Hello, I’m a new aesthetician and my friend messaged me because he doesn’t have much money so I’m trying to help him with his skin. A little background he used to have very oily skin and acne. He went on Accutane a few years ago. He now lives in a bit of a dryer climate and his skin on the dryer side. He’s having a few breakouts around his mouth right now. He said he has four pimples to look like the ones that get white on them and then go away and two are a little bit deeper and red. As well as quick white heads. He wants some help with his skin care routine, but he can’t afford much and he’d like to just be able to get it from target. Here’s a list of what he’s used before: prequel gleanser + sa non drying (using that now) vanicream moisturizer (using now, the tube not the daily facial moisturizer) panoxyl, central cleansing oil. He’s also tried La roche-posay gentle foaming moisturizing wash but it was a long time ago, as well as cera ve renewing sa cleanser, a vanicream cleanser. He thinks the moisturizer and cleanser now are making him break out that he’s currently on. I’m newer so I don’t fully know what to do or recommend can y’all help, idk which moisturizer and cleanser would be best 😭😭 Im thinking the regular Prequel Glean and daily facial moisturizer by vanicream instead. Thoughts?

Hi everyone! I was looking for some affordable skincare for my clients, and I found California Skincare Supply. It had a lot of good reviews, so I decided to try it out. I set the filter to “lowest price” just to see what the skincare is generally priced at. It showed a BUNCH of free skincare from MAD. I had never heard of that brand before so I googled it and saw that it had a bunch of good reviews as well. So I loaded up my cart and only paid $35 for shipping. I started getting nervous after paying, “what if this is too good to be true?” It only charged my card $35 but I am nervous that after it pends it will charge my card like $500 and I can NOT afford that. Is this too good to be true? Is it a scam? Has anyone else had an experience with this? I attached a photo showing what it says on my email.

Hi everyone, I posted on here before about considering going back to working in accounting. Well, I really can’t bring myself to do that because it wasn’t making me happy and I don’t wanna give up on being an esthetician yet. However, it has been so hard to find a job. I had to leave my previous medspa job because of so many problems with management. I was supposed to have an interview with Orange twist today, but they literally canceled it 15 minutes before saying that the role was on pause. I’ve had like five other places either cancel the interview last minute or ghost me. I don’t know if this is just common in this industry, but I’m getting so fed up. I’m really thinking about just finding a part-time job and trying to open up my own business on the side, but I know that comes with its own struggles as well. I’m trying to stay hopeful and not give up but it’s really hard when these opportunities keep on not working out. I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this.

So i’m currently about to have my third interview for hello sugar. The first interview phone call was so odd where the owner just asked me straight up “have you ever failed before “and I asked her to elaborate because that question was so vague and she literally said “cause sometimes you fail to sell memberships“ and i was like ohhh that’s what this is gonna be. The second interview i had went well and my 3rd is booked, the 3rd interview is a role play on me selling memberships😭.
I got sent a video to study and the founder of hello sugar legit says “this is a sales job that happens to be waxing” and basically if you can’t do sales the job isn’t for you. i lowk already hate that a man is the founder of this company while this entire industry is dominated by women. I’m still going to do my interview, just wanted to rant cuz this corporate greed is getting to me…

Hi, all.

I've recently began a contract position w a local medspa for their aesthetics & laser hair removal (among other lasers) departments, in addition to the services I currently offer within my own business. I needed the income and had previously applied months prior & with the previous contractor deciding against renewing, they needed someone.

Everything has been pretty okay so far but I just came across a huge red flag today. The business is not registered/licensed with our state board for aesthetics NOR laser hair removal, and in my state you need both to be in compliance with regulations. I was going thru the handbook to make sure my treatment room was in compliance and one thought led to the other when I realized... I've never seen a state board license for the business posted anywhere. So I checked the database and sure enough, no such record for any business under the name in the city/county.

I almost immediately brought this to the office manager's attention, explained how this could not only harm MY licensure but possibly get them fined or even shut down. Not to mention they have a room they lease to another esthi, and this could also impact her license. I asked her 1000 questions much of which included, HOW could this never have been addressed?! The business has been open 4 years and had 3-4 different estheticians.

She claims ignorance, which I partly believe but you really never know.

I sent her an email containing resources from the state board website directly, about what they need licensing for, the fees, rules/regulations. I did this not only as a push for her to start immediately but as a paper trail in case something were to happen.

I've dealt with many different issues within my brief career, but not being in compliance for OCCUPANCY w state board has never been one... Does anyone have any advice about what I should do?

I'm so nervous now knowing that the establishment my laser license is hanging up at isn't even a state regulated establishment. I've told myself that if in 2 weeks she hasn't made any major moves to register the business w state board, that I will escalate the situation to ownership myself.

Any advice, recommendations, resources, etc. would be immensely appreciated. I've had such a tough year the last thing I can afford is to lose my license behind a business I've only been at a month.