Blogs by Clinical Director of Cosmetic Courses, Mr Adrian Richards

adrian richards What are the advantages of online learning_

What are the advantages of online learning online for you?  Whatever your level of expertise now is a brilliant time to up your skill level.  When the pandemic is over there will be an inevitable upsurge in people seeking treatment.  It is a great time to start your career in aesthetics or widen your treatment portfolio to help fulfil the forthcoming surge in demand.

Clinical Director Mr Adrian Richards and NIP Alison Telfer, Glass House Clinics, chat with Professor David Sines, chair of the JCCP. They delve deeper into what we should be expecting with our clinics reopening and what you can do to make sure you are putting yours and your patients safety at the forefront.

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Clinical Director Mr Adrian Richards was joined by Ewan Colville of Sunstone Digital to discuss working with influencers. You can watch the video below and also see some of the mentioned highlights.

  • Assessing Influencers:
    • Use the free Uplfluence chrome extension to assess credibility of influencers you might want to work with. Quickly check their followers age & gender splits plus country of residency. Download Upluence Chrome Extension here
    • You can also assess influencers by simply eyeballing their profiles to check follower numbers, post quality and gauging typical follower engagement with their posts. And follow them with your brand and/or personal IG account to get a flavour of how they interact with followers.
    • Buzzstream is another tool you can use to discover and reach out to influencers. It’s possibly more suitable for brands than local clinics, but there is a free trial account you can sign up for and cancel down before you get charged
    • Nano-influencers have a following of 1-10K and they might be the best option for clinics with local catchments who want to engage local audiences. You might also find a nano-influencer can be persuaded to promote your clinic/treatments/products with in-kind benefits – like a free treatment
    • Beyond the harder-to-measure influencer KPIs like post reach and engagement stats, you can move your more trusted and proven influencers towards payment-by-results models that reward them per click (to your site from their IG posts) or per action on your site like enquiry (lead gen), attending an event or buying a product online with a discount code exclusive to the influencer.
  • More influencer marketing insights:
    • When your Instagram (or the IG profile of influencers you work with) hits 10K followers, this milestone unlocks extra privileges, the most significant being the swipe-up feature allowing you to embed a web link in an IG story/post.
    • Here’s a useful article on local influencer marketing
  • Your Business Instagram Account – some housekeeping:
    • As Adrian said, you want to verify your business Instagram account. This means IG recognises your profile as an authentic presence. Request IG’s verification badge (it’s a blue tick on your profile pic) by following these steps: https://help.instagram.com/369148866843923. If you’re using an individual Instagram profile to represent your business, then follow these steps instead (be prepared to upload proof of ID like driving licence or passport)
    • Use linktr.ee on your Instagram bio to neatly show multiple links to all your relevant platforms or landing pages. Linktr.ee occupies the link in your IG bio and opens up a modal with multiple links to your site, facebook, YouTube Channel, treatment landing pages etc. There’s a free version. Access here

View more live recordings like this here.

Find out more

The Aesthetics Knowledge Hub is a great place for you to find answers to frequently asked questions. We recommend having a look at the Business and Marketing Knowledge Hub.

July is fast approaching and now is the time to make sure you are prepared for when you reopen your clinic.

Clinical Director of Cosmetic Courses Mr Adrian Richards chats with Managing Director Jim Savin and Clinical Lead Dr Fiona Durban of Cosmetic Courses about how to prepare your clinic for opening! Including what PPE you need, how to look after your clinic, staff and patients.

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Clinical director of Cosmetic Courses Mr Adrian Richards discusses the 6 indications of Hyaluronidase for your dermal filler patients.

Indications of Hyaluronidase:

1. Vascular Occlusion: when dermal filler is injected into the vessel.

2. Blindness: dermal filler injected around the eye and the carried by vein or artery into the eyeball.

3. The Tyndall Effect: superficial placement of dermal fillers reacting with light.

4. Unacceptable results: immediately wrong results that need to be addressed, wrong placement.

5. Delayed Onset Nodules: typically appears months after treatment in the sight of injection.

6. Allergic Reaction: immediate reaction to the treatment.

Watch below:

Delve deeper into aesthetic complications with our online course:


Aesthetic Complications | Online

 

Cosmetic Courses are excited to bring their award-winning Botox training online. Working with our expert trainers we have built an online platform available to access anytime, anywhere providing you theoretical training from basic to advanced Botox training. botox training online

Botox injections are one of the most popular treatments within the aesthetic industry, our courses start from basic to advance. A great way to understand the treatment deeper and also a handy source to recap back to whenever you need too.

Foundation Online

  • Pre course material
  • Covering basic Botox treatments – upper face
  • Basic filler treatments – around the mouth
  • Quiz to test your knowledge
  • Course presentation led by Mr Adrian Richards
  • Video demonstration of reconstitution and injections
  • Certificate of completion


Foundation Training | Online

Advanced Botox Online

  • Basic Botulinum Toxin Recap
  • Quiz to test your knowledge
  • Course presentation led by Dr Fiona Durban covering: brow lift, bunny lines, peri-oral, mouth corners, gummy smile, puckering chin, Masseter, Nefertit & Hyperhidrosis
  • Video demonstration
  • Certificate of completion


Advanced Botulinum Toxin | Online

Our CPD certified online training can be referred back to at anytime after completion, there is also no time limit on when you need to complete, that way you can take your time and get the most out of your learning.

Once you have completed your online course you will be instructed to take part in an online test, you have as many chances as needed to complete this test. Once you have successfully completed you will be contacted by a member of the Cosmetic Courses team who will arrange to send out your part 1 certificate of theoretical training. They will also discuss your options on attending a practical session to practice what you have learnt on live models with the supervision and guidance from our expert trainers in one of our training centres across the UK.

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Whether you are looking for personal development or more from your professional life, our dermal fillers courses online will provide you with essential theoretical skills and business knowledge to kick start your aesthetic career. And all while staying at home! dermal fillers courses online cosmetic courses

Dermal Fillers Courses Online

Our academy offers a variety of different learning methods including, interactive presentations including patient assessment, facial ageing, MD Codes, consultation & expectation advice. But also a demonstration and a quiz to test your knowledge! 

Our dermal fillers courses online cover a wide variety of basic to advanced sought after treatments including the ever popular lip filler course online:

Cheek Filler | Dermal Fillers Courses Online

  • Interactive presentation including patient assessment, facial ageing, MD Codes, consultation & expectation advice + much more!
  • Top Model Cheek video
  • Cheek demonstration video
  • Downloadable PDF’s
  • Quiz to test your knowledge
  • Certificate on successful completion


Cheek Filler | Online

Introduction to Lip Filler Online

  • Interactive presentation including patient assessment, MD Codes, complication & product selection + much more!
  • Lip demonstration video
  • Lip MD Codes video
  • Downloadable PDF’s
  • Quiz to test your knowledge
  • Certificate on successful completion


Introduction to Lip Filler | Online

Facial Aesthetic Contouring Online

  • Interactive presentation facial ageing, MD Codes, cannula techniques, chin, cheek and jaw contouring + much more!
  • Cheek, chin and jaw demonstration video
  • Downloadable PDF’s
  • Quiz to test your knowledge
  • Certificate on successful completion


Facial Aesthetic Contouring Course | Online

Our online training is the start of your journey into aesthetic medicine. Our highly skilled and qualified team will provide you with full support and first-hand advice. Built by our expert trainers to provide you up to date, innovative training. 

These courses allow you to follow quality training by a competent team at your disposal while staying at home. With these courses, you improve your skills and receive a certificate showing your successful completion of the theoretical element of your chosen course. Once you have completed your online courses you will be invited to attend a practical session at one of our clinics across the UK to practice what you have learnt on live models provided by us.

 

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Do you want to improve your knowledge of the skin? Master the art of Micro Needling and Skin Peeling? Maybe you just need a refresh. Our online skin course are available to access anytime, online skin course cosmetic coursesanywhere to help improve your skin knowledge.

Online Skin Courses

Our online academy has been built to provide you with with our award-winning training available to access on the move and at any time created by our expert trainers.

With our online skin course at the Cosmetic Courses Academy, you will learn how best to take care of different skin types. Depending on the program, you may learn about skin physiology and anatomy and how nutrition can help improve skin health. Some may learn how to apply services such as chemical peels or micro-needling treatments. Some programs may also discuss chemicals that should be avoided in skincare products and how to make natural products.

People who take this course benefit in that they can gain an education on their own schedule. Opening up the doors to all the different career paths available in the skincare industry! 

Online Skin Courses: Micro Needling

  • Skin Anatomy 
  • Pen VS roller 
  • Contraindications and indications 
  • Aftercare 
  • Quiz to test your knowledge 


Micro Needling | Online

Skin Peel

  • Chemical Peel Background 
  • The different ingredients 
  • Patient Selection 
  • Contraindications 
  • Aftercare 
  • Carrying out a peel 


Skin Peel | Online

Skin Anatomy

  • Overview of the skin anatomy – structure and function
  • Skin classification
  • Hair types
  • Cardiovascular system
  • End of course quiz


Skin Anatomy | Online

There are numerous career opportunities in the skincare industry for individuals who have the proper training and education. Those who complete an online skin course have the possibility to find work in day spas, dermatology clinics, resort spas, wellness centers, skincare clinics, health stores, and for product manufacturers. 

Our academy offers you a unique and valuable experience. It’s the opportunity to educate yourself about medical aesthetic skin care at home! Our courses is the possibility to develop your knowledge but also to help you to practice at best the various skincare treatments.

 

Skin expert of Cosmetic Courses Fleur Nicholls demonstrates an effective skin cleanse on her patient using NeoStrata Skin Cleansing Gel.

At Cosmetic Courses we teach all levels of skin rejuvenation from chemical peels to 8-point facelifts, what we have realised is that sometimes practitioners can miss the basics, like a perfected skin cleanse.

When treating your skin patients, whether it be for a peel, microneedling or other it is important to start with an effective skin cleanse, not only does this remove any make up, product or dirt but also sets a relaxed tone for the rest of the treatment.

Giving the patient an enjoyable procedure!

You can buy the NeoStrata Skin Cleanser used in this video by clicking here.

This soap-free, non-foaming gel formulation gently cleanses and prepares the skin to optimize the skincare regimen that follows. Formulated with a non-irritating Polyhydroxy Acid (PHA), known to lightly exfoliate without drying skin’s protective moisture barrier.

  • Formulated with a gently PHA exfoliant
  • Effectively removes makeup and impurities without irritation
  • Ideal for all skin types, including sensitive and reactive skin
  • Soap-free, fragrance-free

View all of our online skin courses by clicking here.

We were delighted to host a live webinar with Professor David Sines CBE from the JCCP, Mr Adrian Richards & Alison Telfer. If you missed it, you can watch below!

Click the link to see the full document: Preparing for return to practice


The document provided by the JCCP covers:

  •  Standard precautions
  • Transmission
  • Hand hygiene
  • Respiratory secretions and cough hygiene – ‘Catch it, bin it, kill it’
  • Clothing (also below)
  • Triage
  • Triage
  • Bookings and payment
  • Temperature screening
  • Reception Areas
  • Staff
  • People that are not involved in direct patient care
  • Staff working directly with patients
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Training
  • Plume generating procedures: laser and ablative plasma
  • Procurement, supply and risk assessment
  • Treatment specific Risk assessment and access to appropriate Personal Protective Equipment
  • Fit testing
  • Sessional use of PPE
  • Donning and Doffing
  • Disposal of PPE
  • Cleaning and Waste Management
  • Equipment
  • Cleaning in common zones
  • Cleaning in treatment rooms
  • Room ventilation
  • Cleaning solutions
  • Audit
  • Consent
  • Education
  • Skin preparation
  • Testing
  • Time management
  • Risk assessment

who are the JCCP?

The JCCP has been established to assist members of the public who are seeking/considering or undergoing non-surgical and hair restoration surgery treatments (Injections, Fillers, Lasers, Peels and Hair Restoration Surgery) with advice on patient safety matters and how to gain access to registers of approved practitioners. Find out more about the JCCP here.