If you are a new graduate or if you simply have little diversified experience working as an Esthetician, Massage Envy and European Wax Center are a great place to get started. Remember that the reason to hold an Esthetician license instead of say, a certification as a medical assistant, or merely a secure job as a flight attendant, is that you are in a position that allows you to own your own business. That's right. You get to be the top dog, big kahuna and six figure earner while those other career choices only give you a license to punch a clock for somebody else.
The major difference between these two scenarios of vocational training is that as an Esthetician you can turn yourself into a millionaire where in the other mentioned careers you will merely be helping someone else be a millionaire. That's the reason to choose a career in esthetics!
The important thing here is to be a solid and disciplined enough Esthetician to guide yourself to the top. This is something few Estis actually do. Not because its difficult but because most Estheticians graduate from Esti school with an inflated ego. Yes, they see themselves as experts in skin care as soon as they earn their license but the reality is that after graduation you are only at square one.
There is an old saying; "the work will teach you", and it couldn't be more accurate. The only way under high heaven to become an expert is to repeat the same scenario day after day until you have thousands of client services under your belt. That means, thousands of Brazilian waxing services, thousands of eye brow designs, and thousands of facials. At Massage Envy you will get to perform facials all day, every day, and European Wax Center will turn you into a "Wax Specialist" within a few months.
At Massage Envy you will be in a position to analyze skin under the magnifying light and perform facials on all types of skin monotonously all day long. You will most definitely learn a lot about aging skin, acne, wrinkles and sensitive skin in the process. This can be viewed as kind of a prolonged schooling that puts you in an apprentice position. This is exactly what will hold you above other Estheticians. While most will say that Massage Envy and the repetition of facials is not fancy enough for them. After all, they graduated from an Esthetician program of 600 hours. With that attitude they will end up working in a salon in which they may perform a facial every three weeks and one Brazilian per day. This means that the process of learning and mastering these two services will take more than ten times as long as if you were to get a job performing just that service all day long.
A newly licensed Esthetician who considers herself to be an expert is a very dangerous Esthetician. There is no substitute for experience, and experience is repetition.
While working in the dental field I recall a dental assistant telling me that while she was in school she watched a dentist perform a root canal and she immediately thought that she had enough skill to perform one on her self. It looked simple and she was months into her training to become a registered dental assistant. After pushing a file too deeply into her tooth and experiencing extreme pain she came to the conclusion that there must be more to dentistry that what she was learning thus far. She learned the hard way.
Its better to admit that you are green and be willing to pay your dues by working in the mill than to go out on your own and ruin your name by providing sub standard services on your own clients.
Massage Envy can quickly help you develop a skilled eye for skin conditions, learn how to prescribe products for many skin types and develop your confidence. European Wax Center can help you become an expert speed waxer, and the best part; you will get paid to learn and develop these skills.
If you have ambition to become a top notch six figure Esthetician and you are limited on experience, keep an open mind and embrace European Wax Center and Massage Envy as two excellent places to develop good, solid habits and refine your skills.
As you network with other professionals in this field you will quickly see that this is an exciting business that has yet to fully develop, and whenever a field is still evolving there will be a mix of poorly practiced individuals butting heads with staunch professionals. There will be tremendous changes in the coming years making the field of Esthetics more difficult to get into and more intensely regulated. Taking the opportunity to learn the corporate structure of these two pioneering businesses can place you on the right path that is the future of esthetics.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
How to Become a Six-Figure Esthetician
Is it possible for an Esthetician to earn six figures? It most certainly is.
Then why are most Estheticians teetering on the brink of poverty? The answer to that question is attitude. Its not that the majority of Estheticians have a bad attitude its just that they have the wrong attitude.
To succeed big time an Esthetician must have the attitude of an entrepreneur not an employee. This is the root of why so many who earn a beauty license find themselves working for pennies. Think about it. If we have a set of triplet girls who all wish to spend the same amount of money and time on a vocation, one becomes a medical assistant, one a flight attendant, and the other an esthetician, the only one of these three who has the potential to earn six figures in their chosen vocation is the esthetician. Though the flight attendant and medical assistant would probably find an easier time getting a job immediately after school, and would instantly command a decent wage, but the esthetician is the only one of the three who can venture out on her own, start a business and hire employees. The medical assistant is dependent on a doctor, and the flight attendant is dependent on pilots and airlines, but the esthetician has the option to act as the journeyman and spend five years working for experts in the field of esthetics and then venture out to start a mega business based on what she has learned.This in a nutshell is the key to six figures.
Most estheticians are women and unfortunately most women simply don't think of making the most out of their careers. I believe that if you are going to do something, do it big!
Its a matter of looking ahead and seeing the big picture. To be a business owner one must be willing to work extra hard and make sacrifices along the way to a six figure income. If you were to take two estheticians and had one start a business and the other work for somebody else, the business owner would probably start off broke, saddled with a lot of work and lacking in free time, while the employee esthetician would have a little bit of extra money to spend, and have a lot of free time, (basically all hours off the clock would be hers to do with as she pleases) but after approximately 5 years those tables would turn drastically, assuming the business is successful, the two estheticians would be more equal as far as time physically working, and having free time, but the business owner would have at least three times what the esthetician who has chosen to remain an employee has. Also, during this time, when its all said and done, it will take the employee just as much energy and time as the business owner to earn pennies so that they can pay their landlord as it would the business owner to pay for a mortgage on their house and the rent/lease on their business.
Fast forward 10 years and provided the business owner is truly focused on success, she will not be obligated to go to work on any set schedule, will be making a comfortable six figure income, and will not be doing any of the physical work herself. But, the esthetician who remained an employee will be making very little money, will be a slave to the time clock and will her income will depend on her ability to get out of bed and into work every day.
Chances are the employee esthetician will be quite bitter and resentful in 10 years, while the business owner esthetician will be contented.
During my training as an esthetician, I talked to many new estheticians. Not during my schooling, but my training, as I call the years before opening my own spa. I worked for other professionals and learned from master estheticians, gained experience, and used the income I was pulling in to take more in depth courses in esthetics. I made many esthetician friends and would naturally ask them what their goals were. I can't remember any of them saying, "to own and operate a highly successful spa." Not one!
In fact, I would usually get weak responses such as, "I just want to be good at this", or "I would like to learn eyelash extensions." Its nice to want to add services to your repertoire and be very good at what you do, but these responses are classic examples of thinking small. When you think small, you get small paychecks all the time.
While studying esthetics I was never discouraged when I would hear the complaints from estheticians that they could not make any money because I knew that I was thinking in a successful way and that most people simply do not.
When I enrolled in esthetician school I was already a nurse and a real estate executive. I had enjoyed my careers but was now focused and getting the education in esthetics to open my own spa. During this time a close friend of mine was trying to point out my own stupidity, or so she thought, by telling me that a friend of hers who was an esthetician, could not make any money. This friend of hers gets jobs that pay minimum wage, and then moves on to other jobs in which she is paid commission, leaving her with huge gaps in her schedule every day. Gaps that she is not paid for. I had read similar stories about being an esthetician online but this scenario did not frighten me in the least. I knew that this girl was thinking like a typical employee. She wanted someone to provide her with benefits, stability and a lot of money, but she was not getting it, which made her unhappy. The fact that no one would give her more money led her to become a flight attendant, making a decent and reliable paycheck which made her feel more secure. She's not doing anything that she is passionate about, she has no freedom to grow her profession into a six figure income, but she has the regular paycheck handed to her every week, and for a brief time in life she will be satisfied. If surviving on the habitral for a weekly paycheck sounds good to you then not only are you in the wrong business, but you will probably never achieve a six figure income.
If you are truly passionate about success then I can tell you that I believe this business to be one of the most rewarding and fun ways to build enormous wealth. Not only that, but it is growing, and the focused estheticians will become very rich while the estheticians who think as typical employees will become discouraged.
In a time where spas are popping up all over and just about every middle class woman has a spa service that pays for on a regular basis, there is plenty of business out there. If you want to truly be inspired and awed by women who had the odds stacked against them read the lives of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. These women made millions in a time when the average woman would never go to a spa. There was no such thing as a Brazilian wax, and services were considered to be for the rich. Somehow these savvy women became rich by self promotion and the operating of a beauty spa. These women truly had the right attitude, and no matter how hard it seems to be to get a spa started up, you have it easy compared to Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. They have paved the way for you, and its up to you to take advantage of it.
Then why are most Estheticians teetering on the brink of poverty? The answer to that question is attitude. Its not that the majority of Estheticians have a bad attitude its just that they have the wrong attitude.
To succeed big time an Esthetician must have the attitude of an entrepreneur not an employee. This is the root of why so many who earn a beauty license find themselves working for pennies. Think about it. If we have a set of triplet girls who all wish to spend the same amount of money and time on a vocation, one becomes a medical assistant, one a flight attendant, and the other an esthetician, the only one of these three who has the potential to earn six figures in their chosen vocation is the esthetician. Though the flight attendant and medical assistant would probably find an easier time getting a job immediately after school, and would instantly command a decent wage, but the esthetician is the only one of the three who can venture out on her own, start a business and hire employees. The medical assistant is dependent on a doctor, and the flight attendant is dependent on pilots and airlines, but the esthetician has the option to act as the journeyman and spend five years working for experts in the field of esthetics and then venture out to start a mega business based on what she has learned.This in a nutshell is the key to six figures.
Most estheticians are women and unfortunately most women simply don't think of making the most out of their careers. I believe that if you are going to do something, do it big!
Its a matter of looking ahead and seeing the big picture. To be a business owner one must be willing to work extra hard and make sacrifices along the way to a six figure income. If you were to take two estheticians and had one start a business and the other work for somebody else, the business owner would probably start off broke, saddled with a lot of work and lacking in free time, while the employee esthetician would have a little bit of extra money to spend, and have a lot of free time, (basically all hours off the clock would be hers to do with as she pleases) but after approximately 5 years those tables would turn drastically, assuming the business is successful, the two estheticians would be more equal as far as time physically working, and having free time, but the business owner would have at least three times what the esthetician who has chosen to remain an employee has. Also, during this time, when its all said and done, it will take the employee just as much energy and time as the business owner to earn pennies so that they can pay their landlord as it would the business owner to pay for a mortgage on their house and the rent/lease on their business.
Fast forward 10 years and provided the business owner is truly focused on success, she will not be obligated to go to work on any set schedule, will be making a comfortable six figure income, and will not be doing any of the physical work herself. But, the esthetician who remained an employee will be making very little money, will be a slave to the time clock and will her income will depend on her ability to get out of bed and into work every day.
Chances are the employee esthetician will be quite bitter and resentful in 10 years, while the business owner esthetician will be contented.
During my training as an esthetician, I talked to many new estheticians. Not during my schooling, but my training, as I call the years before opening my own spa. I worked for other professionals and learned from master estheticians, gained experience, and used the income I was pulling in to take more in depth courses in esthetics. I made many esthetician friends and would naturally ask them what their goals were. I can't remember any of them saying, "to own and operate a highly successful spa." Not one!
In fact, I would usually get weak responses such as, "I just want to be good at this", or "I would like to learn eyelash extensions." Its nice to want to add services to your repertoire and be very good at what you do, but these responses are classic examples of thinking small. When you think small, you get small paychecks all the time.
While studying esthetics I was never discouraged when I would hear the complaints from estheticians that they could not make any money because I knew that I was thinking in a successful way and that most people simply do not.
When I enrolled in esthetician school I was already a nurse and a real estate executive. I had enjoyed my careers but was now focused and getting the education in esthetics to open my own spa. During this time a close friend of mine was trying to point out my own stupidity, or so she thought, by telling me that a friend of hers who was an esthetician, could not make any money. This friend of hers gets jobs that pay minimum wage, and then moves on to other jobs in which she is paid commission, leaving her with huge gaps in her schedule every day. Gaps that she is not paid for. I had read similar stories about being an esthetician online but this scenario did not frighten me in the least. I knew that this girl was thinking like a typical employee. She wanted someone to provide her with benefits, stability and a lot of money, but she was not getting it, which made her unhappy. The fact that no one would give her more money led her to become a flight attendant, making a decent and reliable paycheck which made her feel more secure. She's not doing anything that she is passionate about, she has no freedom to grow her profession into a six figure income, but she has the regular paycheck handed to her every week, and for a brief time in life she will be satisfied. If surviving on the habitral for a weekly paycheck sounds good to you then not only are you in the wrong business, but you will probably never achieve a six figure income.
If you are truly passionate about success then I can tell you that I believe this business to be one of the most rewarding and fun ways to build enormous wealth. Not only that, but it is growing, and the focused estheticians will become very rich while the estheticians who think as typical employees will become discouraged.
In a time where spas are popping up all over and just about every middle class woman has a spa service that pays for on a regular basis, there is plenty of business out there. If you want to truly be inspired and awed by women who had the odds stacked against them read the lives of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. These women made millions in a time when the average woman would never go to a spa. There was no such thing as a Brazilian wax, and services were considered to be for the rich. Somehow these savvy women became rich by self promotion and the operating of a beauty spa. These women truly had the right attitude, and no matter how hard it seems to be to get a spa started up, you have it easy compared to Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. They have paved the way for you, and its up to you to take advantage of it.
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