The template
1. Client details
- Full name
- Phone and email
- Date of birth
- Emergency contact (for longer treatments)
- How they heard about you
2. Treatment requested
- Treatment or service
- First appointment or returning
- Previous provider, if any
- Date of the last comparable treatment
3. Skin and health history
- Skin type and current concerns
- Allergies, including adhesives and dyes
- Current medication and supplements
- Recent aesthetic or medical procedures
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Eye conditions or recent eye surgery
4. Patch test record
- Patch test required: yes / no
- Date carried out
- Product and batch used
- Result and any reaction noted
- Signature of the person who performed it
5. Agreed plan
- Treatment plan and products to be used
- Expected result, described in plain words
- Realistic limits explained to the client
- Number of sessions and spacing
- Price quoted today
6. Aftercare and consent
- Aftercare instructions given and understood
- Cancellation policy acknowledged
- Before and after photos: consent yes / no
- Client confirms the information is accurate
- Client signature and date
- Therapist name and signature
Run the consultation before you open a single product
The form is the conversation, not the paperwork after it. Read the health answers aloud and confirm them — that is when clients remember the medication they forgot to write down.
Never skip the patch test line
Record the date, the product, and the outcome, even when the client insists they have had it done elsewhere. A missing patch test record is the single most common gap when something goes wrong.
Write down what you promised
Note the expected result and the limits you explained. Most disputes are about expectations, not technique, and a one-line record settles them quickly.
Update at every visit
A short 'anything changed since last time?' block at the top of each visit keeps the record current without asking the client to complete the full form again.
Common questions
- What is a beauty salon consultation form for?
- It records what the client wants, what their skin, hair, or lashes can safely take, and what they agreed to before the treatment starts. It protects the client and gives you a written record of the conversation.
- Is a patch test question necessary?
- For tinting, lash extensions, and chemical treatments, yes — record the patch test date and the result. Many insurers expect the record to exist, and without it a reaction becomes your word against the client's.
- How often should a returning client fill it in again?
- Do a short update at every visit and a full form once a year. Medication, pregnancy, and new conditions change what is safe, and clients rarely volunteer that unprompted.
- Can one form cover several treatments?
- Keep the client and health sections shared, then add a short treatment-specific block for each service. That avoids six near-identical forms while still recording the details each treatment needs.