Cheryl Robertson

Cheryl Robertson has been cabin crew for 21 years. For almost seven of them she has also been building something of her own: an aesthetics practice and training academy that now runs between County Durham and London, with Bodybox as its London home.

The interest was always there: flying taught her how much it matters to look after your skin and body. After months of intensive study and assessments she qualified and started small, with a monthly clinic in Harley Street. As her London client base grew she needed a bigger space, “which is where I met the ladies at Bodybox”.

She is candid about where she began. “People always assumed Harley Street made you the best. It didn’t. It was just a well-known name and area.” She will always be grateful for where she started, but it was the move that changed things.

“Progressing to a different, bigger workspace like Bodybox accelerated my growth.”

Because she does not live in the south, a lease on a London salon would never have made sense. Instead she books the days she needs, adds more when she is busy, and arrives to find everything “as immaculate and clinical as my shop and training academy is up north”.

Today she has her own premises in the North East, an academy in both locations, and clients and students across the country. Her advice to a practitioner thinking about joining? “Do it. The girls are amazing.”