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I’ve been in the professional skin care industry for three decades—my entire working life. During that time, I’ve met a lot of people. Of course, I’ve met lots of skin therapists, and students who aspired to become skin therapists. I’ve also met lots of people in our sister tribe, the hairdressers’ tribe. And I’ve often drawn this comparison between the two:
Skin care people tend to be introverts. They hate selling. They are not show-bizzy performers—they often prefer the dimly lit, gently scented cave of the treatment room where they enter into a silent, energetically healing bond with the client.
Hairdressers, on the other hand, tend to be loud, funny, extroverted, social, attention-loving, the life of the party—and their passion for hair is framed by a rowdy rock-star persona.
Well, please just forget I ever said anything of the kind. Meet Talia VanDoran lately of Nashville, Tennessee, who just won the 2009 “My Favorite Dermalogica Product” contest.
This is an annual contest sponsored by Dermalogica. Each year, we ask skin therapists to create videos and send them to us—all about why they love our brand and what specific Dermalogica product rocks their world.
Talia is a newcomer to the tribe, just having received her esthetician’s license in June, 2009. She also is a recipient of the prestigious scholarship offered by The International Dermal Institute (IDI), the advanced skin care academy where our products are developed and researched.
She’s also a model and competitive weight-lifter, and loves riding and working on her custom Harley. So much for being a shrinking violet.
Of our profession, she says, “I get to rub your face, rip out your hair—and we call this ‘work’ !!!”.
This ball of fire is on her way out to visit us soon, here at our world headquarters near Los Angeles. Judging from the fishnet stockings, the tattoos, the lashes, the peacock feathers and the rhinestones (bear in mind that some of these are Talia’s recent wedding photos…), we anticipate an entertaining visit. She’ll be blogging with me while she’s here, so stay tuned. Congratulations, Talia!