Owaken Spa

✨ A Ritual of Renewal ✨

Some evenings call for more than skincare. They call for a return to yourself.

I begin by melting away the day with Bambu Earth’s Castor + Squalane Cleansing Oil, gently dissolving makeup, sunscreen, and stagnant energy while nourishing the skin barrier. This first step is always an invitation to slow down.

Next comes a layer of botanical nourishment with Rosehip Repairing Serum and Gentle Vitamin C Glow Serum. Rich in antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and skin-replenishing nutrients, these formulas support collagen, brighten dullness, and restore vitality from within.

With skin prepped and glowing, I reach for my Wildling Gua Sha. This ancient ritual encourages lymphatic flow, softens tension held in the muscles of the face, and helps reveal the natural contours beneath. It’s not about forcing change—it’s about supporting the skin’s innate intelligence.

Then comes one of my favorite steps: high-frequency therapy. The gentle glow of argon and neon currents creates a beautiful energetic treatment that helps oxygenate the skin, calm inflammation, support circulation, and encourage a healthy, vibrant complexion.

To finish, I seal everything in with Blue Algae Firming Serum—a powerhouse blend designed to deeply hydrate, support elasticity, and leave the skin feeling plump, supple, and luminous.

The result isn’t just healthier skin.

It’s softer features.
Deeper breaths.
A quieter nervous system.
A moment of connection in a world that asks us to rush.

Because true skin health begins when we create space to care for ourselves with intention. ✨🌿

✨ Qi Beauty Home Kit: Skin Transformation While You Sleep ✨

One of the things I love most about the Qi Beauty Home Kit is that your treatment doesn’t stop when you leave the treatment room. Using patented static magnetic field technology, these tiny gold-plated STIMS continue working overnight, supporting your skin’s natural regenerative processes while you rest.

Each placement is intentional. Drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine, STIMS can be applied along specific acupoints and meridian pathways, helping to support energetic balance while simultaneously addressing visible skin concerns. Around the eyes, forehead, cheeks, and jawline, these strategic placements encourage circulation, lymphatic movement, tissue rejuvenation, and skin vitality.

🌿 While you sleep, the Home Kit may help:
• Improve hydration and skin resilience
• Support collagen and elastin production
• Reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
• Encourage lymphatic flow and reduce puffiness
• Improve skin tone, texture, and luminosity
• Support microcirculation for healthier-looking skin
• Enhance the results of your professional Qi Beauty treatments

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, many of the points used around the eyes and forehead correspond with the Bladder, Gallbladder, Stomach, and Governing Vessel meridians—pathways associated with vitality, circulation, nervous system balance, and overall wellbeing. This creates a beautiful bridge between ancient wisdom and modern skin science.

✨ Think of it as a nightly skin ritual that works on multiple levels—supporting the skin structurally, energetically, and biologically while your body does what it does best: heal and regenerate.

Wake up to skin that feels calmer, more lifted, more radiant, and increasingly resilient with consistent use. The magic of Qi isn’t in a single night—it’s in the cumulative effect of intentional care, night after night. 💛

✨ Microcurrent Gua Sha: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Biohacking ✨

These photos capture one of my favorite treatment rituals—combining the lifting power of MyoLift microcurrent with the sculpting and energetic flow of Gua Sha.

Unlike traditional Gua Sha alone, this modality delivers gentle microcurrent through a conductive Gua Sha tool, allowing us to work on multiple levels simultaneously:

⚡ Microcurrent
• Supports ATP production—the energy currency of our cells
• Encourages healthy circulation and nutrient delivery
• Helps re-educate facial muscles for improved tone and lift
• Supports collagen and elastin production over time

🌿 Gua Sha
• Encourages lymphatic drainage and de-puffing
• Releases tension patterns held in the facial muscles
• Improves circulation and tissue hydration
• Honors the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine by supporting the smooth flow of Qi

Together, they create a beautiful synergy. As I glide along the facial muscle fibers and fascial pathways, I’m not only working with the structure of the face, but also supporting the body’s natural communication systems.

The result? A complexion that appears brighter, more sculpted, more lifted, and deeply revitalized.

This is where science and ancient wisdom meet—electrical communication, muscle re-education, fascia release, lymphatic support, and energetic flow, all in one treatment.

✨ Lift.
✨ Sculpt.
✨ Drain.
✨ Energize.

Because healthy skin isn’t just about what you put on it—it’s about how well the entire system is functioning beneath it.

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Qi Beauty for Sensitive & Rosacea-Prone Skin

Qi Beauty is a beautiful option for sensitive, reactive, and rosacea-prone skin because it works with the skin rather than against it. Through the use of static magnetic fields, Qi Beauty supports cellular communication, circulation, lymphatic flow, and the skin’s natural repair processes—without heat or aggressive stimulation.

✨ Helps calm inflammation and visible redness
✨ Supports healthy circulation and oxygenation
✨ Encourages lymphatic drainage and reduces stagnation
✨ Strengthens skin resilience and barrier function
✨ Improves hydration retention and overall skin health
✨ Promotes a deep parasympathetic state that supports healing

Creating an Intentional STIMS Matrix

For sensitive skin, less is often more.

• Create open, breathable matrices rather than dense placements.
• Work with inflammation patterns instead of aggressively treating them.
• Respect compromised barriers and allow the skin space to respond.
• Follow lymphatic pathways to support drainage and reduce congestion.
• Be cautious around highly reactive areas such as the central cheeks and nose.
• Prioritize symmetry, flow, and balance in every placement.
• Observe the skin’s response and adjust accordingly.

The goal is never to force change, but to create the ideal environment for healing. Every bead placement should feel purposeful, supportive, and restorative—helping guide the skin back toward balance, resilience, and radiance. ✨🌿💛

My heart is absolutely full.

I am incredibly honored and humbled to be nominated for Best of Pierce County. To everyone who has trusted me with your skin, your wellness, your healing, and your stories—thank you. This recognition means more than I can put into words.

When I created Owaken Spa, I envisioned something more than a traditional skincare practice. I wanted to create a space where science, nature, advanced esthetics, and holistic healing could come together. A place where we honor the skin as a reflection of the body’s deeper biological systems—from the lymphatic and nervous systems to inflammation, stress, and overall vitality.

I am deeply passionate about continually investing in advanced education, certifications, and innovative noninvasive modalities so I can bring my clients the highest level of care possible. Helping people feel confident in their skin while supporting whole-body wellness is truly my life’s work.

What makes this journey even more meaningful is that it extends beyond the treatment room. Through my nonprofit, Cancer Concierge, I have the privilege of helping connect individuals and families navigating cancer with supportive integrative resources, education, and care. Giving back through this work has become one of the greatest honors of my life.

Thank you for supporting my dream, my mission, and this beautiful community we have built together. If you feel inspired to vote for Owaken Spa, I would be so grateful.

With deep gratitude, 🤍✨

Carly 🌿✨
Owner, Owaken Spa
Integrative Holistic Skin Therapist & Co-Founder, Cancer Concierge

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✨ The Ultimate Marriage of Science, Energy & Advanced Esthetics ✨

These results speak for themselves. What you’re seeing is far more than a facial—it’s a holistic skin transformation that works with the body’s own intelligence.

At Owaken Spa, one of my favorite advanced treatment combinations is Qi Beauty STIMS + MyoLift Microcurrent. Together, they create a powerful synergy that addresses the skin, fascia, muscles, circulation, lymphatic flow, hydration, and energetic balance simultaneously.

Qi Beauty STIMS utilize static magnetic field technology through gold magnetic beads placed on precise facial accupoints and treatment zones. Inspired by the principles of acupuncture, these points correspond with energetic meridians that have been used for thousands of years to support whole-body wellness and balance. The gentle magnetic field continuously communicates with the skin and underlying tissues, helping support circulation, cellular communication, hydration, collagen activity, and what Qi Beauty beautifully calls skin levitation.

While the STIMS are working, MyoLift microcurrent delivers low-level electrical currents that mimic the body’s own bioelectric signals. These currents help stimulate ATP (cellular energy production), support collagen and elastin synthesis, improve circulation, encourage lymphatic movement, and re-educate facial muscles for improved tone, symmetry, and lift.

What makes this combination so extraordinary is that they work on different but complementary pathways:

✨ Qi Beauty supports energetic flow, accupoint activation, tissue hydration, and skin modulation through static magnetic fields.

✨ MyoLift supports cellular energy production, muscle re-education, circulation, and lymphatic drainage through microcurrent technology.

✨ Together they address both the energetic and physiological foundations of aging.

The result is often immediately visible:

• Improved facial contour and definition
• Lifted cheeks and brows
• Softening of fine lines and folds
• Increased hydration and luminosity
• Improved circulation and nutrient delivery
• Reduced puffiness and stagnation
• Better muscle tone and facial symmetry
• A deeply relaxed nervous system

I often describe this pairing as advanced holistic esthetics at its finest—where modern technology meets ancient wisdom. We aren’t forcing the skin to change. We are creating the ideal environment for the skin and body to function more optimally, revealing healthier, stronger, more radiant skin from within.

The glow, lift, and vitality seen after treatment aren’t simply cosmetic—they’re a reflection of improved circulation, lymphatic flow, cellular communication, and energetic balance working together as nature intended.

✨ This is skin health.
✨ This is whole-body beauty.
✨ This is the future of integrative esthetics.

If you told me you had inflammation, dry, dehydrated skin, or even rosacea here’s what I would use and why.

Sensitive, inflamed, dehydrated skin needs nourishment — not aggression.
This is exactly why I reach for these kinds of barrier-supportive, nutrient-dense products for compromised skin conditions like rosacea, chronic dehydration, redness, sensitivity, and inflammation.

Your skin cannot heal when it is constantly being stripped, over-exfoliated, or pushed into survival mode.

This ritual focuses on:
• calming inflammation
• strengthening the skin barrier
• restoring hydration
• supporting the microbiome
• gently increasing circulation without irritation
• feeding the skin with bioavailable nutrients

The Sunflower Cleansing Oil melts away buildup while keeping the skin soft, supple, and protected — never tight or stripped. Oil cleansing can be especially beautiful for reactive skin because it respects the lipid barrier while helping stagnant congestion move gently from the tissues.

Following with the Rosewater Cleanser brings soothing hydration and comfort to the skin while helping reduce heat and redness often associated with rosacea and inflammation.

The Snow Mushroom Hydrating Mask is a dream for deeply dehydrated skin. Snow mushroom acts similarly to hyaluronic acid, helping the skin hold water while softening and calming irritation.

The Gentle Vitamin C Glow Serum gives brightness and antioxidant protection without the harshness that many sensitive skin types cannot tolerate. This is so important because inflamed skin still needs support against oxidative stress and environmental damage.

The Rosehip Repairing Serum is rich in restorative fatty acids and nutrients that help nourish compromised skin barriers, support healing, and reduce the appearance of redness and uneven tone.

And the Shea Butter Moisturizer seals everything in with deep nourishment and protection — helping skin feel comforted, resilient, and less reactive over time.

For sensitive and rosacea-prone skin, less trauma is often the answer.
More nourishment. More repair. More calming rituals.

Healthy skin is not created through force — it’s created through support.

If you’ve never tried or even heard of Bambu Earth 🌿 I’ve got it all!!! I am so honored to be their first partner here in the PNW 🌲🌊⛰️

There are very few skincare lines I’ve ever felt truly connected to on every level — clinically, philosophically, energetically, and emotionally — the way I do with Bambu Earth.

In a world saturated with aggressive marketing, synthetic overload, and the constant pressure to “fight” aging, Bambu Earth feels like a return home. Their formulations honor the skin as living tissue — intelligent, responsive, deeply connected to the nervous system, lymphatic system, barrier health, and whole-body wellness.

As someone who works so intimately with skin, lymphatics, healing touch, and the body’s natural rhythms, I believe the skin thrives when it is supported, nourished, and understood — not forced into trauma or imbalance. That philosophy is woven into every single Bambu Earth product.

The textures are alive. The botanicals feel intentional. The aromas alone create a sensory exhale for the nervous system. You can feel the difference when ingredients are sourced with integrity and formulated with respect for the body rather than trends.

I align deeply with their focus on nutrient-dense plant medicine, barrier restoration, gentle yet transformative actives, and holistic skin health that radiates from within. It mirrors the way I approach treatments at Owaken — combining advanced holistic esthetics with grounding, lymphatic support, ritual, and true skin healing.

To me, skincare should never disconnect us from ourselves.
It should reconnect us.

That is what Bambu Earth embodies so beautifully. 🌿