Pono Boutique | Skincare and Waxing

PONO (N.) RIGHTEOUSNESS

PONO is a vibe.

Pono is an Energy.

pono is a community.

Pono is a neighborhood skincare and waxing boutique that embodies the warmth of Glen Park, San Francisco. Located on the corner of Diamond Street, we exude our magic into the four corners of the earth.

While the hustle and bustle of the city goes on right outside our windows, we welcome our guests into an urban oasis. Find yourself in a sacred space filled with flora, nostalgic jazz, and olfactory experiences as you unwind with a cup of tea or a glass of rose before entering your beautifying treatment. Then prepare to nourish and nurture your authentic self.

Our Offerings

FACIAL TREATMENTS

Facial treatments tailored to your individual skin type and condition. Different modalities incorporated based on the current state of your skin and mind.

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brow & Lash

Brow design, waxing, tinting

and lamination.

Lash lifting and tinting.

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Waxing

A full menu of

body and facial waxing services.

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Before we had a moment to share on this platform, all spots were reserved ✨
This is the launch of many gatherings to come. There was much interest to host another event on the evening skincare/self care ritual.
Stay tuned…
Thank you to all that showed up. The energy & flow was lovely. 🙏
Love working side by side with all of you! @thenooksf @k.delaine_skincare @jessiemho @maddiesesthetics24

When…? Now!!! My reflections show who I am inside by looking at your face, your growth your perseverance…Shining bright like a diamond 🎶
Whispers from the divine I hear and see. Through the light and the dark a shadow appears. There she is @mosaicskinstudio ✨

Can I just get a little emotional over here, I mean the song, Mulan and her badass-ness , you my little mulan lmao. You’re hilarious and a total baddie. The fact that you double tripled down on yourself is BIG!!! That takes some real courage and heart!
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I just want to say thank you for bringing your talent and expertise into our sacred space.

Congrats on all that you are doing and continuing to create!

We love you!

You can visit Stephanie at Pono Tuesday and Thursday at her headquarters here at Pono or head over to her sweet spot in Oakland off adorable Piedmont Ave!

And just like that sweet November has passed, and damn near December. As we inch closer to the closing of 2024, move into winter, honoring and celebrating the winter solstice, may we do so with a gentle calm spirit and a soft heart. Forgiving ourselves for our shortcomings and holding more love and compassion for self and each other.

Feeling all the feels and letting go of all energies that are no longer aiding in growth or yours to hold onto. Let it fall like the leaves. Release, let go and enjoy the flow.

Fall feels at Pono ✨
She is sultry, she exudes warmth, softness and safety, beauty, gratitude and depth.

Best time of year to receive a facial! Heaters, crisp cold air, environmental shifts wreak havoc on the skin. We are here to support and guide you to a deeper understanding of what it takes to have supple dewy skin during these colder months. Creating an at home routine (in the evening especially) is essential for all around mental health and well being. If you are a chemical peel gal, and into all the brightening things, this is also the best time of year to come jump in our bed!

The time is now dear friends 🍁
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“There must have been an angel by my side”

We all feel it, she too humble to show it, forever she has changed my life.

When she came in to Pono, that’s when Pono came alive. I’ve never met anyone like her before. Solid, an angel, a true reflection of balance and steadfastness. A beauty in all the ways, and artist with precision and integrity, grace and humor. Rhythm like she’s on soul train, she tears up the dance floor once she lets loose.

I can’t even write this without my eyes filling with oceans. We’ve had the best laugh sessions ever. She means the world to me. Not because she is my “employee” but because she is my friend and she is family. She is my sister, my inspiration and my children’s aunty Jessie. She is the one who has supported me on a level that is indescribable. From saving me when morning sickness took me out, to barber chairs needing to go through customs, random randomness that just pops out of me like a jack in the box. She has held me and Pono down. My angel, my anchor.

We come from such different cultures and I’ve been embracing all of the lessons and wisdom she brings. I wanted my Jessie to feel showered with so much love and I just wanted to make her feel as special as she is, as she is that to sooooo many.

We haven’t made it to the Amalfi Coast just yet, so we brought it to the Hillside of Oaktown. Making it just a day full of sisterhood, joy, laughter, some silly naughty stuff and her favorite things-food, and sweets.

Jess, I love you sooo much! You’ve shown me by your actions that honest people do exist. not by empty promises and words but by your actions who you are, and I bow my head as I see this princess turn into a queen on her throne!(she the queen in my coming to America voice)

I know you hate the spot light but beeesh it be your time to shine!!!

You are an exceptional human! Cheers to you Jess!!!!

Thank you Steps for supporting the vision and the amazing hale to make the magic happen. Thank you to everyone who made the day so special. Together, as women, friends, sisters and colleagues, we did that!!!!

Can’t wait for wedding day, countdown has begun.

@jessiemho @swh128

Regarding our Cancellation Policy:

As a small business, we are deeply appreciative of our community’s support and understanding.

We are happy to honor your time, and know that you are happy to honor ours in return.

And so, we share with you our cancellation policy in hopes that it is received as it is intended.

These policies have been implemented with your beloved neighborhood business in mind, as losses like this hit us the hardest and most frequently as of late.

Thank you 🤍✨🤍

Asurah is a licensed esthetician with a diverse industry background. 🧴🌿🕯️

With experience in both clinical and holistic settings, she likes to take a well rounded approach to skin care in order to provide her clients with optimal results.

Asurah has immersed herself in everything from clean and sustainable skin care knowledge, to TCM approaches to wellness, to medical grade protocols and products.

She has mastered serval modalities such as micro current oxygen facials and dermaplaning - and she is super excited to bring dermaplaning to Pono!

When Asurah is not improving her clients skin, she enjoys traveling the world, diving into different cultures, and creating new memories. 🌎

Asurah is a mommy of one who loves spending time with her family. She comes from a family of beauty experts; her mother is a former makeup artist and her sister is a cosmetologist who’s focused on waxing.

Asurah is so excited to share all her knowledge and expertise with our Pono fam. 🦚🪞

Book your next appointment with her today with the link in our bio 🤍

Brow wax process with Deb. We love big, natural, bushy brows 🫶🏼

#browwax #sfestheticians #browdesign #naturalbrows #browwaxing #browwaxandshape #sanfrancisco #sfnatives

So much love gets poured into our facials. It is a dance of our energies,fingers regulating the nervous system. Pono’s Bespoke Facial is a wonderful place to start when caring for the largest organ of your body – the skin.
Come and be nurtured with our amazing estheticians. These lovely hands are brought to you by our dear @jessiemho ✨

#esthetician #facials #facialtreatment #facialmassage #sanfrancisco #glenparksf #ponovibes #fyp

Cheers with our chai…to the treehouse we go ✨

Rainy days in Pono are the best. So cozy, so mellow, perfect way to decompress and lay on a warm heated table. Letting go of all the worries of the world. We hold you as Pono holds space for the nurturing we do, in more ways than one. We begin on the largest organ of the body-the skin…with that we peel away the layers, while you go deeper and deeper within.

Xo deb

Wanna give a shout out to our wonderful Codie. We are so lucky to have her. She has been with PONO for about five months now and her craft as an esthetician is growing and evolving beautifully and all in the right time. Her artistry and attention to detail performing brow laminations and lash lifts are impeccable. Please give her a try for your brow transformation needs. Her brow laminations are spectacular. Stay tuned for more offerings from Codie soon 🤍

We really Weaved Wonders with our girl Jessie yesterday 🧶✨
Two events down, one to go! 🫶🏼 #KeikiOfPono 🌈

Rinse, Release, Repeat.

I have completed my 45th trip around the sun.
I have recently shaved my hair for the second time in my life’s journey.

This shedding process is very intentional and spiritual for me. It allows me to cycle back and see myself through a wider lens - the bigger picture, a clearer vision, from deeper within.

Isn't it something, how we are so eager to remove the hair from our bodies, yet so terrified by the idea of removing it from our heads?

For so long myself, and so many others, have hid behind our hair. Shedding all of that has forced me to be present with myself.

So while shaving my hair has served as empowering and liberating experience, it has also been a vulnerable and scary one. But I suppose that’s what it’s all about.

With the new moon in Virgo, I bled. I shed. I give thanks. As I fast, I'm hella hearing the spirit, and that spiral back into myself deepens.

Ready to be reborn into my 45th year. Ready to enter into a rebirth of self... I am loving myself fully.

This transformation is about letting go, releasing, shedding and relinquishing to the fear of the unknown.

While there is so much I have yet to understand, there is so much I know for certain.

Maybe it's not about completing another rotation.
Maybe it's about embarking on another one.

We are so excited to now have Stephanie Hwang of Mosaic Skin collaborating at Pono Boutique…

Offering skinclusive treatments for all faces, ages and stages 🙌🏻🙌🏽🙌🏿

Stephanie, NP and co-founder of Mosaic, believes in a natural approach to help her clients age gracefully, always keeping their individual facial structure and unique features in mind.

You can now find her services on Pono’s website, and book your appointments with her there 🤍

Our facials are tailored to each and every client, let us care for your skin and book an appointment today ✨ we can’t wait to go your skin journey with you 🤍
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Some after hours fun with the lovely ladies of Pono 🤍
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Just another day at your local women’s barbershop ✨ come join us for good vibes, no judgement, and be around amazing women 🤍
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We love a thick brow 🤩 brow laminations are a great way to step up your brow game! Done by @cosmeticcodes, book today and this could be you 💗

Bring a friend and hangout out with us at Pono, AKA The Ladies Barber Shop 🦚💈

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Issa vibe…Pono, the barbershop for the us babes.
Tash and Codie doing their thing.

#browbar #sfesthetician #ponosf #hellapono #browwaxing #browdesign #glenparksf

If you’re on the hunt for a special something, hop 🐇 on over and select your perfect floral bouquet 💐

Color therapy and beauty at it’s finest.

These arrangements are stunners.

Look forward to seeing y’all tomorrow and Saturday, rain or shine, because it certainly takes both to grow these blessings from the earth.

12-4 at the corner of Diamond 💎 and Bosworth.

Much Love,
Deb & Janese

Pono's Bespoke Facials are personalized and tailored to the current state of your skin, and state of mind.

Our nurturing and knowledgable estheticians are here to bring forth wellness to your entire being.

We offer our classic bespoke facial, as well as: the mini, the clinical, the radiance, the teen, and the LED.

All of our facials are built upon the foundational facial and are luxurious in their own way.

Our treatments are a dichotomy of slow and fast movements, and firm and soft pressure. They are invigorating, stimulating, and are a lovely choreographed dance of our fingertips.

We do what is essential for you to leave feeling rejuvenated, with healthy, hydrated, and glowing skin.

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#PonoSF #PonoVibes #LivePono
#SFFacials #SFEstetician #SFSkincare #SFWaxing #SFBeauty #BayAreaFacials #BayAreaEsthetician #BayAreaSkincare #BayAreaWaxing
#BayAreaBeauty

Photography By: @blue_note_weddings @melisahallmua

It’s #NationalBossDay so I wanted to take this moment to honor you, Debra 🤍✨

Although you’re our boss (and a boss as$ b!tch) that’s not the word I would use to describe you… because you’re truly so much more than that.

Like, yes, you’re a straight up hustler! But you’re also a leader who has given all of your girls guidance, provided us with endless support, and created a beautiful environment where we can all evolve together.

It’s been beautiful to witness not only Pono’s growth over the years, but to witness you grow your family as well, and to grow along side you.

Between your clients and your employees, you’ve created a family, and I’m so blessed to be a part of it.

Love you,
Cort 🌸

It’s #NationEstheticianDay, and we want to take this opportunity to talk about not just normalizing, but honoring our body hair.

Whether we’re talking about brows, bikinis, or underarms, we want to encourage loving ourselves exactly as the divine made us.

Embracing what our hair is, how it grows on us, and why it does.
Hair grows around every orifice, and it’s purpose is to protect us.

There’s a long history behind why hair has been removed, but we want to acknowledge that now, we have the choice to decide whether or not to keep it.

If you do chose to remove some of it (or all of it) we are a beautiful group of women who know just how sacred that choice is, and will make the experience as comfortable as possible for you.

As esthetician’s, removing body hair can feel conflicting.

On one hand, our livelihood depends in part on the removal of the hair. On the other, we think body hair is beautiful.

When our clients returned to us after the pandemic, it was wonderful to see clients that used to ask for full Brazilians, now wanting to keep a little triangle of hair down there.

The evolution of yoni waxing (second slide):
-70’s: a full bush with more hair removed little by little
-80’s + 90’s: landing strips paired with high cut bathing suits and panties
-Early 2000’s: intro the Brazilian wax… EVERYTHING off.

It feels like we’ve begun to come full circle, with more and more women wanting to embrace the natural.

At Pono, we want to encourage women to leave some hair. To clean up the backside and bikini line, while leaving a triangle to match the beauty of their own hips and body size. 🌿

“Hi World, this was supposed to be an about me post, but I think I would rather make it an appreciation post.

I joined PONO about 3.5 years ago and fell in love with the space and of course, Deb! She’s like family now... who knew Craigslist was the key between me and her?!

It’s been so exciting to see PONO as a baby sprout and now grounding heavy with its root at the corner of glen park.

PONO had connected me to people in so many levels. I love our clients and I will always be forever grateful to be part of this crazy ride with Deb!

I pride myself in this industry as we can never get replaced by robots. PONO is filled with love, care, stories, laughters, inspirations, and sometimes sorrows... so it’s poppin’ over here!

I can’t wait to meet you and make you feel your best!! I will always be your go to gal for brows and facials. I will give you 100% of me and all the TLC you need!”

-Jessie Ho
Esthetician, Brow + Lash Artist

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#PonoSF #PonoVibes #PonoFam #Ohana

#SFSkincare #SFEstetician #BayAreaEsthetician #SFFacialist #SFBrowDesign #LashLiftsSF #LashLiftAndTint #BrowLamination #GuaSha

What it looks like behind the scenes of your #PonoInABox virtual spa experience 🧖🏽‍♀️

#PonoSF #FacialKit #AtHomeFacial #SFSkincare #SkincareReels

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas 🌺✨

We kicked off our Mother’s Day Weekend at Pono this Friday with our first in person #PonoPopUp since the pandemic began.

It meant so much to us to gather again safely with the Pono crew and do what we do best- support our local women owned businesses and enjoy each other’s presence.

The most beautiful response we heard from a client that day was that it brought her to tears hearing the sound of women chattering with one another again.

Thank you to everyone who came through to connect and support…
We are so grateful for our community. 💎

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#PonoSF #PonoPopUps #PonoVibes #PonoTribe

#DiamondStreet #GlenPark #GlenParkPopUps #SFPopUps #ShopLocalSF #ShopSmallSF #WomenOwnedSmallBusiness

Created to capture the essence of Pono Boutique in a virtual Zoom experience, #PonoInABox features a full at home facial kit, and is lead by Pono’s creator and master esthetician, Debra Carvalho.

Pono in a Box started out as our business pivot during the pandemic, and has served as a beautiful way to connect with both old and new clients during these difficult times.

Each facial kit is cultivated with intention and accompanied by sage + loose leaf tea, incorporates aromatherapy, and includes a curated playlist- all to create the “day spa” ambiance within your own home.

We’ve loved seeing all of your beautiful set ups and selfies and are so grateful to have played a role in your self care rituals. ✨

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Pono is a Hawaiian word for righteousness.

Pono is a vibe. Pono is an energy. Pono is a community.

Pono is located on the corner of Diamond Street, and exudes it’s magic out into the four corners of the earth. We are the neighborhood skincare + waxing boutique, that embodies the warmth of Glen Park, San Francisco.

We welcome our guests into our sacred space, and offer beautifying treatments that nourish and nurture ones authentic self.

If you’re seeking a personalized experience with outstanding service and offerings, then we’re your gals. Whether it’s caring for your body’s largest organ (the skin), enhancing your natural brow shape, or hosting curated pop up events, we’ve got you covered.

At Pono, we are are real, we are honest, we show up with integrity- and you feel it the moment you step foot into our boutique.

We look forward to your visit, and to introducing you to a new vibration of skincare, self care, and self love. 🦚

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#PonoSF #PonoInABox #PonoPopUps #PonoVibes #PonoTribe #LivePono #DiamondStreet #GlenPark

#SFSkincare #SFEstetician #BayAreaEsthetician #SFFacialist #SFBrowDesign #LashLiftsSF #LashLiftAndTint #BrowLamination

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Our Esthies

if you're seeking a personalized experience with outstanding service and offerings, we'RE your gals.

OWNER & ESTHETICIAN

DEBRA CARVALHO

Debra is a dual licensed esthetician and massage therapist. After 18+ years in the treatment room, she made a move and manifested one of her greatest dreams, Pono. Debra is an intuitive esthetician who believes in the balance of nature and science dancing together to create harmony and promote skin wellness.

ESTHETICIAN

JESSIE

Jessie's passion for skincare and healing inspired her to work as an esthetician. She believes in skincare based on wellness, and a long term approach of customized daily regimens to achieve radiance from the inside out. Throughout each treatment, she provides her clients with high quality results while promoting deep relaxation along the way.

Esthetician

ASURAH

Asurah's diverse industry background has provided her with experience in both clinical and holistic settings. She likes to take a well rounded approach to skin care ito provide her clients with optimal results. Asurah has immersed herself in everything from clean and sustainable skin care to TCM approaches and medical grade protocols. She has mastered several modalities such as microcurrent oxygen facials and dermaplaning.

Esthetician

KIRSTEN

Kirsten brings heart, skill, and serious glow-getting magic to every treatment. She's all about skin-safe products, deep hydration, and the kind of care that leaves you looking radiant and feeling deeply restored. She offers life-changing facials (with a special knack for dermaplaning and lymphatic massage), lash lifts and natural shaped brow laminations.

WAX SPECIALISt

CODIE

Codie is inspired by her love for all things beauty. She believes in revitalization through skincare and building confidence from within. Codie strives to make every client feel good about themselves after each and every treatment by embracing their natural beauty.