Lexel Aesthetics, Wellness & Head Spa
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Mary Margaret Hether, DNP, FNP, in the entrance of Lexel Aesthetics in Dunn, North Carolina

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About Lexel

Lexel is a boutique, nurse-practitioner-led practice in Dunn, North Carolina, combining medical aesthetics, wellness and hormone care with a Japanese head spa and a specialist beauty team. The person who assesses you is the person who treats you. And the thing we are most known for locally is being willing to tell people when the answer is no.

Our story

Why the Name Lexel

“I didn’t plan any of this. Before Lexel, I was a nurse practitioner working out of a 10 by 10 room inside someone else’s day spa — no backing, no team, and honestly, no big five-year plan.

A door closed for me — and I mean that literally, not as a figure of speech. Instead of standing in front of it, I got pushed through a new one. Lexel became that new door.

The name is a combination of my two daughters’ names. The two gold feathers in our logo represent them too — they’re the reason any of this mattered enough to keep going when it was just me, alone, in that small room.”

— Mary Margaret Hether, DNP, FNP · Founder

From that one room, and without any outside investment, Lexel has grown into a full practice here in Dunn. That is why the aesthetics, the wellness and the head spa sit in the same building rather than in three different ones.

  • —Hair loss that turns out to be thyroid.
  • —Weight that will not shift because of perimenopause.
  • —Skin that needs a laser rather than another facial.

Those connections only get made when one person can see the whole picture.

Mary Margaret Hether with one of her daughters in the lounge at Lexel in Dunn
Hand-painted feather mural with Psalm 91:4 calligraphy at Lexel in Dunn, North Carolina

How we work

Six Things We Hold To

  • Test Before TreatingBloodwork behind the plan, not a guess dressed up as one
  • Conservative DosingStart lower, review at two weeks, add if you want it
  • We Say NoIf a treatment will not get you there, we tell you
  • Photographs Every VisitSame light, same angle — memory is unreliable
  • One RecordLabs, consent, history and progress in one place
  • No Adding On the DayYou hear the figure and agree to it before anything happens

Founder & provider

Mary Margaret Hether, DNP, FNP

Mary is a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner and the founder of Lexel. She performs the evaluations, the injectables, the energy-device treatments and the hormone and weight management care.

Her background is in family practice, which is the reason this is not a practice that treats a face in isolation from the person attached to it.

Her approach is conservative by instinct. Overtreating is easy to do and slow to undo, and the aim is that nobody can tell what you had done — only that you look well.

Mary Margaret Hether, DNP, FNP, founder of Lexel Aesthetics in Dunn, North Carolina

Provider

Krista Whittington, NP

Fifteen years in healthcare including Active Duty Army emergency and trauma medicine. Since 2019 her focus has been functional medicine and weight loss that actually holds.

  • Board-certified Nurse Practitioner
  • Certified Health Coach
  • US Army — emergency medicine and trauma
Krista Whittington, NP, at Lexel Aesthetics in Dunn, North Carolina
Lexel providers together in the studio

Head spa & beauty

The Beauty Team

The head spa, facials, brow, lash and waxing side is run by licensed cosmetology and esthetics professionals — a different skill set from the medical side, and a specialist one.

Two members of the Lexel beauty team at the studio in Dunn, North Carolina

Japanese Head Spa

A slow, scalp-focused ritual of cleansing, massage and conditioning. It is as much about switching off for an hour as it is about the scalp itself.

Facials & Esthetics

Facials matched to how your skin is on the day, from a deep clean to a treatment aimed at texture or dullness. If something needs more than a facial, the medical side is in the same building.

Brow, Lash & Waxing

Brow shaping and tinting, lash services and waxing, done by people who do this every day. Clean lines, nothing overdone.

Head spa and beauty appointments can be booked directly — no consultation needed.

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Where we are

Visiting Us in Dunn

The fireside lounge at Lexel Aesthetics in Dunn, North Carolina

We are at 1307 W Cumberland Street in Dunn, by appointment only, with patients driving in from Fayetteville, Fuquay-Varina, Angier, Benson, Erwin, Coats, Lillington, Clayton, Smithfield, Spring Lake and the wider Raleigh area.

By appointment only is deliberate. It means the practice is quiet when you arrive, nobody is sitting in a waiting room, and your appointment starts when it is meant to.

Ready when you are

Come and See Us

Medical treatment starts with a consultation, and head spa and beauty can be booked directly. Either way, you will be seen by the person who will treat you.

Book an Appointment Call (910) 651-0061

Individual results vary. Information on this site is for general education and is not a substitute for a consultation with a licensed provider. Medical treatment follows a provider evaluation as required in North Carolina. Beauty, head spa and waxing services are performed by licensed cosmetology and esthetics professionals and are not medical treatment.

LexelAesthetics, Wellness & Head Spa
1307 W Cumberland St
Dunn, NC 28334
(910) 651-0061

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