An appointment with a nail technician turned Gail Blair’s passion for beauty therapy into a career.
“She suggested that I’d make a good beauty therapist,” the Touch of Eden owner says.
“Even as a little girl I used to pamper my mum. I massaged her face and played with her hands.”
The technician’s suggestion led to Gail, then 39, enrolling at Geelong College of Beauty Therapy.
At the time it was a “pretty big thing to do”, she says.
Gail earned a diploma and her first job in the beauty industry.
“I got the job with the Victorian Paramedical Skin and Body Centre in South Yarra and worked there for just on two years.”
Then Gail’s daughter’s suggested she set up her own business.
Touch of Eden has now been operating at Newtown for 18 years.
Gail and her three staff now provide various beauty services with the latest tools of the trade.
“We have all this new equipment, including two IPL hair treatment machines to do various skn, body and face treatments,” she explains.
“Back in 2000 I was the first in Geelong to bring IPL and LED light therapy to Geelong.”
Touch of Eden services include everything from fat cavitation, tattoo removal and skin treatments through to electrolysis, needling procedures, teeth-whitening, E-candling, manicures and pedicures.
“We’re a one-stop skin and body centre for beauty aspects,” Gail says.
Touch of Eden is open at 1A Fairview Avenue, Newtown, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment on Mondays.
More information is available by phoning 5222 8282 or visiting touchofeden.com.au
