Short answers

You start with a consultation: a conversation and a look at your skin by the window. If you booked the ninety-minute first visit, a custom facial follows.

From fifteen minutes for an add-on to ninety for a first visit. Every service on the menu lists its time.

Yes, for your first visit and before any peel. It's how Valarie plans the rest, and no peel is done at it.

Skin with deeper tones can react to a peel in its own way and hold on to a reaction. Valarie goes slowly, does a patch test first and writes down sun notes for you.

Tell us when you book or when you arrive. Valarie may change the visit, or suggest waiting for a day your skin is calmer.

Valarie suggests a schedule at your consultation, and you can change it as your skin does. Peels are booked one visit at a time, a few weeks apart.

Valarie tells you at booking what to pause, and writes down what to do afterward before you leave.

If you're pregnant, use a prescription skin medicine or have a skin condition a doctor is managing, ask your doctor before booking a peel.

When she sees something outside what she does, such as skin that is sore or broken, or a change she can't explain. She'll say so plainly and won't go ahead.

Valarie sets the price by length and what you add, and it shows on the booking page when you choose a service. The pricing page explains the rest.