Shawnda Dorantes

Shawnda Dorantes founded Beauty Lounge Medical Spa in 2018 and serves as lead nurse injector at the San Marcos flagship. She works as a nurse practitioner and sees patients at the Sorrento Valley location on Mondays and select Saturdays, and at the Temecula location on Tuesdays and select Saturdays, where she also provides dedicated laser services. Her beauty career spans about 15 years, beginning as a beauty advisor at Estée Lauder, then freelance makeup artistry, before she joined the company's Regional Artistry Team.

She holds MSN, APRN, FNP-C and CANS credentials and is board certified as a family nurse practitioner and as a certified aesthetic nurse specialist. Her additional certifications include hospice and palliative nursing, Allergan master injector status, Les Encres and MINT PDO thread certification, and professional makeup artistry. Her education includes triple majors at Cal State University San Marcos and a Master of Science in Nursing from United States University, completed in 2021. She says she continues advanced training and attends medical conferences to keep her skills current.

Her listed specialties are facial balancing, regenerative aesthetics, PDO thread lifts, skin tightening and skin rejuvenation, and her stated aim is to enhance natural beauty and self-confidence. The site describes her as a top aesthetic injector in America and says she was named to a Top 100 Best Aesthetic Injector in America list in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Other honors the site lists include San Diego Business Journal's Top 50 Latino Leaders of Influence and Small Business Woman of the Year (both 2022), and San Diego Metro Magazine's Women of Influence and Top 40 Under 40 (2021). She says she has treated numerous clients, including well-known reality TV personalities.