Thinking about spa school? That’s pretty much what we do here at SpaBeautySchools all the time! Let us help you take the guesswork out of it and get you started. Here are a few selected spa schools you may be interested in checking out. You should also check out our Facebook Fan Page for more school suggestions! Become our fan and follow us on Twitter – we’re all up on the technology (and the great spa schools)! Good luck in your search!

Academy of Massage Therapy – You can become an expert massage practitioner with a healing arts education. It’s located in Hackensack, New Jersey, and is a great place to begin your journey in becoming a certified massage therapist or certified clinical massage therapist.

American Institute of Holistic Theology – Located in the South, this holistic theology school offers preparation for a variety of spa careers to its students. By combining knowledge in metaphysics, divinity, parapsychic science, and more, spa students at this school get to learn a great deal about the holistic field.

Clayton College – For a spa school with a diverse curriculum and distance learning education opportunities, Clayton College can certainly give you what you need for your impending spa career. With iridology, herbal studies, naturopathy, and other natural health subjects, Clayton College provides many options.

Northern Arizona Massage Therapy Institute – NAMTI, as the Northern Arizona Massage Therapy Institute is better known, is a well-known massage therapy school. Providing training in massage an bodywork, NAMTI has been around for a while and is accredited to provide students with their massage therapy degrees.

Ohio College of Massotherapy – Massage therapy is a career that can help a lot of different people feel good about themselves. The Ohio College of Massotherapy provides students with a massage education that will lead to diplomas and degrees. In fact, there’s even an online associate degree program for massage therapy, giving you many different options to pursue your massage education.

-Amanda Fornecker

I love reality television. It’s my guilty pleasure. Depending on the type of show, I can be interested in both competitions and shows that document people’s lives. The ability to appeal to an audience is probably best-suited for a brand new idea for a show. We’ve all seen the same old beauty competition shows. Shear Genius had hair stylists vying for a chance to win the title, money, and a career takeoff; Blush got us all interested in makeup careers. But there must be something else.

Here’s where “Beauty School Drop-In” (working title) comes in to play. I think this is a fabulous idea. The proposed show will follow around a few beauty students at the Hoss Lee Beauty School in Citrus Heights, CA. The students won’t necessarily be competing for anything on the show, but we will get to see their real lives. It will document what they actually go through as beauty students and even show their home and work lives. We will get to see what a truly exciting and challenging experience beauty school can be. I think this will be a great way to interest many more people in getting their beauty school degrees, certifications, and licenses. You don’t really know what a particular career involves until you’ve seen someone in action.

The show won’t air anytime soon, as there are still casting calls taking place. However, I do hope it makes it to the air so we can all learn something from beauty school and better understand how our beauty school stylists and cosmetologists get to where they are.

For more info check out: Local Reality Show Hopes to Make the Cut.

-Amanda Fornecker

You’ve decided to go back to school to pursue something you are genuinely interested in. Congratulations! No matter what avenue of education you are pursuing, you’re always bound to have questions. It’s a huge life-altering decision to continue on with your education so it’s a good idea to have some of the facts down first:

• Beauty schools generally interest the artistic and creative sides of individuals. This doesn’t mean you have to already have techniques to pursue your education, but a strong interest in fields like cosmetology, hair design, makeup application, and more are certainly important.
• According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest 10 percent of salaried cosmetologists earned close to $20 per hour in May 2006. Salaries grow with experience.
• Cosmetology and other beauty professions tend to be flexible careers, with about 46 percent of the total number of cosmetologists being self-employed, according to the BLS.

What questions will you have before you make your ultimate beauty decision? Let us help you here with the Top Five Questions About Beauty Schools.

-Amanda Fornecker

I’ve recently been plagued (yet again) by the acne monster. I saw my first pimple back when I was 13 years old and my mom actually took a picture of the momentous occasion. I still remember what I was wearing – a ridiculous midriff tee that had a stick figure, muttering “Whatever” on it. Little did I know that acne would turn out to be quite a nuisance throughout my young adult life and beyond, and my non-chalant attitude would turn into a longing for my 13-year-old face. And here I am, 11 years later, facing far worse issues than my newly-pubescent body.

Why, oh why, does acne plague us so? I’ve done countless things to try and zap those zits. From Proactiv (my face eventually became immune) to dermatological visits (I disliked that baby’s-bottom-faced evil lady) to many other over-the-counter products (the long-ish routine makes you restless after a while), I have yet to find the perfect solution.

My latest trial has been facials. And while I enjoyed them ever so much, I am now a poor student once again, who is a few hundred miles from home and her beloved esthetician. So what’s a girl to do?

I certainly can’t let new people that I meet see my horrifying face. Sure, I probably imagine it to be worse than it actually is, but my main issue is this: why, when I work so hard to keep my face acne-free, do I still have worse acne than my friends who don’t have such a regimented routine?! I refuse to have a night out and proceed straight to bed once I walk in the door. No matter how late it is, I must wash my face, tone, and moisturize.

I suppose I have to look to my parents for the answer to this question. It’s all in our genes. My parents both had horrible acne – you can still see the remnants of it on my dad’s face. But my mom swears that by the age of 24 (and she was married by this point), she did not have acne the way I do now.

I sit here and write to you, my SpaBeauties, flustered, flabbergasted, and filled with anxiety. Will I always have this issue? I know I’m not the only one. And while I do love makeup and foundation, a girl likes to be all natural once in a while. What am I to do? This question is one for my estheticians out there, professional and student, alike. Wouldn’t you like to help someone like me?? Where’s the solution?

-Amanda Fornecker