Real Skin Pro Education

Send us Fan Mail Season Two Finale! For a while, I rented a room in a wellness center. I was independent, but only inside someone else's building. This episode is about what happened when I outgrew those four walls. This is the season 2 finale, and it's personal. I'm introducing Somatic Solace Esthetics, my new business in Glendora, California. It has my treatment room and a training center, and other professionals rent space from me. I went from renter to the one running the building. I'll e...

Send us Fan Mail If you're only extracting the T-zone, you're missing half of it. This episode covers how to find congestion by looking andfeeling, the face zones that hide it, and the four areas most estheticians skip: the hairline, ears, neck, and décolleté. Plus how the location of congestion points to its cause, how to chart it, how to fit it into your service time, and scripts for asking before you work on a client's ears or chest. Resources & Links Real Skin Pro Treatment Room Compa...

Send us Fan Mail Not everything that looks like a clogged pore is one. This episode covers the lookalikes that shouldn't be extracted (sebaceous hyperplasia, milia, syringomas, sebaceous filaments, molluscum), the skin conditions that aren't ready for extractions, and safety and sanitation: gloves, standard precautions, implement disinfection, and sharps. Plus word-for-word scripts for telling a client what you're leaving alone and why. Professional education for licensed estheticians, not me...

Send us Fan Mail The extraction is the part of the facial clients remember, for better or worse. This episode, part of our extraction series, is the hands-on part: how to prep skin so extractions are easy, which modality to use when, and when to stop. We start with the one goal behind every extraction technique: empty the follicle through its opening without rupturing the follicle wall. Then prep: cleansing, warmth, and softening the sebum plug with enzymes, desincrustation solutions, or galv...

Send us Fan Mail Your client is using "all the right stuff" — and her skin is tight, red, breaking out, and stinging from products that never bothered her before. She doesn't have dry skin. She has a compromised skin barrier, and every product she's adding to fix it is making it worse. This episode is a deep dive into the skin barrier and transepidermal water loss (TEWL): what the stratum corneum actually does, why dry and dehydrated skin aren't the same thing, and why oily skin can absolutel...