Some beauty brands are meant to live on your bathroom shelf. Wildling has always felt like it should have a world of its own.
Wildling just opened its first-ever physical space, a modern ritual destination tucked inside Santa Monica’s iconic Frank Gehry-designed Edgemar complex, created to bring the brand’s philosophy of intentional touch, skin health, and whole-body wellness to life.
We’ve been following Wildling for years. Back in 2023, we featured its cult-loved Moonbounce moisturizer in our guide to the beauty benefits of sea moss. A year later, the Empress Stone made our editors’ weekly favorites, and last year we sat down with co-founders Gianna De La Torre and Jill Munson for a deeper conversation on gua sha, lymphatic health and slow beauty before tapping them again for our guide to lymphatic drainage using gua sha.
So, yes, a Wildling IRL was bound to get our attention.
A Gua Sha Ritual, But Make It IRL
Part shop, part treatment studio and part neighborhood wellness hangout, the new Wildling Studio is less traditional beauty store and more physical extension of the rituals the brand has been teaching from the beginning.
You can shop the signature Bian stone gua sha tools and skincare in person, but the more interesting part is everything happening beyond the shelves. The studio offers skin consultations, hands-on gua sha education and 30-minute express facial rituals designed around three very relatable objectives: Sculpt, Depuff and Release.
Sculpt combines gua sha, lymphatic massage and Wildling skincare to lift and revive the complexion. Depuff focuses on lymphatic flow and that wonderfully specific problem of waking up looking a little more swollen than expected. Release works into tension held through the jaw, neck and face—which, frankly, sounds particularly relevant after one too many hours staring at a laptop.
More Than A Facial Studio
What makes the space feel especially Wildling, though, is the idea that it isn’t simply somewhere to pop in for a facial.
The brand is building the Studio as a gathering place for workshops, masterclasses, private gua sha sessions and intimate wellness experiences, with programming that extends into lymphatic health, facial massage, movement, meditation and energy work.
It makes sense for a brand that has always positioned skincare as something you practice, rather than something you simply apply. The tools may be the entry point, but slowing down enough to actually use them has always been part of the assignment.
And now there’s somewhere to learn how.
Consider This Our New Santa Monica Beauty Stop
You can watch a hundred gua sha tutorials on your phone, but having someone actually show you the correct angle, pressure and sequence is a different experience altogether. As Wildling’s founders have previously told us, one of the biggest gua sha mistakes is surprisingly simple: using way too much pressure.
The Wildling Studio gives the brand a place to teach all those tiny details in person while creating the kind of slower, more tactile experience its products were designed around in the first place.
Find the Wildling Studio at 2443 Main Street in Santa Monica’s Edgemar complex, and explore current treatments, workshops and upcoming events online.
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