OF NEW YORK, PENNSYVANIA.

Nonetheless our American Electrology Association member has vaguely claimed they set up a state board of electrologists in Indiana. In my professional opinion, “The American Electrology Association” since its inception and creation in 1958 has not promoted nor have they been directly responsible for the creation of one authentic State Board of Electrologists to enforce requisite educational standards in the seventeen non-licensed states that do not legislate electrolysis in any form or manner period. In addition, when an electrologist is not professionally trained and educated under the auspices of a state board of electrologists, the quality of a patient’s care and complexion suffers, along with excessively painful treatments, skin damage with the final result being permanently damaged complexion?

HOWEVER WOULD YOU GO TO A NON-LICENSED MEDICAL PHYSICIAN?

Ask yourself, would you go to an unlicensed doctor for your medical care? Of course not, and why should you go to a non-licensed electrologist? The American Electrology Association’s primary gambit is selling memberships that makes profit with a minimum education with a simple written true and false and multiple choice examination without testing the graduate electrologists with a “Practical Application Examination” which is totally unprofessional and provides these minimally educated students a certificate certifying they are, ‘’Certified Professional Electrologist.” What a cruel hoax because the consumers who reside in non-licensed states pay for substandard electrolysis and the American Electrology Association fail to adequately test these individuals who actually believe they have become a “Certified Professional Electrologist.” From 1958 on the American Electrology Association did not require just a check to become a member and the use of the title known as, “Certified Professional Electrologist.”

It’s a known fact amongst state licensed and registered electrologists who had gone to a professionally accredited school, “That they are not a professional Certified Professional Electrologist that lacks requisite theoretical testing and practical application testing to perform a competent treatment.” The American Electrology Association needs to openly promote state boards of electrologists in the remaining seventeen states and I recommend they go to states with a state board of electrologists so they can become a bona fide “State Licensed and Registered Electrologist.” Is there a lack of consciousness to excel at performing electrolysis because all state licensed and registered electrologists have a requisite professional  education and develop and develop bonafide professional reputation that can be verified. It’s a known fact that Arizona’s three non-licensed electrologists in the 1990’s voted voted against the creation of an Arizona state board of electrologists because they would be tested for Sexually Transmitted Disease, a High School Diploma, and in addition they cannot have a criminal background check that could or would bar them from attaining a a professional electrologists license. 

However you have to ask yourself why certain Arizonans refused the creation of an Arizona state board of electrologists?  Because it was never mentioned to the Arizona Voters in any form or manner since its inception, when the American Electrology Association was founded in 1958. Did you know the only three members of the Arizona Electrology Association with three or four non-licensed electrologists voted against an Arizona State Board of Electrologists that would have grandfathered their license under the condition they have no criminal record or convictions, plus they must have a High School Diploma and submit their office to professional inspections for cleanliness and hygiene and sanitation. Gee Willikers, I bet the non-licensed poorly educated electrologists wish they had not voted against the board because they actually thought they would have to attend an accredited electrolysis school. 

WHICH STATES DO NOT REQUIRE ELECTROLYSIS LICENSING?

ACCORDING TO GOOGLES AI ENTITY WHO STATES THEIR ARE 17 STATES IN IN THE USA THAT DO NOT REQUIRE LICENSING TO BECOME AN ELECTROLOGIST AND THEY ARE.

There are 17 states in the United States that do not license or regulate the practice of electrology. In these “unlicensed states,” there are no statewide mandates or board-regulated training hour requirements to practice electrolysis in the following states, “ Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming!

States Below That License & Register Electrologists

Arkansas

California

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Rhode Island

Tennessee

Utah

Vermont

Wisconsin

STATE BOARDS OF ELECTROLOGISTS THAT LICENSE & REGISTER ELECTROLOGISTS!

Arkansas

Arkansas State Board of Electrologists 

4815 W. Markham, Slot 8
Little Rock, AR 72205
Ph: 501-682-2168
Email
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs OR 350 hrs AND 1500-hr cosmetology license; Examination
16 yrs; High school graduate or GED

California

California Board of Barbering, Cosmetology & Electrologists 

2420 Del Paso Road, Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95834
Ph: 800-952-5210
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs OR 2-yr apprenticeship; Examination
17 yrs; High school or GED

Connecticut

Connecticut State Board of Electrologists

P.O. Box 340308
410 Capitol Avenue, MS#12APP
Hartford, CT 06134-0308
Ph: 860-509-7603
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs; Examination: IBEC; 1.0 CEUs for annual license renewal
18 yrs; High school or GED

  Delaware

Delaware Board of Cosmetology, Barbering & Electrologits

861 Silver Lake Blvd
Cannon Building, Suite 203
Dover, DE 19904-2467
Ph: 302-744-4500
Email
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Educational Requirements
300 hrs OR 600 hr apprenticeship; Examination
16 yrs; 10th grade or GED

District of Columbia

Washington D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs – Cosmetology & State Board of Electrologists

Occupational & Professional Licensing
941 North Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4259
Ph: 202-442-4400
Email
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs; Examination
18 yrs

Florida

Florida Department of Health, Board of Medicine & Electrologists Board

4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin C-05
Tallahassee, FL 32399-3255
Ph: 850-245-4373
Email
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Educational Requirements
320 hrs; Examination: IBEC; 2.0 CEUs every 2 yrs
18 yrs; High school or equiv.

Hawaii

Hawaii Department of Commerce, Consumer Affairs – Electrologists State Board

PO Box 3469
Honolulu, HI 96801
Ph: 808-586-3000
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs OR 800 hrs apprenticeship by rules/regulations; Examination
18 yrs

Idaho

Idaho Bureau of State Board Of Electrologists Licensing

700 W State Steet., PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0063
Ph: 208-334-3233
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Educational Requirements
800 hrs. OR 1600 hrs. apprenticeship; Examination: NIC Written & Practical
16 1/2 yrs; 2 yrs High school or equiv.

Illinois

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation – Division of Professional Regulation & Electrologists Board

320 West Washington Street, Third Floor
Springfield, IL 62786
Ph: 1-800-560-6420
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Educational Requirements
600 hrs; Examination: IBEC; 3.0 CEUs every 2 years
18 yrs. High school or GED equiv.

Indiana

Indiana State Licensing Board of Electrologists 

State Board of Cosmetology Examiners
402 W. Washington Street, Room W072
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Ph: 317-234-3031
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Educational Requirements
300 hrs.plus 1500 hrs; Cosmetology License or 700 hrs. Esthetician State License; Examination
18 yrs.

Iowa

Iowa Department of Public Health

Lucas Building, Fifth Floor
321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075
Ph: 515-281-0254
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Requirements
425 hrs; .6 CEUs Annually
High school or GED equiv.

Kansas

Kansas State Board of Cosmetology & Electrologists

714 S.W. Jackson, Suite 100
Topeka, KS 66603-3722
Ph: 785-296-3155
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Educational Requirements
500 hrs OR 1000 hr apprenticeship; Examination
17 yrs.; High school or GED equiv.