Now she gives facials.

Tasks included giving facials, waxing, performing cosmetic surgery, hairdressing and styling.

We used to shave them and give them facials and all of them wanted stickum on their hair.

Inspired by her classes, she began giving facials to her friends out of her East Village apartment.

And they give very good facials in the beauty salon.

The certified manicurist may not give facials; the certified hair stylist may not offer manicures .

Working in a unionized factory with good pay, affordable health care and a pension is not the same as giving facials for $7 an hour without benefits or job security.

"It was just as therapeutic giving facials as it was receiving facials," Ms. Brown said.

Students learn to give facials and enzyme peels, warm-stone therapy and mud wraps as well as to apply makeup.

After she completes the institute's aesthetics course this fall, Ms. Brown plans to start her own skin-care spa, and as a volunteer, to give facials to inmates.