What you think I do for work, just is not true....
What you think I do for work, just is not true....
Your job is to make people beautiful isn’t it??? I hear this a lot and the answer is Absolutely NOT!!
This may be more typical in the beauty industry however as a skin specialist this is not how I work.
I was watching a popular reality TV show recently. The female said she had never been told she was beautiful... she then went on to say so I did the botox and fillers and it still did not help...
What is the world coming to!!! Why do people FEEL they need to change to or do something to feel enough!!
That’s when I started thinking, well people say to me, “clients come to me so I can make them beautiful...” This is so far from the truth, so let me tell you what exactly I do!!!
My job is to make YOU COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN! I want you to be able to take away your makeup at the end of the day, not hide behind the filters that our major social media apps provide, and be truly happy with what you see.
My friend visited a clinic in another town for a service we don’t provide. Straight up a woman working there approached her and said “oh, those veins on your nose, we can treat them!!” Now my friend wasn’t concerned about them, nor was that the reason she was there but this woman saw an opportunity to make money from my friend. I was mortified, and my friends confidence just dropped! I have NEVER nor will I EVER use such a disrespectful approach like this just for increased revenue.
When a client comes for a skin consultation, my question to them is always what is your skin concern? This is the ONLY thing we treat, and you guessed it we have loads of treatments to treat pigmentation, sun damage, lines and wrinkles, blackheads, bumps, dry skin, excema, cellulite, veins etc. But my objective in my job is to only treat what concerns or bothers YOU. I only address what it is that you need from me to restore your confidence.
We need to stop the crap society and social media is feeding us and our children!!! That we are not enough without a perfect filter, hair extensions and dyed hair, false eyelashes and tattooed eyebrows, lip filler, dermal filler, makeup, false nails, spray tan, plastic surgery, it literally goes on and on... it is absolutely not ok!!!
I choose to empower my clients to be comfortable in their own skin, and correct only what concerns them. Several of these things are certainly fine if it leads to confidence, but do not endeavor to do it because you feel the pressure from society to look a particular way!!
A healthy mindset and body will absolutely lead to gorgeous skin. So, choose to empower this and you will definitely be enough without all the rest and going absolutely overboard with it all.
I too find I am constantly judged expecting that my line of work means I must subject myself to cosmetic injectables!!! I am often humbled as this is certainly not the case, but also left disappointed that people believe this is the only answer and that everyone in my line of work does so... Well guess what??? I don’t!! And I don’t feel the need to even if others believe this is the answer, as I know there are plenty of other avenues and lets face it, im not one to follow the crowd or trend. Im confident with who I am and without the injectables purely because it’s my choice. Our industry provides plenty of equipment and products advances with incredible results I believe I will exhaust these options before I opt for other treatment.
Lastly if we subject ourselves to letting social media make us feel less confident without “all that jazz” I worry about how our kids will grow up witnessing this and their favourite celebrities with all their facelifts, surgeries, implants on top of everything else!
My answer is this (as a mother of boys) I will put on my damn bikini when I swim in my own backyard pool with my children present … why?? Not because I have a flawless body I want to flaunt around, but the opposite. I am confident in my imperfect body, the body with cellulite, stretch marks and the mum tum! And so I hope that will teach my boys that it reality... and I will embrace that.
I’ll leave you with this final thought, If I am to be true to myself and be a skin specialist promoting healthy humans equaling healthy skin, when you ask me if that fine line cream really works… how can I say, or showcase my products through my own skin if I have a face constantly filled with injectables?
I support all my clients who make this choice I’m not against it at all, it’s just not for me, at this time, and I just want people to know it ok to not choose this avenue especially as we age and there are definitely plenty of options to try first,
Stay true to yourself and don’t feel or be told to look a particular way!