What's the difference in high-end aestheticians and those down at the local salon?

It seems these days that aestheticians can be found in just about every reputable salon or spa. More and more people are going to aestheticians for help with their skin and makeup.

I'm interested in becoming an aesthetician and one of the main things I'm wondering is regarding the difference between aestheticians that do makeup work for celebrities or in very high class spas (that make loads of money and help celebrity clients) and those down at the local salon? Consider Carmindy , for example. She does work on TLC's "What Not To Wear" as the makeup artist after Nick Arrojo does the hair. I've read up on her. She's very talented and been doing her work for years. That's understandable and expected. But she's not the only one.

It's not always experience, for sure. What makes these two people different (the high-end aesthetician and the one down the street)?

What does one have to do to become a well-known, highly-in-demand aesthetician?

What's the difference in high-end aestheticians and those down at the local salon?

the only difference is the opportunities that presented themselves to each of the different estheticians you mention, and whether or not they could take advantage of them.

What's the difference in high-end aestheticians and those down at the local salon?

It occurs to me that to be an aesthetician you have to be really poncey. I mean, that's not even a real word, "aesthetician".

They've just made it up to sound more high class, but they've got it wrong. Aesthetic means relating to a sense of beauty, not being beautiful in itself. Hence an aesthetician should be someone who appreciates other people's beauty, not someone who makes someone else beautiful. That's a cosmetician, but I suppose that's too common for you.