ABOUT ME: A Well-Oiled Life

Hey hey! I'm Skylar, the Founder + Creator of Vessel Esthetics. Some call me the Tallow girl, others call me The Redhead, and to most I'm your BFRB Esthetician!​

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I'm a licensed esthetician and licensed body artist. I first got into cosmetic tattooing in 2020. I literally had no eyebrows due to Trichotillomania, and I was tired of trying to draw them on so I bit the bullet and had Powder Brows tattooed on. I fell in love, and my passion & purpose for helping women with hair loss feel beautiful & confident sprang forth! That same summer, I trained & received my PMU certification and body art license. Then in Fall of 2023, I enrolled in Esthetics school & got my Esthetician license in August 2024. During that time, I was learning how to make my own tallow, using it to help with my eczema and Dermatillomania pick marks. It was then that friends and colleagues asked me to make them tallow. Slowly, I started selling it at a local makers' market and built my way up to an online store. And here we are!

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Being someone who had Dermatillomania (A Body Focused Repetitive Behavior, or BFRB, that involves skin picking, nail biting, etc. #ItsPicky) for 18 years, I decided that Vessel Esthetics was the perfect name for my business. Skin picking scars reminded me a lot of Kintsugi, which is the Japanese art of repairing imperfections, cracks, fractures and blemishes with gold. Something "broken" turned into something treasured and unique. I think people are the same way. My picking scars, scrapes, discoloration, etc. was mended with gold to create my purpose.

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The beauty of being a vessel, is that no vessel is exactly the same. Just like to each person, "vessel" means something different. Some think a ship, some think a vase, some a spiritual host, and to the scientifically inclined - a blood vessel. But we can all agree that vessels CONTAIN. They're formed, shaped, perfectly imperfect in their designs, broken, and can even be mended back together with gold. Vessels are formed and tested. Solidified by fire in the kiln, on the waves, or in a network of cells. Even if you're a broken vessel, you're a vessel nonetheless. Oil still flows from a broken vessel ;)

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Follow along as I explore what a vessel looks like and what it means to be the bearers of light through beauty, and reclaiming peace & fortifying our identities with gold.

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It's Picky... but it doesn't have to be!

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TLDR: I lay laces and tattoo faces.