“I always combine treatments with a space and techniques to let people unwind and their cortisol levels really drop,” says Kristyn Smith.
But the foundation of Smith’s knowledge and intuition come about from working with the non-models among us, and through training and protocol development with brands like Cle de Peau , Blue Mercury, and SpaceNK, among others. She also studied reflexology, aromatherapy, nutrition, gua sha, and herbology, but is adamant about “staying in her lane” as an aesthetician. “I would never claim to give a gua sha or reflexology treatment,” she says.
Smith is currently referral only—she sees four clients a day—but two additional rooms at Practise allow three other aestheticians to work on new clients. The limited space is by design: “We don’t want an overwhelmed waiting room where clients have to think too much about about possibly seeing someone, and we also stagger appointments so that we never have too many people in the space at one time,” she says.