Complete Facial Treatment for $85: Everything Included at Our Boca Raton Studio
Let me tell you what bothers me about most facial menus.
They're either vague — "relaxing facial, $120" — or they're engineered to sound comprehensive while actually describing very little. "Cleanse, tone, moisturize." Three words, $150. You book it, you show up, and you find out what "tone" means in this context when the esthetician applies it for forty-five seconds and moves on. Maybe it was worth it. Maybe it wasn't. You can't tell because you never knew what you were comparing against.
I run my studio differently. When I list a treatment at $85, I want you to know exactly what that price buys — every step, why it's there, what it does to your skin, and how long it takes. Not because transparency is a marketing strategy, though it does build trust. Because it's the only honest way to do this work. You're putting your skin in my hands. You should know what I'm planning to do with it before you book.
So here's the complete breakdown of the $85 Deep Ultrasound Cleaning with High-Frequency Treatment at my studio at Phenix Salon Suites in Boca Raton. Every step. No filler content. No steps that exist to fill time or justify a price point. Each one earns its place.
Why Seven Steps and Not Three
A spa facial that costs $120 and takes forty-five minutes is probably doing three or four things. Cleansing, maybe some extraction, a mask, a finish. Each of those things is genuinely useful. But they leave significant gaps — gaps in what gets addressed, in how prepared the skin is for each subsequent step, and in how thoroughly the skin is left at the end.
The seven-step sequence I use isn't comprehensive because comprehensiveness sounds better on a menu. It's comprehensive because skin isn't a simple problem. The congestion that creates blackheads and dull tone needs to be softened before it can be extracted. The bacteria that perpetuate breakouts need to be addressed after extraction, not before, when they're most accessible. The products applied at the end need clear, freshly treated skin to actually penetrate rather than sitting on top of the debris you just moved around.
The sequence is a logical chain. Remove each link and the links on either side become less effective. That's why seven steps at $85 produces different skin than three steps at $120.
Step One: Skin Analysis and Consultation
Before anything touches your face, I look at it. This isn't a two-minute formality before the real treatment starts. It's the decision-making phase that determines every product choice for the rest of the session.
Under proper magnification lighting, I assess your pore size and congestion pattern, baseline oiliness, any active inflammation or blemishes that change the extraction plan, signs of dehydration or barrier disruption, sun damage pattern, and anything that's changed since your last visit if you're a returning client. This takes ten to fifteen minutes.
What I'm doing is building the specific treatment plan for your skin today — not for a generic combination-skin client, not for the last person who sat in this chair, but for the pattern of what's actually in front of me. The cleanser I choose for your double cleanse, the serum I apply at the end, the mask selection — all of it comes from this assessment.
Clients who've had facials at larger spas or open-floor studios sometimes describe this step as different in kind, not just degree. In a shared floor environment, the esthetician is managing multiple clients and her time is structured accordingly. In my private suite, the consultation is the treatment. Everything that follows is its execution.
Step Two: Cleansing and Exfoliation
The cleansing phase is a double cleanse, not a single pass.
The first cleanse removes surface accumulation: whatever's on your skin from the day — makeup, SPF, the environmental particulates from being in Boca Raton traffic and outdoor South Florida heat, the sebum and sweat mixture that accumulates in our climate faster than in temperate regions. This is a mechanical clearing of the surface layer. It's necessary but not sufficient.
The second cleanse uses a product selected for your skin type — assessed in step one — to begin working on the follicular opening itself. Where the first cleanse clears the surface, the second cleanse is preparing the skin for what follows: ultrasound and steam working more effectively on properly prepared skin than on skin that's had one pass with a generic cleanser.
Exfoliation follows — a gentle chemical or enzymatic exfoliant appropriate to your skin's current condition. The goal here is removing the accumulated dead skin cells from the stratum corneum that create the flat, dull appearance and the rough texture that makes skin feel uneven. In South Florida's climate, the skin produces more dead cell debris than in drier, cooler environments — the heat and humidity affect the skin's natural shedding process, and regular professional exfoliation is more important here than in most regions.
The exfoliation step also prepares the pore opening for steam and ultrasound. A freshly cleared surface allows the ultrasonic vibrations better contact with the skin and allows steam to penetrate the follicle opening more effectively. The preparation steps earn their place in the sequence by making the technical steps that follow more effective.
Step Three: Steam Therapy
Steam is probably the most misunderstood step in a professional facial — simultaneously undervalued by clients who think it's just atmosphere, and overvalued by studios that use it as a substitute for more technical work.
What steam actually does: warm water vapor raises the temperature of the surface skin, causing thermal dilation of the pore opening. The pore walls relax and expand slightly, softening the upper portion of the follicular contents — the compacted sebum and debris that's been accumulating in the channel below the surface. It also increases the surface skin's permeability to the subsequent ultrasonic treatment, meaning the vibrations can reach deeper and work more effectively on congestion that's been thermally loosened.
What steam doesn't do: it doesn't reach the full depth of the follicular channel. It doesn't replace ultrasonic technology in dislodging impacted sebum from below the pore surface. It doesn't sterilize or kill bacteria. Studios that stop at steam and then go to manual extraction without ultrasound are performing a less complete procedure than the sequence I use — extracting what has been surface-softened rather than what has been fully loosened from depth.
In South Florida's climate, steam produces a particularly noticeable effect because the skin tends to run warm and oily to begin with. The thermal dilation from steam on already-warm skin in a warm environment creates significantly better pore access than the same step performed in a cold-weather climate where the skin starts contracted.
Step Four: Ultrasonic Deep Cleaning and Extraction
This is the technical core of the treatment — where the $85 price point stops feeling like a spa service and starts feeling like a medical esthetic procedure.
The ultrasonic device vibrates at approximately 28,000 cycles per second. At this frequency, it creates a cavitation effect at the skin's surface — microscopic bubbles that form and collapse against the follicle, physically loosening and emulsifying the compacted sebum, dead cells, and debris inside the pore channel. Not scraped. Not squeezed. Vibrated loose from within.
After three steps of preparation — cleansing, exfoliation, steam — the follicular contents are as ready for this as they're going to be. The cavitation effect reaches where the steam softened, completing the loosening process at depth and not just at the pore surface. What comes out of the skin during this step — visible on the device's spatula tip — is evidence of what was in the pore, below the surface, where your home cleanser doesn't reach regardless of how good it is.
Extractions follow the ultrasonic phase, and the difference in this sequence versus manual extraction without prior ultrasonic loosening is measurable in two ways: how completely the pore clears, and how comfortable the process is. With the follicular contents physically loosened, extractions require significantly less manual pressure. Less pressure means less trauma to the surrounding tissue, less post-extraction redness, and — critically — more thorough clearance because the material comes out rather than being partially displaced by pressure.
I work methodically through congested areas — chin, forehead, nose, the particular zones where your skin holds its congestion based on what I identified in the skin analysis. The goal is complete clearance of what the skin prepared to release, not aggressive extraction of whatever is remotely reachable.
Step Five: High-Frequency Therapy
Most clients who've had facials before haven't had high-frequency treatment. It's not included in standard facial offerings at most spas, which is one reason the $85 treatment at my studio produces different results than a surface facial that costs more.
High-frequency therapy uses a glass electrode — typically filled with neon or argon gas — through which a low-current electrical frequency passes when the wand contacts the skin. The effect is a gentle electrical current that kills acne-causing bacteria through a process called ozone production: the electrical discharge ionizes the oxygen molecules near the skin surface, producing a small amount of ozone with documented antibacterial properties. The bacteria that perpetuate breakouts — Cutibacterium acnes — are killed in the now-cleared pores, addressing the infectious component of acne at the source rather than waiting for it to become a breakout.
The timing of this step is deliberate. High-frequency therapy is applied after extraction, when the pores are freshly cleared and the bacteria inside them are most accessible. Applying it before extraction would be treating bacteria behind a closed door. After extraction, the pores are open, the bacterial population has been exposed, and the ozone effect can reach them directly.
Beyond the antibacterial function, high-frequency therapy stimulates circulation to the treated area through mild thermal effect and the electrical stimulation. Increased blood flow brings oxygen and nutrients to the skin cells, contributing to the post-treatment glow that clients notice. It also begins tightening the pore wall around the cleared follicular space — which is what creates the visible pore-reduction effect that shows up in the days following the treatment, not just immediately after.
For clients whose primary concern is acne-prone skin — which describes a significant portion of my Boca Raton clientele dealing with Florida heat, humidity, and the bacterial conditions that combination creates — this step is not supplementary. It's the component that interrupts the breakout cycle rather than just clearing what's already there.
Step Six: Nourishing Calming Mask
By the time the mask goes on, the skin has been through a complete treatment cycle: double cleansed, exfoliated, steamed, ultrasonically cleaned, manually extracted, and treated with high-frequency current. The skin is cleared, stimulated, slightly pink from the circulation boost, and in its most receptive state of the entire session.
The mask is chosen based on what the skin needs at this point — and that varies by client in ways the skin analysis identified in step one. For oily, acne-prone skin, a clay or kaolin mask that draws remaining debris from the freshly cleared pores and provides mild additional antibacterial effect. For dehydrated or sensitive skin, a hydrating sheet mask or cream mask that replenishes moisture and calms the mild inflammation from extraction and high-frequency work. For dull, sun-damaged skin, a brightening mask with vitamin C or niacinamide that delivers actives into the freshly prepared skin while the circulation-stimulating effect from step five is still active.
The mask sits for fifteen to twenty minutes. This is also the only point in the session where the active technical work pauses and the client gets to just be in the chair. It's a real rest, not a marketing rest — the skin needs the time for the mask ingredients to work and for the post-treatment skin response to begin settling.
Step Seven: Serum and Moisturizer Application
The finish of the treatment is the step most likely to be performed identically by every provider regardless of the client. "Apply serum and moisturizer" appears on every facial menu. The variable is whether the serum and moisturizer are chosen for what just happened to this specific skin.
I apply a serum first — concentrated active ingredients selected from the skin analysis. For someone who just had extractions and high-frequency on congested acne-prone skin, a niacinamide serum that continues the anti-inflammatory and pore-tightening work. For someone whose skin analysis showed dehydration, a multi-weight hyaluronic acid serum that deposits moisture at multiple skin depths. For someone with visible sun damage and uneven tone, a brightening serum while the skin's barrier is freshly cleared and most receptive.
The moisturizer follows, sealing and supporting whatever the serum just delivered. The choice matters here too: in South Florida's humidity, a lightweight gel moisturizer often serves better than a rich cream that sits on top of already-humid skin. For drier skin types or clients who've been in aggressive air conditioning, something more occlusive.
SPF is the closing instruction. The skin has just been through a comprehensive clearing, exfoliation, and treatment cycle. The barrier is functioning but the surface is fresh. UV exposure on freshly treated skin is counterproductive — it degrades the newly circulating skin cells and begins generating the oxidative stress the treatment just addressed. SPF is not a suggestion in Boca Raton regardless of treatment status, but it's especially non-negotiable in the 24 to 48 hours following a professional facial.
What You Leave With — and What Changes Over Time
Immediately after the session: cleaner, more even skin. The texture improvement is visible — the surface is smoother, the tone is more even, the pores that were distended by congestion look smaller because they're cleared. A mild flush from the circulation stimulation that most clients describe as a glow. This resolves into a settled, clean result within a few hours.
Over the following days: continued improvement as the high-frequency antibacterial work reduces the bacterial population that feeds the breakout cycle, and as the freshly cleared pores remain clear in the absence of the congestion that held them open. Clients with persistent acne-prone skin often notice that their skin stays clearer for longer in the weeks following the facial than between home-cleansing-only periods.
Over months of regular sessions: the cumulative benefit that builds when professional clearing is done at intervals that match the skin's natural cell renewal cycle — every four to six weeks for most South Florida clients — rather than twice a year. The skin stops operating in catch-up mode. The congestion that was always slightly ahead of what home cleansing could manage gets addressed before it accumulates. The products in the home routine start working better because they're reaching cleared skin rather than sitting on top of follicular obstruction.
This is what $85 per month buys in terms of long-term skin function. Not one transformative session, but a maintenance rhythm that keeps the skin in the condition where it can do its own job well.
Who This Is and Isn't For
This treatment is the right choice for: oily or combination skin dealing with persistent blackheads, enlarged pores, or congestion that home cleansing doesn't clear; acne-prone skin in any stage from mild comedonal acne to moderate breakout frequency; dull, flat skin tone that doesn't respond to home brightening products; anyone in South Florida who's been applying SPF daily (correctly) and wants to counteract the pore accumulation that comes with it; and clients who want a complete professional treatment without the overhead markup of a spa or med-spa facility.
This treatment is not the primary choice for: active, inflamed cystic acne with significant bacterial involvement — which has drivers that require dermatological rather than esthetic intervention; skin primarily concerned with structural aging, significant fine lines, or firmness loss — for which microneedling with anti-aging serum is more targeted; or severe, inflammatory rosacea where extractions and high-frequency current need to be modified or avoided based on the specific presentation.
If you're not sure which category you're in — that's what the consultation is for. It's free. It takes forty-five minutes. And it will give you a clearer picture of what your skin actually needs than you'll get from reading any menu description, including this one.
Book at heragencyusa.com or reach me at Tknatalia1974@gmail.com — Phenix Salon Suites, 7112 Beracasa Way, Suite 119, Boca Raton. Serving Delray Beach, Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, Parkland, Pompano Beach, and South Florida.
Frequently Asked Questions: Complete Facial Treatment in Boca Raton
Q1: What is included in the $85 facial treatment at Her Agency Boca Raton?
The $85 Deep Ultrasound Cleaning with High-Frequency Treatment at Her Agency is a seven-step professional facial that includes: a personalized skin analysis and consultation under magnification lighting; double cleanse with products matched to your skin type; gentle exfoliation; steam therapy to prepare pores; ultrasonic deep cleaning using professional-grade equipment operating at approximately 28,000 Hz to physically dislodge follicular congestion from inside the pore; manual extractions made more thorough and more comfortable by the prior ultrasonic loosening; high-frequency antibacterial therapy targeting acne-causing bacteria in the cleared pores and stimulating collagen production; a calming nourishing mask selected for your skin type; and finishing serum and moisturizer chosen based on your skin assessment. The entire session runs sixty to seventy-five minutes and takes place in a private suite with no shared treatment floor.
Q2: What is the difference between a regular facial and the ultra cleaning facial with high-frequency treatment?
A standard facial typically operates at the surface of the skin — cleanse, exfoliate, mask, moisturize — addressing the stratum corneum and providing surface improvement. The Ultra Cleaning Facial with High-Frequency Treatment adds two clinical elements that change what the treatment addresses. Ultrasonic deep cleaning uses sound wave vibration to reach the follicular channel below the skin's surface, physically loosening the compacted sebum and debris that manual cleansing and surface exfoliation can't access. High-frequency therapy adds an antibacterial and circulation-stimulating component — killing acne-causing bacteria in the cleared pores and beginning the pore-tightening process that extends the treatment's results beyond the session itself. The difference is not in the surface feel of the skin immediately after, which may be similar, but in how thoroughly the follicular congestion is actually cleared and how long the results hold between sessions.
Q3: How often should you get a professional facial in Boca Raton?
For most South Florida clients dealing with the combined effects of year-round humidity, UV exposure, daily SPF use, and outdoor lifestyle, every four to six weeks is the recommended interval for a deep cleaning facial. This aligns with the skin's natural cell renewal cycle of approximately 28 days. In South Florida specifically, the conditions that create follicular congestion — expanded pores from heat, accelerated sebum production, heavy SPF migration — operate year-round without the seasonal relief that temperate climates provide in winter. Clients who wait longer between sessions often find each appointment doing heavier corrective work rather than maintaining a cleared baseline. Regular monthly sessions produce progressively better skin because each appointment maintains rather than rescues, and the home skincare routine becomes measurably more effective on consistently clear skin.
Q4: Does high-frequency facial treatment help with acne?
High-frequency therapy is one of the most targeted professional interventions for congestion-driven acne specifically. The treatment produces ozone through electrical discharge — ionized oxygen molecules with documented antibacterial properties — that kills Cutibacterium acnes, the primary bacteria responsible for inflammatory acne breakouts, directly in the cleared pore. Applied after extractions, when pores are freshly opened, the antibacterial effect reaches the bacteria at their source rather than working through the skin's surface. The treatment also stimulates circulation to the treated area, which supports the skin's natural healing response and accelerates the resolution of existing blemishes. Clients with persistent moderate acne who establish a monthly high-frequency facial schedule typically see measurable reduction in breakout frequency over time — not because the treatment addresses the hormonal or systemic drivers of acne, but because it consistently interrupts the bacterial colonization cycle in cleared pores before it progresses to inflammatory breakouts.
Q5: What is ultrasonic deep cleaning — how is it different from a regular extraction?
Ultrasonic deep cleaning uses a device vibrating at approximately 28,000 cycles per second to create a cavitation effect inside the follicle — microscopic bubbles that form and collapse against the pore wall, physically breaking apart and loosening the compacted sebum and dead cells inside the follicular channel. Regular extraction — manual pressure applied to the outside of the pore — removes what is close to the surface and accessible to that pressure. It doesn't dislodge material that's deeper in the follicle or too compacted to move with surface pressure alone. The ultrasonic phase loosens material from the inside, at depth, making subsequent manual extractions more complete and requiring significantly less pressure to execute — which means less trauma to the surrounding tissue, less post-extraction redness, and more thorough pore clearance. For clients who've had extraction facials that left significant residual congestion or caused marked redness and soreness, the difference in the ultrasonic-first approach is typically noticeable from the first session.
Q6: Is the $85 complete facial good for oily and acne-prone skin in Florida's humidity?
It's among the most specifically appropriate treatments for oily, acne-prone skin in a humid climate. South Florida's heat drives elevated sebum production, high humidity slows the normal dispersal of sebum at the skin's surface, and year-round outdoor exposure means pores are consistently dealing with more accumulation than they would in a temperate climate. The ultrasonic deep cleaning addresses the follicular congestion that results from these conditions at the level where it actually lives — inside the pore channel. The high-frequency component addresses the bacterial environment that transforms congestion into acne. Together, these steps interrupt both elements of the congestion-acne cycle rather than addressing just the surface presentation. For South Florida clients who've been frustrated that their skincare routine doesn't prevent breakouts despite consistent effort, the explanation is usually that the routine is managing surface-level sebum while the deeper follicular congestion accumulates unchecked. This treatment addresses that gap.
Q7: How long does the complete facial treatment take and what should I expect?
The full session runs sixty to seventy-five minutes. The skin analysis and consultation take ten to fifteen minutes and should not be rushed — this is where the entire treatment plan is determined. Cleansing, exfoliation, and steam preparation take approximately fifteen minutes. The ultrasonic cleaning and extraction phase takes fifteen to twenty minutes depending on the degree of congestion. High-frequency therapy takes five to ten minutes. The mask rests on the skin for fifteen to twenty minutes. Serum and moisturizer application takes five minutes. Most clients find the experience unexpectedly comfortable — the sensation of ultrasonic treatment is a light vibration, the high-frequency current feels like a gentle warm buzz, and the mask phase is genuinely restful. The most common feedback I hear from first-time clients is that they expected something more clinical and less pleasant. The skin looks visibly cleaner and more even when you leave, with a mild flush from the circulation stimulation that resolves to a settled glow within a few hours.
Q8: What should I do before and after my facial appointment?
Before: arrive with minimal makeup if possible, or arrive a few minutes early if you need to remove it at the studio. Avoid aggressive exfoliants — retinol, AHAs, BHAs — for 24 to 48 hours before the appointment, as these sensitize the skin and can create unnecessary reactivity during treatment. Don't schedule a facial immediately before a significant sun exposure event. After: avoid heavy makeup and harsh skincare products for 24 hours; use gentle cleanser and the products recommended at the end of your session; avoid prolonged sun exposure and reapply SPF throughout the day if you're going outside — the skin has been freshly cleared and is more reactive to UV than usual; avoid pool swimming and heavy gym sessions for 24 hours, particularly in South Florida where chlorine and sweat exposure can affect the freshly treated skin. Most clients return to normal activity the same day with no restrictions beyond the above.
Q9: Is the complete facial suitable for sensitive skin?
The Deep Ultrasound Cleaning with High-Frequency Treatment is suitable for sensitive skin with appropriate modifications. The ultrasonic phase is one of the gentler professional deep-cleaning technologies available — it works through vibration rather than abrasion or chemical action, which is why it's recommended for sensitive skin types that can't tolerate microdermabrasion or aggressive acid peels. The high-frequency intensity can be modulated for reactive skin. The product selections at every stage — cleanser, exfoliant, mask, serum — are adjusted for sensitive skin based on the consultation assessment. Active rosacea with significant capillary involvement and highly reactive conditions require individual assessment and some modifications, which is addressed during the consultation before the treatment begins. For most clients who describe their skin as sensitive — meaning reactive to products or prone to redness — the treatment is entirely appropriate and often produces better results than more aggressive alternatives precisely because the approach is less traumatic.
Q10: Where can I find a complete facial treatment near me in Boca Raton or South Florida?
Her Agency at Phenix Salon Suites, 7112 Beracasa Way, Suite 119, Boca Raton, FL 33433 offers the Deep Ultrasound Cleaning with High-Frequency Treatment at $85 — a seven-step complete professional facial in a private one-on-one setting. The studio is a private suite, meaning each appointment is exclusive — no shared floor, no other clients in the room. The treatment is performed by a licensed medical esthetician with twelve years of experience who has worked with South Florida skin conditions specifically. Services are available to clients from Delray Beach, Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, Parkland, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, and surrounding South Florida communities. When researching complete facial treatments near you, ask specifically what's included in the session — the number of steps, whether ultrasonic technology or high-frequency is included, and whether the treatment is customized to your skin type or follows a standard protocol for all clients. Appointments and consultations at heragencyusa.com.
