Exfoliate! Exfoliate! Exfoliate!

Today’s blog topic is exfoliation if you didn’t already know. We have people ask all the time what is exfoliation and why should I do it. So I’m going to go over all the things you need to know about this subject. by definition Exfoliation is the removal of the oldest dead skin cells on the […]

Waxing Contraindications Part Three-Medications and Chemicals

On our final blog about waxing contraindications I want to discuss probably the biggest one we encounter here at the salon.  Medications and chemicals.  There are so many things that you can take or put on your skin that can cause lifting and scaring.  Yes, we do use a hard wax which does typically only […]

Waxing Contraindications Part Two-Skin Lesions and Bruising

I touched a little on skin lesions and waxing last week in Part One of our Contraindication Series.  Just to clarify (because to be honest I don’t think I really explained this last week) a contraindication is anything that indicates to your technician that you should not be getting a particular service.  So skin lesions […]

Waxing Contraindications Part One-Acne

We received a question asking if it was okay to wax if you have acne.  And it got us thinking that doing a blog series on different waxing contraindications (or waxing no-nos) would be a great idea to explain why or why not you can not do/take/have certain things and get waxed. Today we are […]