05/08/2026
Did you know that in Pennsylvania, becoming a licensed esthetician requires just 300 hours of training?
For context, that's less time than most people spend scrolling their phone in a month.(More or less 🤷🏼♀️)
And for a lot of estheticians, those 300 hours become the foundation they never build on, same products they learned in school, same protocols, same techniques, even years later.
I made the shift, early in my career by learning everything I could get my hands on, sometimes without any idea how I was going to use it.
Courses that didn't fit the menu I was working from, techniques I couldn't apply because the other girls I worked with didn't do it that way, knowledge I had to quietly file away because it wasn't in the protocol.
I went back to school for massage therapy 16 years ago, became a licensed esthetic teacher 6 years ago, and logged thousands of hours of continuing education in between, not because I had a plan for all of it, but because I couldn't stop being curious.
Eventually I built a practice where I could finally use all of it. And why you"ll never have the same facial twice and why what I do is so much more than 'just applying creams' to your face.
This is your reminder that:
🌿 Consistent results and consistent processes are not the same thing
🌿 Your skin deserves someone who understands what's happening underneath it, not just on top of it
🌿 The esthetician who adapts to you will always outperform the one who stopped learning after graduation
Want a facial that actually responds to you? Drop "CUSTOM" in the comments and I'll tell you what that looks like.
