Beautician = Bimbo

[Kle]

My favourite is when I say to clients that I did nursing for a year after working as a beauty therapist for 3years but as much as I loved it i couldn't afford to stay on the course as I earn a lot more doing beauty....that seems to do the trick in my case to stop anyone calling me a bimbo!

 

[Kle]

I also only got accepted for nursing as I had life experience as I didn't have A levels so you don't always need to have academic intelligence to be 'smart'

 

[sanilulu]

We had a situation at the school where I work where some pupils from another qualification' called our beauty girls 'thick & bimbos' - as they do beauty ... They were really upset and angry .... I laughed and said ...
We will never change certain peoples minds so you need to smile sweetly and dont lower yourselves to it .... you all have secured jobs and will be earning money straight away ... And as I'm that thick that I earned £200 last night in tans alone .... Let alone my other apts and my 15 hrs teaching each wk ... So who's thick ... !!!

 

[tonicj]

Thankfully I have never had this experience. I really don't think any of us should begin to justify ourselves to any client by reciting a list of qualifications or trying to explain all that we had to learn to get where we are today. This is just my opinion. I feel by doing this that in some sort of way it conveys the wrong message. I believe that by being the best that we can be and providing treatments to the very best of our ability, that this in itself will gain us the respect that we deserve.

 

[ShelbyHolmes]

Last year in High School we had individual meetings with career guidence. The lady pressumed I was either going to college to study maths/science or something along them lines but when I told her I was enrolled at my local college to study Beauty Therapy Level 2 her mouth literally dropped to the floor! She then told me the career was no good for me and I needed to make the most of my grades by studying something more 'productive'. The lady made me really mad and I told her she wasn't going to change me mind and then left. I text me Mum straight away (a therapist herself) to tell her what had happened.

The lady made out as if my grades I had worked hard for were going to waste. But this allowed me go straight in at Level 2 and instead she motivated me even more to prove her wrong. I've only been studying a year and I've won WorldSkills Beauty Therapy Intermediate Regionals at Beauty Uk, be featured in LOOK Magazine and also have a feature wrote about me and my blog in this months SCRATCH Magazine.

Just goes to show ay!

 

[Ruth Mills]

Last year in High School we had individual meetings with career guidence. The lady pressumed I was either going to college to study maths/science or something along them lines but when I told her I was enrolled at my local college to study Beauty Therapy Level 2 her mouth literally dropped to the floor! She then told me the career was no good for me and I needed to make the most of my grades by studying something more 'productive'. The lady made me really mad and I told her she wasn't going to change me mind and then left. I text me Mum straight away (a therapist herself) to tell her what had happened.

The lady made out as if my grades I had worked hard for were going to waste. But this allowed me go straight in at Level 2 and instead she motivated me even more to prove her wrong. I've only been studying a year and I've won WorldSkills Beauty Therapy Intermediate Regionals at Beauty Uk, be featured in LOOK Magazine and also have a feature wrote about me and my blog in this months SCRATCH Magazine.

Just goes to show ay!

Exactly! Far better going for a career that your heart is really in, that you will really love, and have the enthusiasm to excel at - than to end up doing some boring office job somewhere, and have work become a daily grind!

 

[LolliDolli]

I've heard it all. It's as though people don't think anyone could ACTUALLY WANT TO BE a beauty therapist.

'So didn't you do very well in school then?'
'Don't you get bored just painting nails all day?'
'Well you can't do this forever, what are you going to do next?'

I tell them I did very well on school thank you.
No I don't ever get bored I absolutely love my job, don't you love yours?
And what is it that's stopping me from doing this for the rest of my career exactly?

I also get people look down on me because they think I'm younger than I am. Which apparently means I have no experience and am not going to be good at my job.

One woman asked me about my GCSE grades, then went onto asking how old I was. When I told her she said 'oh so you've just been a waste for all these years, don't you ever want a proper job?'

I was FUMING!!
Another part of been a beauty therapist That not many people can do - always acting professional. Haha


LolliDolli💋

 

[Ruth Mills]

Ironically, beauty therapy (and the entire hair and beauty industry for that matter) is actually a darn good career to be in long-term - because it's one career that is never going to be replaced by computers or machines.

Clients want their hair, beauty treatments and nails done by a human being (not a robot!) - because the social aspects of seeing someone for a treatment are just as important as the end result of the treatment itself.

 

[JemmaB]

Oh my god ... I get tired of people asking "do you get bored doing nails all day?"
Even from family. I dont know what to say when they ask apart from the obvious no

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[Penny71]

This thread made me giggle. I wanted to do this when I was 15 but dissuaded by the teachers at school as I was "too academic". I ended up going to Uni twice, was a social worker, then worked in community development and eventually arrived back where I always wanted to be! Funny old life, I wouldn't have had it any other way as I learned so much that is relevant to people and business along the way. When I sense someone judging or looking down on me as a bimbo I have to throw in a snippet of my history though, it'd be rude not too lol

 

[flynnser19]

Yea its a little annoying!!im currentky living in canada with ny best friend and she has a degree in pharmacuetical science and people always ask her if shes a hairdresser and she looks at them in disgust and says "eh excuse me I am not a hairdresser I have a degree in pharmaceutical science" as if it is an awful thing that theyve said to her!!!!now im a beauty therapist but she pretty much insulted me too because were all the same industry!!
And he worst of all is im working in my field here and shes working in a cafe so that degree was well worth t clearly lol

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[joshinjune]

Never judge a book by its cover eh?! I'm a qualified Solicitor. I worked in a commercial firm for 5 years specialising in employment law before giving up 2 years ago to look after my son who was diagnosed with autism. The job is too demanding for me to go back to. I have therefore decided to set up a business specialising in eyelash enhancement. I am just starting out, but was surprised at how much money you can potentially make. If I make a go of it, it will be ideal, as I can work around my family and demands of my son. This is something I could never do as a solicitor. The real bonus is, I'm absolutely loving it! It is not a path I ever would have considered for myself in a million years, as I was always one of those 'academic' ones. It's not that I ever looked down on people who went into beauty (or anything else for that matter), it was just that I never considered it as an option. Life and people surprise you every day, and the one thing I have learnt is never make judgments!! There's always much more going on with someone than meets the eye x

 

[Meira]

I can totally relate to this. I was always considered the academic one too, my sisters are both make up artists. I have been building a career in HR for the past 10 years and have just resigned my job as a Business Analyst as want to start something more creative which whilst at school I was never encouraged to do as grades in academic subject were good. I was made to go to uni to make the most of this. Now I am so excited by the challenge of building my own business and learning new skills but have had reactions from people who seem to think this is a waste!

 

[tonicj]

Follow your passion wherever that may take you and learn to please yourself with your decisions and not others. It's your life, not theirs and if you choose a path that will make you happy then you will be the lucky one. I can speak from experience as I eventually followed my passion and wish I had done so a very long time ago xx