Secret Ingredient to a Successful Esthetics Career

     This story comes from a friend of mine, she has defied all odds to follow her passion for esthetics. Let me tell you, when I first met Karen (name changed for privacy) her face was flaming red, full of acne; her confidence level was slim; and she struggled to get through the first chapters in the Milady book. Her future in the class looked bleak at best.
        Karen came to the class with severe learning disabilities. She had to read the chapters several times just to take a test where other students barely studied and passed the tests. She worked harder than anyone in the class. She got treatment for acne, and began using professional products. Towards the end of the program, to every one's surprise, Karen landed an internship at a swanky spa. The other students seemed baffled, how did they miss that opportunity? What or who did she know to get that internship?
          Karen didn't have any special connections. No one got her the internship. No one even gave her a lead about an internship. How did this under dog of a student get an internship when none of her classmates could? She went to area spas and ASKED them to do an internship!
    Karen had a secret ingredient that no one knew, in fact, everyone assumed she would have  a dismal chance of succeeding in esthetics. After doing an internship with the spa, she ended up getting an on-call esthetics position, and following that position she opened up her own spa in a medical facility.
     Do you want to know what her secret ingredient is? MOTIVATION. Karen, unlike many of her classmates struggled academically, but she persevered and didn't let anyone tell her she couldn't make it. As soon as she finished her esthetics program, she then signed up for a CNA (certified nursing assistant) program to enhance her esthetics skills; her hope was to work in medical esthetics.
     Karen still owns and operates her practice within a medical facility, she has shown that being successful comes with a lot of hard work and determination. Getting your esthetics license doesn't make you successful, it is what you do with that license that determines your success.
      I get a lot of mail from readers who tell me every reason under the sun why they CAN'T get through an esthetics program, or why they can't get a job in esthetics, and this is why I posted the story about my friend Karen. There are no excuses, if what you are doing isn't working, follow another path. If esthetics is truly your passion, you will find a way to carve out your own niche in esthetics.
     You are your biggest advocate for success, if you don't trail blaze your way to success no one else will.