After doing what she loved and loving what she did, Hanson started her esthetics career as a professional freelance makeup artist to help put herself through law school. Gayle Hanson quickly found what every person aspires to find – their true calling. Hanson studied with the best of the best in Hollywood, learning creative makeup artistry and special effects makeup, while earning a very prestigious clientele. Her weekends quickly became booked with special media events, photography sessions, makeovers and weddings. Today, Hanson still assists many brides at her successful Gaylee Signature Spa located in Irvine, California.

Continuing her passion, Hanson began working as a respected educator with the Mana Company, one of the finest manufacturers of professional cosmetics in the USA. Today, they are known as Your Name Professional Cosmetic Brands. Here, she gained over 17 years of practice and expertise as an esthetician, while working with some of the most exclusive skin care lines.  Hanson’s interest in helping women of all ages and all skin types achieve complete beautycare, led her to create her own personal skincare system and cosmetics line. “You can’t provide a good facial or spa treatment without a great product,” notes Hanson. She improved her already successful signature facial services with a professional botanically based product that was beneficial for your skin, as well as for your overall health.

With a natural niche as an esthetician, educator and entrepreneur, Hanson grew as a respected beauty industry consultant and educator.  As her success grew, so did the expansion of her signature facial treatments.  In the spring of 1993, she opened the Gaylee Skin Care and Cosmetics Salon. Through her personal care and compassion for her own clients, Hanson sought out the finest chemist specializing in each product type, to create her own skin care system. Hanson adds, “I’ve always been fortunate to have faithful clients who will try my newly designed products.

Today, Hanson’s namesake Gaylee Skin Care System is used to customize skincare and spa treatments for each client, while other skincare clinics and spas across North America do the same. Considered one of the finest spa treatment clinics in Orange County, Gaylee Signature Spa has a professional staff, with state-of-the-art equipment and sophisticated skincare technologies as well as their own very unique botanical skincare system. Gayle Hanson’s staff have each passed rigorous certification tests and maintain updated licenses in their practice.

Hanson adds, “Having esthetic clients who actually care about the success of our unique skin care products, helps me to specialize my creative developments. Sometimes, it can take up to a year or two for creation of the final result, when I am searching to find a new solution for some specific skin care challenge. If it takes that long, then it takes that long. I don’t believe in false advertising. I would never place a product on the shelf without being certain of absolute perfection for both our estheticians and our clients!”

With plenty of studies on cosmetic chemistry at UCLA, independent research and her own practical chemistry lab experiences, Hanson has created a complete system of progressive botanical and aromatherapy skin care products. These products are extremely effective, while also having an appealing smell to engage the senses.  Aromatherapy plays a big role in Hanson’s formula for success.  This form of alternative medicine and esthetic care uses essential oils with other scented compounds from plants for the purpose of affecting a person’s mood and health. Gaylee Skin Care Products are botanically based, so that they are more compatible to her clients than any chemically manufactured products utilizing synthetic ingredients.  Their Neroli Skin Care System uses the blossom from the bitter orange, which reduces the number of carcinogens entering your body. Each one of her Gaylee Skin Care Products is noncomedogenic, hypoallergenic and uses no animal testing. 

Hanson adds true compassion to her Gaylee Skin Care Product designs. She also considers how they are represented to her respective clients. Hanson says, “I have always tried following the estheticians from the older European generations. There is a true sense of credibility and pride.  As estheticians, we are one of the only working professional practices that are allowed to be alone with our clients.  It’s an amazing feeling to help other people, not only externally with our skin care products, spa treatments and massage services, yet also from within.  I am always honored to help others ensure their health and well-being.”

Today, Hanson’s success is forever growing. She values advanced education and new scientific advances as well as working with her own team of esthetic and spa professionals. Hanson still travels to many advanced training seminars to better herself and their spa. She regularly invests a significant amount of her time into product testing and research. Hanson advises, “Be true to yourself, your clients and to your philosophies!”