Melanie faces a bright future

FACE mapping is a new concept to me, but I am assured by people in the know, and in particular one Melanie Sherrington, that it’s a route to health and beauty.

Not that such a road — especially beauty — is an open highway for me, but there are apparently lots of us, men and women, for whom facials and beauty treatments are a must.

Melanie, (28), from Austerlands, has quit her job as a social worker and invested her life savings in Solace Beauty, basing her salon in Chadderton at the junction of Broadway and Middleton Road.

A determined young woman, Melanie is already attracting a customer base just over a month after opening her business.

“I am determined to make a go of this, I have invested my life savings in this business and a year of my life on a course at the International Dermal Institute to gain all my qualifications,” she said.

Part of her opening offer promotion is a free back massage for anyone taking a face-mapping course offered by Dermologica, whose products she exclusively promotes.

“This has proved really popular,” says Melanie, adding: “I am finding that people are coming back for other treatments and telling their friends and considering I am in the opening weeks of my new business, I have had quite a few customers.”

To promote her services, which include the usual beauty treatments such as pedicures, manicures, eyelash and eyebrow tinting, make up and French polishing hands and feet, Melanie is planning to be out and about at bridal fayres and also hopes to secure some time in Oldham town centre, supported by Dermologica.

She also has a Skin Bar, and supplies travel kits, and her aim is to establish her own salon, in her own premises, and then expand into teaching. “That’s all for the future, right now I am concentrating on establishing Solace Beauty. “I really believe that people will spread the word once get to know face-mapping, which has a background in 14 areas of the face meaning each treatment is exclusive and individual to that face,” says Melanie.