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Fae 🧚 Raleigh Skin Fairy

@fae_esthetics

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🌿 Your private skin sanctuary
Corrective skincare + intentional care
Acne • Barrier Health • Skin Longevity
Progressive over aggressive ✨

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✨ A little 2027 update ✨

Beginning January 1st, 2027, Fae Esthetics will be introducing a refreshed, simplified service menu along with updated pricing reflecting an approximately 10% increase. 🤍

I’ll be streamlining my offerings to make booking easier while continuing to provide the same intentional, personalized care you know and love.

All appointments already on my calendar will be honored at their existing prices! The updated menu and pricing will apply to new appointments booked beginning January 1st, 2027.

Thank you for continuing to support my little skin sanctuary and allowing Fae Esthetics to grow and evolve. I’m looking forward to another year of healthy skin, meaningful connections, and intentional esthetics. 🧚🏻‍♀️✨ by @fae_esthetics

A little Fae Esthetics business update! 🤍✨

Things have been BUSY around my little skin sanctuary, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the incredible clientele I’ve built! As we head into 2027, I’m making a few changes to keep things running smoothly + sustainably.

🏡 First things first, we’re staying put!
After considering moving my business home, I’ve decided I really value keeping work + home separate. I love my current space, so Fae Esthetics isn’t going anywhere!

✨ A few changes already in effect:
My books are officially closed to new clients! If I haven’t seen you within the past 120 days, you’re considered a new client. This allows me to prioritize availability for my regulars.

Existing gift cards will still be honored! I’ll also occasionally offer one-time appointments to new clients or welcome new regulars when availability opens up.

I’ve also retired 90-minute facials to keep my hands-on workload sustainable.

📅 Starting January 2027:
I’ll be working Thursday–Saturday, with a maximum of 4 clients per day. All previously scheduled appointments will be honored!

🤍 To my regulars, don’t stress!
My goal is to continue seeing you consistently while maintaining a schedule that’s sustainable long-term.

Active clients can prebook through July 2027 directly with me in the spa! No deposit is required upfront. Your card on file will be automatically charged 7 days before each appointment.

Please reach out early so we can find dates + times that work best for you!

💌 Current booking availability:
October: FULLY BOOKED
November: FULLY BOOKED
December: 80% BOOKED

December isn’t available for online booking, so active clients should reach out directly to schedule!

I always share cancellations + occasional new client opportunities on my stories, turn on your notifs!

I’m incredibly proud of how much Fae Esthetics has grown. My focus moving forward is quality over quantity, protecting my longevity in this career + continuing to provide the personalized care you know and love.

Same Fae Esthetics, same private skin sanctuary, just a more intentional approach to 2027. 🤍✨

Thank you for keeping my books full + supporting this little business! by @fae_esthetics

BIG NEWS FROM FAE ESTHETICS! 🧚🏼‍♀️💌✨

I’m so excited to announce that I’m officially opening my books to VIRTUAL SKINCARE CLIENTS! 🤍

While my in-person books are closed to new clients, I’m expanding the ways we can work together!

Whether you’re local to Raleigh or hundreds of miles away, you can now have me as your personal esthetician from the comfort of your own home. 🫶🏼

Think personalized skincare routines, product recommendations, acne + barrier support, and professional guidance tailored to YOUR skin.

My philosophy isn’t changing: barrier care first, progressive over aggressive, and absolutely no unnecessary products or complicated 10-step routines.

Just intentional, results-driven skincare + someone in your corner to help you navigate your skin journey. ✨

VIRTUAL CLIENT BOOKS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN! 💌

Interested in working together? DM me “VIRTUAL” to get started!

So excited to bring a little Fae Esthetics magic beyond the treatment room! 🧚🏼‍♀️🤍

#FaeEsthetics #VirtualEsthetician #VirtualSkincareConsultation #OnlineEsthetician #AcneSupport SkinBarrierHealth IntentionalSkincare by @fae_esthetics

All my fairies 🧚 ✨🧚‍♀️ have glowing skin 😘
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#faeesthetics #skincare #esthetician #raleighesthetics #glowingskin skin by @fae_esthetics

I love this industry, but that doesn’t mean I agree with everything it promotes. 👀

After years of building FE, experiencing burnout, and navigating some of these pressures myself, I’ve been rethinking what it means to be a successful esthetician.

Going back solo has given me the space to reconnect with myself, my values, and the reasons I fell in love with esthetics in the first place.

I believe we can create beautiful, results-driven experiences without exploiting insecurities, encouraging overconsumption, or sacrificing our own well-being.
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#FaeEsthetics #IntentionalEsthetics #EthicalEsthetics #BeautyIndustry #EstheticianLife SoloEsthetician SkincareEducation RaleighEsthetician BeautyStandards SkinHealth

The beauty industry has turned the completely natural process of getting older into an insecurity to capitalize on.

Wrinkles aren’t emergencies. Looking your age isn’t a failure. And aging isn’t a condition that needs to be cured.

You can invest in skincare and treatments without being made to fear getting older.

I will help you care for your skin as you age. I will not teach you to fear aging.

You do not need every trending serum, skincare device, new ingredient, or 12-step routine.

Constantly encouraging people to buy more isn’t the same as helping them achieve healthier skin.

Skincare should be intentional, not an endless cycle of purchasing the next best thing.

Sometimes the best skincare recommendation is to buy nothing.

Not every facial needs five enhancements. Not every client needs an expensive treatment plan or an entirely new skincare routine.

Recommendations should be based on your actual needs, goals, and budget — not how much money can be made from your appointment.

You deserve transparency, education, and the freedom to say no without feeling pressured.

Clients are people, not dollar signs.

Luxury packaging, celebrity endorsements, and a $200 price tag don’t automatically make a product better.

What matters is the formulation, your individual skin needs, and how consistently you’re using it.

Professional skincare can be an amazing investment, but nobody should feel like healthy skin is reserved for people with unlimi by @fae_esthetics

a little life outside of the treatment room. 🌷🤎

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from owning a business is that you have to make time to be a person outside of your career.

I absolutely adore being an esthetician, but I also love being a wife, a friend, a creative, a nature lover, and someone who has approximately 100 different hobbies. 😂

I’ve experienced burnout firsthand, and these days I’m much more intentional about protecting my time, trying new things, and finding joy in the little moments.

Not every hour needs to be productive. Not every hobby needs to become a side hustle. And not every day off needs to be spent catching up on work.

Sometimes balance looks like reading a book, making a cute drink, taking a pottery class, spending time with friends, or disappearing into the woods for a few days.

A gentle reminder that you’re allowed to build a career you love AND a life you love outside of it. ❤️

What’s something you love doing outside of work?
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#FaeEsthetics #SoloEsthetician #EstheticianLife #LifeOutsideOfWork #WorkLifeBalance FindingMyselfAgain BurnoutRecovery SlowLiving IntentionalLiving RomanticizeYourLife CreativeHobbies HobbyGirl LifeLately SmallBusinessOwner WomenOwnedBusiness RaleighEsthetician RaleighSmallBusiness SelfCareJourney ProtectYourPeace MoreThanMyCareer by @fae_esthetics

A little reminder that behind Fae Esthetics is a real person with real values, opinions, and beliefs. ✨

I believe in creating a space where people feel safe, respected, welcomed, and cared for. Those values don’t stop at the treatment room door.

You don’t have to agree with everything I believe to receive kindness and professionalism from me. But I also don’t believe in separating humanity from business just to make everyone comfortable.

This is a space for intentional skincare, compassion, education, and being unapologetically human.

Follow, unfollow, either way, the values behind FE aren’t changing. 🤎
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#ValuesDrivenBusiness #InclusiveBeauty #SafeSpaceForAll #HumanRightsMatter #BeautyWithPurpose MoreThanSkincare SmallBusinessBigValues ProgressiveEsthetics by @fae_esthetics

There are a million tiny decisions happening behind the scenes of your facial that you may never notice and that’s kind of the point. 🤍

From the lighting + sanitation to knowing when to treat, when to leave your skin alone, and when to just let you close your eyes and be quiet… I want every part of your appointment to feel intentional.

No unnecessary extras. No one-size-fits-all protocols. No doing something just because “that’s how facials are done.”

Just thoughtful care for the skin + human in front of me.

Intentional esthetics, always. 🧚🏼
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#RaleighEsthetician #RaleighFacials #NC esthetician #SoloEsthetician #EstheticianLife SkinHealth BarrierFirst IntentionalEsthetics FaeEsthetics by @fae_esthetics

A little fall spa dump 🍂🧖🏼‍♀️✨

As the weather cools down, your skincare routine should shift with it.

Fall is the time to:
🍂 add more hydration + barrier support
🍂 pay attention to dryness, tightness + sensitivity
🍂 ease up on anything leaving your skin stripped
🍂 stay consistent with SPF, yes, even when it’s cloudy + cooler
🍂 adjust exfoliation as your skin needs it
🍂 get back into chemical peels + microneedling
🍂 work on pigmentation, texture + summer sun damage

We are officially in corrective season, aka my favorite time of year for skin. 🤎

Can’t wait to see everyone in October 👻 by @fae_esthetics

I think we tend to wait until something is neatly resolved before we talk about it online. But that can make it seem like everyone else is doing perfectly fine while you’re quietly struggling with something.

So maybe someone reading this is lonely too.
Or burned out.
Or uncomfortable in their body.
Or staring at 98 unanswered messages.
Or learning how to rest without feeling guilty.

I hope seeing a little more of the human behind Fae Esthetics makes you feel a little less alone.

We’re all figuring some shit out. 🤍
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#SoloEsthetician #EstheticianCommunity #SmallBusinessOwner #SmallBusinessLife #BurnoutRecovery BodyImage ChronicPain MentalWellness RealLife Vulnerability BehindTheBusiness RaleighEsthetician FaeEsthetics IntentionalEsthetics by @fae_esthetics

a lil skin transformation dump because the RESULTS have been result-ing lately 🫧🧚‍♀️

And the best part? These didn’t all come from the same treatment.

Some came from consistent custom facials. Some from peels + microneedling. Others from a combination of peels, facials + Korean liquid needling.

Because skin transformation isn’t about finding one magic treatment, it’s about figuring out what your skin needs and building from there. 🌿

Clearing active acne, calming inflammation, fading pigment, smoothing texture + strengthening the skin along the way.

Progressive over aggressive. Intentional esthetics, always. 🧚‍♀️

And with corrective season right around the corner… this is your sign to start your skin plan 👀🍂

#FaeEsthetics #RaleighEsthetician #RaleighSkincare #RaleighFacials #AcneResults MicroneedlingRaleigh ChemicalPeelsRaleigh by @fae_esthetics

I’m burning up from all this glowing skin! 🕺✨❤️‍🔥
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#skincare #esthetician #chemicalpeels #microneedling #customfacials

Custom peels, custom facials, microneedling and custom skin care routine. She doesn’t play about consistency 💅🏻 and all her hard work is paying off 💪🏻💪🏻

Skin metamorphosis queen! Her skin is stunning and blinding me 🤩

🪩✨🕺 her skin took me straight to the disco! by @fae_esthetics