The Benefits of Starting a Career in the Beauty Industry
It is not location specific.
You can find demand for beauty services across the country – and that demand can be high! With the average yearly spend on beauty products at £482.51 for UK women in 2018.
You will be helping others.
Do you love that feeling when you put a smile on someone’s face? Beauty treatments help clients feel happy and confident in their appearance. Whether getting treatment for a special occasion, or for daily happiness, we all feel that much better after a little salon trip!
Your creativity can grow and flourish in this industry.
Each of the big names in beauty bring their own style to the industry. If you have a creative eye, this is a great sector to grow and have fun with it.
You can enjoy socialising whilst at work.
Being a people-orientated sector, you can get to know people and have a chat during work hours. From regular customers that you develop relationships with, to being involved in/ meeting people getting ready for a special occasion.
You can choose your work-life balance.
Beauty Bosses
The beauty industry is teeming with possibility. There are many inspiring success stories out there, so let’s share a few...
P.Louise
Paige Williams, the woman behind P.Louise, began as a freelance makeup artist, then opened her own brick and mortar makeup salon. Step by step, she grew as a makeup artist however, her immense business growth came when she delved into product creation. Creating an eyeshadow primer that went down with massive popularity. With a yearly turnover of £6 million in 2019, her business only continued to grow into the big name it is today.
Jamie Genevieve
Starting out as a make-up artist at Debenhams, Jamie Genevieve grew her social media following by posting what she loved: make-up! Showing off her skills continuously grew her account until she had a large following behind her and able to launch her own line in 2020, VIEVE which is now a popular brand in the beauty industry.
Sources
Medium
Glamour
Glasgow Live
Vieve
The Scottish Sun