Yasmin Graham, aka @yasminthefacialist

Not every career change is about escaping a job you hate. Yasmin's was about something more precise: the maths of a working week that left too little room for the person who mattered most.

Why she trained

Before MSTA, Yasmin's days belonged to a solicitors' office. The hours were long, the work was steady, and almost all of it happened away from her little boy. She trained with us for one clear reason: to build a career on her own terms, with her son at the centre of it rather than the edges.

That clarity shaped everything that followed. Where some students arrive chasing an industry, Yasmin arrived with a design brief for a life, and treated the qualification as the tool to build it.

Building SkinSpace Manchester

In the years since training, Yasmin has become one of Manchester's most sought-after skincare professionals. Her clinic, SkinSpace, has a reputation for being ruthlessly results-focused, and Yasmin herself has become known as something of a microneedling obsessive: the practitioner other professionals watch to see how collagen-induction work should be done.

The part she'd tell you matters most, though, has nothing to do with treatments. She drops her son off at school and picks him up every single day. The career fits around her life now, not the other way round.

What her story proves

Yasmin's path answers the question we hear most often from parents considering retraining: can this genuinely work around a family? Her answer is a working clinic, a full diary, and a school run she has never had to outsource.

Her work is all over her Instagram, and it speaks for itself: real skin, real programmes of treatment, and the kind of results that keep a diary full in a city with no shortage of facialists.