If You're Waiting for the Root Canal, You're Missing the Point of Skincare

At some point, our culture decided that care is only valuable if it’s extreme.

If it doesn’t burn, blast, paralyze, or shock the system into instant compliance, it’s dismissed as “doing nothing.” Apparently, that now includes estheticians.

I recently stumbled across a thread declaring that seeing an esthetician is pointless. Hundreds of people agreeing. Laughing. Waiting patiently for the day their skin is “bad enough” to justify lasers, injections, or medical-grade interventions.

And it hit a nerve. Not because it’s new, but because it reveals something deeply broken about our society and how we understand care.

This mentality is the same one that keeps people sick, exhausted, and disconnected from their bodies.

I know. I lived it.

For 24 years of my life, I was a medical experiment. Over-medicated. Over-managed. One prescription leading to another, each addressing the side effects of the last. At times, I genuinely couldn’t tell if I was alive and living or chemically sedated into something resembling existence.

That experience permanently changed how I see healing.

So when people say estheticians “do nothing,” what I hear is this:

You don’t value prevention.

You don’t value consistency.

You don’t value relationship-based care.

You only value catastrophe.

Wait until the skin is wrecked.

Wait until the body collapses.

Wait until the nervous system is screaming.

Then intervene aggressively and call it healing.

But that’s not health. That’s crisis management.

Let’s put this in terms everyone understands.

No one gets their teeth cleaned once and says, “Well, that didn’t fix everything. Guess dentistry is a scam.”

You go regularly so you don’t need the root canal.

Skin works the same way.

Seeing an esthetician isn’t about a single dramatic moment. It’s about ongoing stewardship. Consistent professional care. Skilled guidance. Adjustments as your skin changes with stress, hormones, seasons, and time.

Skin is not drywall.

It’s not meant to be patched after it crumbles.

It’s a living organ that responds to how you treat it daily.

When you tend to it consistently, intelligently, and gently, you dramatically reduce the need for extreme interventions later.

This is why I don’t treat skin like a battlefield.

I treat it like a garden.

A garden doesn’t need punishment to thrive.

It needs rhythm.

Attention.

Nourishment.

Seasonal care.

And here’s the part people conveniently ignore:

Consistency only works if it feels good enough to maintain.

Seeing an esthetician isn’t just effective.

It feels incredible.

It’s regulated nervous system care.

It’s human touch.

It’s warmth after sterility.

It’s the rare experience of someone paying close, attuned attention to your body without trying to fix you or sell you fear. It's trusting in your body as the amazing self-regenerative system it was born to be and allowing yourself to be guided back to this authentic truth and inner knowing.

Yes, it’s results-driven.

And yes, it’s also deeply pleasurable.

There is something almost hedonistic about lying down, being cared for, and knowing that what feels good is also good for you. That pleasure isn’t frivolous. It’s part of why this kind of care works. Bodies heal better when they feel safe. Skin responds better when it isn’t under assault.

This is why so many of my clients are people recovering from cancer or intense medical journeys.

They are tired of cold rooms.

Tired of being touched only when something is wrong.

Tired of being treated like a case instead of a person.

They don’t come to me for a “wow” moment.

They come for consistency.

For professional direction.

For care that doesn’t hurt.

For a space where their body isn’t treated as a problem to be solved.

What I do is not a replacement for medicine.

It’s what medicine doesn’t have time or structure to provide.

Presence.

Attunement.

Education.

Touch that restores rather than overrides.

An esthetician is not pointless.

An esthetician is preventative care.

An esthetician is skin literacy.

An esthetician is the difference between maintenance and emergency.

Its about listening to your body so you dont have to hear it scream.

It's about knowing you don't need to wait for the chaos until you tend to your health.

And I am not here to sell fear or fast fixes.

I’m here to teach people how to tend to themselves before things fall apart.

If you want to wait for the root canal, you can.

If you want to wait until your skin is in crisis, that’s your choice.

But if you believe care should be consistent, intelligent, and deeply human…

If you want results that build instead of shock…

If you want to feel good while taking care of yourself…

Then you already understand the point.

And you understand why the right esthetician can change everything.