The Family That Brought Botox to Fresno

Mystique Medical Spa in Fresno is run by the Krikorians, and the org chart reads like a holiday table. S.S. Krikorian, DC, QME — a chiropractor and Qualified Medical Examiner — is the founder. His daughter, Barbara Krikorian Tryk, is the COO with twenty years in aesthetics. Another family member runs the front office. It is the opposite of a private-equity roll-up wearing a soft name.

By the practice's account, Mystique introduced Botox to Fresno. Whatever the precise history, the longevity is not in dispute: this is a Central Valley institution, not a pop-up.

Mystique has won Fresno's People's Choice award six years in a row, holds an Allergan Diamond account, and has placed in Allergan's Top 250. Its lead injector, Abby, FNP-C, is an Allergan Master Expert trained through CoolSculpting University. The treatment menu is current — CoolSculpting Elite and CoolTone, DENSITY skin tightening, SKINVIVE, microneedling — but the reason to trust it is the decades behind it.

It is Aura Screened: the medical director checks out, the address matches the filing, the reviews accrued like a real business's over real years. With a six-year People's Choice streak, that part was never going to be the problem.

The aesthetics industry is consolidating fast, and a lot of the warmth is being optimized out of it. A family that has answered to the same city for decades has a kind of accountability no chain can buy: they cannot leave. If you are in the Valley, that is worth something — and it is worth reading their listing next to the rest.