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Permalink Reply by Marty Glenn on August 21, 2013 at 4:30pm

Andrea

No, I am only on the West Coast but like I said most of what I talk about here is what I talk about in any class.  So ask a question and I will do my best. 

THIS POINT IS MORE FOR NEW ESTY'S -

What I would like to clarify is experience comes from doing and not sitting in class and to this day I am amazed at how much skin care pros look toward class for experience or confidence.

Let me say this another way:  Look at the image below (way off topic) but I will come full circle.  I race motorcycles and this picture although not me is pretty much exactly what I look like when going around a corner at 80mph (we all look the same).  I have taken about 80 - 100 hours of training in a school on a closed course but not a single second of that time gave me the experience or confidence to lean the bike like that or put my knee on the ground. Track time did.  Fear is fear and all the coaching or class time with a professional cannot and will not transfer to me, I had to go out there and just do it.

The bottom line is go out there and find a way to slowly get to the levels you want and always look for the slower and less invasive so that post peel complications are taken to almost zero no matter what Fitz your working on.

Case in point:  I had a student two years post grad and licensed working at Macy's because she did not find a job and needed to make money.  Not her fault but when I asked about her experience she said only a little yet mostly fluffy procedures.  She was very interested in doing the high strength peels and procedures.  After talking I found out that her brother had grade 2 - 3 acne on his back and I knew that this would be a perfect place to practice for her (Thick skin / Sues 6" x 6" area).  I gave her 10% TCA and explained exactly what I wanted her to do and explained that the outcome was this: Experience with the liquid.  The coats.  How many and the results.  Just use the liquid and keep track of what your doing and the coats and the results. Frosting and no frosting.  Skin texture before and after / peeling no peeling. Hot spots. The list is endless but the point is perfect:  Use the liquid, get experience with it.

As for your chemistry class, I do not think that is a good idea. You will spend so much time on the things that do not really matter. 

Here is an idea: Take your No. 1 line you use and in excel (do one product at a time) take column A (cell A1) and put the name of the ingredient and then in column B (B1) the purpose / what it does.  Be short with descriptions.  Column C (C1) color the box red or green for RED = BANNED or GREEN = OK.  What you will learn is far more important then you would ever learn in any chemistry class.

Then do it for each one of your products.  Then cross reference the ingredients that are in each type (Cream - Lotion - Cleanser - Serum ).  Maybe you can see where this is going?

I could go on but not trying to turn this into something else, but trying to explain what happens in a class with me and the issue of classes and certifications.

Keep in mind I have a very different approach to this profession and what I do, and I am sure that comes out in what I say.  I truly hope it helps.

Marty

SkinCareScience.com

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