As summer approaches most begin to focus on getting their body in shape for swimsuit season, adopting more nutritious diets and increasingworkouts. One important element that’s often overlooked however is nutrition and fitness for the skin. This, however, opens a door to educate clients on total body skin care.

Just as you encourage clients to exfoliate and nourish the face,educating them on applying these important steps to the entire body isalso essential. A simple regimen using these components will get skin supple, toned and glowing in time for summer. Below are a few tips you can pass along to your clients.

A few weeks ago it was my girlfriend’s 60th birthday and she wanted to do something to revitalize her skin. After consulting with her and finding out what her primary concerns were, sun damage and slacking skin, I decided to do the Melanin Lift Peel.

Rhonda Allison’s Melanin Lift Peel is one of my favorite treatments for older skin. The peel consists of different acids that address specific conditions associated with an aging complexion such as sun damage, dehydration and over all lack luster. TCA or trichloracidic acid improves the overall appearance of skin. It begins the process of lifting hyper-pigmented areas as well as exfoliating dull and damaged layers. It also prepares the skin for better

Years ago I wrote an article about this with a bit of humor as to what we as professionals call ourselves. For a long time there was actually no consensus. It varied from state to state, my first license read Facial Specialist and then I had one that read Cosmetician. I commented that to be taken seriously as a professional by the mainstream we might want to determine what our name is.

About 25 years ago, both spellings started showing up - Aesthetician and Esthetician - I was told in a conversation that one reflected the American and progressive direction of our profession and the other was the origin of European skin care. I liked the first version and, although in the minority over all, I from that time on used the spelling "aesthetician". Especially since aesthetics is about art and my entire journey has been about the art of skin.