WAR ESTHETICS INSTITUTE WAS FOUNDED AND CREATED IN 2022 BY MELISSA GUERRA-VASQUEZ. MELISSA FIRST ENTERED THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY IN 1997 WHEN SHE BECAME A LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST AT THE AGE OF 20. IN YEARS TO FOLLOW SHE WOULD GO ON TO BECOME A LICENSED  ESTHETICIAN, SPA OWNER AND MASTER ESTHETIC EDUCATOR. DURING HER JOURNEY TO PURSUE HER ESTHETICS LICENSE MELISSA FELT THAT THE EDUCATION SHE HAD PAID FOR, WAS BARE MINIMUM EDUCATION. AFTER PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN TUITION, SHE STILL HAD TO SEARCH AND PAY FOR ADDITIONAL HANDS ON TRAINING FROM OTHER PRIVATE BUSINESSES. MELISSA BECAME AN INSTRUCTOR AT THE ESTHETIC SCHOOL SHE GRADUATED FROM. SHE HOPED THAT BECOMING AN INSTRUCTOR WOULD ALLOW HER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OTHER STUDENTS EDUCATION HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT LONG UNTIL SHE REALIZED THAT ESTHETIC SCHOOLS HAD NO INTENTIONS OF RAISING THE STANDARDS FOR ESTHETIC EDUCATION. MELISSA FELT THAT THE CURRENT EDUCATION WAS UNACCEPTABLE AND A CHANGE NEEDED TO BE MADE. THIS IS WHEN SHE SOUGHT OUT TO CREATE HER OWN INSTITUTE THAT WOULD NOT ONLY REDEFINE ESTHETIC EDUCATION AS WE KNOW IT, BUT TO CREATE AN INSTITUTE THAT INVESTED IN THEIR STUDENTS JUST AS MUCH AS THEIR STUDENTS INVESTED IN THEM.