Holistic Esthetics

"Change the way you look at things

and the things you look at change."      ~Wayne W. Dyer

Some of you have been clients of mine for many years and have been on this journey with me, and have stuck with me as my work has evolved, and some are new to my work because what I'm offering now has drawn you in.  

In many ways, I personally feel like I can get stuck and stagnant with areas of my life, and in other areas, I crave to grow and evolve, and my career as an esthetician is one of the main areas I have felt an innate desire to grow.   This will lead to  “What is holistic esthetics?”, or what I'm now exploring in calling it, “somatic esthetics”.  

The skin care industry honestly feels like the Wild West.  It is nothing like what I went to school for almost 25 years ago in the sense that it was more simple back then, because taking care of the skin is actually quite simple, despite what culture now tells us.  European facials with a few products, several steps,  aromatherapy, and massage, began to phase out and be  replaced with machines and products that are designed to manipulate the skin, and take over the natural functions of the skin to create a modified esthetic.  

 Now estheticians categorize themselves and practice based on what they have been drawn to learn.  Skin care companies wanting to break into the booming multi-billion dollar industry are trying to stand out with their products, so their training for estheticians is biased, and not always based on actual skin health and physiology.  We now also had a wave of medical practitioners enter into esthetics with the premise that they can do more advanced procedures and use more advanced products.  (Fun fact:  there is no such thing as “medical grade skin care”.  Skin products are either considered to have a drug-like effect and requires a prescription, or they are just skin products).

 As I said earlier, in many ways I love progressive change, and for many years in my career, I was on top of these trends of manipulating the skin.   The stronger  the peel, the better..  The expensive machines that promised to get rid of all of those ‘awful dead skin cells’ and “imperfections”…I bought it.  Skin care changed from nurturing your skin, to traumatizing your skin.  “The skin has problems and they need to be fixed!”   I performed what I truly believed was the most beneficial treatments, and everybody was happy.  

But over time, with my own personal healing journey, and more eye-opening education, I realized that I wasn't content with trying to keep up with the trends. 

A lot of skin issues I treated with best intentions was only suppressing the symptoms, and not treating the root cause.  Around this time, I started to see a few holistic estheticians popping up in my social media, and not only did I fully resonate with them, I had a surge of excitement that I could start working with skin in a whole new way.  

 And then the fear crept in.  Will people in Tyler, Texas come to me for something that goes completely against the grain?