Gleaux Aesthetics

GRWM (long form): Headed to 🍸🍹🍷🥃✨

What should you put on your face when you’re going to workout? 🧐📝

I’m headed to train Pilates clients & I will be indoors. Here’s an abbreviated regimen to get the job done! 👏🏾👏🏾✔️

Today was nothing short of extremely overstimulating in the worst way!
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Like the kind of day where NOTHING is flowing, everything is irritating, and your nervous system is like “ma’am… please!!!” 🙅🏾‍♀️

And instead of listening to my body, I did what entrepreneurs do….
push through, override, and pretend we’re fine. 😞

Spoiler alert: I was NOT fine!

So I clocked out. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually…
took care of my body & got under my LED light by #. 🚨

Because red light therapy isn’t just about skin, it’s also very beneficial for recovery! ❤️‍🩹

✨ Stimulates collagen + elastin → firmer, smoother skin
✨ Reduces acne + inflammation → because stress will show up on your face
✨ Speeds up healing → inside and out
✨ Eases muscle aches + tension → stress lives in the body too
✨ Supports your natural melatonin rhythm → helping the body relax and unwind. My skincare clients always fall asleep during their sessions. 💤

Basically… it’s giving: reset me immediately!! 💨

Let this be your reminder, life is lifeing for ALL of us but small business owners are in THE TRENCHES right now!!

Fellow entrepreneurs, let this be a reminder that you don’t have to force your way through every hard day!

Sometimes you just need to go lay down, reset & try again tomorrow! 🤷🏽‍♀️

CEO… but also somebody’s patient! 😌🥴 ❤️💙

Back in my nursing bag… and it feels like home again. 🤍 I’m preparing AM meds for my patient. Triple checking the meds just as I was taught 18 years ago! 📝👌🏾🙌🏾

There’s something deeply full circle about this moment. Serving in a private duty role, caring for someone in the comfort of their home. This is the same level of care I once needed for my first husband from 2009-2014. And now, I get to be that person for someone else. I’m so honored & don’t take the trust placed in my skills and abilities lightly!

Nursing has always been my foundation & total well-being is a love of mine! 💪🏾🫶🏾
It’s where precision, compassion, and clinical judgment meet real human connection. 🫂🤗

And that same standard of care?
It doesn’t stop at the bedside.

It’s the reason behind every recommendation I make.
Every treatment plan.
Every product I formulate.

Because skincare, especially for melanated skin deserves more than trends. It deserves clinical understanding, safety, and intention.

For years, nursing has been ranked as one of the most trusted professions… and I carry that responsibility into everything I do.

Whether I’m preparing medications or correcting hyperpigmentation, the mission is the same:
to care, to serve, and to deliver results with safety, integrity & the joy to serve others.

This isn’t just what I do.
It’s who I am. 💫

— Shalana, RN
Founder, Gleaux Aesthetics Skincare