Staci Christie Skincare & Wellness Boutique in Encinitas's New Encinitas corridor holds a California medical esthetician license issued in 2001 and brings a background in plastic-surgery aesthetics to a clinical skincare practice at 317 North El Camino Real. The boutique's treatment menu spans Vi Peel chemical exfoliation, HydraFacial vortex extraction, and microcurrent facial toning — modalities rooted in the same dermatological frameworks used at Coastal Skin & Eye Institute in the Encinitas medical corridor. In 2019 the practice expanded beyond clinical facials into holistic wellness, adding curated pharmaceutical-grade product lines selected for active-ingredient concentration rather than retail branding. Dermaplaning sessions use a single-edge surgical scalpel to remove vellus hair and dead-cell buildup from the stratum corneum, a manual exfoliation technique that enhances topical serum absorption — a penetration-optimization approach also central to the laser-prep protocols at Avalon Laser in Encinitas. The boutique's most advanced service layers a Vi Peel medium-depth TCA application over a microcurrent lift session, combining chemical resurfacing with electrical muscle stimulation to address both texture irregularity and subdermal collagen density in a single appointment.