This is going to be a long review so to summarize why I recommend you work with Melody:
* Skilled esthetician (my skin loves her!)
* Professional and sincere
* Easygoing, great listener and friendly
* No pressure/up selling
* Works within your budget/schedule
* Appreciative of your business
When I moved to Orange County, I needed to find a new person to clean up my brows. I found good reviews about Melody so called her and was able to make an appointment the same day. She was very nice and professional on the phone so that was a great start. During my visit, Melody was very easy to work with. I have had some bad experiences in the past with brows being too thin or being burned by wax. Melody patiently listened to my concerns and did a great job!
As others have mentioned, Melody will let you know what you need and not up sell you. Before I left, she mentioned that she could do a skin consultation for me if I were interested in the future. I had not really thought highly of facials after a bad experience post-college -- (see a trend here? :) . A year later, I was engaged and starting to plan for the wedding so I decided to do the consultation with Melody. She came up with a plan (including which products to use) that worked in my budget.
Here are some unsolicited comments from my wedding vendors which should give you a very good idea of Melody's skill:
* Wedding planner - after one microderm session, I saw my WP right after. She was surprised that I had just had a micro because my skin did not look irritated at all.
* Makeup artist - I saw her for the practice session early in my treatments with Melody. When she saw me on my wedding day, she commented how my skin looked great/different!
More recently, my younger sister worked with Melody for a couple of months while she was in CA for the summer. Between college stress and some bad Neutrogena product, my sister's skin had a major breakout in the last half of her freshman year (we're talking before pictures in the acne commercials - sorry Sis!). She heard me talk about Melody and I guess she thought my skin looked good ;) so she wanted to contact Melody. My sister wanted to pay for her own treatments so Melody again did a great job of working within her client's budget, timeline and needs. It was AMAZING the results Melody produced -- I think she surprised herself! :) My sister's skin has been doing great since she followed Melody's plan.
One thing you should know is that Melody's place is no frills (aka, it's not a spa and it is located in a strip mall) but she is wonderful to work with and gets results.
I hope this review was helpful!
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