Description
Provide professional facial skincare services to cleanse, treat, and improve skin appearance and health. Assess skin, perform facials, extractions, peels, and device-based treatments, and recommend personalized home care.
- • Sterilize tools and sanitize treatment areas.
- • Maintain client records, skin histories, and service notes.
- • Analyze skin using magnification and proper lighting.
- • Cleanse and prep facial skin for treatment.
- • Exfoliate with manual, enzymatic, or chemical methods.
- • Perform safe, hygienic extractions.
- • Apply masks, serums, and moisturizers suited to skin type.
- • Provide facial, neck, and décolletage massage.
- • Use facial devices such as steamers, high-frequency, LED, or microdermabrasion per protocol.
- • Administer light chemical peels for texture and discoloration.
- • Shape and remove facial hair by waxing or threading.
- • Tint eyebrows and eyelashes upon request.
- • Recommend personalized at-home skincare regimens and products.
- • Educate clients on sun protection and lifestyle factors affecting skin.
- • Select and document products and treatment plans to meet goals.
- • Refer clients to dermatologists for conditions outside scope.
- • Sell and restock retail skincare products.
- • Stay current on industry trends, ingredients, and techniques.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
