Candace MooneyRN, CNM · Registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife; founder, Elegant Aesthetics (medical spa)
A Riverside registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife who founded Elegant Aesthetics, a medical spa, and focuses on natural-looking results and honest consultations.
The conversation
Twelve minutes with host Joe Brown. Start anywhere: chapters on the right.
- 0:00Why some people never book that first appointment
- 0:38Welcome & meet Candace Mooney, RN, CNM
- 1:11What to look for in a med spa
- 2:10From delivering babies to aesthetics
- 3:27"I don't want to look done": keeping results natural
- 4:18When she tells you that you don't need it
- 5:33Your first consultation, step by step
- 6:49Botox vs. filler in plain English
- 7:21Changes in your 40s and 50s
- 8:52Sun, skin and the one daily habit
- 9:36Darker skin and laser treatments
- 10:10Nervous about a med spa? Take the first step
- 10:56What she wants every patient to know
- 11:35Where to find Elegant Aesthetics
For general information, not a substitute for advice from your own doctor.
How she thinks
about care
- Credentials
- Registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife
- License
- California license 1805, as listed in the NPI registry (NPI 1487689436)
- Experience
- More than 25 years in healthcare, including years as a nurse-midwife
- Practice
- Founder and owner, Elegant Aesthetics (medical spa), Riverside, CA
- Services
- Consultations, injectables, laser and light-based skin treatments, microneedling, skin tightening and wellness services
Background from elegantaesthetics.net.
Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, is a registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife, and the founder and owner of Elegant Aesthetics, a medical spa in Riverside, California. With more than 25 years in healthcare, she spent years as a nurse-midwife caring for women through pregnancy and birth before founding her own aesthetics practice.
Elegant Aesthetics offers consultations, injectables, laser and light-based skin treatments, microneedling, skin tightening and wellness services for patients across the Inland Empire. Her philosophy is that everyone is inherently beautiful and unique, and her goal is to help each client feel confident and their best, inside and out.
Her philosophy is that everyone is inherently beautiful and unique, and her goal is to help each client feel confident and their best, inside and out.
She starts each consultation with a full history and by asking what bothers the client most, and she says she will tell a client when she doesn't think they need a treatment.
Summary written by Top Providers from her podcast interview and her practice website and the NPI registry.
In her words
Verbatim from her podcast interview.
It's all about the relationship. It's all about the connection.Candace Mooney, Top Providers Podcast
Med spas are medical care.Candace Mooney, Top Providers Podcast
I tell them the truth.Candace Mooney, Top Providers Podcast
Sunscreen is the most important thing that somebody can do for their skin.Candace Mooney, Top Providers Podcast
Clips
Under a minute each, cut straight from the interview.
Shorts0:37Before you book a med spa, ask these questions
Looking for a med spa? Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, a registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife, says to look past the Google listing: look at the provider and their experience, call and ask questions, and notice how the front office makes you feel. General information, not medical advice.
Shorts0:28When a good provider says "you don't need it"
A good provider will tell you the truth, even when that means you don't need more yet. Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, explains why honest advice is how you keep results looking natural. General information, not medical advice.
Shorts0:29What she wishes more women knew about their 40s
Tired, foggy, forgetting words? Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, says a lot of people chalk the changes in their 40s and 50s up to getting older, and that women, and men, are starting to talk about it. General information, not medical advice.
Shorts0:28The one thing your skin needs every single day
Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, makes the case for sunscreen every day, rain or shine, especially in sunny Southern California. General information, not medical advice.
Shorts0:32Nervous about your first med spa visit? Start here
Thinking about a med spa but nervous? Candace Mooney, RN, CNM, suggests starting with the website, then calling the office to see how it feels. At a consultation, ask yourself: did I get good information? Did I feel oversold? General information, not medical advice.
The practice
Details checked against elegantaesthetics.net, Oct 30, 2026.
Elegant Aesthetics
- Address
- 9448 Magnolia Ave, Suite 103, Riverside, CA 92503
- Phone
- (951) 398-1932
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