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Beauty Therapy

The beauty therapist offers a head-to-toe experience that improves the client’s quality of life by making them look and feel their best.

Why is this skill important?

A beauty therapist generally works in the commercial sector, offering specialist services, treatments and advice for the skin, body care, massage, and make-up of individual clients. There is a direct relationship between the nature and quality of the service required, and the payment made by the client. Therefore, the beauty therapist has a continuing responsibility to work professionally and interactively with the client in order to give satisfaction and thus maintain and grow the business. Beauty therapy is closely associated with other parts of the service sector, such as hairdressing, fashion, and media and with the many products and services that support it, normally for commercial purposes.

Beauty therapy also has an important therapeutic role in supporting individual’s self-esteem and confidence. It may help to ameliorate the effects of illness and can aid recovery.

The beauty therapist works in diverse environments, including large or small salons within leisure and health related organizations. The specialist services and treatments offered by the beauty therapist relate to the face, body, feet, hands, and nails. The beauty therapist may specialize, for example in manicure, pedicure, or skin care. Irrespective of this, work organization and management, professional attitude, client care and relationships are the universal attributes of the outstanding beauty therapist.

The beauty therapist works in a 1:1 relationship with clients and can be part of a wider team. Whatever the structure of the work, the trained and experienced beauty therapist takes on a high level of personal responsibility and autonomy. From safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the client through scrupulous attention to safe working, to achieving exceptional make-up effects for special occasions, every treatment and client matters.

With the growing worldwide demand for beauty therapy services and associated products, and the international mobility of people, the beauty therapist faces rapidly expanding opportunities and challenges. For the talented beauty therapist there are many commercial and international opportunities; however, these carry with them the need to understand and work with diverse cultures and trends. The diversity of skills associated with beauty therapy is therefore likely to expand.

Location

Helsinki, Finland

20–23 October 2022

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Results

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Rank	Medal	Result	Competitor	Country/Region
1.	Gold	752	Pei Wang	China
2.	Silver	736	YA YU CHEN	Chinese Taipei
3.	Bronze	729	Mitsuki Iga	Japan
4.	Medallion for Excellence	723	Hui Fang Lim	Singapore
4.	Medallion for Excellence	723	Lili Darabos	Hungary
6.	Medallion for Excellence	720	Yuri Jung	Korea
7.	Medallion for Excellence	713	Tania MINIC	France
8.	Medallion for Excellence	710	Giulia Liberti	Switzerland
9.	Medallion for Excellence	706	Seomara Cabrita	Portugal
10.		694	Nur Aliah Nadhirah Yusri	Malaysia
11.		691	Zuhal Rajabi	Canada
12.		688	Laura SALES	Spain
13.		686	Chazney Jacobs	South Africa
14.		684	Katarina Rustan	Croatia
15.		680	Raffaella Pia Ferro	South Tyrol, Italy
16.		647	Elena-Milena Radu	Austria
16.		647	Veera Huomo	Finland
18.		641	TRIXIE MULOS	Philippines