Eye Brows...!

[wizzywoo1972]

My daughter started working in a beauticians about a year ago. Her manager has been constantly telling her to get her eyebrows waxed. My daughter is a bit of a plain Jane, she doesnt wear make up, she has plain hair and naturally thick eyebrows.
She was employed like this yet the manager insists on telling her to wear make up and have her brows shaped. There is nothing in her contract to say that this has to be done. I'm just wondering whether this is imperative that she do this as she has been told its her "final warning" about it.
Is this right? Should she be bullied into changing her appearance?
Would really appreciate anybodies comments.
Many Thanks

[askyourgran]

Dead right kval. In the beauty business they expect Beauty, they selling products to enhance a less than attractive physog, anyone with any sense wouldn't apply for the job unless they could sell themselves. Someone with alopcia would wear a wig, hopefully.

[kvalidir]

Blood hell :( That's horrifying, and as I said before a lot of beauticians look pretty off putting in their attempts at 'glamour' and that would really put me off. At the spa I go to there are several very beautiful girls who do wear make up (really well), a couple who don't seem to at all, and one who looks like Lily Savage :/

[Prudie]

Kvalidir with all due respect, it's irrelevant what can pasted from some legal diatribe, if it's law it's not usually instigated. If we can bring the discussion down about 50 intellectual notches I know through friends (and as it happens only this week watching a documentary on BA) that flight attendants are expected to wear make-up of a specified level, even to the point of lipstick colour. If one thinks that's bullying, an affront to women/men or an impingement of one's personal rights then the answers is simple - make a stand and don't do that job.

[kvalidir]

Or make a stand and DO do the job, which is why we have employment law to start with, to safeguard staff from harassment.
I don't think that's 50 notches of intellectual anything, it's just the law- if your air stewardess friends tolerate it, then more fool them, and they make it more difficult for everyone else-no offence intended.

[black_cat51]

i think the test would be "resonableness" is it reasonable to specify whta makeup an office worker wears? Probably not. Is it reasonable to specify what make up a beautician wears? Probably

[Prudie]

It's not just my friends!!!! That is the policy for BA, Virgin and doubtless countless other airlines for their flight attendants.
There's enough people who want to do the job that that those who won't comply are just out the door. Tough but true. This as usual has gone off topic. wizzy if your daughter is wearing make-up etc to please her manager, what is the problem?

[China Doll]

I wouldn't go to a hair dresser with bad hair, use a make up artist with poorly applied make up, have a pedicure/manicure from someone with badly cared fkr nails, take fashion advice from someone who got dressed in the dark or buy something from a beautician who looks like they don't follow their own advice. I think in certain industries there is a reasonable expectation to look the part I'm afraid.

[237SJ]

That`s not strictly true about the airline policy. It`s certainly encouraged but if a flight attendent was to say "I`m not wearing make up today becuse I`m allergic/hate it etc there is nothing that anyone can do. What you can and can`t wear comes under 'uniform standards' but make up/nail varnish is not compulsory.

[237SJ]

As far as the beauticians is concerned, if it was me I would wear really nicely applied underdone make up that looks polished but more natural. A beautician who wore make up in that way would encourage me to patronise their salon. I find the overdone look quite offputting. Same with beauty counters in department stores - I find the overly made-up staff quite intimidating.

[China Doll]

Agreed 237SJ.