Aesthetician returns to share services with hometown

Lindsey Nothnagel has moved back to her hometown and opened "Glow Skin & Body: Where Glowing Skin is Always In," in downtown McCook. Lindsey is participating in the 2018-19 "Hormel Entrepreneurship Competition" which helps participants start new businesses or expand existing businesses by offering scholarships and grants and teaching how to write detailed business plans. The Ben Hormel Family Foundation started the entrepreneurship program through McCook Community College in 2007, committing it to education and business development in McCook and Southwest Nebraska.

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McCOOK, Neb. — The lure of family brought Lindsey Nothnagel back to her hometown, and she is now sharing the aesthetics skills she learned in sunny and sun-worshiping Arizona to enhance the skin care of family and friends in McCook and the area.

"I grew up with my cousins, and that experience was great," Lindsey says. "I want my daughter to experience that too."

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Lindsey has been an aesthetician since her graduation from the Southwest Institute of Natural Aesthetics in Tempe, Ariz., in 2007, and her training and certification as a medical laser technician in 2009.

She has worked at many different places over the years, from day spas to medical offices, and in 2014, she opened her own medspa called "The OC Laser" in Tempe.

But the pull of family couldn't be denied, and Lindsey and her daughter, 6-year-old London, relocated to McCook in 2018.

On Jan. 10, 2019, Lindsey opened her aesthetics spa, "Glow Skin & Body," on the second floor of the Professional Building at the corner of East First and C streets. It's easily accessible up the ramp at the building's northwest corner, down the hall to the east and (not down the stairs) along another hall to the south and to Suite No. 4 on the left.

Lindsey offers custom facials, derma-planing, microdermabrasion and superficial chemical peels, eyelash lifts, eyelashes and eyebrow tinting.

Lindsey also sells natural-based beauty items for the face, body, lashes and lips. She focuses on holistic lines that are more organic and free of synthetic compounds/parabens and cruel testing practices. "That's important to me," she said.

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By offering organic airbrush tanning, Lindsey hopes to encourage a much healthier way to get that treasured summer tan.

"I'm surprised that so many people are still using tanning beds," she says.

Lindsey is an advocate of airbrush tanning, she says, because, while it creates that summer glow, it does not contradict her and the aesthetics industry's focus on healthy skin care practices, products and techniques that help avoid/lessen the risk of skin cancer and alleviate the aging effects of too much sun.

As a teenager who tanned regularly and did not use sun screen, and now as a trained skin care specialist, Lindsey realizes and wants to share the value of protecting the skin from the sun.

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Another service that Lindsey offers is the use of the "RevitaPen Pro," which involves an enzyme application and professional technique followed by a RevitaPen Pro treatment that increases product absorption and enhances the skin's utilization of products' active ingredients.

The RevitaPenPro treatment is painless and non-invasive, it invigorates the skin's natural rejuvenation response and there is no numbing, inflammation or downtime, Lindsey explains. It has similar results to microneedling.

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Because every state has different rules and regulations, one of Lindsey's challenges is that she cannot legally perform medical laser treatments in Nebraska, as she was able to do in Arizona.

She sees that because of this law Nebraska is missing out on jobs and money by not allowing those who are properly trained to perform these types of more aggressive treatments.

"I love doing laser and microneedling, which have 'changed the game' when it comes to correcting acne scarring, pigment and collagen production," she said.

If the laws can't be changed, Lindsey foresees getting her aesthetics and medical laser licenses in Kansas, where she would be able to legally perform all types of laser, microneedling and deep chemical peel treatments under the supervision of a medical director.

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Lindsey is the daughter of Betty and John Nothnagel of McCook, and graduated from McCook Senior High in 2000. She moved to Arizona in 2005. Her brother, Nick, owns Nick's Distribution Wholesale in McCook, and her other brother, Matthew, is employed as the manager.

"My brothers were having babies," Lindsey said, "and I want London to grow up with her cousins." That desire precipitated Lindsey's return to McCook and the opening of her new skin care spa.

"Glow Skin & Body" is located at 301 E. First, Suite 4, above the McCook Beauty Academy. Use the door on the northwest corner of the Professional Building.

The spa is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and every other Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. "I'm flexible," Lindsey sys. "Call for appointments after hours."

The spa is closed Sundays.

Contact Lindsey at (308) 340-2702, or at glowskinnbody@gmail.com