Skin Boss 

A low hum reverberates through Skin Boss Med Spa’s walls. It indicates Ashlee Bunkelman’s first step toward restoring another client’s skin in what will be a layered, in-spa treatment regimen – but the first step always remains the same for Bunkelman, a 17-year aesthetic entrepreneur and lead laser technician.  

The primary constant and driving factor in her successful career is centered around education. A national trainer for aesthetic brands including Glytone, Avéne, and Aerolase, Bunkelman’s knowledge flourished during an internship with a Michigan-based dermatologist and an early adopter of aesthetic therapies and technologies. There, she received an intimate understanding of treating clients of all skin types, how to combine therapies to make good results great, and familiarized herself with 19 different laser types – becoming an all-around aesthetic expert centered on modern ways to rebuild skin.  

Bunkelman’s vision of having a client-centric aesthetic practice that would be cost-efficient, personal, and incredibly effective was realized in 2019 when she was asked to lead the buildout of Dr. Terry Matthews and Catherine Mathews’ medical spa in Haslett, Michigan.  

At Skin Boss Med Spa, Bunkelman has been able to help purchase the right devices, hire the right practitioners, and add lines of skin care to build a range of services, leading to the spa establishing itself as a premier aesthetic destination in Michigan. For the past two years, Bunkelman and the Skin Boss team have championed amazing skin for clients of all ages, skin types, and for both medical and aesthetic skin concerns. She attributes 90% of her efficacy, client satisfaction, and financial success to her guidance of investing in the right devices.  

The purchase of Aerolase’s Neo Elite and Era Elite lasers are now her foundation of building each client’s journey to healthy skin. They are the low hum her clients and staff hear each day at Skin Boss. She says they have opened new, modern roads for aesthetic medicine in her facility. They are allowing her to develop layered therapies, combining lasers, peels, skin care, and other therapies together for definitive outcomes – ones she has not seen before. 

As she looks to create a long-lasting impact on the world of aesthetic medicine, Bunkelman would love to open a training and education center where her and her team of seasoned aesthetic professionals can impart what they have learned over the better part of two decades with hands-on, small group education – a growing need for aesthetics.  

“Ashlee Bunkelman embodies aesthetic medicine. Her drive to push limits and better everything in this industry – protocols, education, results, and experiences – is incredible. She is going to continue to create the amazing.” -Sean Johnson, director of marketing for Aerolase.