Demand for plucking and waxing is high, but salons can't find enough skilled staff.
Over the past three years, the number of salons and spas offering beauty treatments has increased by 8% a year. In the first four years of the century, sales of perfumes and cosmetics in the UK rose by nearly a quarter. Beauty treatments are increasingly viewed as essentials rather than luxuries, and not just by women.
However an acute skills crisis is threatening to blight the progress of the beauty economy, according to Eileen Cavalier, chief executive of the London College of Beauty Therapy.
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