Emy Ekasone

After going through a life alternating experience in 2020. Finding out that the potential of me walking freely again could’ve been forever gone. Forced to start my life over definitely was an eye opener for me. One of the main thoughts about; my career.

I was working in a factory for 5 years. Putting in 50+ hrs weekly. Which required 10-12hrs of standing all night. So, to even think of going back could no longer be in it for me. Focusing on getting mobility back on my feet all while trying to get my life back on track was the biggest battle I’ve ever encountered in my life thus far. 

So, six months! Six months of not being able to walk independently, to be a mother to my 8yr old at the time. Six months of healing, resting in bed a lot, in and out of doctor offices, P.T.; time was all I had. Then I realized after watching a lot of youtube videos of Dr. Pimple Popper; a lightbulb went off. Well of course, I absolutely would love to pop blackheads for a living!

Maybe not on ‘the Dr. Pimple popper level’. But, since I was a kid, my father would ask me all the time if I could help him pop the pimples on his head when he couldn’t get them himself. Then my teenage years came, I was the friend that was always helping her friends out popping their blackheads or pimples if need be. Doing each other's eyebrows before makeup and tweezing our underarms was a must growing up. I’ve had a skin care regimen since becoming a teen. It’s funny sometimes for me, that it took me to break my back to realize that’s what I wanted to do with my career. I guess with that also, not knowing that being an ‘Esthetician’ as a profession was even a thing. A year after 2020, I finally signed up for the esthetician program in my city. Now here I am not only learning to care for someones’ skin through facials or back treatments, but waxing and doing lashes are becoming my favorite things to do now too.

We breathe, shed, and live in our skin. I consider it highly essential ♡