Hi all, I decided I needed to blog about this subject, especially as its close to my heart. I have a teenaged son who has been relatively lucky with his skin going through early teens. But then he has me constantly nagging him to use the correct products on his skin.
As a young man, I think now-a-days it seems more acceptable to use different lotions on your skin. much more of these are available off the shelf and on the high street. In comparison, my husband doesnt believe in an array of lotions for the skin, hair and body. No he thinks they all do the same thing and will on regular occasions wash his hair and body with shampoo!
My son has been lucky in the fact that he hasnt had acne spots that look raised and angry looking. But he had been getting the odd large sore spot. But many smaller red spots, often under the skin, that have appeared all around his neck and backs of the shoulders. more so where he must get hot.
So apart from educating them on good hygiene and remembering to wash the skin throughly. What can be done?
Over the past five years within my salon I have seen a change in skincare and facial treatments. For my clients, abit like some of the other salon treatments. like coloured gels, facials have turned into a treatment that we want to enjoy. but we want them in our lunch break, quickly but with instant effective results.
This is when I introduced microdermabrasion into my salon. I have to say I havent looked back! My standard hands on facial has gone out the window. To be quickly replaced by my 30 minute microdermabrasion facial for the quick lunch time fix. or the other alternative, is to have a full hour treatment incorporating a neck, shoulder and facial massage but with skin smoothing results.
As a young man, I think now-a-days it seems more acceptable to use different lotions on your skin. much more of these are available off the shelf and on the high street. In comparison, my husband doesnt believe in an array of lotions for the skin, hair and body. No he thinks they all do the same thing and will on regular occasions wash his hair and body with shampoo!
My son has been lucky in the fact that he hasnt had acne spots that look raised and angry looking. But he had been getting the odd large sore spot. But many smaller red spots, often under the skin, that have appeared all around his neck and backs of the shoulders. more so where he must get hot.
So apart from educating them on good hygiene and remembering to wash the skin throughly. What can be done?
Over the past five years within my salon I have seen a change in skincare and facial treatments. For my clients, abit like some of the other salon treatments. like coloured gels, facials have turned into a treatment that we want to enjoy. but we want them in our lunch break, quickly but with instant effective results.
This is when I introduced microdermabrasion into my salon. I have to say I havent looked back! My standard hands on facial has gone out the window. To be quickly replaced by my 30 minute microdermabrasion facial for the quick lunch time fix. or the other alternative, is to have a full hour treatment incorporating a neck, shoulder and facial massage but with skin smoothing results.
I cant afford the large outlay of a machine?
Skin base microdermabrasion was a great concept that was introduced to me just at the right time. A unique " Pay-as-you-go" system that offers the option of no massive salon outlay for machines and accessories such as consultation cards, and crystals. Free trial period for you introduce the treatment into the salon and to your clients and gain valuable feedback and enable you to see how much earning potential you will have. The machine comes with the trial plus the crystals, marketing tools, consultaion cards and basically everything you need to set you up and running.
It is more than likely after the trial you will be blown away by the results of this treatment and so will your clients.
How I introduced it.....
Because my teenaged son is having issues with his skin. Which I know are mainly hormonal. Its a difficult time for teens when they are conscious of their looks and image. So education and support I feel is crutial, well for me anyway in my job.
So I offer a teen service to help introduce a good skincare routine and every month or six weeks a micrdermabrasion facial. For my son we worked on a low setting and concentrated on the areas he needed work, top of shoulders, neck and lower part of the face.
Open your mind......open the door to more clients
The ideas of how to offer this service are never ending. This is close to my heart with teens because I am living with this at the moment. But for my client base I offer this as part of a seasonal skincare routine for the hands and feet to smooth over dry, weathered skin. fantastic bridal service to hand in for the build up to any occassion. For me with my son, its a another way of offering skincare treatments to male market, without it feeling too girlie and it doeant have to be a full hands on pampering skin contact treatment, if they dont want it to be.....what I am getting at is open your mind to where and when you want good looking skin. You can then introduce this at any stage.
It can also be used on the body to combat cellulite and help condition the skin. So if you have no area for showering in your salon and offering messy bodywraps isnt an option. This is perfect...one machine that can offer so many different varieties of treatments with no additional products.
My son is very lucky to have this treatment on hand. But it doesnt have to be a huge outlay and you have the support and backup from your two week trial period. Full training is given and is essential and used incorrectly this can harm and damage the skin.
I hope I have opened your mind to a different way at looking at skincare and treatments? Now clients want fast effective results in half the time. This can be offered by you with no stress of massive bills to pay. You just pay as you use the machine, just like a mobile phone! Plus the machine comes in a smart carry case, so it s perfect for mobile salons and high street. Easy.
You know it makes sense....skin sense : )
For more information on this treatment and training courses check out my training page on Facebook Stepping Stones Training Academy or look me up on Twitter @Cazababe75 or @sstacademy.
See you all soon Caroline X
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