Commentary on My First Visit to Sona MedSpa

Kathie Turner

By invitation, I went to check out the Sona MedSpa for my friend Andy Valadez who works in Marketing. Of course there was no arm-twisting involved, a cosmetic procedure in exchange for some feedback! Just the right enticement to find out about the treatments we see splashed all over Morning News and Talk Shows. The feedback went on for over 2 hours. We had a great time and when it was over we decided it had just begun.

So come with me….

It looked like a business office from the hall but once I walked in it was pretty Zen-like, the atmosphere was instantly calming with a water gurgling arrangement in a sophisticated setting. A nice, tasteful, home, office, clinic- not a beauty shop impression or a posh place where we all think to ourselves, I wonder what this is going to cost?

They popped out and invited me back for a consultation. The lady I talked with was – well a girl. I have daughters her age so she seemed young. She was extremely knowledgeable and had worked in the company for sometime making it all second nature. The conversation was fast and thorough, covering a lot of ground and answering all my questions. I kept looking at her skin thinking it was like a child’s porcelain doll. I stopped to think about how our skin changes so gradually that we don’t notice it happening until we look back over a longer period of time. I really wondered sitting there IF YOU REALLY COULD repair some of what time and nature have done.

I had a great overview of the procedures- but I won’t go into that now. I will tell what we ended up doing though. When I met with my nurse I decided I wanted to do something that I would have never considered on my own. I took her advice.

They are all nurses, making me feel confident in their skills and knowledge. They are so practiced in these procedures, the effectiveness of each one and best results for the desired outcome that they just talk practically about what you should expect and what they would do if they were making the choice for themselves. I never had the feeling that they felt the need to make me feel good, appeal to my vanity- more sharing the knowledge so you could really make a good decision about what you wanted to do.

OK- so the decision was to do two things. First was just a small amount of Botox to update me from an earlier treatment a couple months before. The real deal was Restylane injections for a slightly fuller upper lip. Nothing on the bottom and the amount would be so small that no one would notice- accept me and once I did it I would likely want to do it again she said.

So I settled back in the chair with the functionality of a dentist’s chair and the style a high-end spa.

The injection was done after a numbing of the area and then a simple little stream of Restylane was perfectly streamed in along the edge of my upper lip. I could feel the needle kind of slip along the line of the lip and that was it. Pain, if there was I don’t remember it. That was several weeks ago now and I have literally forgotten. I will try to do this from now on immediately so I don’t leave anything out!

She told me that it would look a little over done for a couple days but within the first week it would settle into what I would like for several months. I am glad she told me because even though no one knew I had done it and no one asked if I had done anything, I could tell. I was speaking the next night in front of hundreds of people and I thought I might have to tell them all what I had done and had fun with it but no one noticed anything. Too bad, a missed opportunity!
I could see the first few days that it really brought a balance to my lips because my lower lip is fuller then the upper lip. I could feel the presence of the Restylane there but it was more an awareness then an anything else. The funniest thing was the inability to pucker up and let’s say whistle. I found out when I was having a bowl of soup and instead on my mouth closing on the spoon and sipping the soup my lip just kind of bounced along the spoon and made a funny noise. I tried and I could not make my lip rest on the spoon normally. Of course that only lasted a couple days but it was funny.

After a week it had settled into a better appearance and balance. Will I do it again? Without question, she was right. This is not something I would have had much curiosity about and now I know it is going to be maintained.

Glad I did it!