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Our Story

Meet Kay

Master Esthetician · Reiki Master · Artist & Astrologer
Farmer & Earth Tender

There is only one me — and everything I offer comes from a life spent learning how to care for beauty, for the body, and for the land.

My love for this work began long before I knew it was work. As a young girl, I was endlessly fascinated by my mother's makeup — the colors, the transformation, the quiet magic of it. That fascination became a calling. I trained as a makeup artist and began my professional career in New York City with MAC Cosmetics, learning the craft of beauty at its highest level.

When I moved to Ohio in 2007, I followed that calling deeper. I enrolled in esthetics training at The Spa School and studied Fine Arts with a focus on color theory at the Columbus College of Art and Design, after earning a degree in History from The Ohio State University. I am, at heart, a lifelong student — and an artist in everything I do. I thought I would stay on the corporate path. But somewhere along the way, I fell in love. With esthetics. With lash artistry. With the intimacy and artistry of caring for someone's skin.

In 2012, I earned my lash extension certification — becoming one of the early pioneers of lash artistry in Columbus, Ohio. I've been performing lash lifts since 2013, back when the technique was still known simply as a lash perm. For more than thirteen years, I've cared for Columbus clients with devotion, refining my craft without pause: permanent makeup at Daria Chupry's Golden Brows Academy, advanced color matching as a certified Permanent Makeup Color Pro Artist, and professional HydraFacial training. I believe mastery is never finished — it is tended, like a garden.

"Facials and massage are deeply intimate. Esthetics, done with intention, can be healing for the soul."

The healing work came later — and it came for me first. I turned to these practices to find balance in a full and busy life, and they steadied me; they brought me home to myself. Over years of study — including natural medicine and shamanism across Peru, Mexico, and Central America — what began as my own healing slowly became something I could offer others. I couldn't separate any of it from my work at the table. So now I simply share what has helped me on my own journey, woven gently into the care I give.

I know what it means to feel truly cared for. Years ago, while struggling with cystic acne, I sat in a chair and had my makeup done professionally — and for the first time in a long while, I felt seen. I felt beautiful. I felt at peace. That feeling is the heart of everything I do. When you come to me, that is what I want for you: to feel good, to feel cared for, to feel seen, and to leave more at peace than when you arrived.

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What makes my approach different isn't only the years of education, training, and experience I bring — though those years are real, and they matter. It's the philosophy behind the care.

I am also a farmer and earth tender. My partner and I steward a regenerative forest where we practice permaculture, keep bees, and create thriving ecosystems for all life. I work this land with my own hands. We care for the soil, the water, the trees, and every living thing that calls it home — and that same devotion, that same deep and patient care, is what I extend to every client who sits with me, whether in the studio or out on our land. It is also the spirit in which we are building Graceful Forest: a gathering place for healers and artists, where others who offer this work are welcomed in.

I am a safe space. I walk away from drama and anything that disturbs my peace, and I protect that peace fiercely — because it is the very thing I am here to offer you. After many years and many seasons, I have finally built a space that is fully my own — and it is exactly where I am meant to be. This is a place to exhale. A place to be cared for. A place to come home to yourself.

I'm so glad you're here.

Kay

Art of Esthetics · Spa & Academy

Education & Training

A lifetime of devoted study

Esthetics & Beauty

Professional Makeup Artistry — trained in New York City; began her career with MAC Cosmetics

Licensed Esthetician — The Spa School, Ohio

Fine Arts, Color Theory focus — Columbus College of Art and Design

B.A. History — The Ohio State University

Licensed Esthetics Instructor — offering CE-credit training

Lash & Permanent Makeup

Certified Lash Artist — Extreme Lash, 2012; one of Columbus, Ohio's early lash pioneers

Lash Lift Artist since 2013 — Classic, Hybrid & Volume extensions

Certified Permanent Makeup Artist — Daria Chupry's Golden Brows Academy: Microblading, Ombré Powder Brows, Eyeliner & Lip Blush

Certified Permanent Makeup Color Pro Artist — advanced, precision color matching

HydraFacial Certified

Healing Arts & Wellness

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certified — teaching yoga since 2017

Sound Healing & Ceremonial Medicine Drum — eight years of practice

Pranic Healing Certified — Level One, Advanced, Crystal & Psychotherapy

Certified Holy Fire Reiki — Levels I & II

Studied natural medicine & shamanism across Peru, Mexico & Central America

Astrologer — natal chart readings

Land & Earth

Farmer & Earth Tender — regenerative permaculture & beekeeping

Featured in The Columbus Scout Guide — Volumes 2 through 8