The Injector Who Puts Skin Health Before Everything Else with Megan Mallory

She turned a front-row seat to plastic surgery into a thriving injecting career, and now she is one of the most education-driven aesthetic providers in Southern Arizona.Megan Mallory started in aesthetics in 2013 as an aesthetician, became a laser technician after moving to Arizona, and eventually went back to school to become an RN. Now she runs Canvas Skin Clinic in Oro Valley as a full-time injector and business owner, closing in on her Nurse Practitioner degree with about six months left. She does all of this as a mom of three, with her husband in her corner.What drives Megan is a belief that most patients are skipping the most important step. Before the filler, before the laser, before any of it -- the skin has to be ready. Her whole practice is built around that idea, and this conversation gets into why she thinks the aesthetic industry too often puts the cart before the horse, what it actually takes to build a treatment plan that lasts, and how real patient education changes outcomes in ways that no single in-office treatment ever could.In this episode:Why Megan built her entire practice around a "skin first" philosophy and what it actually means to prime the canvas before you ever pick up a syringeThe real difference between medical-grade skincare and what is on the shelf at the drugstore, and why it matters more than most patients realizeThe conversation she has with almost every new patient about what their at-home routine looks like and how that shapes everything that comes afterHow she thinks about sequencing treatments and why rushing a patient into injectables before their skin is ready can actually work against the resultHow she approaches treatments in the Arizona summer heat, which lasers she pauses on and which she keeps running, and why patients with melasma or deeper skin tones need extra consideration in high-heat monthsWhere she sees Canvas Skin Clinic going after graduation, and the vision for expanding into integrative, holistic medicine without losing the intimate feel her patients count onWhat post-care protocols tell you about a provider before you ever sit in their chairResources + LinksWork with Mike, learn more about social media and ads for your MedSpa: https://medspamediagroup.com/Book with Canvas Skin Clinic: https://canvasskinclinic.com/team/FollowMike LeMieux: https://www.instagram.com/mikelemieux/MedSpa Media: https://www.instagram.com/medspa_media/Canvas Skin Clinic: https://www.instagram.com/canvasskinclinic/Megan Mallory: https://www.instagram.com/megmalloryaesthetics/