SkinSpirit in Manhattan Beach has revolutionized injections for a look that doesn’t conjure up scenes of facial enhancements gone wrong, but refreshing done right
Everyone’s talking about “All’s Fair,” the Hulu hit that was just ordered for a second season, and the botched plastic surgery that plays a central role in the show, especially for pop star Jessica Simpson’s character, “Lee Ann.”
Simpson has been applauded for her emotionally vulnerable performance as a woman forced into egregious enhancements at the insistence of her rock star hubby, played, ironically, by Rick Springfield. Her character’s distorted features came from hours in a makeup chair, but we’ve all seen real-life not-so-subtle transformations as the result of overzealous estheticians.
That’s why SkinSpirit in Manhattan Beach is the South Bay’s premiere location for what experts in the anti-aging field are now calling Facial Harmonization, a soothing term for those who are nervous about injectables. At SkinSpirit the facial harmonization is a customized, minimally invasive approach focusing on overall balance using small doses of targeted volume with a mixture of fillers and Botox to sculpt the face rather than render it weirdly wrinkle-less.
“All of it,” says Christina Wagner, a registered nurse who is one of the location’s expert injectors, is more about “bolstering self-confidence rather than making abrupt changes.”
RN Christina Wagner believes facial harmonization “begins with a good canvas” Credit: Courtesy of SkinSpirit
Wagner expertly explains that volume loss impacts all of us eventually, which leads to facial
asymmetry, which is a nice way of saying looking old. Dermal fillers, especially ones with firmer texture, add targeted volume precisely in the areas contributing to asymmetry, such as the cheeks, lips, below the eyes, or at the temples. But, Wagner cautions, it helps to start with a good canvas, for which she recommends BroadBand Light Therapy, a light-based skin treatment that uses broad-spectrum light to improve skin tone and texture by eliminating sun spots, redness, acne, and fine lines.
With that, Wagner, along with her SkinSpirit counterpart, has become a master of making use of a combination of toxins and dermal fillers in a very bespoke way with each client to achieve the optimum results without surgery or downtime.
Cambria Welling says the key to looking younger is to “treat the face as a whole.” Credit: Courtesy of SkinSpirit
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Welling also believes in that to look younger, clients have to “treat the face as a whole,” which is why SkinSpirit also carries top of the line skin products that its clinic manager, Natalie Makhoul, who makes sure that the Manhattan Beach experience is not just a visit to a luxury spa, but one with treatments that harmonize not just the face, but soothes the psyche.