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.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Cleaning and applying creams, lotions and related products to face and other parts of the body;
(b) Giving facial and body massage;
(c) Applying make-up to clients of a beauty parlour or to actors and other performers;
(d) Cleaning, shaping and polishing finger- and toe-nails and treating ailments of the human foot such as corns, calluses or deformed toe-nails;
(e) Attending to clients taking baths and administering elementary massage;
(f) Using waxing, sugaring and depilation techniques to remove unwanted bodily hair;
(g) Advising clients on diet and exercise to assist in weight loss and slimming;
(h) Arranging appointments and collecting payments.