Fellow estheticians?

Question

I'm am a fairly new esthetician, and I was wondering if there are any other, more experience estheticians out there that I can talk to. I just want to know how you started, what your doing now, do you like your job, that sort of thing. I was wondering, because I am not sure if this is what I want to do for a career or not and need some support. Please let me know if you're an esthetician, too. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes I love my job. I have been an esthetician for 12 years and right now I am looking to get into the field of Medical Esthetics.
I started just like most people do as mostly a make-up artist facialist.
You should keep taking classes and studying the skin and you will be far ahead of your peers who are just glorified facialists. Try to get some training in peels and other marketable proceedures. This is what I did.
After I had been doing it for about 5 years I was at "the head of the class" so to speak and a very large company in the area where I work asked me to be their head Esthetician/Make-up Artist. So, that meant that now I was also a teacher...I had to get my Practitioners licence (easy, just apply...every state is different) so I could train facialists and nail techs etc.to get their Esthetics license. I was also in charge of marketing the products we were carrying, keeping inventory control. Testing products that our company might want to carry. I was in charge of make up and skin for all of the photo shoots the company did. I traveled to countries like Germany and Holland for extended training. Got treated as a VIP at the Babor institute in West Palm Beach Florida.
I got to go to big cities like LA, Chicago, Cincinati, St. Louis as a preferred make up artist...
My point is not to brag but to tell you there are LOTS of options within your chosen field. Other areas I have not explored are being an independant sales rep for a skin company. Working at a skin care company in research and development. Working for a skin care company as head of training. If you go back to school and take some business and computer classes you would be very marketable and equipped to open your own spa someday..
Do not feel trapped.
Now that I have 4 kids, I can't travel as much and have plenty of excitement with just chasing them around so the Medical Esthetics area is right where I need and want to be. 8 to 5ish hours, good insurance, responsible co-workers...
Good luck with your decision, but realize that many other things can branch off of being an Esthetician.

Answer 2

Brazilian wax? Do you do that?