The journal

Notes on the craft.

Science, technique, careers and the business of beauty written by the educators who teach it.

How to read an ingredient label like an esthetician

INCI lists look intimidating, but a handful of rules will tell you most of what you need to know about a product before you buy it.

Modular, verifiable certification is rewriting who gets to work in beauty and where their work can take them.

Beautiful sets that fall in a week are a retention problem, not a styling one. Here's where it usually goes wrong.

More steps rarely means better skin. Restraint — and consistency is the real luxury.

You've earned the certificate. Now the harder skill charging what your work is worth.

From luminous skin to graphic liner, the looks shaping campaigns this year and the techniques behind them.