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Caroline
Larissey
The chairwoman of the newly formed JCCP sub-group for beauty tells Georgia Seago why she’s made it her mission to fight for therapists in aesthetics
C
aroline Larissey has a big job on her hands. As
beauty education is what it should be, that it
quality and standards manager at the National
has the rigour.”
Beauty Federation and National Hairdressers’
Arguably, it’s now more than ever that the
Federation (NBF and NHF) and chairwoman
industry needs to demonstrate that rigour at
of the Beauty Aesthetic Special Interest
every turn, in the face of critics from the medical
Committee (BASIC), she is right in the middle
community who believe beauty therapists have
of the aesthetics and beauty debate, fighting
no business performing advanced aesthetic
from all corners to make aesthetic qualifications accessible
treatments such as botulinum toxin and filler
to beauty therapists.
injections under any circumstances. “I’ve always
Having started out in the industry as a hair stylist carrying
been very keen to make sure we have standards
out the odd beauty treatment, Larissey ultimately decided
for botox and filler because that’s key to where
her skills would be better utilised behind the scenes: “I could
we want to be,” says Larissey. “We need to have
see on the salon floor the frustrations that business owners
standards, qualifications and the right training
had over education. Students were coming out of training
groups to be able to do it, because the demand
and into salons where they need to be trained again, but
for those treatments has overtaken proper training
salons struggle because they can’t always afford to do that,”
and education routes.” Larissey has seen aesthetics
she says. “I’ve always had this passion to make sure hair and
infiltrate the traditional beauty space from the >
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