Thinking of esthetician school? You've come to the right place! I loved esthetician school, but it is not for the faint of heart. You have to be passionate about skin care to invest in to this career.
Let's start with the good first--
Fun, fun, fun and more fun! Esthetician school is a lot of fun. How could it not be fun? You get to play with make-up and skin care products. AND YOU GET FACIALS, LOTS AND LOTS OF FACIALS! Want to get rid of unwanted hair?--you've come to the right place. You will meet lots of great friends; you will be in the most calm environment ever with spa music and calming oils/scents that could make anyone relax. And the best part, all your skin afflictions will clear up and you will have beautiful skin! Esthetics is not super hard and the material learned is very interesting..You will meet a lot of nice people from the general public and get real world experience. It is the most fun you can have while being in school!
Now the bad--
Not all academic material is created equal, you might not love all the material taught--there is some brief history, science, and business material covered. For me, I liked most of the material but I heard a lot of grunting during the chemistry & anatomy and physiology chapters.
Working on people who want cheap facials, most people are nice, but every once in a while you get a real jewel off of the street...I can think of a lady who tried to get unsuspecting students to give her services for free. Another lady would come in dirty from working on a horse farm and smell horrible.
The long hours sitting around when there were no customers and just trying to make your state board hours--BORING. Team practice with other students who you might not enjoy working with. Being stuck for long hours with the same people.
Laundry and cleaning duties---in most schools, all students have duties from cleaning wax pots to doing laundry. Sometimes you will find some students try to get out of their share of duties, and that can be quite annoying.
Having to wear an ugly uniform and shoes...one school I went to actually had a nice looking uniform, black with cursive writing with our names on it while another school I went to made us wear an ugly tee-shirt with their logo on it.
Sitting through guided practice, working on mannequins was completely boring compared to working on people.
Okay, so looking back at the "bad" it really isn't that bad if you love esthetics. There is so much more to love about esthetics school than there isn't to love, at least for me.
Grace Riley author of JumpStart Your Esthetics Career: A Guide For Newly Licensed Estheticians
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