What should you learn next as an esthetician? With new treatments, ingredients, devices, techniques, and trends appearing constantly, deciding where to invest your time and continuing education can feel overwhelming. That is one of the reasons attending an esthetics conference can be so valuable. Instead of learning about one technique in isolation, you have an opportunity to explore multiple areas of the industry, hear different perspectives, and decide what actually makes sense for your career and clientele.
ICES Ft. Lauderdale returns October 17–18, 2026, with two days of education designed for estheticians, spa professionals, beauty entrepreneurs, and skincare professionals at different stages of their careers. This year’s education reflects many of the conversations shaping professional esthetics right now, from acne and chemical peels to facial massage, exosomes, nano-infusion, pigmentation, business growth, branding, and client retention.
Whether your goal is to become a stronger corrective esthetician, elevate your hands-on techniques, introduce a new modality, increase your revenue, or simply figure out where you want your career to go next, there is education to explore throughout the weekend.
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Advanced Acne, Peels, and Corrective Skincare Education
Acne continues to be one of the most common and complex concerns estheticians encounter in the treatment room, and this year’s ICES education gives professionals several opportunities to look at it from different perspectives.
Celebrity esthetician Renée Rouleau will share her approach in How Renée Rouleau Treats Acne: A Celebrity Esthetician’s Approach. Drawing from nearly four decades of hands-on experience, Renée will explore why acne is rarely caused by one factor and how topical care, internal influences, habits, lifestyle, and environment can all play a role. Her class also addresses common acne treatment mistakes, prevention and intervention, the life cycle of a blemish, and protecting barrier health while treating active breakouts.
Estheticians looking to take their corrective work even further can learn from Morgan Cameron in Mastering Acne Correction & Chemical Peel Layering. Morgan’s class focuses on properly assessing acne types, repairing the skin barrier, strategically layering chemical peels, pairing professional treatments with targeted home care, and avoiding mistakes that can lead to unnecessary inflammation.
Chemical peels and pigmentation are another major area of education throughout the weekend. Skin Script will explore hyperpigmentation across different complexions, including root causes, ingredient selection for different Fitzpatrick types, and reducing the risk of irritation. The brand will also offer education around its TCA peel for different skin tones. FarmHouse Fresh will demonstrate its professional peel collection and layering techniques for acne, pigmentation, uneven tone, fine lines, and wrinkles, while Mesoestetic will offer education around the cosmelan® method for facial hyperpigmentation and melasma.
The result is a weekend where corrective estheticians can hear several different philosophies and begin thinking more critically about how they assess, customize, and treat the skin.
The Return to Touch: Facial Massage, Fascia, and the Client Experience
While technology continues to move esthetics forward, another part of the industry is returning to something estheticians have always had: their hands.
At ICES Ft. Lauderdale, Aya Abramov will present Crafting a High-End Ritual: The Subtle Touch Techniques That Define a Luxury Service with LIVE DEMO. Rather than simply teaching a massage sequence, Aya will explore the micro-techniques that can differentiate a basic facial from a premium experience, including slow intentional touch, fascia release, energetic grounding, and tempo control. The class looks at how these details can shape the client’s emotional experience, enhance the feeling of the service, and encourage long-term loyalty.
Eminence Organic Skin Care will also bring hands-on education to the weekend through Hungarian massage techniques incorporating lymphatic drainage, muscle lifting, kneading, cross friction, and tension reduction. The session combines massage with active superfood ingredients while exploring how technique can contribute to results, retention, and the overall client experience.
For estheticians who want to differentiate themselves without necessarily purchasing another device, education around touch, technique, and client experience can be one of the most valuable investments they make.
Exosomes, PDRN, Nano-Infusion, and What’s Next in Esthetics
Some of the biggest conversations in professional skincare right now center around regenerative aesthetics, exosomes, PDRN, advanced delivery systems, and combination treatments. ICES Ft. Lauderdale gives estheticians the opportunity to move beyond what they are seeing on social media and learn more about how these concepts are being incorporated into professional protocols.
MTS US will present education on colostrum-derived exosomes, inflammaging, skin regeneration, functional integrity, secretomes, and combined treatment protocols. A second session will explore a combined peeling and exosome protocol through case studies involving hyperpigmentation, aging, acne, and rosacea.
Sesderma and Mediderma will explore the relationship between nanotechnology and exosome science, including how advanced delivery systems may support professional treatment outcomes. Sesha Skin Therapy will take the conversation into nano-infusion with education comparing microneedling and nano-infusion while exploring protocols and professional serums including PDRN, DNA Repair, STEM Booster, and brightening solutions.
Skin Fitness Therapy will also present a needle-free approach using peptides, advanced hyaluronic technology, topical fillers, and nano-infusion to create visible plumping, lifting, and volumizing effects.
For estheticians considering what belongs in the next generation of their treatment menu, these classes offer an opportunity to learn, compare approaches, and ask questions before deciding where to invest.
Live Demonstrations and Advanced Techniques
One of the advantages of attending an esthetician conference in person is being able to watch another professional work.
Jadé Marie Chapman, also known as Jadeywadey180, will teach her Signature Hollywood Facial through a live demonstration, sharing techniques behind her radiant, red carpet-ready results along with insight into the professional products, protocols, and business strategies that have contributed to her career.
Celebrity brow artist René de la Garza will bring another live demonstration to ICES with A-List Brow Lamination Mastery. His session combines a full brow lamination demonstration and technical training with business strategies for professionals looking to build a stronger brow clientele.
The sponsored classrooms also bring advanced technique education to the weekend. BioSkin Aesthetics will explore microneedling with BioRePeel Blue, including technique, depth selection, safety, post-care, and treatment protocols. SQT Beauty USA will cover bio-microneedling protocols for body concerns such as scars, stretch marks, uneven texture, and discoloration.
These are the types of classes that can be especially useful when you have been seeing a technique online but want to understand what it actually looks like in a professional setting.
Education for Treating Diverse Skin Tones
Becoming a more advanced esthetician also means becoming more thoughtful about customization. Protocols cannot always be applied the same way to every client, particularly when working with pigmentation and different Fitzpatrick skin types.
Niva Leones will present Shades of Beauty: Melanin, Science and Customized Care, exploring considerations when treating Fitzpatrick skin types IV–VI and diverse biracial backgrounds. The class will cover melanocyte activity, peel selection, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation risk, and creating safer, more customized treatment plans for melanated skin.
Combined with additional education around hyperpigmentation and TCA peels for different complexions, this is an important part of the weekend for estheticians who want to continue expanding their ability to confidently treat a diverse clientele.
Business Education Matters Just as Much as Technique
One of the biggest mistakes you can make at an esthetics conference is filling your entire schedule with treatment classes while ignoring the business behind your treatment room.
You can be an incredible esthetician and still struggle with pricing, consultations, rebooking, marketing, profitability, and client retention.
ICES Ft. Lauderdale’s education reflects that reality.
Mary Peyton Pitt will teach Becoming the Magnetic Esthetician, exploring how confidence, mindset, branding, entrepreneurship, and the client experience work together to attract ideal clients and grow intentionally.
Genesis Quiñones will explore another side of entrepreneurship in More Than Booked: The Mindset Behind Sustainable Success, discussing self-doubt, comparison, burnout, authenticity, and the internal shifts that can come with building a successful beauty business.
For estheticians focused on the client journey, Niva Leones will teach strategies around consultations, treatment planning, client education, rebooking, and loyalty, while Erin Blaser will focus on confidently guiding clients from consultation into customized treatment plans and professional home care.
There is education for estheticians thinking bigger about scaling, too. Nevette Ramos and Jason Ramos will discuss the strategies behind building a six- and seven-figure beauty business, including branding, mindset, team building, multiple income streams, and finances. Sponsored education will also tackle pricing, increasing profitability, and growing income without simply adding more hours behind the treatment bed.
The goal shouldn’t simply be to return from ICES knowing how to perform another treatment. You should also return knowing how to build a stronger business around the treatments you already perform.
Building a Career Beyond the Treatment Room
There is another kind of education that can be difficult to find in esthetics school: figuring out what you actually want your career to become.
Andrea García will explore authenticity and social media in Your Story Is Your Superpower, showing how intentional content and personal storytelling can help estheticians attract the right clients and build a loyal community.
Samantha Garcia will take that conversation beyond social media in Create Your Own Lane: Building an Esthetics Career Beyond the Traditional Path. The session challenges the pressure estheticians often feel to constantly chase the newest treatment, certification, trend, or device and instead asks a bigger question: What are you actually trying to create?
Whether the goal is to educate, write, speak, create products, open a spa, build a media platform, or completely redefine what being an esthetician looks like, the session explores how your individual strengths, passions, values, and identity can influence your brand, confidence, client experience, and long-term career.
Because continuing education shouldn’t only make you better at performing services. Sometimes it should expand your idea of what is possible.
How to Plan Your ICES Ft. Lauderdale Education
With multiple classrooms and sessions happening throughout the weekend, trying to see everything will only leave you overwhelmed. A better approach is to decide what you want to take home from ICES before you arrive.
Think about the three areas of your career that need the most attention right now. If you want stronger acne results, prioritize corrective skincare education. If you’re considering adding regenerative treatments, explore exosomes and advanced delivery systems. If your treatments are great but your books aren’t full, make business and marketing education part of your schedule. If your services are starting to feel similar to everyone else’s, spend time learning about touch, client experience, branding, or creating your own niche.
Your best ICES schedule probably won’t consist entirely of one type of class. Give yourself a mix of technical education, business education, and career inspiration.
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Take Your Education Beyond the Classroom With Esthetician Edit LIVE
And this year, your education doesn’t have to end when the classroom doors close.
On Saturday, October 17 at 7:00 PM, ICES attendees can take their experience to the next level with Esthetician Edit LIVE at Shooters Waterfront.
Learn from the best. Connect with the industry. Be part of the conversation.
Esthetician Edit LIVE brings together some of the most influential voices in professional esthetics for an exclusive evening built around the conversations that don’t always happen during a traditional class. You’ll hear the stories, career lessons, business insights, challenges, and perspectives that have shaped some of the industry’s most respected careers.
More importantly, you get to ask the questions.
After spending the day learning from educators, attendees can continue the conversation over cocktails while connecting with fellow estheticians, educators, brands, and industry leaders.
The VIP ticket includes two-day admission to ICES Ft. Lauderdale plus access to Esthetician Edit LIVE, the live industry icon panel and audience Q&A, cocktails, networking, and $200+ in skincare products.
Think of it as the full ICES experience. Spend your days learning new techniques, discovering brands, and strengthening your business. Then spend Saturday evening building relationships and having the kinds of conversations that can shape where you go next.
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Invest in Education That Moves You Forward
The best continuing education isn’t about collecting as many certifications as possible. It’s about becoming more confident in what you do, more intentional about how you serve your clients, and clearer about where you want your career to go.
At ICES Ft. Lauderdale 2026, you can learn how other professionals approach acne, pigmentation, peels, facial massage, exosomes, nano-infusion, client retention, pricing, branding, social media, and business growth. You can watch techniques performed live, meet the companies developing the products and technology you use, and connect with professionals who are navigating many of the same questions you are.
Most importantly, you can take what resonates with you and use it to build something that feels like your own.
ICES Ft. Lauderdale takes place October 17–18, 2026.
Come ready to learn, connect, ask questions, and think bigger about what’s possible for your career.
And if you want to experience everything the weekend has to offer, select the Esthetician Edit LIVE VIP ticket when you register.
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