For licensed skincare professionals
Building a six-week client course
30 minutes to plan. Six sessions over six weeks.
How to turn a protocol into a course: what happens at each session, when the course is reassessed, and what the client takes home at each stage. The individual protocols are not repeated here; they are referenced by ID.
Who this is for
Clients with one mapped concern, six free weeks, and a stated willingness to run a home routine. All three, not two of three.
Six weeks is not arbitrary. It is long enough for a cumulative change in appearance to become visible and photographable, short enough that a client will actually finish it, and it contains a natural reassessment point at week four.
Who this is not for
- Skin that is reacting now. Stabilize with PROT-BS-002, rebuild the routine with PROT-BS-021, then book.
- Clients with two concerns of equal weight. A course aimed at both delivers neither. Pick the one the client mentions first when they are not being asked.
- Any client with a two-week gap inside the window. Move the whole course rather than stretching it; a six-week course run over ten weeks is six unrelated facials.
- Anything that belongs to a physician. PROT-BS-020 exists to catch this before money changes hands.
- A professional resurfacing treatment elsewhere in the last seven days.
Before you begin
The consultation is a separate appointment. Baseline photographs, zone map and the two-week simplification are all complete before session 1, and the client arrives on settled skin.
Book all six dates in the diary at the consultation. A course booked one appointment at a time is not a course, it is a sequence of individual bookings that will lose two of its six.
The six-week frame
| Week | Purpose | In the room | Reassess | Home, from this session |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baseline and tolerance | The protocol at its lowest intensity. Full step sequence, shortest dwell times. | Reaction during the session. Nothing else. | The core three: Comfort Cleansing Milk, the indicated toner, AquaCell Moisturizer. Handed over, priced and explained today. |
| 2 | Working intensity | The protocol as written. Standard dwell times. | Home compliance, by asking what they did on three named days last week. | The treatment serum: a ProSerum for daily use, or a ten-vial box for twice-weekly 1.5 ml applications. |
| 3 | Consolidation | Full protocol. Extend dwell on the two zones that matter most. | Whether the concern is moving in the zones you mapped, or only in the easy ones. | Nothing new. Week 3 is the compliance check, not a sale. |
| 4 | Reassessment | Shortened protocol. Abbreviated re-map from PROT-BS-020, stages 2, 3, 6 and 8. Photographs under the same conditions. | Everything. Continue, adjust, or stop. | The targeted addition, only if the re-map supports it: Barrier Repair Cream, Bio-Thread Eye and Neck Cream, or a second serum. |
| 5 | Peak session | The strongest session of the course. Schedule at least 10 days before any event the client has mentioned. | Tolerance at full intensity. | Nothing new. |
| 6 | Close and plan | Full protocol. Final photographs. Side-by-side comparison with the client present. | The whole course against the baseline record. | The maintenance box, the next course dates, and the maintenance interval in writing. |
The one thing that determines whether a six-week course delivers: the home routine starts at session one. A course where the retail conversation happens at session five is a five-week course with one week of home care attached, and it will underperform against its own photographs. The client is in the chair for roughly five hours across six weeks and manages their own skin for the other thousand. Sell the routine at session one or accept the ceiling.
Course variants by concern
| Concern | Protocol | Weeks 1 to 2 | Weeks 3 to 4 | Weeks 5 to 6 | Home course |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dryness | PROT-BS-001 | Full hydration protocol, single serum layer | Second serum layer to the flaking zones | Add the occlusive step across the full face if tolerated | Cleanser, Bio-Ferment Essence Toner, Hyaluronic Skin Repair ProSerum, AquaCell Moisturizer, Barrier Repair Cream |
| Sensitivity | PROT-BS-002 | Shortest possible protocol, minimum steps | Add one step only, and only if week 2 was uneventful | Hold. Do not escalate a course that is working | Cleanser, Marine Balancing Toner, AquaCell Moisturizer, Soothing Recovery Gel on demand |
| Uneven-looking tone | PROT-BS-004 and PROT-BS-007 | Preparation and tolerance. No resurfacing in week 1 | Introduce the resurfacing step at week 3, per PROT-BS-011 before PROT-BS-010 | Full protocol, then sun protection discussion repeated | Cleanser, toner, Brightening ProSerum, AquaCell Moisturizer, daily sun protection from any brand |
| Look of firmness | PROT-BS-005 and PROT-BS-009 | Full protocol, massage duration at the low end | Extend the massage component. Technique is the variable, not the product | Full duration. Add the eye and neck step | Cleanser, toner, Age Repair ProSerum, Bio-Thread Eye and Neck Cream, AquaCell Moisturizer |
| Congestion and visible pores | PROT-BS-006 | Assess tolerance. No resurfacing in week 1 | Resurfacing step from week 3, alternating weeks only | Alternate resurfacing and calming sessions | Cleanser, toner, Clarifying ProSerum, AquaCell Moisturizer. Nothing occlusive on the congested zones |
| Dehydration on oily skin | PROT-BS-013 | Full protocol. Correct the client's over-cleansing first | Hold the protocol, reduce the home routine further if needed | Full protocol | Cleanser, Bio-Ferment Essence Toner, Hyaluronic Skin Repair ProSerum, AquaCell Moisturizer. No occlusive |
Sessions inside a course still follow PROT-BS-019 afterward, every time, including in week 6. A course does not exempt anyone from aftercare.
Frequency and course
Weekly, six sessions, same weekday where possible. Do not compress to twice weekly to finish sooner. The interval is where the home routine does its work, and removing it removes the part of the course the client is actually paying for.
The week four decision
Session four is a decision, not a checkpoint. There are three honest outcomes.
Continue. The zone map shows movement in the zones you mapped, not just the easy ones. Proceed to week 5 at full intensity.
Adjust. The concern has moved less than the record suggests it should have, and home compliance is good. Reassess the concern itself: dryness that has not responded to a lipid strategy is worth re-testing as dehydration, and congestion that has not shifted is worth re-testing for tenderness. Change the protocol, keep the course.
Stop. Nothing has changed, home compliance has been good, and the re-map finds something that was not there at baseline. Stop the course, refund or credit the remaining sessions, and refer. Doing this at week 4 costs two sessions. Doing it at week 6 costs the client.
What to expect, and when
Weeks 1 to 2: immediate post-session effects only. Nothing cumulative yet. Say so at session one, because a client expecting cumulative change in week 2 leaves in week 3.
Weeks 3 to 4: the first changes the client reports without prompting. These are the ones worth recording verbatim.
Weeks 5 to 6: visible difference against the baseline photographs, in the zones treated.
Scope: a course reaches a plateau that is held by the home routine and by a maintenance interval, or it is lost over the following two to three months. Results appear in the zones that were treated, which is why the zone map is shown to the client at week 6 alongside the photographs.
Home maintenance after the course
Maintenance is one session every four to six weeks, with the home routine unchanged. Book the first maintenance appointment at session six.
Restock check at session six: a ten-vial box holds thirty 1.5 ml applications, about fifteen weeks at twice weekly, so a box started at week 2 runs through the course and into maintenance. Plan the second box for the second maintenance appointment. Say this at week 5, not at the door in week 6.
A second course, if it is indicated, starts with a fresh PROT-BS-020. Not a copy of the first one.
When to refer
Refer to a physician, and stop the course, if:
- Anything found at the week 4 re-map is tender, warm, spreading or new.
- The client reacts to the protocol at any session in a way they did not at the previous one.
- The concern is worse at week 4 than at baseline, with good compliance.
- Six sessions and a consistent home routine have produced no change of any kind.
Six documented sessions with no change is useful clinical information for whoever sees the client next. Hand it over rather than selling a second course on top of it.
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