What Is A Paramedical Esthetician?
When you work as an esthetician, you take care of a person's beauty aspects from their hair, feet, and face to their skin, hands, and stress relief with massage. But, when you are a paramedical esthetician, you take care of a client's skin from the outward beauty to the inward medical aspect of the skin. Jobs the paramedical esthetician will perform can include analyzing a customer's skin care needs, discuss treatments that the customer may need and show products to the customer, use a magnifying lamp or visor during treatment, perform facials to cleanse the pores and improve the overall skin tone, applying chemical peels to reduce the fine lines and wrinkles and age spots, perform simple extractions of removing blackheads, removing unwanted facial hair using a form of laser or wax, and tinting eyebrows. Other jobs the paramedical esthetician may perform is to instruct customers on skin care and makeup techniques, sterilizing equipment and keeping the work area clean, massaging of the face, and selecting and applying cosmetic products such as creams, lotions, and tonics. A paramedical esthetician will usually work along side a dermatologist or plastic surgeon during a patient's pre and postoperative care. The paramedical esthetician will provide treatments that will prepare the skin for surgery and help to make a better healing process when the surgery is over. The paramedical esthtician will also help the patients in showing them how to conceal redness and bruising with corrective make up while the skin is healing from the surgery. The paramedical esthetician needs to have several different skills in order to be good at his or her work. These skills include actively looking for ways to help people, talking to others in order to effectively convey information to them, listening to what people are saying to them and asking questions if needed in order to give them the correct response. Other skills needed by the paramedical esthetician include being aware of other's reactions and understanding why they reacted the way they did, identifying the nature of problems, managing one own time and also the time of others, being able to keep a steady hand while making an arm movement, and being able to determine what types of tools are needed for a certain job that has to be done on a client or patient.
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