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Beauty Therapist Careers

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Work Environment:

Beauty therapists do body and facial treatments to develop their customers look and help to recover their sense of health and well being. They are also called as Beauticians.

Working as a beauty therapist, you can offer a variety of treatment, which consists of:

  • Coloring eyelash and shaping eyebrow
  • Giving nail treatments like nail art and nail extensions and other treatments for instance pedicures and manicures
  • Spray and uv (ultra-violet) tanning
  • Remove unwanted body and facial hair by threading(depilation) or electrolysis(epilation) or by sugaring, waxing

  • Carrying out facials which include massaging, toning and cleansing the skin
  • Giving advice and applying cosmetic make-up to customers
  • Providing skin rejuvenation therapies which are non-surgical
  • Giving treatments which will help to develop body shape and tone to get into shape such as electro therapy
You can give other special treatments, for example as reflexology, hydrotherapy, aromatherapy and massage.

In addition, after providing treatments to customers, your daily work would also contain:

  • Ordering and buying material required and also verifying that material as per the requirement
  • Maintaining notes of customer's treatment course and medical record and histories
  • Working at reception, doing tasks like receiving customers and replying the phone calls
  • Scheduling and booking appointments with customers
Sometime you may have to recommend customers to their medical doctor, for instance, if they have a serious problem of skin.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

To getting qualified and start working as beauty therapist, you would require at least qualification of level 3. These contain:

  • NVQ Level 3 in Beauty Therapy.
  • Edexcel National Certificate and Diploma in Beauty Therapy Sciences
  • City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Beauty Therapy
  • VTCT Advanced Diploma in Beauty Therapy
  • City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Beauty Therapy
You can also accomplish internationally recognized CIDESCO and CIBTAC qualifications.

You can learn through the medium of private beauty schools (where the training course could be more intensive and shorter) and college courses. But still, private training courses are probably said to be more expensive, so it is essential to verify carefully that you will get recognized and standard qualifications. For more details you should ask individual providers, as entrance criteria for training courses can differ.

Before making progress to a higher level, you can also start working as junior therapist or assistant, by finishing qualifications or courses like, NVQ levels 1 and 2 in Beauty Therapy.

For general information on qualifications or training courses in beauty therapy, you can visit the website of Hairdressing and Beauty Industry Authority (HABIA). Please note that HABIA does not provide course provider's lists and do not offer any training courses.

With Apprenticeship scheme you might be able to find this job; it means that to work as trainee under an experienced employer. Two things are considered to find the range of availability of Apprenticeships in your area, one is the local job market and the second thing is the kinds of skills and ability employers want from their staff.

Training Details:

By finishing specialize courses like ear piercing, waxing techniques, UV tanning and epilation, you can add it to your skills. At private beauty schools and colleges training courses are executed which have been standardized by the professional organization and bodies like VTCT, Edexcel, ITEC and City and Guilds. For getting more details visit the websites of professional organizations.

Often, training and guidance is given by some suppliers of beauty products with regards to usage of their products. If you want to manage your own salon, you can take qualifications or course of higher level, which is more useful considering your career. And these consist of:

  • BTEC HNDs and foundation degrees in topic for example Spa and Therapy Management, Beauty Therapy Management and Salon and Spa Management.
  • Professional Diploma/Certificate in technical salon management by City and Guilds

Skills and knowledge:

  • Should keep high standard of personal hygiene and cleanliness
  • Skillful enough to communicate with customers and listen to them and also have the ability to deal with tact and diplomacy
  • Should treat customers with gracious and friendly manner
  • Should posses ability to make feel customers comfortable and to put customers at ease
  • Should have an artistic style and elegance for putting make up and nail art
  • Must have some knowledge of human biology, chemistry and anatomy
  • The capability to clarify procedures of treatments clearly to customers
  • Talent to trade products and receive commission on those products and have market awareness
  • Sufficient resistance as to work for nearly entire day

    Salary and Other Benefits:

    • Annual income of salon managers can be over £22,000.
    • Normally the income of Beauticians is between £11,000 and £16,000 for a year.
    Generally, beauty therapists get tips from their customers and also given commission on products they put up for sale in the salon.

    Working Conditions:

    Usually, you will be working from 9 am to 5 pm in which Saturdays are also counted. Several salons give appointments at evening.

    You can work or practice in a spa, high street salon, beauty clinic, cruise ship, health resort or treatment center. Instead, you can practice your work by visiting customers in their own residence or working from house, being self employed.

    Different Opportunities:

    Many Vacancies for jobs are published on the employer's website such as fitness and health, leisure and spa groups or in professional publication and magazines for example Professional Beauty and International Therapist, Health and Beauty Salon or in local newspapers and media.

    You can also decide whether you want to have your own salon or work from your house or travel to customer's residence or to become self employed.

    You can provide different types of special treatments or can initiate in media, fashion, media make up or theater by further training and upgrade your career. Furthermore with experience, and perhaps extra training, you can develop to become a salon manager or can take up advance training.

    Along with this career guidance, refer these therapist resumes.

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