Chelsea Hirshik

My boys 🩵🥹 📸: @socreative_photo

✨In case we haven’t officially met, or it’s been a minute… Hi, I’m Chelsea! I’m the face behind Cactus Glow Aesthetics. I’ve been an esthetician since 2009 and a laser tech since 2011, but my skincare journey actually started way back in 5th grade… with acne, frustration, and a promise to myself to figure it all out one day. That promise turned into a passion - and now, a career I absolutely love! Skincare isn’t one-size-fits-all. My own experience navigating PCOS, Hashimoto’s, medications, treatments, and hormones has taught me how deep the skin-body connection runs and I bring that understanding into every client treatment plan. These days you’ll usually find me dermaplaning someone’s glow into existence or microneedling (SkinPen is my ride or die). I’m obsessed with red light therapy, SkinBetter, and making sure every client walks out feeling confident AF. Fun fact? I grew up a competitive dancer and got the tattoo on my foot for my supporting leg in dance and as a nod to my grandma who taught me piano. 💚 If you’re new here, welcome! And if you’ve been around awhile, thank you for trusting me with your face! Your wins light me up more than any LED ever could ✨ 📸: @socreative_photo 💄: @twistedbeauty77 @thesparklebar

4.22.23 🤍 ilysm @max_newton An incredible weekend celebrating with our friends & family! Thank you @kalimphotos for capturing our day so beautifully! I can’t stop obsessing over these sneak peeks.

This year gave me a whole new level of respect for my body and for moms everywhere. The strength, sacrifice, healing, hormones, fear, resilience, and love that women carry every single day is truly unreal. We grow life, bring it into the world, heal while caring for everyone else, and keep showing up through all of it. Superheroes honestly doesn’t even begin to cover it. Every hard moment, every scar, every sleepless night… worth it for you, Paxton 🌈❤️ Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms! New moms, hopeful moms, grieving moms, step moms, dog moms, grandmas, aunties who help raise our babies as their own and every woman loving deeply and giving endlessly. I hope today you are celebrated, appreciated, and rightfully spoiled 🤍

Paxton Van Hirshik made his debut on March 10th at 8:48pm. He gave us quite the journey to get him here but he’s perfect and we are so in love 🥰

Induction day 🥹 After 38 (long) weeks, the moment we’ve been waiting for is finally here. Knowing we’d be meeting our little boy today brought on all the emotions this weekend. We are so ready to meet you, Paxton. 🤍

It’s baby month 🥹 and I’m all up in my feels

The last chapter of three✨ So ready to meet you, Pax, but holding onto these last few weeks of ‘just us’ before our world gets a whole lot bigger. These sneaks from @socreative_photo are so perfect 🤍

Still coming down from soaking in all the love from this weekend 🤍 Seeing so many of you travel near and far to celebrate Paxton is truly hard to put into words. We are beyond grateful for the love, support, and community surrounding our little guy already. Our hearts are full, and we feel so lucky to do life with you all! The tacos & churros were bomb! We couldn’t have asked for a better day. Shoutout to the aunties who also showered big brother with presents so he didn’t feel left out 🥰🐕

When people ask our nursery theme… 🐾 Jasper 🥹 Our first born & Paxton’s built-in bestie 🤎

A year of slowing down, letting go, and making room for what truly matters. Selling a home. Building a new one. Growing a business while growing a baby. Learning to rest without guilt, to trust my body, and to choose peace over pressure. More presence. More patience. More gratitude. So much love, so much change, and a version of me I’m really proud of. Grateful for 2025. Ready for 2026 🥹 the year I finally get to meet you, Paxton. 🤍

We’re a little merrier this Christmas! The three of us cannot wait for baby boy to join us this spring 🥰 Wishing you a holiday filled with love, laughter, and a little extra joy from our growing pack ❤️ 📸: @socreative_photo the best in the biz