About Dallas Skin Institute

Dallas Skin Institute offers innovative training in 750 Hour Dallas Esthetician, 600 Hour Santa Monica, California Esthetic Training, Laser Hair Removal, 320 Hour Eyelash Extensions, Permanent Makeup, Permanent Hair Removal, and Microblading. Our students leave the Dallas Skin Institute with training and products prepared to immediately offer their unique services to new and existing clients.

As Dallas Skin Institute celebrates its 21st year in training, we invite you to become part of our family. Training is offered in both Dallas and Santa Monica, California and our focus is on providing a solid foundation that will prepare you for your future success. We care about your training, we offer small class sizes, and believe that once you’ve become part of our family, it is important to maintain close contact with an instructor to answer any questions and concerns you may have. We make ourselves accessible by text, email, and phone.

Patsy and her instructors are so encouraging! They really believe in their students and put their hearts and souls into their instruction.

Wow! What an experience. The instructors were super knowledgeable and patient. It was an amazing experience and they gave us the skills to go out and thrive. I can’t wait!!

Patsy Charles launched the Dallas Skin Institute in 2002. Her mother significantly influenced her, knowing she would become a Beauty School developer and steered her to assist in her hair salons starting at 8. Studio Cuts, her mother Katherine, owned and operated in Dallas, Texas. From there, she mastered the many different layers that go into running select hair salons, including structure, scale, and education. This set her on the path that led to her vision changing the way students learned and the way teachers taught hair and skin. Miss Charles is at the core of her career, opening multiple beauty academies that are not a tradition of a typical beauty college.

“My mind is if I’m going to develop beauty academies, I want to leave my fingerprints all over… I don’t have the answers of what beauty schools should be teaching, but I imagine what they shouldn’t be influencing.”

For Miss Charles, the training is the focus — just about her only priority. She is known as a director. She is an innovator in the training of students in the hair and skincare industry and in developing trademarked product lines: Ooh-la-lash, Studio Kat, and DSI Cosmedics. These lines tailor the needs of professionals in the industry, refined over years of experience. Miss Charles received her cosmetology license in 1999, her permanent make-up certification in 2001, advanced make-up artistry in 2002, and became an instructor in 2004. Patsy is a mother to her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alexandria. She considers her daughter her favorite Starlet, with relentless energy and enthusiasm for life. Patsy grabbed single motherhood by the reigns and continues to steer in the right direction. She dreams of passing the baton down to Alexandria like her mother, Katherine, passed it to her.

As Dallas Skin Institute celebrates its 22nd year in training, we invite you to become part of our family. Our focus is on providing a solid foundation that will prepare you for success. We care about your training, and we offer intimate class sizes. Currently, our Dallas campus offers innovative training in Esthetician and Cosmetology training, with both our Austin and Amarillo campus offering Esthiology training. Our students leave with training and products prepared to provide services to new and existing clients after receiving their state license. Contact us today to learn more about the new student enrollment process.

DSI instructors bring passion and imagination to their work and teaching. Drawn from influential, experienced artists, business professionals, and DSI alums, our instructors are excited about sharing their specialized knowledge with engaged students. They love what they do and are educated to the very highest standards. Inspiring students to become experts by ensuring students are experts themselves. Our enthusiastic instructors look forward to helping find inspiration or foster their student’s cosmetology development.

Dear God,

Please bring us to a big life and big love, deep life, and deep beauty. Deliver us to our passion. Deliver us to our beauty. Deliver us to our brilliance. Deliver us to You.

The opening of the heart is an incredibly personal experience providing us with an internal strength more significant than any worldly power. As we receive God’s love and impart it to others, we are given the ability to repair the world through our strength.

I love you. Thank you for choosing the Dallas Skin Institute as your Beauty University. Please stay connected as we grow Bible + Beauty. We want you here!

The Birds & The Bees, an organization dedicated to empowering women, was founded in November 2010. This organization provides services to single mothers and women fighting cancer. it also serves women who have been incarcerated who are seeking education toward a career in Estheology. Training is provided at a lower cost to women and those directly affected by these hardships who could not otherwise afford these courses. For every student who receives a certification from Dallas Skin Institute, the same class is available at a discounted rate to a woman who has won the fight against cancer, exiting out of prison or is facing the day-to-day challenges of being a single mother.

Our aim is to give back.

There is no better time than now to reach out and help us contribute to these extraordinary women + men. If you are interested in being part of this vision, please contact us!

We strive to offer a portion in tuition scholarships to students with demonstrated need, including single mothers, cancer survivors and others with demonstrable need.

Please contact the Dallas Skin Institute for available scholarships and financial aid information. Through the Birds and Bees Foundation, a grant may be awarded to qualifying students.