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15 Steps for The Perfect Sugar Brazilian

Learn how to perform the perfect sugar Brazilian by following the 15 steps outlined below.

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Diversity is Good Business: Treating the Transgender Client

Approaching, understanding and reassuring your transgender client is essential to making them feel comfortable in your spa. This article dives into the best practices for how to treat your transgender clients.

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Thread Your Way to Profits

Threading is an hair removal technique that can bring a great profit to your spa. Learn what to keep in mind when threading and how to make money from it.

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5 Steps to Big Bucks From Brows

Eyebrow products continue to be the top-selling items in the prestige beauty sector of color cosmetics. A brow service should always entail more than just waxing the brows, and you can set yourself apart from your competition with a complete service.

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Reflections: Merry Strategy

Our holiday issue is in October, so we can help spa owners and skin care professionals begin their holiday planning when it truly can make an impact.

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Seeing RED After Waxing

Since waxing causes a type of trauma to the skin, the body responds to this trauma by releasing histamines. Pre- and post-care can help reduce the response, but first let’s dive more into the action of histamines.

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Beauty Therapy Embraces Diversity: Treating the Transgender Client

Danné Montague-King's take on transgender living and transitioning between makeup techniques as one develops.

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6 Steps to the Perfect Brow Wax

Eyebrows have been the rage for a while now. Learn the six steps to perfecting your eyebrow artistry.

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To Wax or To Laser? Help Clients Decide

While hair removal dates all the way back to Ancient Egypt, hair removal has come a long way to include waxing, sugaring, laser hair removal, threading and electrolysis.

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Ask the Esthy: How Do I Get Back into Esthetics?

Have you been out of the esthetics game for a bit? Here are things to consider when trying to get you skin care groove back.

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At What Age Do You Wax?

Salons and spas are seeing more interest in waxing from a younger generation. But at what age is waxing appropriate?

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Sugaring: There’s No Sweeter Choice

Although the methods used for sugaring have been modernized, sugaring is definitely still an art. It will take patience and practice to become fluent.

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Removing Hair During Cancer Care

When dealing with a client with cancer, a lot more thought needs to be put into these hair removal services. This article discusses safety precautions to take with hair removal before surgery, during chemotherapy, during biological therapy and during hormone therapy, as well as additional health considerations.

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Top 5 Tips for Safe, Effective Laser Hair Reduction

As the demand for laser treatments increase, so does the demand for qualified professionals. Following these five steps could be the difference between a safe or harmful treatment as well as an effective or non-effective treatment.

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Shaving Face

Dermaplaning is done with a #10 blade at a 45-degree angle on dry skin. The blade is gently scraped over the surface of the cleansed and moisture-free skin in the opposite direction of hair growth. Dull, dead skin and vellus hair is gently and quickly removed, revealing brighter, more even-toned skin.

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Ask The Esthy: Brazilian Education

Brazilian waxing is not always covered at length in esthetics school. This leaves newly licensed estheticians to seek continued education for additional knowledge and practice with this skill-set, oftentimes with little funds.

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Should You Make the Sweet Switch to Sugaring?

There has been a lot of talk recently about sugaring as a way to remove unwanted hair with sugar. Once they make the sweet switch from waxing to sugaring, both estheticians and clients are hooked.

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Does Waxing Cause Wrinkles?

There is a myth going around among clients 30 and over that waxing causes wrinkles. This is a myth that needs to be stopped in its tracks.