Melt by melissa

Quick reality check 💭

The U.S. has banned 11 ingredients in cosmetics.
The EU? Over 1,700 🚨

Different standards. Different level of protection.

This isn’t about fear. Just awareness 🫶🏼 because every product you pick up is a vote. For your health, your hormones and for the kind of industry you want to support.

Let’s know better, choose better, and take care of ourselves better 🩷

Golden Hour is back at MELT. ☀️✨
Which means more savings all summer and less sunburned, scorched skin.

Every Thursday, all month long, we’re bringing back one of our favorite seasonal traditions at both The Mothership and Midi MELT:

☀️ $10 OFF any spray tan
☀️ + A FREE Hydrating + Extending Mist ($15 value) with every tan
$25 IN TOTAL SAVINGS!!!

Choose your perfect shade.
Customize your development time - we have classic or rapid.
Leave looking like you spent the day in golden hour, not under the desert sun.

Available ALL day, EVERY Thursday.
Discounts applied automatically at checkout.
Here’s to bronzed skin, not scorched skin. 🤎✨

I want to start by saying this with love: she looks absolutely incredible. ✨ Glowing, healthy, glassy skin. And clearly, this routine is working for her.

My page will never be about tearing people down, fear-mongering, or pretending there’s only one “right” way to care for your skin. Skincare is nuanced. Personal. Individual.

I simply love sharing my own professional perspective and skincare philosophy after 14 years as an aesthetician and someone deeply passionate about ingredient education, barrier health, and long-term wellness. 💗

For me, this conversation is bigger than one influencer or one product. It’s about increasing awareness around what we put in and on our bodies daily, learning how to read labels, understanding where to spend our precious dollars, and realizing that more expensive or more complicated doesn’t always mean better.

I’ll almost always lean toward fewer, more intentional products with cleaner, high-performing ingredients over excessive layering and unnecessary fillers, dyes, PEGs, PPGs, and synthetic fragrance.

And important disclaimer: at the time I researched for this video, the Jan Marini website claimed their Vitamin C serum was “fragrance free” while fragrance was still listed in the full ingredient deck. Good news: they removed the inaccurate claim. Bad news: the formula does indeed contain artificial fragrance, which is a pass for me. With synthetic fragrance permeating our environment all around us, I avoid it in the products I purchase as much as I possibly can.

As always, take what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and remember that informed consumers are powerful consumers. 🫶🏼

OK babes… I’m currently STRUGGLING and deeeeep in the journey of postpartum melasma that was triggered by a laser session because we didn’t know I had it 😵‍💫 WOOF.

Would genuinely LOVE your recommendations. Please drop ANY treatments, products, practitioners, protocols, lasers (or absolutely-NOT lasers 😅), and professionals you’ve seen major success with for melasma healing + management. I’m all ears. 🤍

Otherwise… enjoy my quick roundup of common skin concerns + some of my favorite products and professional treatments for each ✨

Fine lines + wrinkles → microneedling 💉
Sun damage → Sciton BBL ☀️ **Big no no if you have melasma!!
Premature aging → daily mineral SPF + peptides 🛡️
Congested pores → monthly Hydrafacials 🧼
Dark circles → vitamin C serum 🍊
Eye bags → caffeine eye serum 👀
Dull skin → dermaplaning + deep moisture 💧
Acne → high frequency + blue LED 💥

The softest skin of your life🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

For the first time EVER, we’re pairing a service + product in one experience. You skin deserves the very best in the studio and in between visits, too.

Start with our signature Dewy Dermaplane Facial for that fresh, smooth, dewy glow. Then take the goodness home with a Deep Pore Cleansing Duo selected specifically for your skin.

Why have one without the other?

One magical hour at MELT is wonderful, but healthy skin is built in the little rituals in between. 🤍

✨ Includes:
• Dewy Dermaplane
• Customized Cleanser + Herbal Toner
• 10% savings on both service + skincare

Available all June, bb. 🌞

The 2020s honestly changed EVERYTHING for brows.

For the first time in a long time… people stopped obsessively tweezing at home every night in the 20x mirror and stopped over-waxing every 3 weeks.
And thank Goddess hallelujah for it!!

Because once everyone actually left their brows alone for a minute, so many people realized they had WAY more hair than they thought.
The lemonade we made out of a very strange moment in the world?
Fuller. Fluffier. More natural brows.
That regrowth is really what ushered in the brow lamination era. Soap brows, tints, fluffy texture, that bold lifted Bella + Hailey energy.

My 2026 prediction?
Still lifted. Still textured. But softer. Less “done.”
Less forcing every hair into place. Less super glued to the forehead perfection.
More wispy, airy, lived-in, slightly overgrown brows that actually move with texture, personality, and perfectly imperfect quirks.

I call it:
the one-week-after-lamination brow lewk ✨

A little lami, a little tint, a quick swipe of gel and out the door.
After everything we’ve put our brows through over the past 100 years…
I love that we’re finally embracing our uniqueness and letting ‘em breathe.