Step Up Your Facial Game With Add-Ons
By Emily Wyatt · Published July 24, 2023 · Updated February 10, 2025
When it comes to beauty and self-care, we often focus on facial treatments as a means to achieve that radiant, youthful glow.
When it comes to beauty and self-care, we often focus on facial treatments as a means to achieve that radiant, youthful glow. However, the pro's know that choosing custom add-ons to your facial can quickly expedite the results we are all looking for from a facial - happy, healthy, beaming skin.
Joanna put together 4 ways for you to customize and enhance your next facial treatment:
1. Half Hour Cleanse: An additional 30 minutes added to your Triple Crown Facial or Supernova Facial for deep cleansing and extractions. Perfect for congested or blackhead-prone skin. Cleansed skin is the foundation to all other facial treatments and we recommend all clients add this on at least twice a year.
2. Add On Peel: A customizable detox peel applied during your facial for extra exfoliation. Great for those with dull, congested, or dry skin. This can also help to minimize scarring and reduce the appearance of redness associated with acne.
3. Body Booster: A full leg compression device that helps improve circulation throughout the body, worn during your facial. This improves circulation, reducing fluid retention while bringing stress release, and enhances a head-to-toe glow for all skin types.
4. LED Bed Session: 20 minutes post-facial in our full-body LED bed will speed healing by up to 300%, while enhancing collagen production. Red LED light has a calming effect on the skin, reducing redness and inflammation. It is great for people with sensitive skin or those who suffer from conditions like rosacea or eczema. Red LED light also improves blood circulation, which means more oxygen and nutrients reach the skin cells. This leads to brighter and healthier-looking skin.
Our add-ons are a safe and effective way to improve the appearance and health of your skin. Go all-out and book a Body Booster during your next facial + an add-on Cleanse or Peel, and finish with a LED Bed Session. You’ll feel and look amazing!
Contact us to book or purchase your next glow-up:
jvla@joannavargas.com
(310) 424-5141 (call or text)
salon@joannavargas.com
(212) 949-2350 (call or text)
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