In 1875, military attachè to British Ambassador, Alexander James Aberdein and his Japanese wife gave birth to their first daughter, Marie Louise.

Until her father's death at the age of 10, Marie Louise was raised and educated in the Koji Machi Area of Tokyo in Japan, where the British Embassy has always been located. At the age of 17, the wife of the British Ambassador, Mary Crawford Fraser, invited and brought Marie Louise to France to live with her.

After the death of Marie Crawford Fraser and her husband, Marie Louise dedicated herself to become a cosmetician. In France, she attended beauty schools Maison Port and La Mode, and became such an expert that she was invited to be a prominent guest speaker. At that point in time, Marie Louise specialized and put forth all her passion and energy to focus on becoming a legendary esthetician.

In 1913, Marie Louise opened the Marie Louise Beauty Training Institute, Japan's first beauty academy in history. The opening of this beauty academy was monumental since it was one of the first institutes that provided Japanese women a venue for education and technical skills, allowing them to be much more independent than they were ever before. Young women poured into the beauty academy and were always reminded of Marie Louise's founding principle, "character comes first, techniques second."

The cosmetologist qualification and license examination system was officially established at a national level in Japan in 1935. The very first esthetician to be officially licensed was, naturally, Marie Louise due to her involvement in establishing the system for Japan.

Moreover, in the early 20th century, when the eminent Meiji Kinenkan in Japan was established as Japan's first wedding hall offering comprehensive services, Marie Louise was established to work in the beauty department for the brides. Since that time, the Marie Louise Spa has anchored the spa there to pamper and take care of brides before their big day.

In 1998, a sister school of Marie Louise's original Marie Louise Women's Professional Beauty Academy was opened in Kyushu, the southern area of Japan. This school, Marie Louise Holistic Beauty Academy, has been certified and offers a CIDESCO curriculum. There, Marie Louise’s history and spirit also continues to be passed on through generations of students, and most prominently, her unwavering emphasis on the importance that character comes first, then, techniques second.

In 2004, the complete new line of Marie Louise Cosmetics was developed and debuted for the first time. Marie Louise Cosmetics were produced to inherit Marie Louise's will of fulfilling every woman's desire to be beautiful, and using the main principles of Trust, Quest, and Innovation. As of today, these products are distributed in high-end spas, retail stores, both of the Marie Louise beauty academies, as well as government-sponsored beauty programs and academies all over Japan, Russia and Korea.