Two Summit County High School grads open medical spa - Summit Daily

At BOLD n’ Bitchin Medical Spa, rooms are decorated with antithetic themes, aesthetics are a number-one precedence and idiosyncratic empowerment is encouraged. 

BOLD n’ Bitchin’ opened connected Oct. 1 with a ngo to supply aesthetic quality operations for some women and men crossed Summit County. 

Though the sanction is attributed to proprietor and creator of BOLD n’ Bitchin’, Ariel Strickler, the aesculapian spa is simply a collaboration betwixt respective quality professionals focused connected representation enhancement and procedures. 

Strickler, calved and raised successful Summit County, opened the aesculapian spa done the assistance of Julie Mckenzie, who came to Summit County successful mediate school. The 2 played volleyball unneurotic done precocious school, yet winning a nationalist title together. 

As clip went on, the 2 separated. Strickler near Summit to spell to schoolhouse astatine Vanguard University successful California wherever she received her concern degree. Afterward, she moved backmost location and graduated from the College of International Aesthetics successful 2014. 

Strickler past spent immoderate clip astatine a section spa to get much acquisition until she near to go an entrepreneur nether the sanction BOLD. 

BOLD comes from an thought Strickler had successful assemblage erstwhile she was tasked to travel up with a hypothetical business. It stands for “beauty, opportunity, manner and discipline” and ended up being the sanction of her archetypal concern arsenic an eyelash technician. 

Strickler ran BOLD retired of her parents’ location until she had capable clients to expand. Soon, she secured a 200-square-foot bureau with nary windows. “I was like, ‘It’s perfect, everyone’s eyes are closed,” Strickler laughed.

The modulation inspired Strickler to go much than BOLD. 

“My ma and I were talking, and we were similar BOLD n’ Beautiful, BOLD n’ Bougie, BOLD and blah, blah, blah,” Strickler recalled. “And past we drank a mates glasses of vino and it turned into BOLD n’ Bitchin’.” 

Strickler said she did person immoderate backlash astir the sanction but she stood her ground. 

“I’m not changing my name,” Strickler said. “My clients are great, nary substance if you marque a cardinal dollars oregon not, I privation to dainty them arsenic if they’re a high-end client, and my sanction is not to deter that.”

Strickler has successfully tally her concern since 2016 and has secured a database of regulars and out-of-town clients. Eventually, she grew her concern to the constituent wherever the 200-square-foot abstraction was nary longer capable room. As Strickler began to look for different options, she realized that her signifier could grow if she partnered with a aesculapian director. 

That’s wherever Mckenzie entered the picture. 

As an esthetician, Strickler is not capable to execute botox oregon filler unless determination is simply a aesculapian manager progressive successful her practice. During her hunt for a aesculapian director, idiosyncratic mentioned Mckenzie’s name. Strickler instantly reached retired and recovered that Mckenzie was already successful the process of searching for idiosyncratic similar her to enactment with. 

Mckenzie works arsenic a doc astatine Swan Mountain Women’s and Family Center but has a past wrong the aesthetics field. When a erstwhile student, Liya Flage, reached retired looking for a concern partner, Mckenzie decided each 3 — herself, Flage and Strickler — could enactment nether 1 roof. 

Mckenzie and Flage run done their business, June Aesthetics, portion Strickler operates nether BOLD n’ Bitchin’. However, each are partners nether the BOLD name, frankincense helping each different further their careers.

Soon after, Strickler secured a 1,300-square-foot-space close adjacent doorway to her 200-square-foot office, and Mckenzie gave her sanction the greenish light. 

“I deliberation she has a brand, and past anyone who knows Ariel, it fits her,” Mckenzie said. 

The sanction has besides been integrated passim their concern space. Strickler said their company’s benignant and ngo is dissimilar immoderate Botox oregon filler institution astir the county. 

“There’s thing truly similar this,” Strickler said. “There’s a mates places astir the region that bash Botox, but they’re usually brainsick booked, and it’s not truly a specialty to the quality broadside of it.” She added that astir estheticians successful Summit County enactment done dermatology offices wherever radical tin beryllium diagnosed, and there’s much of a aesculapian accent connected procedures. 

BOLD n’ Bitchin’, connected the different hand, is centered astir beauty, aesthetics and representation to assistance clients execute a much enhanced look, Strickler said. 

“We clasp existent to the sanction of being a aesculapian spa,” Mckenzie said, “Which means everything is done to sterile technique, and safely and knowing the anatomy, knowing however to support their patients, due to the fact that these are not low-risk procedures.”

To bring location their quality brand, however, each country has a antithetic theme. 

There’s a cattle people room, a country with lash decals and neon lighting, a country that Strickler said is much “male dominant” for antheral clients and besides a full personage mugshot wall. Strickler called their bureau a small much “warming” than a accepted doctor’s office. 

Many antithetic options are disposable done their signifier specified arsenic lash extensions, Botox, fillers, chemic peels and more. According to Strickler, modular Botox goes for astir $300, fillers astir $500 to $800 and bi-weekly lash extensions outgo astir $100. 

Interested folks tin marque appointments via their website, astatine BOLDnBitchin.com. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each time of the week but Sunday, erstwhile they adjacent astatine 2 p.m. Folks tin besides travel connected Instagram astatine @BOLDnBitchinMedSpa and Facebook astatine Facebook.com/BoldMedSpa.

Though appointments are encouraged beforehand, Strickler said they bash judge walk-ins. 

“I deliberation it’s benignant of a chill thing,” Mckenzie said. “These 2 women that person been successful Summit County a agelong clip coming unneurotic and starting a concern — there’s not excessively galore of that. So we’re excited to benignant of beryllium a uncommon form.”