Beauty can run skin deep

After a career spanning the last two decades, health and skin therapist Celeste van Eijnsbergen, can testify that beauty is really skin deep.

However, the Honeydew resident was not immediately drawn anywhere near the somatology industry and wanted to be a veterinarian. She was in two minds about the amount of years of study and instead turned her attention towards the health and natural beauty of people instead of animals.

Van Eijnsbergen studied for two years, where she did an intensive course in health, skin, beauty and even aromatherapy and reflexology. Her favorite aspect of her studies was massage and she worked in gyms around Johannesburg and then in a salon in Sandton before working in London for six months.

Her experiences led her to open her own mobile salon in 2004. At the time there was only one other mobile clinic in Johannesburg.

Van Eijnsbergen believes in a holistic approach and catering to each specific client’s needs. She does not like the title of beautician as it implies only an artificial and aesthetic type of beauty, whereas the study involved is intense and includes the anatomy of the body, muscles, skin tissue, exercise and nutrition among other topics.

She prefers the term health and skin therapist as her work is more about wellness of the body and natural beauty. “Applying make-up and nails only came later and it was a very small part of it,” said Van Eijnsbergen. She finds this is a common misconception between individuals who are not in the industry.

Details: DC mobile salon, 071 613 8555.