About

Our Story

I’m Danielle. I’m a licensed esthetician and nutritional coach, and I run Porefection Wellness in Oakland. My approach is simple: your skin and the rest of you are connected, so I pay attention to both.

I believe skin care and soul care are the same practice. Your skin holds what you carry, like stress, grief, long seasons of pushing through, and the things you haven’t had space to feel. So I don’t just treat what’s on the surface. I look closely, I tell you honestly what I see, and I make room for the rest of you.

Every visit is part treatment, part pause. We slow down, we name what’s going on, and we build a plan that fits your real life. That might be a facial, a simpler routine, a few changes to how you eat, or all three.

I’ve loved the art of transformation since I was 11, styling hair for anyone who’d sit still. Before this, I spent years in the tech world, and that’s where my love of details comes from. My own path has also taught me that real care tends to the whole person: body, mind, and spirit.

You don’t have to have it figured out. Come as you are, and we’ll start there.

Danielle LE, PN1-NC Owner