Suite 01 · Maya Castellanos

Four ways to treat a face.

Everything below is performed by one aesthetician who has been doing it for eight years and sees fourteen clients a week on purpose. What changes between these treatments is the mechanism, not the marketing.

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An aesthetician working a treatment mask across a client's face

Start with the mechanism.

Every facial on this menu does one of three things: it lifts dead surface cells, it clears a pore, or it changes what the cell underneath is doing. Most treatments elsewhere are sold on the third promise and deliver the first. Worth knowing which you are paying for.

The HydraFacial does the first two mechanically, with suction and a spiral tip, and finishes by pushing serum in while the pore is still open. The enzyme does the first chemically, with fruit protease that digests the bonds between dead cells and leaves living tissue alone. Dermaplaning does the first with a blade. LED is the only one on the list aimed at the third, and it is the slowest to show and the longest to last.

None of them are interchangeable and none of them are miraculous. A course of any of them, spaced correctly, outperforms a single session of all four.

The four treatments, plainly.

01 · 50 min · $185

HydraFacial MD

Cleanse, a light glycolic-salicylic loosening pass, vortex extraction, then hydration with hyaluronic and peptide serum while the pore is still open. The closest thing on this menu to a reset button.

Who it suits: congested skin, anyone with an event inside seventy-two hours, and first-timers, because there is no redness to negotiate afterwards. Who it does not: active cystic acne, which needs a dermatologist, not a spa.

Every 4 – 6 weeks · LED layers in free

02 · 45 min · $165

Enzyme Refresh

Pumpkin or papaya protease, chosen at the table by how your skin reads that morning. It digests the protein bonds holding dead cells on, and stops there. No acid, no peel, no inflammation to recover from.

Who it suits: sensitive and reactive skin, rosacea-prone skin, and anyone who has had a chemical peel go badly. Members book this one most often between the larger ones.

Every 3 – 4 weeks · no downtime

03 · 45 min · $165

Dermaplaning + Mask

A single sterile ten-gauge blade held at a shallow angle, taken slowly across the face. It removes the outermost dead layer and the vellus hair with it. Finished with a clay or hydrogel mask picked once we can see the result.

Who it suits: anyone whose foundation sits badly, and anyone about to be photographed. Who it does not: anyone with active breakouts, because a blade over an inflamed follicle spreads it.

Every 4 weeks · hair grows back the same

04 · 25 min · $95

LED Light Therapy

Medical-grade panels, red at roughly 630 nanometres and blue at 415. Red is aimed at fibroblast activity, blue at the bacteria involved in acne. You lie still, wear shields, and nothing touches your face.

It is the only treatment here that does nothing you can see the same day, and the only one whose effect compounds. It layers onto any other facial at no charge, which is how most people take it.

Weekly for six weeks, then monthly

A realistic cadence Weeks 1 – 6 · LED weekly
Week 4 · HydraFacial
Week 8 · Enzyme
Week 12 · HydraFacial
Then hold at monthly

How often is actually worth it

Skin turns over roughly every four weeks in your thirties and slower after that. Booking a resurfacing treatment more often than that turnover cycle does not accelerate anything; it just removes cells that have not finished their job. This is the single most common way people waste money on facials, and it is usually a spa that talked them into it.

The honest cadence for most people is one substantive treatment a month, with LED in between if the goal is collagen. If your budget only stretches to one thing, make it the monthly enzyme and spend the difference on sunscreen. We say that at the table often enough that it is worth putting in writing.

What we will not do

We do not perform medium or deep chemical peels, microneedling, or anything that breaks the skin barrier. Those belong in a medical practice with a physician on site, and Old Town has several good ones. Ask at the desk and we will tell you which.

We also do not sell you product on the way out. Maya will write down what she used and what would help, and you can buy it wherever you like. There is no shelf here, and that is deliberate: it is very hard to give honest advice about a bottle you earn commission on.

Before you come

Stop retinol three days ahead and any exfoliating acid two days ahead. Come with a clean face if that is convenient and do not worry about it if it is not; the first eight minutes are a cleanse regardless.

Asked often.

Will my face be red afterwards?

Not from the HydraFacial or the enzyme, and not usually from dermaplaning. Some people flush for twenty minutes from the extraction pass. If you have something at six o'clock, a facial at two is comfortable.

Does dermaplaning make hair grow back thicker?

No. A blade cuts vellus hair at the surface; it does not touch the follicle, and follicles are what determine thickness. The blunt cut end can feel coarser for a few days, which is where the myth comes from.

I have had a bad reaction to a peel before. What now?

Book the enzyme and tell Maya what happened, ideally with the product name if you have it. Enzymes work by a different mechanism than acids and are generally tolerated by skin that acids inflame. She will also patch a small area first if you would rather.

Can I add LED to a bodywork appointment?

Yes, but it needs its own twenty-five minutes and its own suite, so book it as a separate line rather than assuming it will fit. The desk will place it before the massage, not after.

Book the facial suite.

Facials run two to three weeks out. Tell us roughly when suits and we will find the nearest hour.

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