Dear clients, before you decide to spoil yourself with a spa service it would be well appreciated if you did your homework. You may even be surprised to find out that your AESTHETICIAN (yup thats what we’re called… and we prefer it over ‘you people’) has gone to school, $10,000 worth of it! We ARE educated and we know you may be surprised that we did choose this for a full time CAREER. Because, as you like to point out, university isn’t for everyone.
So, before you come in with your hairy vagina and planters warts please remember that you are paying ME a dollar a minute to perform your aesthetic needs. My job requires much more than a steady hand to polish you with perfect borders. —Your Aesthetician
This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.
I tells ya, I could NEVER do that job. That job and dental hygienist. What would possess someone to look in someone’s dirty smelly mouth all day? Ick.
Or dirty smelly vag…..
YA: I’m guessing your education did not include correct anatomical terminology or you would know that the *vagina* aka the birth canal is an internal orifice and is incapable of growing hair. The *vulva* and corresponding *mons* would be the areas of female anatomy of concern to an aesthetician. Unless there are vaginal services being offered that I am not aware of.
Spas are just another way to part dumbasses from their dollars. Talk about a frivilous ‘profession’. Anyone with a lick of sense wouldn’t waste their hard-earned coin being tended by some silly bitch who is probably revolted by 95% of her customers.
why would someone clean shitters all day?
money.
there’s always someone out there willing to do it.
Sucks would be a good aesthetician…
right up until he creeps people out by licking the used wax strips.
GAG!
My friend works in a spa and customer who was a woman had 6 inch long crotch hair, dirt all over her legs and smelled awful.
You do a job where you play with make up and wax and you were dumb enough to pay $10,000 to learn to do it? Excuse the world for not taking you seriously.
“My friend works in a spa and customer who was a woman had 6 inch long crotch hair, dirt all over her legs and smelled awful.”
Yeah, you should probably trim and bathe a little before you visit the spa, Bon.
Another glorified nail cleaner I bet.
Betcha none of the staff eat tuna fish sandwiches at lunch.
I’m trying to figure out what her bitch is about? Are the clients not bathed, are they rude, or is it they don’t postrate themselves when they are in the presence of you and your degree? What exactly is your bitch, OB?
Thank you TTFN. I do verily believe that Brendon and I will be hitting the mind bleach a tad early today. Oh well, the sun is over the yardarm somewhere in the Empire, no doubt.
thanks java.. I completely missed that upon first reading…
10 K to learn how to wax crotchety peep’s…
don’t they sell kits with instructions that fit right on the container?
surely it can’t be that difficult.
I’d like to be the first to admit I am not in the know as I will likely never try.
I enjoy going to the spa and wasting my money. I can’t paint my own nails for the life of me. 🙂
I get my eyebrows waxed every couple months or so to get reshaped and it’s worth every penny, though I picked up a kit from sephora when I was in toronto, so after mine grow out a bit I’m going to start shaping my own. The key is to be able to trim your eyebrows too, which can be tricky. I’ve learned after some not such great results.
And giving yourself a bikini wax is really tricky, and not really advisable if you’re going for anything major. I know I’d never give myself a brazilian at home. Heh.
As for pedicures/manicures… I also like to get one every once and a while. My dad gets a manicure/pedicure on a regular basis because his eyes are shit and he just ends up cutting himself (even with clippers… I don’t know HOW he manages that, but he does, lol) and a) cuts on diabetic feet can turn into a major infection… he’s already had a foot ulcer that required months of daily VON visits to dress and b) he heals VERY slowly because of his diabetes so it’s just best to leave it to the professionals. His doctors agree.
One thing I will say though, is this shit is so overpriced in halifax, it’s not funny. In toronto you can get a pedi/mani for half of what you pay here. There are so many nail salons up there, though. I got a pedi/mani when I was up there and it was delightful. I hadn’t had one in about 6 months or more because I’m pretty good at doing my own nails at home.
Sometimes it’s just nice to be pampered. 🙂
OH and RC: a little trick I came up with while painting your nails — if you get some outside the nail, you can clean it up with a q tip and some polish remover. I always have to do that.
Using quality polish is essential too — I only use Essie or China Glaze (OPI SOMETIMES, but not often because it takes too damn long to set) and if you keep it in the fridge you’ll avoid the goop. You should only use three strokes on each nail too — one on either side and then one stroke down the middle.
And it takes a lot of practice too. If you keep at it you’ll be able to do your own, srsly. I think you can even get pens with polish remover in them so you don’t have to use the q tips. 🙂
OP, get the duct tape for that hairy vagina that slithers in. It’ll stick right to it.
Tim: I agree; not quite sure what the angst is.
I have to say that many of these salon workers are actually quite hot; who trims the trimmers?? hahaha I will.
I do my own pedicures and facial waxing, but I can’t do my own Brazilian. Not to gross you out any more (OK, I’m lying here–I totally want to gross you out) but when you get to be my age you need more than one set of hands to hold that old pussy skin taut enough to wax it! :-O
haha xeno. i like pedicures especially if there is a big sander. i don’t have thick pubes but my pit hair…good grief
LOLz you two – I’m thinking Brazilians would be sort of like laser eye surgery. Do you get it done by a professional or a really keen hobbyist?
zigactly commander http://controllerpunch.com/wp-content/uplo…
what did you EXPECT your job to be like exactly?
i mean… ok. Spa-goers are obnoxious, hairy, rich, pretentious, snobby, aging metrosexuals.
And you are their slave.
Real life sucks, eh?
: The Aesthetician – “we ARE educated…”
No you’re not. You’re “trained.” When will people ever learn the difference?
: Dim Bro Tim (1:22PM) – Claims that The Aesthetician is upset because her clients don’t “prostrate themselves when they are in the presence of you and your degree…”
Sorry Dim Bro, an aesthetician doesn’t have a degree. She has a “diploma.” When will people ever learn the difference?
: The Scholar (4:12PM & 4:17PM) – Instead of preening over her academic “achievements” The Schoilar now becomes The Narcissist and preens over her body, but it’s still preening. She’s totally self-absorbed which, of course, is why we all love her.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I’m not really going to shit on the OP for being a “career waxer” because that’s not really all they do. I used to want to be an aesthetician/massage therapist/make-up artist but when looking into it, they charge way too god damn much for school for making not that much more than I make now at my current job and I currently have no debt so… yeah it turned out to not be for me :P.
Gee Sméagol, even I know the difference between training and an education .
With training, you can do something usefull ;]
I guess in the end we should all be happy OP is working for a living and not a crack whore. More than I can say for half the kids coming out of school right now…
“Whadda you mean, my starting salary isn’t $134 000?” seems to be the thought process of kids these days.