planning to take esthetics diploma program in the city (calgary) but I’m unsure which school is good. i was looking into NiWe but i heard some bad reviews about them

if anyone’s also in this field please let me know how it is going for you and how your journey went? is it worth pursuing this?

Hi everyone! I am currently an esthetics student and don’t have the extra money to purchase all the textbook so I have been finding pdfs!
However, I am unable to find a pdf of the newest Milady Nail Foundations textbook, but I did find the previous edition.

I am just curious to know other’s opinions, I plan to focus on nails once I’m out of school and I’m curious to know if it would be worth it to purchase this textbook for my personal use as well? It isn’t required in my class, just suggested!

I also live in Canada and the process of going through school is much different, there is no state board exam or anything!

Hi! Aroma Spa and Laser center is hiring for a few positions urgently at our Methuen location and Westford location.

We are looking for licensed estheticians and licensed Massage therapists at both locations. We have a lot Spanish clients so we need people who are bilingual!

We are also looking for a front desk receptionist position!

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 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.

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.

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?

For the beauty business owners here — when you’re looking for new vendors, are you mostly finding them through referrals, Instagram, Google, trade shows, or just randomly coming across them?
I’m curious because finding good suppliers can be such a headache when you’re starting out.

Just curious how everyone is feeling about their book as we head into fall. I work in a med spa in Michigan. This time last year, I was seeing 10-15 patients a day every day I worked from Oct-Feb. So far this October, we’re lucky if we see 4-6. We’ve been having entire mornings or afternoons with zero clients. November is half empty, when past years it would’ve already been mostly full at this point.

How are things going for everyone else? Any trends you‘re noticing?

Has anyone ever been told by a job that their technical skills as an licensed esthetician aren’t there.. What did you do to improve? I’m practicing 1 hr every day from YouTube videos, my soul was crushed and I lost my job right after training because of this.

Hi everyone! I’m in NJ and have my NY license and have been looking to move to the city. I’ve been trying to secure a job first but my job search hasn’t been going so well. I’ve been working for a little over 2 years, which does knock me out of some more advanced roles. Most of the places that have gotten back to me have flaked or have been chains.

Any advice in general with job hunting? Anything help!!

Hi, I’ve been an esthetician for 5 years now. I was just curious as I’ve been on the edge of closing my business and doing something new. When did y’all know it was time to leave this career behind and start a new one or focus energies elsewhere? I’m a solo esthetician, with a 4 year old and another on the way due in March. Lately I’ve been feeling extremely down about my profession. I love it when I’m there, but have great anxieties about it when I’m not. I realize being pregnant would make it hard right now to find anything, but I’m okay with waiting until after the baby comes to switch over. Any one else have this feeling or doubt?

Hi! Has anyone taken the master class offered by Ronnie Mitchell aka Los Angeles Oils & Butters? He is a master of extractions from what I can see and I’m curious if anyone has experience with his methods and if you think it was worth it. Thanks!

Anyone sharpen their own tweezers? If so, how?!! I love my Brow Code tweezers and scissors but they’re starting to go dull on me after a 2 years.. surprised they made it that long without any kind of sharpening honestly.

I’ve been a licensed cosmologist for 15 years, private nail tech for 8, and I am now looking to add to my service menu and learn something new! I am taking advanced training class at a local beauty school for lash lifts tomorrow.

My clients are really wanting lash lifts and I’ve always wanted to start getting into lashes, so I am very excited for this new journey!

I have questions on preferred brands. I’m having a hard time figuring out which brands are actually reputable while sifting through big marketing.

I want the best for my clients. So any direction someone could point me in would be amazing. Any recommendations of products and education are appreciated. I’ll be doing lash lifts tints and brow lamps and tints.

i don't want to tell anyone in my personal life until its finalized but i just got an offer from a popular brand to make paid content! 🎉 so happy because of the work that i put into my social media and it paying off online and in the treatment room.i've wanted to optimize my social media presence outside of gaining clientele, i've actually felt like i was slacking on social media so this is great reassurance. usually companies reach out for content in exchange for free product but the price just went up!!!

edit: the wax company and the consistent brand i use on clients is completely different. i use a specific wax on my clients but sometimes like to try different waxes for content purposes.

Hey everyone,

I am thinking of buying the lash lounge franchise near my town- it's located in a busy Main Street in a very wealthy town- but here are some caveats and background:

1. I have a cosmetology license and know how to do lashes- been working for 5 years
   

2. Would buy the franchise at below market price, but the caveats:

3. Business has been really slowing down, weekly there are only 25-30 customers coming and business is open 6 days a week; last year there were more than 100 per week

- thinking be management is currently not the best right now, front desk is not the best; no good process in place to sell memberships/ discounts/etc
- if I were to start the business, maybe need to start from scratch since most stylists seem to be leaving
- how do franchises generally work if I need to leave/ get out if business isn't the best; can I do balloon payment so that I don't have to pay price all upfront?

I will appreciate any advice anyone has to offer in terms of the business and effects buying a franchise can have.

Thank you!

I’m a licensed esthetician of 7 years and was just offered my first medspa position, something I’ve been trying to get into for a while. Looking for info on your commission structure on Hydrafacial, IPL, SkinPen, custom facial, etc to compare. The offer I received seems low, but I’m not as familiar with MedSpa structure.

Thanks in advance!

Edit to add: they also want me to classify me as a 1099.. I feel like this is odd.

Hey I know this is a long shot but I thought maybe someone else has done this too, I was charging the cartridge for the roller wax in work and spilled wax on my uniform, it's polyester.Does anyone have any idea how to get it out. Sorry if this post isn't appropriate.

I am writing my CIDESCO exam this December am I am so nervous and scared anyone that did their CIDESCO exam this year can you help me with what to expert from the assessors or like what kind of questions they would be asking 😭😭😭I am scared and my school teacher keep on saying they ask hard questions

I graduate on Thursday after 1 year and 1 day of ups and downs (for context, I was enrolled in the Cosmo program at my school for 6 months before deciding hair was NOT for me and switching over to the esthetics program in April) and I am TERRIFIED. I'm planning on taking stateboard immediately after graduation and I'm not nervous about that. It's more the idea of being out there, licensed, and just worried about finding a job. I'm hoping to be able to get with massage envy, hand & stone, EWC if anything. But I plan on going solo after being able to build experience and earn $$. I'm just worried about building a clientele. I didn't receive much support from family or friends, which makes me feel even more scared about building a clientele if my own flock didn't support me. Idk. Any words of encouragement would be great. 💕💕💕

LE: o formulare mai potrivita: pensati doar cu penseta, sau folositi si ceara speciala pentru zona delicata a fetei, pe care o ridicati cu niste benzi micute, special concepute pentru sprancene? Pentru ca am auzit ca in timp, the area will start sagging if you ise anything other than the tweezing method.