Pigment is the whole discipline.
Shima founded SK Aesthetic & Wellness in 2024, after years at Austin-Weston, The Center for Cosmetic Surgery in Reston, working alongside board-certified plastic surgeons. Her work centres on pigment — scar camouflage, melasma, sun damage, and the kind of correction that takes patience rather than intensity.
Outside the studio she is the sister who answers the text at 9 PM when a patient is worried about a peel reaction. It is almost never as alarming as it looks.
Credentials
Every line above is checkable. Licence 1261007388 can be looked up on the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation register, and the Sciton certificate is on file at the studio.
Where it comes from
Esthetician Licence
Issued September 2018 by the Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetology, and current. You can look the number up yourself on the state register.
Issued Sept 2018 · currentSciton JOULE™ Platform
Manufacturer training in the safe operation of the JOULE system, signed by Renee Jamerson, MS, RN, CNL. The JOULE is the platform HALO™ and BBL run on.
Completed 9 Sept 2025Surgical Practice Training
Shima trained and worked at Austin-Weston, The Center for Cosmetic Surgery, alongside board-certified plastic surgeons, before opening her own studio. That is where the conservative protocols come from.
Reston, Virginia“I originally came for scar camouflage, and her work is incredibly natural and beautifully done.”Jhazmin C. · Google review
What she treats
Melasma, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, sun damage and uneven tone.
Flat, healed scars that healed lighter than the skin around them.
Acne scarring, enlarged pores and rough surface texture.
Early loss of firmness, using radiofrequency needling.
Course-based reduction, priced by area.
Facials and dermaplaning between the bigger treatments.
How she works
Slow beats aggressive.
Her protocols are conservative on purpose. Skin that is pushed hard tends to push back — particularly pigmented skin, where an over-treatment can leave you worse off than when you started.
Same lighting, same protocol, same patience.
Consistency is what makes pigment work measurable. Photographs are taken the same way every visit so progress is judged against a record, not a memory.
She will say when something is not for you.
If a treatment is not right, or not right yet, she will tell you and explain what would need to change first.
What actually happens
Consultation, at no charge
We look at your skin under the same light we will use every visit, agree what is realistic, and put a number on it before anything starts.
A conservative first pass
Settings are chosen for your skin tone, not for speed. Pigmented skin punishes aggression, so the first treatment is deliberately gentle.
Photographed the same way
Same lighting, same angle, same distance. Progress gets judged against a record rather than against memory.
Reviewed, then adjusted
We look again before deciding whether to go further. Sometimes the honest answer is that you are already where you wanted to be.
Not a laser.
Scar camouflage is a tattooing technique — custom-blended pigment layered into a healed scar so it reads as skin rather than as a mark. It is not a laser, and it does not remove the scar. It addresses the colour difference that makes the scar catch your eye.
What Shima performs
In their words
“Referred by a plastic surgeon for my scar camouflage. Professional, gentle and extremely skilled.”
Enise H. · Google review“Her dedication, knowledge and training to this craft is obvious in her technique and results.”
Christina S. · Google review