Aesthetician
Code 5142.1
Aestheticians offer skin care treatments. They apply various facial treatments according to their clients' needs and skin type, such as lotions, scrubs, peels and masks, in order to maintain the skin healthy and attractive. Aestheticians may also give neck massages and body treatments such as wraps. Aestheticians remove unwanted hair on different body parts like eyebrows, upper lip or the bikini area. They perform facial massage and apply make-up for various occasions.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- cosmetics
- cosmetics industry
- cosmetics ingredients
- cosmetic skin treatment
- make-up techniques
Skills and competences
- advise customers on usage of cosmetics
- give massages
- determine skin type
- identify customer's needs
- maintain equipment
- maintain customer service
- test make-up
- perform body wrapping
- perform facial treatment
- work ergonomically
- use hair removal techniques
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences