The additional 600 for a master aesthetician license will only hurt current aestheticians.  I feel the 600 hour requirement is a wonderful idea for the state of  Virginia and it will weed out the people who practice unsafe aesthetics with little to no education.  The truth is that there are many good aesthticians in the state of VA and many that have worked hard to build a business and clientel.  This clientel will be lost and incomes will drop if we can not do most of our treatments that will be require a master aesthetics license.  I myself will not be able to do most of the treatments that I currently offer to my own clientel.  I was educated by one of the best schools Von Lee International School of Aesthetics in Baltimore Maryland.  I am good at what I do and have a loyal clientel.  I stay up to  date on changing technology and continue my education.  I do not feel that the current schools are experienced and have the knowledge to teach a quality education.  I have had experience with one school that is pushing for the master aesthetics program and was very dissapointed.  Many of my own clients have come to me with dissapointment after being former clients of another schools president.   If many of my own clients are a leaving with bad reviews will we be getting a quality education?  What standards will be set?  Aestheticians will not have a  choice to  go to a well known school out of state.

We as aestheticians will only lose.  We will lose clients, we will lose money, we will lose a chance to get a quality education and we eventually lose our careers.  The presidents of the schools will be the only ones who will gain when they collect $10,000 from each new student.