In my profession I often sound like a broken record. I find myself saying the same things to clients over and over again. I know I probably always sound interesting and deliver the lines like they are new, but trust me, the stuff I said to you when we first met is almost the exact same stuff I said to someone else. Sometimes I say it at a certain point in our relationship, and sometimes I just say the same thing over and over again in the hopes of being heard…WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN EVERY DAY!!!
Since I have a whole new batch of clients at the laser place, I recently found myself back to repeating my “first time client script”. There are some really good pieces of wisdom in that script. One of the ones off the blemished skin script (yes indeed each skin type has its very own script!) is my favorite and goes something like this.
“Looking at your skin I can tell that you sleep more on BLANK side.” The client gasps at my psychic-like knowledge of their sleeping habits.
…Honestly, I am not psychic. The skin tells stories about you. It just takes someone good at reading the stories to.. but wait… I digress… that’s a different script. You’ll have to wait for a different blog for the rest of that script…
Where was I? Oh yeah…
“Looking at your skin I can tell that you sleep more on BLANK side.”
“I DO sleep more on that side” the client says in awe.
“How often do you change your pillow case?” I ask while they are still pondering my ability to know how they sleep.
“INSERT CLIENT ANSWER HERE.”
“You should change your pillow case every night.” I say matter of factly. The client sputters at this but I power on. “I know it seems decadent, but think of what gets on a pillow case in a day. Dirt, drool, animal fur, smog, oil…heck your face secretes a whole bunch of stuff!”
“Eeeww I never thought about that…” the client replies, pretty seriously grossed out.
“Yep, think of a pillow case as underwear for your face. You wouldn’t wear those two days in a row would you?”
“No way!” the client almost screams; thinking that there’s a Linens-N-Things on the way home.
If you are a client of mine you have heard it at least once, and if you are a good little client you actually paid attention to me when I told you that one of the best things you can do to stop breakout is change your pillow case every night. It does sound decadent. I know. But it really does work. Pillow cases are gross places and yet such an easy and cheap thing to change nightly. Go out and buy a laundry cycle worth of daily pillow cases. Then change them every night before you go to bed. Give it two weeks. You’ll see a difference in your skin.