Back Bar Skincare

Back to school. Back to routines. Back to Back Bar.

As you settle into September schedules, put a little time for yourself on the calendar, too.

Back Bar facial memberships include more than your monthly facial:

🤍 One facial credit added each month, with no expiration.
🤍 10% off all retail products.
🤍 10% off additional services and add-ons, including microneedling.
🤍 The option to share your facial visits through Vagaro. Shared members also receive 10% off retail.

You can come each month, save your visits, or alternate appointments with someone sharing your membership.

Choose your time:

🤍 45-minute Booster | $105/month

🤍 75-minute Back Bar | $155/month

🤍 95-minute Top Shelf | $190/month

Each facial is customized to your skin. Services are fully inclusive, and tipping is not part of the experience. A 12-month commitment, paid monthly. You choose whether to renew each year.

Explore memberships through the Vagaro link in my bio, or message me for help choosing yours.

Mallow comes from Malva sylvestris, a flowering plant in the mallow family. In a skincare formula, those polysaccharides contribute to the soft, cushioning feel that makes mallow especially useful when I want to add comfort without making a product feel heavy.

I tend to reach for it when skin feels tight, dry, dehydrated, or easily irritated.

You may find it in a toner or serum, and I also use it in masks when I want a little more slip and cushion in the formula.


This is one of the things I love about custom formulation. Two ingredients can both be called “hydrating,” but they do not necessarily bring the same thing to a formula.

Sometimes I am choosing an ingredient because of the way it holds water. Sometimes, it is for texture, slip, weight, or how the finished product feels on your skin.

Mallow gives me a little bit of all of those things.

Do you dry brush?

If you have one at home, I’m curious how you use it. Before every shower? Once in a while? Or are you still not totally sure what you’re supposed to do with it?

A few takeaways I think are helpful:

Dry brushing is physical exfoliation for the body.

Light pressure is enough.

Once or twice a week is a good place to start.

And after you shower, body oil goes on best while your skin is still slightly damp.

I put the full routine, plus a few dry brushing facts worth knowing, in Skin + Routine Notes on the Back Bar site if you want to learn more.

Custom means I get to adjust the formula to fit the skin in front of me. AND keep adjusting it as your skin changes.

Let me know what your skin needs. I got you!!

Jojoba. First things first: ho-HO-ba. 😂

And despite what we all call it, jojoba oil isn’t technically an oil. It’s a liquid wax made mostly of wax esters.

That chemistry is part of what makes it such a useful skincare ingredient. Jojoba works as an emollient, helping soften the skin and support moisture without the heavy finish you might expect from an oil.

I use it because it’s simple and ridiculously versatile: face, body, hands, cuticles, dry spots, and even a tiny amount through dry hair ends.

Also, now you know how to pronounce it. Which may be the most important thing you learned here today. 🤍

Custom skincare is meant to grow with you, and the House Account makes that even easier.

Each month, $65 is added to your House Account to use whenever your skin or routine is ready for something next. Your credit stays there until you choose what feels right.

Use it toward a custom skincare reorder, an adjustment to a formula you already love, or the next step in your Back Bar Plan.

I keep track of your formulas, preferences, and the changes we make behind the bar, so each order can build from what we already know about your skin.

It is a simple way to build your routine over time with your esthetician still part of the process.

Ready to open yours? Send me “HOUSE ACCOUNT” and I’ll send you the direct link.

If your routine no longer feels right, let’s take a closer look.

Take the free Skin Check-In Quiz. Simply tell me what your skin has been doing lately, what you are using now, and what just does not feel quite right.

You’ll get an immediate first result with product recommendations. Then I’ll go through your answers, photos, and current routine myself and follow up by email and text with what I am noticing, what I would adjust, and where I think you should begin.

Take the quiz first, then decide what feels right for you.

Start the Skin Check-In Quiz at backbarskincare.com.