A Guide to Tweakments If you watch daytime TV or read any kind of celebrity news, you have probably heard of “tweakments”. All of those non-surgical procedures you hear about like Botox, fillers, skin peels, laser treatments and even liposuction, are now commonly known as tweakments. Non-surgical procedures are described as treatments with minimal downtime and limited physical...

Great skincare…. It’s as easy as A- B- C! Over time… Sun exposure, environmental stressors and pollution take a toll on healthy skin; breaking down collagen and elastin resulting in lines, wrinkles and reduced elasticity.  In other words, it’s not the years that age us—it’s the miles!  It’s worse in the city… especially this Mile-High City!  What can we do?  Prevent and Protect with an ABC...

written by our Master Medical Aesthetician, Laurel Glenn  People spend a lot of money trying to look their best. It’s understandable that they would do this because the way they look affects the way that other people treat them. There are certain aspects of our appearance, such as our height, that we can do very little to change. Then there are other aspects of our appearance that we can...

Another alternative to Botox hits the market with FDA approval! Exciting news in the dermatology / med spa market, and at Sonata – the FDA has approved another alternative to Botox, called Jeuveau! Right now it’s FDA approved for treating frown (glabellar) lines, with more clinical trials in the works. Jeuveau is the creation of California based dermatology giant, Evolus, and is...

Did you know that when someone looks at a smiling face, they guess that age of that person as younger than they actually are? In a study, participants looked at more than 2,000 face photos. Each photo showed either an angry, fearful, disgusted, happy, sad, and neutral expression. Facial expressions had a huge effect on the accuracy of age estimates. Participants most accurately gauged the age...

Helping to spread Love by Elizabeth Janowski Have you picked up your “love note” from Sonata? We created these little “kits” for you to express our deep gratitude — as well as to share our intention for you that you are able to use our tools to step in to your own Embodied Sovereignty. Embodied Sovereignty is a concept we love to focus us – which for us...

Can a feminist run a med-spa? by Elizabeth Janowski “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” – Marianne Williamson Can a feminist run a med spa? This is a question I have been asking myself a lot this year. I used to be afraid of the term feminist. It seemed too political and a little too edgy for me. It also seemed a little...

Five years ago I was gifted what would turn out to be one of the greatest opportunities of my life. My new husband, Dr. Janowski, was looking to make a change, and so was I. He had been helming Sonata solo since it’s inception in 2004. His technical skill was there and he could give his patients the results they were looking for, but he knew his clients needed more. I was working as a...

I’ve spent most of my life firmly in my head. I think most of us have. In our world, our mind is our priority. We spend our life thinking, talking, communicating, and processing. As children, we are told to sit in chairs when we might feel like running around. We are told to get up early, when we might feel like sleeping in. We are told to mute the urges of our bodies in order to fit in...

Your skin is your bodies largest organ. From head to toe, your skin protects your body, and it, itself a living organ, sort of it’s own ecosystem of sorts. In fact, skin is being studied now as a biome, unique to each one of us, and host to trillions of microorganisms. When we think about skin in this way, the need to care for it becomes clear. We need to maintain and take care of this...