Treatment Room Rental for Estheticians & Facialists

Sink and water access

This is the first question every facialist asks, so: there is sink access for the room, with hot and cold running water, used for hand hygiene, rinsing bowls and filling the steamer reservoir. It is not a backwash bowl and it is not plumbed at the head of the bed, so a treatment built around continuous rinsing at the table — a full shampoo-style rinse or a wet-room body treatment — is not what this room is set up for. Cleansing at the bed is done with bowls, towels and the steamer, which is how most facial protocols run anyway.

The steamer

A facial steamer is provided and lives in the room. Fill the reservoir with distilled water only — tap water in Manhattan will scale the element quickly and the next practitioner inherits the problem. Allow roughly ten minutes to reach steam from cold, so switch it on during intake. Empty the reservoir at the end of your block and leave the lid off to dry. If you use ozone, keep the arm at a sensible distance and be aware the room is not separately ventilated beyond building HVAC.

Product shelf space and setup

There is a trolley and shelf space for the products you are working from during your block. Bring your own product line — we do not supply skincare and we do not take a cut of retail. Space is genuinely enough for a working facial kit, not for a full back bar, so estheticians who run several protocols usually bring a rolling case. Lockable storage between bookings can be arranged for regulars, case by case. Anything left on the open shelf will be moved so the next practitioner has the surface.

Sanitation and disinfection protocol

You are responsible for sanitising everything you touch during your block, to New York State standards for the services you provide. Hospital-grade disinfectant, paper towel and gloves are stocked in the room. Between clients, wipe the spa bed and any surface contacted, change the linens, and disinfect the steamer arm, the trolley top and the magnifying lamp. Implements must arrive already sanitised or single-use — there is no autoclave on site and no ultrasonic bath, so if your protocol depends on reprocessing metal implements you need to handle that at your own facility.

Extraction, lancets and anything that draws blood: bag it as regulated waste in the sharps or biohazard container provided, never in the general bin.

PMU, microblading and insurance

Permanent makeup and microblading are permitted only with the appropriate credentials in place: a current New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene tattoo artist licence for the artist, your NYS esthetics licence where the service also requires it, bloodborne pathogens training, and professional liability insurance whose schedule explicitly names PMU or microblading. A general esthetics policy usually excludes it — check the exclusions rather than the cover page, because we do check. Send the certificate with the schedule before your first booking.

Equipment permitted and prohibited

Permitted: the house steamer, magnifying lamp, high-frequency, galvanic, microcurrent, LED panels, manual and mechanical extraction, ultrasonic skin scrubbers, hand-held dermaplaning within the scope of your licence, and your own portable devices provided they are UL-listed and you carry cover for them.

Prohibited outright: lasers of any class, IPL, and radiofrequency devices. This is not negotiable and it is not about the equipment being unwelcome — laser and IPL in New York sit under medical supervision requirements, they change the building's insurance position, and this suite has no medical director. Also prohibited: injectables of any kind, chemical peels above the depth your NYS esthetics licence permits, nail services involving acrylic monomer or drill work, and anything requiring dedicated exhaust ventilation.

Single-use disposal

Gauze, cotton, lint pads, gloves, spatulas, applicators and lash tools go in the lined bin in the room, bagged and tied at the end of your block, not left open. Anything blood-contaminated goes in the biohazard container. Products with solvent content should not be poured down the sink. Take the bag to the service corridor bin on your way out — leaving a bagged bin in the room for the next practitioner is the most common complaint we get, and it is easily avoided.