Eight years in the chair. Now I teach it.

I’m Nadia Reid, an advanced skin therapist in Manchester. I treat acne and pigmentation three days a week, and I spend the rest of it teaching other therapists to do the same, properly.

— Nadia Reid, founder of LUMEN

No. 01 · The Story

From one couch to a classroom.

A LUMEN treatment room: a blush leather facial chair in a calm cream room with daylight through linen curtains

Fig. 2 — Treatment room one, Tariff Street. Every plan starts here.

2018

Behind a salon chair

I qualified in advanced skin therapy and spent three years in a busy Manchester salon. Most of my clients came in about acne and pigmentation, and too many left with a facial that did nothing for either.

2021

A room of my own

I opened LUMEN on Tariff Street with one treatment couch and a waiting list of clients who had been passed from clinic to clinic. That same year, two therapists asked if they could watch me work. They became my first students.

Today

Three days treating, two days teaching

I still treat every week, because the protocols I teach have to keep working on real skin. The rest of the week belongs to the academy: small classes, real models, and support long after the certificate.

No. 02 · Why I Teach

“Most courses teach the treatment. I teach what to do when skin doesn’t follow the textbook.”

Every course at LUMEN is built from real cases in my treatment room, including the ones that went wrong. Six students at a time, so I can watch every treatment and correct it there and then.

No. 03 · Credentials