Le Fondement
Six months. The classical foundation everything else rests on.
6 months
Online + 2-week Paris atelier
24 students
$4,800
What the foundation year asks of you.
Le Fondement is where the discipline begins. Six months of dermal anatomy, biochemistry, and the European protocols of skin — taught online with a two-week residency at the Paris atelier.
The work is unhurried. The first eight weeks are spent on the science before a single hand is laid on a face. We believe the practitioner who understands what they are doing develops a touch that the practitioner who only memorizes never will.
Graduates leave Foundation with a CIDESCO-aligned credential, a portfolio of supervised case work, and the vocabulary of the tradition.
Eight modules. One discipline.
Each module is taught by a member of the faculty. Hours outside of contact time are spent on case work, reading, and the written exercises that close each module.
The faculty leading this programme.
Instruments trained in this programme.
Hydrafacial-class systems
HydradermabrasionThe instrument behind the modern signature treatment. Patient throughput begins here.
LED phototherapy
Photothérapie LEDThe instrument the contemporary cabinet most often uses badly. Paired correctly, it is the connective tissue of the practice.
When the work happens.
- FormatOnline + 2-week Paris atelier
- Duration6 months
- Cohort24 students
- Next intakeAutumn 2026
$4,800
Tuition is paid across the duration of the programme. Payment plans are available; financing is offered through partner institutions in your region. Speak with admissions for the structure that suits.