To train in Aesthetics even though I wouldn't gave anything done myself?

[Orangelover]

Bit of back ground, I'm an experienced nurse and do enjoy my job (most of the time) but the money isn't the greatest for the time put in. Last month I did 4x 12.5 hour shifts overtime on top of my normal full time hours as we're saving for a holiday and was disappointed still with what I came out with after tax on payday. I feel like to save for anything I have to work my socks off and I end up so tired in the process.

A lot of my friends at work have trained in Aesthetics and have a little business on the side, some mobile, some working in salons doing clinics. One girl was telling me she was making over a grand a month just doing lip fillers, and showed me all the messages she gets on a daily basis from potential clients. I was stunned!

I've been looking at the prices of courses to train and they're not horrific, and all of my friends who've done them have all told me they made their money back fairly quickly. I've already got non-nursing friends asking me if I'm doing a course and if I'd do theirs when I've qualified.

But... the whole big lips, fillers, Botox.. it's just not me. Nothing against it, everyone can look how they want to and some minor lip augmentations look lovely but I haven't had it done myself and probably wouldn't. Is it wrong to essentially sell something I wouldn't fancy personally? Is it like having your hair done by someone who's hair is rubbish?

My OH thinks that I'm being silly and as long as I did a nice job and didn't make people look like Pete Burns it's all good but something is holding me back.

You'd 100% have stuff done when you can see how good it can look or are old enough to need it 😂

Maybe that's it I'm just not quite there yet

The most important thing is that people are properly trained to do it. There isn't enough regulation over it at present. Just because you are doing procedures you wouldn't have on yourself shouldn't be an issue. You might be happy with your lips but someone else might feel theirs are very thin and they have a point. A male plastic surgeon probably wouldn't want a boob job. I think the key is to make people look nice but to refuse to let them look like blow up dolls, that's not a good advert for your work, the massive lips trend might not stay around for long and it's better to be considered someone who makes people look like more attractive versions of themselves, not unrecognisable.

If you don’t agree with it then I don’t believe you should do it. But that’s just my opinion

I think that's why I'm not keen, I've seen a few disasters and wouldn't want to look like that or make anyone else into that. Certainly wouldn't be advocating people going over the top for my own pocket.

I don't think the craze will last either but whilst it's here I wouldn't mind a slice providing I did it safely and properly

The nurse who does mine doesn't have her lips done. She does have microdermabrasion and whatnot though

Ok so unlike most practiconers you have misgivings, That;s good. Because you can see from the inside how it can all go horribly wrong.
However, you don't have to follow that path. You have the skill to do a good job, so why do you feel bad?
It's people like you that are needed who actually care how their patients end up looking.

I've never had anything injected, don't think I would, but if I did I would rather come to someone like you who would be more like to be cautious and subtle and unlikely to make me into a gigantic lipped cartoon.

I do botox on patients and myself. You won’t look back.
Go for it 👍🏼

The lady who does my nails and eyebrows started off as a beauty therapist, doing nails, eyebrows, eyelashes, spray tans. She'd been doing that for years and while she enjoyed it, she felt she wanted to expand into aesthetics. Unfortunately her boss was less than supportive, so she left and started her own beauty business. And she did a course in aesthetics and loves it. More recently she did further training and became a qualified advanced aesthetics practitioner, which she loves even more.
Personally it's not something I'd ever have done myself (though she does a brilliant job), and luckily for me she still does beauty treatments as well, but she loves doing it.
So I'd say if you want to then go for it. (My lady only likes nude nails on herself, but she still does other people's how they want them. You don't have to want it yourself to do it for anyone else).

@happymummy12345 this is exactly the terrifying part of the industy - how non medical beauty therapists are being offered training to do procedures which depend on an in-depth knowledge of facial anatomy and basic medical procedures. What's even worse is that there are nurses and doctors willing to remote prescribe for them

Actually if you have reservations about it then you might be able to tell people when it is too much I think some practitioners are unethical when they are injecting stuff into lips and they end up looking like they have duvets on their faces,