do you think i'm dumb?

Ok so today I want to talk about something that annoys me sooooo fricken much! But before I do say any of this you should all know that I am a perfectly intelligent person who has managed to gain 10 GCSE's even though I only had 63% attendance (due to medical reasons I wasn't just skiving) in my final school year. I am also currently studying a course at college which is the equivalent of 3 A levels, and I am planning on starting an English Literature A level after christmas. So it may surprise you that the course that I am currently studying at college is beauty therapy.

Admit as soon as you saw that I was studying beauty  therapy an image of a fakery covered bimbo like Amy Childs popped into your head. It annoys me that this could be peoples reaction towards me and I blame the media, we are constantly drip fed images and told that beauty therapists are dumb girls who failed there exams and therefore had to do a course that fitted their level of intelligence, or that beauty therapy is something that just anybody can do. For example just watching something like Eastenders a girl will show up and work in the beauty salon without any training, and all they will do is sit there and do peoples nails. Firstly I had to get 5 GCSE's at a grade C or above to get onto the course so I would not have just been able to have this as a fall back course incase I did not get my grades for another course or to do A levels, also a salon will not take on an untrained person as they would not be able to get insurance and would therefore be breaking the law. 

People also always seem to think that it is a doss course where you just sit around and do nothing, I can tell you that this is so far from the truth that it is funny! In my first week at college we got a 8 task assignment (this works out to pretty much be a massive essay), we then got another 4 of these to do for the first 6 week block of college. Now that we are on our second unit of body massage the work is not going to get any easier as we also have to to the anatomy and physiology of the entire body. 

This was just the first weeks work load!

i hope that this blog post can go some way to even changing one persons opinion about people who do beauty therapy course, or who are already beauty therapists.