Founded in 1973 as "Vienna Electrolysis & Skin", Vienna Skin had been the first skin care and electrolysis center to open its doors in the entire Washington D.C. area. Since then, the leader establishment had been passed down two generations to past employees, keeping up with the original standards.

In 2001, third generation owner, Qonita Badeges decided to extend the center into an intensive Skin Care Salon, then inevitably, a wellness center.  "You can't offer intensive skin therapy without also offering basic counseling in nutrition, stress, you know, overall wellness coaching.  It's impossible, since health and skin go hand in hand." cites Badeges.  "I tried resisting the subjects of feng shui and hypnosis thinking how cooky they were.  But my instincts kept leading me to explore them."  Now Vienna Skin is conscious of feng shui and has started to offer pioneering therapies such as Hypno-facials.  "Everything is inter-related, your mind, your emotions, your body, and they are all mirrored on your skin.  Suffice to say that mind-emotions-body-skin are just different versions of the same thing.  Change one and you automatically change the other."  Badeges goes on to disclose "Hypno-electrolysis is an upcoming project I'm working on."  The staff is happy to relay the sciences behind these unconventional practices, to any client whose open to them.  In 2002, Badeges added the comprehensive training facility, "Vienna Electrolysis & Skin Academy", now known as All Skin Academy...school of everything skin... in an attempt to generally raise the bar in the field of skin care in the area.  During a free electrolysis consultation, whether with a student, teacher, or technicion, it's very common for a client to say "No one has ever told me this before!", even senior spa goers, who'd been at first reluctant to accept the consultation.

"Consultations are a must." says Badeges, "Vienna Skin offers them free, and I consider it to be a public service, because if a client comes here once before moving out of state, they still get the complimentary consultation.  That way they'll know what to ask and look for when they try to find a technician where they're moving to.  Knowledge is not 'power', it's basic, because ignorance should stop being maintained [by Salons not offering consultations or information] and stop being the conventional norm."  Vienna Skin also asks clients to call or email questions or concerns, even and especially if the client has moved and no longer comes to Vienna Skin.

For more information email viennaskin@vaskin.com or call 703.938.1468.