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Jennifer struggled with severe acne from her early teens to her
late twenties. Always pro-active, she sought treatment at a dermatologist
but achieved minimal results, considerable redness, and severe “irritation.”
While working at a doctor’s office, Jennifer interacted with
a patient-, whom it turns out was an esthetician- and the ultimate
outcome was clear skin, a mentorship, and a love affair with the
spa industry. As anyone with acne knows, acne is never gone: most
often, it has merely abated. Jennifer became even more determined
to defend her own skin. Combining lifestyle changes, holistic approaches,
and voracious reading, Jennifer was thrilled with her successes.
She now treats all of her clients with the same basic principles:
superior education, superior treatment, and superior products. She
attended Massage School of Santa Monica in Los Angeles in 1994 and
the Frederique Wholilstic Health and Beauty School of Hong Kong
in 1995. Her time there was well spent mentoring under other European,
South African and Australian estheticians, attending trade shows,
taking every other class and workshop she could find as well as
running her own business for five years. When she finally came home,
the first thing on her list was to study Lomilomi. She spent a year
with Sheila O’Malley (www.kapalomiola.com) one of Aunty Margret
Machado’s original students learning her new love, Lomilomi.
In 1999, there were not many spa jobs to come home to. Fortunately,
a large hotel spa was opening. Although she sought positions as
a massage therapist and esthetician, she reluctantly accepted a
managerial position in which she would be unable to provide treatments.
However, the knowledge and experience she gained in opening a 10,000
square foot spa was invaluable. Six months later the treatment room
was calling her back. She enjoyed five years of providing treatments
in a beautiful spa with everything organized just the way she liked
it.
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