You, the esthetician, are accustomed to a wide variety of beauty treatments, including but not limited to: facials, waxing, peels, wraps, tweezing, and more. Technology has improved greatly over the past decade, and as a result, more and more people are opting for cosmetic laser treatments as a means of skin maintenance.
Thankfully, estheticians in most regions can study for and get credentials in cosmetic laser treatments. Better still, unlike traditional training methods that might take months to complete, laser training just takes two weeks to finish a full, thorough course. That’s right; in little time at all, you can be offering cosmetic laser treatments to your loyal clientele.
Exactly why do we need a Laser?
One example is how the cosmetic laser industry has grown and developed over the past decade. As a matter of fact, the medical esthetics business as a whole is worth a whopping BILLION dollars. The medical esthetics market is expected to grow to $3 billion by 2016.
Indicative data from the ASAPS are as follows: Over a million laser hair reduction procedures were conducted for cosmetic purposes in the United States last year, making it the third most popular nonsurgical cosmetic therapy. Also on the rise in popularity are laser skin rejuvenation procedures, which have seen great strides in success thanks to the development of cutting-edge tools like the Fractional laser, the eMatrix laser, the MicroLaserPeel laser, and others.
Career Prospects
When you add laser certification to your esthetician experience, not only do you increase your marketability, but you also open up a whole new set of career doors. Examples of such labor include: