In the Joséphine salon, Lucy offers aesthetic services from 1 to 3 euros to help women in precarious situations to take care of themselves. Brut went to meet them.
“I see myself worth”. In this salon, the desires and requests of clients are the priority of Lucy, socio-esthetician. On the program: a makeover, relaxation but above all the means to regain self-confidence. “The objective of the show is to work on confidence and self-esteem, as part of people’s socio-professional integration paths. The goal is really that they regain self-love, that they find consideration here and that we can bring out their resources because they are people who have plenty of resources but who don’t are not at all aware of it”, explains Léah, social worker and coordinator of the Joséphine salon.
“I seem to forget myself”
For Emma, mother of two young children, these services allow her to reassure her in her daily life. “Sometimes I feel like I forget myself because I have a lot of tasks to do and since I have two babies on my own, sometimes I completely forget myself. Here I am tired. We unload everything here. I had lost confidence in myself. I was living with someone but I was always scared, even when I was sleeping. I said to myself: ‘but he can come here, he can hit me’. Even if it’s only once a month for these services, I know that there is a place to be alone, without my children, to relax and that there is someone who takes care of me. So that reassures me a lot.”, says Emma.
For Gaëlle, also a client, these beauty treatments were prescribed to her by a CAF social worker, who knew her background. “I was doing nothing. No cooking, no cleaning, I was just taking care of my son. When there is a child who arrives, there are three new people. The father, the mother and the child. And we couldn’t handle it all. There was violence that settled in our couple. In the living room, she explains that she finds herself taking care of herself: “Take care of yourself and take time for yourself, talk, me, it makes me feel good to talk. I really want to be me, I love myself more and more and I think I don’t deserve everything that happened”. After each service, seeing the smile on the face of her clients is, for Lucy, a “big step”.