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augusta24

Hi all,

I follow lots of beauty and fashion bloggers and makeup artists on snapchat but what I would really like is to follow hair stylists and facialists who talk about skincare! Do these exist?! Any recommendations??

I already follow katrina2khair - I find she's always talking about her makeup though which I'm not interested in.
I also follow lusciouslocks but the quality of her videos are so poor (must be her phone) it's hard to listen to them...
I also follow the orlacle who talks about skincare but I'd actually love to listen to someone who is qualified in the area of skincare!

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There is a serious lack of skincare based bloggers on snapchat. I would love to hear if anybody has found a good one to follow! I actually am a skin therapist and have been thinking about starting one myself but I wouldn't be brave enough I do like the skin nerd blog, she's on Facebook though not snapchat. Im so sick of makeup bloggers..

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The skin nerd Jennifer rock

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Jennifer rock is brill but she's not on snapchat

augusta24

xxXCuteypieXxx wrote: »

There is a serious lack of skincare based bloggers on snapchat. I would love to hear if anybody has found a good one to follow! I actually am a skin therapist and have been thinking about starting one myself but I wouldn't be brave enough I do like the skin nerd blog, she's on Facebook though not snapchat. Im so sick of makeup bloggers..

Well I think you'd get lots of followers if you started because like you said there's nobody from the skincare world using it!! Maybe you could start off slow by just showing products you like etc and in time you could build up confidence to speak to the camera?!

On another point do you mind me asking what's probably a really stupid question.... What is a skin therapist?? I've never actually ever had a facial but I am really interested in skincare so I read blogs and do really invest in my skincare but I feel like I need something more- I really wants someone to analyse my skin and advise what type skin I have and maybe types of products I should use. But I wasn't sure if I should go to a beautician or would a skin therapist be something different maybe??

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A skin therapist is like a go between a beautician and a dermatologist. I am trained in medical aesthetics, treatments like skin needling, chemical peels and facial thread vein removal. I also do laser hair removal. We work with products of a much higher strength that are only really available in skin clinics. If you have skin concerns definitely avoid the beauty salons and seek out a reputable skin clinic.
Thank you so much for your advice! I'm going to look into it more.

augusta24

xxXCuteypieXxx wrote: »

A skin therapist is like a go between a beautician and a dermatologist. I am trained in medical aesthetics, treatments like skin needling, chemical peels and facial thread vein removal. I also do laser hair removal. We work with products of a much higher strength that are only really available in skin clinics. If you have skin concerns definitely avoid the beauty salons and seek out a reputable skin clinic.
Thank you so much for your advice! I'm going to look into it more.

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain that! I would certainly look into it if it's something you're interested in - I'm so interested in skin care- what good is makeup of your skin is so bad it won't sit right on it?! Too many beauty makeup artists etc on snapchat and not enough skincare people who really know what they're talking about!!

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xxXCuteypieXxx wrote: »

A skin therapist is like a go between a beautician and a dermatologist. I am trained in medical aesthetics, treatments like skin needling, chemical peels and facial thread vein removal. I also do laser hair removal. We work with products of a much higher strength that are only really available in skin clinics. If you have skin concerns definitely avoid the beauty salons and seek out a reputable skin clinic.
Thank you so much for your advice! I'm going to look into it more.

I work in a beauty salon. I'm image trained, yonka trained, dermalogica trained and work with microneedling and ipl (photo rejuvenation).
What part of that would make people need to steer clear of the beauty salon I'm in?

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Lexionrale I certainly didn't mean any offence! I think it's great that there are beauty salons that tap into real professional skincare treatments and work with great brands! In my experience however a lot of beauticians do not have the deep knowledge of skin required or the advanced training to really make a difference. I know there are great beauty salons with excellent therapists who know what they're doing. However we also know that there are salons out there that do not offer the same good advice. Going to a specialist skin clinic takes away that risk.

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Not really. My first job was in a skin and laser clinic, and I was let loose and expected to perform laser treatment, including red vein treatment without even so much as being shown the Fitzpatrick scale. I was using danne King products without even being sent on training.

It's not nessessarily how impressive the salon itself is. You have amazing therapists in all sorts of salons, and untrained or unprofessional therapists in what's advertising themselves as "experts".

Let the results of each salon/clinic speak for itself before coming and making sweeping generalisations about the qualifications of other therapists. They're colleagues, not competition, once you let your work speak for you.

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I cant even begin to imagine that places are letting therapists perform those treatments without extensive training. My career started in a skin and laser clinic, immediately after my beauty therapy training and I was there for 6 months before I could even touch a client, and even then I was under close supervision! Its scary to think about.

Looking back my comment was unfair and far too critical of beauty salons. There are not a lot of beauty salons that offer professional, medical grade skincare products and treatments, and I forget that some do actually exist. It was a very badly worded comment and I do apologise.

Going back to my advice to augusta24, please do seek out someone reputable and comes highly recommended. Ask to see photographic evidence of results before committing to a regime, as working on your skin is an expensive and sometimes frustrating journey.

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Not sure of her qualifications but Allessandra Steinherr is great for skincare and speaks in great detail.

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My favourite of recent times is Holly Browne @Hedgehol . She works in SpaceNK and talks about skincare and makeup. She talks about the really expensive stuff they sell but also about the good affordable dupes for some of those products. Like recently she mentioned that Penny's are selling a great dupe for one of the Hourglass products everyone raves about but most of us could only dream of affording. She has answered Qs for me and recommended things and invites Qs. She's actually my fave at the moment, she's gas and seems really sound as well so very enjoyable to watch,not the moan machine that so many of them are. Everyone I've recommended her to really likes her.

I don't like @Asteiner personally, she mentions products that cost hundreds and recommends new ones pretty much everyday while she's off lathering herself in other products having facials etc in boutique beauticians. Very hard to know how credible those recommendations really are when she seems to be going through around 10 latest musthave products a day.

@Waxpertsellen is OK for skincare too sometimes but very obviously has Botox that she's never mentioned getting so again I wonder if her super smooth visage is really courtesy of all these products.