Tell Us About Your Business
Reyes Aesthetics is a woman-owned medical spa in Sarasota, Florida, organized as an LLC. We have been open since 2023. I'm a licensed nurse injector and a U.S. Army veteran. We offer injectables, chemical peels, and skincare consultations, all under a supervising physician.
Our mission is simple. We want to make results-driven, medically supervised aesthetic care approachable for everyday people. We also want to build a stable, well-paying workplace for women in the aesthetics field. Both halves are written into our mission for a reason. One is about the clients we serve. The other is about the people who work here.
Medical supervision is central to how we work. Every treatment we offer is provided by licensed nurse injectors under a supervising physician. Our mission pairs that medical standard with care that everyday people can approach and feel comfortable with. That pairing is what I want Reyes Aesthetics to stand for.
Today we are a small team. We are between one and five people, and our annual revenue falls between $100,000 and $500,000. Two nurse injectors provide our treatments. Here is the hard part. We share one treatment room, so only one of us can treat at a time.
What Is Holding Your Business Back?
The single treatment room is our bottleneck. It is not a lack of clients, and it is not a lack of skill on the team. It is physical space.
With only one room, one of us is often stuck doing paperwork or follow-up calls instead of seeing clients. That is a licensed injector, trained to treat, spending time at a desk because there is nowhere to put a client. The follow-up calls and paperwork matter, but they should not be the only thing one of our two injectors can do while the other is treating.
Our schedule stays full about three weeks out, so we know the demand is there. But we just cannot fit everyone in as quickly as we would like. A three-week wait tells me people want to come to us. It also tells me we are asking them to wait longer than they should, because of a room, not because of our people.
This matters for the second half of our mission too. A stable, well-paying workplace depends on injectors being able to do the work they are trained for. When one injector is sidelined because the room is taken, the business cannot get the full value of that person's skill. A second room changes that.
How Would You Use the Grant Money?
I would use the full $10,000 to build out a second treatment room so both of my injectors can see clients at the same time.
I have already identified the space. We have a back storage room in our current location that I plan to convert. That means no new lease and no move. The project is to turn a room we already have into one that can actually serve clients.
I have priced it out. A local contractor quoted $6,500 for the build-out, which includes a sink, cabinets, and lighting. A treatment room needs all three. The sink supports hand hygiene and clean procedures. The cabinets give us storage inside the treatment room itself. The lighting gives us what we need to see clearly while treating.
A second treatment chair runs about $2,800. The chair is the center of the room. Without it, the space is just a finished room. With it, a client can be treated there.
The remaining $700 would cover a magnifying lamp and supply storage. The magnifying lamp supports close, detailed work during treatments. The supply storage keeps what we need on hand in the new room.
Together that is $6,500 for construction, about $2,800 for the chair, and $700 for the lamp and storage, for a total of $10,000. Every dollar goes into the room.
What Difference Would the Grant Make?
The change is direct. Today, only one of us can treat at a time. With a second room, both of my injectors can see clients at the same time.
That is the specific thing this grant would fix. Instead of one injector treating while the other handles paperwork or follow-up calls, both can be with clients. Our schedule already stays full about three weeks out. A second room gives us the space to start serving that demand more fully, using the people and the building we already have.
It also moves our mission forward. Making care approachable includes making it reachable in a reasonable time. A second room is how we start fitting people in more quickly than a three-week wait allows. And building a stable, well-paying workplace means giving each injector a place to do the work they are licensed and trained to do.
I have been building Reyes Aesthetics since 2023. I have the space picked out and the contractor's quote in hand. What I do not have is the $10,000 to turn a back storage room into a second treatment room. An Amber Grant would close that gap. I would be proud to have WomensNet's support as a woman-owned business taking this next step.