"My business started by me wanting to correct my own skincare and failing to get the proper advice or guidance from doctors. I have really bad eczema.

When I first moved here, I was on steroid creams, I was on all this stuff. It was really hard to get things that were actually working for my skin. 

So I took matters into my own hands! I went to aesthetics school, and started [A-Peeling Beauty] about two years after I was licensed."

"Honestly, that ingredient list.

I met Sarah when I was working across from her at a pop-up market. I was just curious. You know, I liked her branding, I liked her marketing. Everything was cohesive, very professional and put together. 

And when I picked up that bottle and turned it around to read the ingredient list, I was like, "these are amazing!"

I wanted to try it from there and then bought one bottle for myself. Loved it."

"I have PCOS, so I get dark, inflamed pigmentation marks, especially on my chin area and they get stubborn and they take a while to go away. And Alpha Glow Serum has really helped correct that.

I don't have those marks anymore. When I do get a breakout now, it goes away much quicker."

"I use it twice a day. I do in the morning and at night. It's the first serum I put on right after I wash.

It's a part of all of my facials, it's part of all my aftercare, all my chemical peel clients. Chemical peels is my specialty here, so it's become a staple in my aftercare, and it's my top-selling product of the year (41 sold!). So it's great."

"Iced vanilla latte with oat milk. So basic, but so good. 

Sometimes it's an iced matcha. I'm an iced person."

"I like to go hiking, concerts. I like to stay in my house and clean and chill. 

I love nature, so anything where that I can get out of the house and breathe fresh air is nice."

"Less is more. Honestly, you don't need an extensive routine. I really like to simplify the routine that people are doing. And I like to balance people's skin before I go in with anything aggressive.

With all my peel series clients, we're going to work on repairing your barrier and making sure that's intact before we go in with the acids and more extensive products so that your skin can handle it, and not have a "freak-out response".

"Doechii. No one expects me to like it, but I love it. She's just a positive female influence, I really enjoy it.

I like a variety of music, so I feel like I listen to a lot of older stuff. When I do find newer things that I'm into, I'm always excited about it. My Spotify listening age was 79."

"Stop exfoliating. When I was first getting into my skincare journey and making stuff for myself, I had made these scrubs. They were great for my body, but I was exfoliating my face with them every day like a psychopath.

And then I went to school and was like, oh, my God, I'm destroying my skin. So stop exfoliating. Wash your face a little bit more and research ingredients. Because I could have saved myself a lot of trouble."

"Waking up early. I like to get up early so that I can get a head start on things. Doing a little bit of meditation, a little journaling, stretching, allowing time for myself to be in my present moment, eating a nice healthy breakfast.

I have one day a week that I typically try to set aside to do all of my self-care. So I'll have a night of my face mask, my high frequency, I'll paint my nails, I'll do my eye serums, and add in a couple of my extra products."

"What keeps me motivated is focusing on my dream, focusing on my passion[...]knowing that I'm doing all of this, I'm making it happen for myself, that really kind of keeps me going.

It's really hard to run a business completely by yourself, provide support financially by yourself, do all of these things.

Sometimes you just need to take a step back and realize what you've accomplished and go through what you're grateful for, what you already have, what's coming in, and focus on that."