What career options do youngsters have in the beauty industry?
Is your youngster seriously interested in beauty? We are not talking about an ability to apply lip colour correctly or use hair gel. This is more serious. If your teenager is headed towards college, and shows an interest in working professionally in the beauty industry, you might want to learn more about specialised study options rather than push them towards graduating with a subject that won’t be useful in their career.
Beauty Institutes in India
There are many beauty training schools in India that offer graded courses. These are the 5 most popular ones in India:
- VLCC Institute
- Pearl Academy
- Lakme Academy
- Shahnaz Husain Beauty Academy
- LTA School of Beauty
All of them have courses for teenagers who have just completed school, apart from those for graduates and working professionals. Course length varies from one-time introductory workshops that last just one morning to international diploma courses of one year or more. Beauty is a very rapidly growing and dynamic sector. This means, the earnings and job satisfaction levels can be really high for well-trained professionals. At the same time, a practitioner needs to keep the knowledge base updated all the time to be at par with the market.
Let’s now quickly look at some of the career-driven courses teenagers can take up after finishing school.
Make-up artist and aesthetician
Make-up artists are artistic individuals who specialize in the application of cosmetics. They can specialize in various makeup application techniques like airbrushing, light bending, theatrical, special effects, prosthetics or high definition. An aesthetician goes deeper into the field, delving into skin and hair types, bone structure, chemicals and electronic make-up tools.
Cosmetologist
Cosmetologists are materials experts. They study everything a beautician knows, and then specialise in skin care products, cosmetics, natural ingredients that work like cosmetics, hair, lash, nail extensions, and a chosen variety of hair care products
Hair Stylist
Hair stylists are artists who start with cutting, trimming, drying, straightening, styling, colouring, highlighting and other techniques. Then they go into hair types, hair aesthetics, hair extensions and wigs, hair products, and much more. It’s a challenging but lucrative field in India.