The Turning Point in My Skincare Practice

Why I No Longer “Practice Skincare” — and What I Practice Instead

I got asked why I stopped practicing skincare. The short answer is: I never stopped.

I simply began asking better questions:

What if skincare was reimagined as skin health — as an essential part of a comprehensive health plan?

What if beauty was understood as a living expression of radiance — not a result of surface correction, but a way of being?

What if practitioners and clients alike began to recognize how our enviro-social-psycho experience is reflected through the skin — and how our relationship with touch, ritual, and environment could be medicine?

These questions became my compass. They redefined my practice, my philosophy, and my role within the field of holistic beauty.

"There is no technology to replace the power of the hands" - The beloved, late, Danna Omari

The Interconnected Nature of Beauty

At the core of my work lies one principle: interconnection.Nothing in the body — or in nature — exists in isolation. To touch one system is to touch them all.

When we engage the skin, we are in conversation with the nervous system, the fascia, the blood, the lymph, the energy body, and the psyche. Since the beginning of my esthetics practice, I’ve understood this to be the essence of true holistic care. It’s why I moved away from commercialized skincare approaches and toward a practice centered on touch, energy, and the body’s innate intelligence.

Over the years, my work has evolved from topical treatments to multidimensional sessions that honor the symbiotic relationship between inner and outer beauty. While my methods have evolved, my devotion to touch as a healing art has only deepened.

The Medicine of Touch

Touch is our first language — the body’s most direct form of communication.It regulates, restores, and reminds the system of its wholeness.

As a high-touch facialist, I’ve always relied more on my hands than on machines or tools. I’ve witnessed again and again how intentional touch can evoke transformation that no technology or product can replicate. The skin, after all, is not a surface to perfect — it’s an organ of perception, emotion, and exchange.

Massage — whether through manual lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, gua sha, or other traditional modalities — is not only aesthetic. It’s therapeutic, emotional, and energetic. Touch influences circulation, immunity, emotional regulation, and our felt sense of safety. It’s both science and ceremony — an ancient practice of beauty as belonging.

Beauty as a Psycho-Somatic Practice

My continuing studies in anatomy, physiology, and massage therapy have only affirmed what I’ve known intuitively for years: beauty and well-being are psycho-somatic — of the mind and body.

The western model often fragments the human experience into parts and functions. Yet the biopsychosocial model, along with traditional and earth-based healing systems, teaches that health is a web — physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.

When we approach beauty from this integrated lens, skincare becomes an entry point into nervous system regulation, emotional release, and cellular vitality. The glow becomes a byproduct of coherence — when body, mind, and spirit are in relationship.

The Evolution of LGHTTouch

LGHTTouch has always existed at the intersection of art and science, beauty and embodiment, earth and cosmos.

It is not just a practice — it’s a philosophy of regeneration.Through intentional touch, sensory ritual, and somatic education, I aim to guide clients and practitioners toward a new paradigm of beauty: one that honors the body as landscape, the skin as storyteller, and touch as the original medicine.

Because when we restore connection — to self, to nature, to one another — beauty becomes not something we chase, but something we remember.