June 2024

Esthetician vs Aesthetician: What’s the difference?

By Alyssa Cink | June 25, 2024

Esthetician or aesthetician wearing a clear plastic face mask puts paper on client’s face to perform a skin specialist procedure.

If you’ve ever embarked on a skincare specialist journey, then Google’s probably thrown you for the esthetician vs aesthetician loop at some point. Or maybe you just finished all your training and never considered the difference between aestheticians and estheticians—only to see the “aesthetician” title on your diploma when you swore your program was for…

Injury From Massage: How to Avoid Massage Therapy Injuries

By Stephanie Jaynes | June 10, 2024

Man standing in an apartment holding his lower back in pain, with a circle around his lower spine indicating inflammation and discomfort after an injury from massage.

As a massage therapist, you want to give your clients a case of the ahhhs. You want to decrease their pain and soreness, improve their sleep, lower their stress, and help them relax. But massage therapy injuries can quickly turn your clients’ relieved ahhhs into pain-induced AAAHs! This happened to one woman in New Jersey…

Barber Tools and Equipment Maintenance: How to Clean and Care for Barber Clippers, Shears, and Trimmers

By Alyssa Cink | June 3, 2024

Orange background featuring an array of barber tools and equipment, such as clippers, spare blades, shears, trimmers, and a brush. The tools are neat and organized, showing proper hair clippers maintenance, how to clean barber clippers, and how to sterilize hair clippers and other tools.

Hair clippers maintenance and barber cleaning supplies may not seem like topics for a barber to “mullet” over. Undoubtedly, learning how to sterilize hair clippers is barber etiquette 101. New barbers learn how to trim hair, and they learn how to properly clean clippers and other tools. Claims from dirty barber clippers don’t happen that…