 Hello and welcome to this very special edition of create a life you love I believe everybody has a Dharma a purpose that we either accidentally end up in and there are no accidents is accidents or We're on the journey there purposefully It's okay to laugh at me girl I'm too extraordinary and special guest today from Sierra met I spa Kelly and Alyssa are joining me to talk about their journey into aesthetics and Please stick with us because I think we're gonna laugh a lot during So Kelly and Alyssa, thank you so much for joining me here today Yeah, we're happy to be here Wonderful so Kelly you're a nurse When did you know you wanted to be a nurse? I would say long term Years years years ago. I knew I always wanted to help people and that's the basic answer You probably get for most nurses that they want to help other people But I always had the passion. I was always The caring friend the caring person and I wanted to find a field where I'm not just You know sitting behind a desk but being active and helping others in their day-to-day lives So years ago. I knew I wanted to get into it So I'm glad that I found found that and was able to go to school for that and end up into a field today That I truly truly love so when you first started did you know you'd end up in aesthetics? No, so nursing is great in that you can go so many different paths with it So when I started nursing, I didn't know where I wanted to end up But I knew it was a broad field and there's so many different directions you can take with it And then as I went into different fields of nursing, I kind of Put aside some that I knew weren't for me and then eventually found that aesthetics would be a great end point in my journey for nursing absolutely, and then Alyssa you're a medical assistant and you also are an estheticians When did you know you wanted to be in the medical field? Same thing as Kylie. I've always enjoyed helping people You know, I actually started out as a medical assistant with dr. John Yusuf And then I just really grew into this passion for aesthetics and beauty So I loved helping the patients there Make them feel good about themselves So I really got into like the skin working with him and it's constantly evolving constantly changing There's so many things in the industry that we're in that is just growing. I mean there's so many new things They're coming out with as far as I mean the beauty industry is just a great industry to be in. Oh my gosh It's I mean like he said it constantly growing and changing and yeah, and today's world like 50 years ago was so different than today's world world is right being 50 even 20 years ago You felt maybe old or whatever today 50 is like Being 20 and you just want your outside to match what you feel right side And we love doing that for our patients and our clients is you know when they leave our facility They feel pretty and they feel good, you know, and we create friendships with them as well, which I love Yeah, you know, it's not just a walk-in patient and walk out. We spend time with them We talk to them they come to us and talk about their life And so that's what's really neat about what we do as well Great to work in a field where the patients are coming to you because they want to be there Especially being a nurse working in the hospital a lot of times you're working with patients that have to be there because they're sick Right, so this is a total different side of the spectrum that they're coming to you because they want to and that's a whole different side of How great it it truly feels to have someone Absolutely, so Kelly you do you do Botox? I don't know do Botox, but you do injectables Botox Let's talk just let's start with a little bit about Botox now most people are familiar with Botox Sure, and there are a lot of different uses for Botox. So there's the cosmetic use. What's the most Common thing people want to do with Botox. Sure So I think a lot of people in today's world either know Botox and get Botox or they're on the other end of the spectrum Where they have that misconception that it gives you that frozen fake look So for the cosmetic side of things our job as practitioners is to kind of enhance their natural beauty with the Botox Versus in Hollywood where you see it where there's a lot of Fake fake looks that get that misconception. So when I'm sitting down with my patients I'm just kind of taking that spiel about it as to enhancing their natural beauty And really just not changing their look, but really just kind of using it as a preventative measure So that they can stay looking young and fresh And there's many different places you can inject Botox of most common areas are between the forehead lines here The 11 lines that a lot of people complain of The forehead lines across Horizontally and then around the eyes. Those are the three most common places Cosmetically that patients are getting Botox. I always say this wrong But I know there's a way to inject Botox that literally makes you look like you've had an eye lift And it makes your eyelid your upper lid Where we get this little drooping see everybody I have it don't do a close-up It pulls it up and it like flattens out or Something so little You look so much better. Yes And then but there's another side of Botox that a lot of people don't know and it's the medical side of both Sure for sure migraines and yeah, so Botox can be used for migraines. It can be used for Sweating there's many different implications for Botox in our clinic. We do focus on the cosmetic side But there are medical medical uses there. So Botox even though When it first came out there were a lot of many many many misconceptions. It's come a long way and it's I think just as common I know more men. Mm-hmm. I use Botox now then called bro tax Men are definitely doing it. Oh, yeah, I know a lot of men that are And they deny it more than women do there's a lot of people in today's world that do Botox They just don't talk about it and I think it's something that we should be talking about because it's only gonna help you feel more confident In your day-to-day life and in our faces are a huge part of you are and how you present yourself So, you know as a preventative measure, I think it's great I mean women can start doing Botox in their late 20s or early 30s I mean because you're gonna reduce those fine lines by starting early, you know I mean, so, you know, you don't need to start later. We actually encourage patients to start a little earlier You know, so absolutely. I I agree. I agree because What creates the fine lines is the Facial repetitive never get that from getting Botox really exactly. You don't get the fine line So, yeah So one of the things that you do and I actually am familiar with this procedure. It's called Microneedling correct. Can you explain What Microneedling is for people who may have never even heard of this process, right? So it's a procedure that I do in the clinic and it's almost like little needles and what I do is I focus on areas of People that have fine lines and wrinkles It's really great for scarring. So some of that has acne scars Even stretch marks. It's great on so what it does is it almost damages your skin in a way to help it Reproduce that collagen as a fighting mechanism to repair itself. So it's really great for like I said somebody that has those fine lines and wrinkles So it's a procedure that Usually takes about 45 minutes. I have some great results with it. I like to see patients every four to six weeks to keep going So how often so the first is it the first three treatments are four to six weeks and then after there's first Three do they continue to do you can keep continuing it as long as you're seeing the results until you achieve the results that you're looking for So like I said, I'd say, you know one treatment you're not going to see great results We want you to come back every you know four to six weeks But I say about three to four treatments. You're really going to see those results right away. Yeah now Microneedling is Really good for you because it's it has the benefit like you said of Helping your skin rebuild Rejuvenate itself and the collagen which at a certain age and point slows down Exactly, right. So if you're anything you do that can help bring that production back Absolutely very powerful for your skin. I mean we do it too, you know as a preventative for one But also it just makes your skin feel so rejuvenated. It's it's great for your skin You just have a glow about your skin after you do it and I do have a friend who's a little bit addicted to microneedling Okay, and it's okay. She's actually done Her buttocks for the stretch mark. Okay, I'm not gonna say her name. Yeah, we don't want to do that Never do that. I've never done it on my butt And her above her knees and then of course the face and neck area you can do it anywhere Honestly, we've we've done it. I've seen patients that had stretch marks on the back of their legs So we've done treatments on those areas It can work anywhere, you know, women's stomachs after having children, you know, you're gonna have those stretch marks But it really does produce that collagen to kind of minimize those those lines Yeah, and she I'm going to tell you she looks amazing Anyplace that she has this done She looks absolutely amazing. I'm trying to make up a name for her in my head It's somebody I actually know I know somebody by that name. We're gonna say shantae shantae shantae Looks amazing Absolutely her face is always glowing right her and where she's had it even done on her knees It's just a beautiful beautiful Look, it's a great service very common at Sierra Medespa and You know, I've seen pictures of many girls after they have the needling and it looks like it would be really painful But it's really not it's really not painful. I like to say it feels almost slightly like a sunburn afterwards It yes, it does. Yes, it does and you're a little red I would say 24 to 48 hours a little red, but you can go about your day I mean when you leave powder you can go to the grocery store. You're not gonna look like, you know, ridiculous exactly red But no, definitely able to go back to work if you need to there's really no downtime now micro needling is also the same process The same Thing I think if I'm getting this correctly if I'm not pleased to correct me. There's a certain star out there Oh, yes, that calls it the vampire or the blood facial. That's a little different. Is that different? Okay, so you're with the vampire facial which we're actually talking about incorporating at Sierra You're actually drawing blood from the patient and you're taking their reach or their plate platelets They're plasma and you're using that as a topical serum as you micro needle, right? Okay, gotcha. So it's like a growth factor kind of makes it stimulates a little bit more So that's the vampire facial because you're thinking blood you're taking your blood and putting it on your Face, but it's really the plasma the plasma which rejuvenates even more right helps the rejuvenate And I will say that sounds very very Scary But it's really it's really not it's not and it actually it's supposed to have some really amazing results Which is why a lot of people in Hollywood are are doing it a lot more absolutely So we're actually talking about Incorporating that at Sierra, which is exciting. We're excited about that excellent excellent next We're gonna go over to Kelly again, and we're gonna talk about injectables now They're when injectables first came out and Talking about like lip injections or other types of injections They all I can say is I know they've come they've come a really long way since they first Been introduced on the market So tell me a little bit about the injectables that are offered by you and Sierra and where you might put them For someone and what those results would sure what results Would be accomplished So first of all a lot of people that don't aren't very educated on injectables confuse botox and fillers and think that They're the same in one so but botox would be a neuromodulator So that's when you're relaxing the muscle and that's where we're filling those wrinkles and you know We're helping the muscle to relax so that we don't have those lines in our foreheads that we discussed before But then the fillers those are used to kind of fill those deep lines in the face And they're also used to as we age we lose a lot of volume in our mid-face So it tends to drop some so we can fill the mid-face area Gravity shifts down You know even if there's really deep lines down here That's okay, and then lip fillers are more and more popular nowadays especially to so Fillers in the face and in the lips and there's a lot a lot of patients that are coming in for that Yeah, I know that one of the things that it's called like mannequin Mouth or man it where we get these lines here, and then these lines here, and you it kind of smiling Yeah, and then your skin does start to Follow a little bit so those fillers can be put in these lines absolutely very common area, but One of my friends not the same friend a different friend Went in recently and she normally gets the fillers here and here sure which are amazing and make her look like it Just smooths out your face and gives you that youthful look, but now that they're putting it up here Mm-hmm pull like that apple cheek again. Yeah, so what would that how does that result? Differ I mean I just said it but I want well those are that's going to be the mid-face injection and Dr Youssef who I trained with throughout learning about all the facial anatomy facial aging was one of the first people that talked about that mid-face Descent and that's what creates that nasal labial fold there So if we fill here it presses up on the cheek So it kind of gets rid of that fold in the nasal nasal labial lines and Dr Youssef does a ton of papers and speeches around the world And that's one of the main things that he kind of talked about first So that's a huge thing that a lot of people are getting as well as that mid-face Filler Awesome, and then for lips so many people are afraid to get their lips Filled because they're afraid they're going to be too. I just don't think lips can be too big Yeah, I don't that's personal, but everybody has a different opinion on that But there are one thing that I've learned is even if you go in and you get that filler in your lip Which again is a youthful up a More a little bit more of a youthful or a fresher look Even if it does get overfilled or you get something done There's now something they can inject to dissolve a little bit of the filler So that it's not if just you know that safety if you're hesitant or nervous about it, right? One thing we do at CR2 is really go for that natural look. I think Kelly and Dr Youssef are known for that is they don't want to make you look different and usually when we are doing any Type of filler they'll start off small and in smaller portions You know because I think it's better to start that way. We don't want to make somebody look right You don't want to change the overall look of we just want to give you a refresher and I think beauty You don't want to change the shape of the lip. You just want to enhance what they already have, right? And I I do agree with that. I think that there's a way to Just just a little bit sometimes can go a long way People who really do want that look that's okay to do and they do and I think that's beautiful too I like I said I Don't know Those really plump Lips like certain ethnicities have really nice lips and I look at them. I'm like Not as good, but still I just love that very plump lip Okay, so now I'm going to switch over to you and I'm going to ask you about IPL IPL, so that's intense pulse light. Okay, so what that is and it's very common at sear. It's going to target You know spider veins or Sun damage so a lot of patients will come in with extended capillary. So you have like some redness in your face And that could happen with age Or some damage a lot of patients will come in, you know, they spent a lot of time in the sun So they have those dark hyperpigmentation areas on their face or even their chest or neck Actually, we just saw a patient who had a lot of sun damage on her chest and we're working on that And it's it's really coming along nice getting rid of that a great result with that So it's what it does is it kind of targets that dark pigment underneath the skin and breaks it up So it's going to really help with getting rid of any redness Or or sun damage And you can of course use that on different parts of the body Absolutely anyone in the skin any place on the skin amaze most commonly. I would say it's the chest or the face Okay, excellent and I know that both of you are now doing Medical weight loss We are very excited about that Whoever would like to go first Tell me what exactly is Medical weight loss and I want to say everybody, you know, we we want our face to be a pretty refreshed young looking But our body is such a challenge and food is so emotional like for people If you tell people you can't have this or you can't have that they're right away going to that's the only thing on their mind And people like weddings, they don't even talk about the dress anymore They talk more about the food then the food is a very emotional and eating is very emotional. So Let's talk a little bit about this and how it can help people because I'm really passionate about People not only having the life they want but the look that they want because if you're happy with the way you look and feel The quality of your life is going to be so much better. So what is Medical weight loss. So medical weight loss is really diet counseling Fitness counseling Overseen by a medical provider. So a lot of people think medical weight loss is Getting surgery done, but it's really just sitting down with these individuals Figuring out what their individual struggles are when it comes to food their schedule their sleep schedule If they have time to exercise and figuring out how we can realistically change their overall lifestyle And then a lot of times they do use Supplements, which would be we have injections. We have medications that we can supplement and help if they need that extra little Crutch to help them get the desired results. So when you say we have injections What are the injections one would use in a medical weight loss program if that's what they want now? It's not necessary, but it's something they can add to it. What would those injections be and those are the b12 injections if you Anybody can do the injections and it's basically in the deltoid in the muscle and what it is is it's a combination We have b12 and then lipotropic. So b12 is that vitamin that we all need It helps with sleep regulation. It helps with your metabolic rate It gives you energy. So it's a great source of all those things so like I said, anybody can Use that injection and so it's really good for weight loss as well because the lipotropic component has those Amino acids that helps break down fat in the liver. So that's really going to help Again with the weight loss component. So it's an awesome Add-on or just something that anybody can do Kelly and I do them once a week And that's that's what we recommend once a week. I'm to really get the best results from it So You can anybody can do it. It's great acts and that you don't need to be on the weight loss program to do the b12 Obviously looking at the two of you Beautiful bodies, so you don't need but you can just do it as to get that supplement I'm just like taking a multivitamin at home It is and just another way to get the vitamins in but it's going straight to your bloodstream So it's a little better way of doing it is injecting into that muscle I agree 100% and it's actually becoming a really popular thing in a lot of places, but yeah, come come try So Now there are several different types of weight loss programs that you offer what are some of the types So we have HCG injections Which is a hormone that you inject so that our patients would inject at home themselves once a day And it's kind of a controversial diet. There's many people out there that are talking about it So the injection itself allows your body to sustain to a very low calorie diet Of around five to eight hundred calories per day, which sounds very extreme So this is a short-term solution He's this is suggested for more of our patients that have a lot of weight to lose to kind of get the motivation that they Can do it they can lose weight and then what we would do after this program usually is transition them to our Fentermen program, which is our most common program. It's a medication you take it once a day Fentermen's an appetite suppressant and a stimulant So it helps people to control their hunger so that they're able to make healthier choices when it comes to food And then the stimulant portion gives them more energy so that they can be more active in their day get to the gym So those are the two main programs that we offer which the B12 you can do alongside either of those programs as an extra little boost Excellent, and then people can come in and they can customize what they want. What would that look like? Customizing a program customized basically what we're doing is where we always do a free consultation for any patient That's interested in interested in the weight loss program And we do that because we want to know that person's you know lifestyle You know do they like to work out if they like to work out We're not going to put them on the HCG diet because because it's you know low calorie You can't be doing extensive working out. So we want to know their lifestyle We want to know how much weight they want to lose is this for a wedding is this you know Something that they're doing just for an event. You know, we want to kind of see what they're looking for their ultimate goal Their goals are yet and then we can customize the program, you know suitable for what those needs are And so during a consultation when somebody comes in you sit down you ask them all the questions You go over everything and that's when you customize their program for them or help them customize a program that will work for them Yes, so I would sit them down and get their full history Health history to see if they have any medical issues. We do a blood draw We do an EKG making sure that they don't have thyroid problems Cholesterol problems other things that can be contributing to why or you know the reason of why they're overweight And so we kind of target that overall we're not just looking to help them lose five pounds and not care about their overall health Yeah, we we customize things for the individuals So I sit down and see what their current diet is from a day-to-day basis And then we find a realistic transition to see what we can do To improve each week or every other week when would they come into the office? We really want the results to be long-term We want them to walk away from sear with a new outlook on on life on food on you know dieting So it's really what we're focused on. Yeah, so we don't just hand them a diet plan and say eat this and good luck Yeah, one thing I truly I think it has to become a new way of life to if they want to sustain their results Sometimes people are like I just you know, my daughter is getting married. So I need to get into this dress Sometimes it's just they don't care just except for this event But for the most part people once they're there they want to be able to stay there So having those logical diet plans or eating way of eating Is really good for them. So how long can is somebody normally on the program? Dependable, you know, it's all about like I said, we work with the individual So whether they're on it for a month or multiple months and if they're continuing to see results will work with the individual So that just depends on what their goals are and how much help and assistance they need to get to that goal Some people don't need to stay on the program until they hit their goal as long as we give them the tools that they need Then they can continue to be successful and patients can come to us Even if they don't even want to be in a medication if they just need some guidance We can guide them in the right direction. You don't necessarily have to come to us and say hey We want to be on you know, one of the medications We can work with you and just you can come in weekly and we can talk about For diet and activity, diet and activity counseling. So that's another you know thing that we can do as well and with the programs how How I don't want to say quickly because everybody wants a quick fix, but what how quick or When do people start to see results? Typically if they're following the program. Sure. So within the HCG diet You lose weight very quickly on that low calorie diet So you'd lose you know a pound or two per day even on that diet for some people the Fentermen diet on the other hand That just depends. I mean some people lose a couple pounds in a week I don't want you to lose 10 pounds because that just tells me you're starving yourself and that's not our goal That's a healthy. So you don't want to lose weight. It's gonna be more sustainable as you lose weight slower Right. So we do like to see you every week or every two weeks depending on how often the patients can come in But we monitor we check your BMI we check your water weight So we have an awesome scale That really is detailed when it comes to that so we can really you know work with that patient on on their numbers and whatnot My gosh you guys. Thank you so much. We've covered so much today Yes, so I want to it's been such an honor and so much fun having you on. Thank you. And again You're with seer met a spa in mekwan. So if anybody is interested in Botox injectables Microneedling Programs from head-to-toe you guys can cover And and you know you guys do work with dr. John Yosef who's an amazing doctor who can if somebody wants something a little bit more Extensive we do plastic surgery, right? They can do that. Absolutely, right? Yeah, so one stop shop Thank you so much for joining us today I look forward to the next episode of create a life you love until then blessings