Take care of yourselves and your clients — from the inside out.

Questions to ask before getting Botox or fillers:  

1. What exactly are you injecting? Ask for the brand name, the product name, and the ingredients.
2. Can this be reversed? If not, are you comfortable with it being permanent?
3. What are your credentials? Are you a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon?
4. How many times have you performed this specific procedure?
5. What will you do if something goes wrong? Do you have hyalu
...

Why doctors refuse to inject Botox and fillers.

I think it goes without saying on any topic where someone wants us to purchase something, the seller is certainly not the best person to ask whether something is safe. Right? What do we expect them to say? “NO, the thing I’m about to inject into your face is not safe”?

So why do some of the most qualified medical professionals decline to offer these treatments? Because they have ethical concerns about cosmetic injectables. 

Ethical physicians...

This may be the question that matters most:Who is qualified to inject Botox and fillers?

A University College London study found that two in three cosmetic injection procedures are not administered by qualified medical doctors. CIEH In an industry driven by profit and social media aesthetics, you must ask: who is holding the needle?

Med spa regulation - United States. There is no federal oversight for medical spa clinics, leaving it up to state and local health departments to police thousan...

Filler dangers Estheticians should know.

Perhaps the most important element in this entire conversation is derma filler risks and complications. Such as: Can fillers cause blindness?

Vascular Occlusion — Including Blindness and Stroke. 

Vascular complications arising from dermal filler treatments pose significant risks, including ischemia, tissue necrosis, and severe outcomes like blindness and pulmonary embolism. PubMed Central

How does this happen? When a filler is accidentally injecte...

In Part #3, we are learning about the long-term effects of Botox on muscles. Muscle Atrophy, which is the goal of Botox, works by blocking nerve signals to the muscles where it is injected, causing them to temporarily relax. But what about the dangers of repeated Botox injections? 

Botox muscle atrophy research says that aesthetic botulinum toxin injections may result in atrophy of the injected facial muscles. Serial injections of botulinum toxin in the facial muscles may cause permanent che...

We may not agree with all choices women make regarding how they look. However, life is a buffet of options from which we get to choose whatever we want. There is no need to be offended by the options we do not choose.

Advanced Training for Estheticians

The information in this series will be presented to you in several parts. My goal here is to rally Estheticians who are interested in offering non-invasive esthetics services to existing clients and potential new clients. If you are not yet t...

Hi, and welcome!

I am Diane Buccola, also sometimes known in the world of esthetics as Happy Esthetician. Thank you for following me over here to read my upcoming series which I have titled "The Informed Esthetician Series."

Note: If you see two asterisks (**) following a word, phrase or sentence, this means you can find more detail on that topic in my book The Heart of Esthetics (because I don't want to go too long here). I'll post a link to the book at the bottom of each blog.

Full dis...

This is Part 2 of a 2-part blog.

To return to Part 1, please follow this link: The Frustrated Esthetician: Pro Products Sold Online (part 1)

If we can briefly step out of our role as an Esthetician who is frustrated with online sales of professional skin care products by manufacturers, and -- just for a moment -- step into the minds of manufacturers who are watching their products be abused and misrepresented, it might make sense that the way to protect their company and their brand is ...

In this blog, I am going to talk about the frustration felt by Licensed Estheticians toward Professional skin care product manufacturers who sell their products online from their website. First of all, let me say that I too feel frustrated about that, but I do understand why some companies ultimately made that choice. Personally, I feel even more frustrated about Estheticians selling their products online to the public but I will get to that later. 

Just so you know where my knowledge on ...

Most seasoned Estheticians have seen enough back acne to recognize that often the culprit is the client's use of hair conditioner. The whole point of conditioner is to coat the hair, and that is not necessarily limited to the hair on the head. Humans have vellus hair on every part of their body except palms of hands and soles of feet. When hair conditioner runs down the client's back, it coats the vellus hair. To make matters worse, the back is a hard-to-reach area so proper cleansing and rem...