What I can and can't help with.
Most businesses bury this in a footer. It belongs near the front, because knowing where someone's expertise ends is how you know whether to trust the rest of it.
I'm a licensed esthetician. That means I'm trained and licensed to work on the health and appearance of skin — cleansing, exfoliation, extractions, hydration, product selection, and building routines people can actually follow.
It does not mean I'm a medical provider. I can't diagnose conditions, I can't prescribe, and I can't treat disease. Not because of a technicality — because I'm genuinely not qualified to, and pretending otherwise would put you at risk.
What I do
- Analyze your skin and explain what I'm seeing in plain language
- Build a routine sized to your life, your budget, and your consistency
- Tell you which of your current products to stop using, and why
- Recommend professional-grade products and treatments where they'll help
- Perform facials, professional exfoliation, and extractions
- Adjust the plan as your skin changes with seasons, stress, and hormones
What I don't do
- Diagnose anything. Not acne, not rosacea, not eczema, not melasma. I can tell you what a pattern is consistent with. That's a different sentence and it's the honest one.
- Treat medical conditions. Anything requiring a prescription is outside my scope.
- Promise results by a date. Skin turns over on its own schedule. Anyone giving you a guaranteed date is guessing or selling.
- Work on broken, infected, or actively inflamed skin.
- Advise during pregnancy without your OB. I'll route around anything questionable and tell you to ask them.
You have deep, painful bumps under the skin that last for weeks. A mole or spot has changed. Skin is cracking, weeping, or spreading. A reaction came on suddenly and hasn't settled. Anything is painful.
I'd rather send you to the right person than keep you as a client I can't actually help. If you go, ask them what you can safely use on top of whatever they prescribe — bring that answer back and I'll build the routine around it.
About the assessment
The assessment and the plan it generates are educational. They're built from what you tell me about your skin and your routine. They are not a diagnosis, not medical advice, and not a substitute for seeing a doctor when you need one.
If your answers point toward something medical, the assessment will stop and tell you so before it builds you anything.