About Us

Relax, We’ve Got U.

Wellness is not a destination. It is a daily decision to love yourself from the inside out.

We Are Love U Studios Holistic Wellness Center.

Love U Studios Holistic Wellness Center is a multi-faceted holistic wellness brand rooted in 30 years of combined expertise across esthetics, massage therapy, and herbalism. We exist for one reason: to help you understand, heal, and love your body — from the inside out, and the outside in.

 

Founded by licensed esthetician, degreed massage therapist, practicing herbalist, and published author Shantelle Love Dunkins, Love U Studios is not a traditional wellness brand. We do not chase symptoms. We investigate root causes. We do not offer quick fixes. We build lasting transformation. Every product, program, and protocol we offer is rooted in the belief that your body is communicating with you — and we are here to help you listen

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Meet Shantelle Love Dunkins

Shantelle

Founder

Shantelle Love Dunkins did not stumble into wellness — she was called into it. After years as a Subject Matter Expert at Fortune 500 companies, including UnitedHealthcare, McGraw-Hill Education, and TIAA, Shantelle found herself facing what the medical system could not resolve: a body out of alignment, skin that would not respond, and a nervous system that needed more than a prescription.

She turned to plants. She turned to ancient practices. She turned inward. And what she found changed everything.

 

Today, Shantelle holds a degree in Applied Science with a focus in Chinese Medicine, a license in esthetics, and decades of hands-on herbalism practice. She is a published author of two books in the Lessons in Transition series — and she has taken everything she learned in corporate boardrooms, treatment rooms, and her own healing journey to build something the wellness industry has never quite seen: a brand that speaks to the whole person, honors ancestral wisdom, and refuses to separate beauty from biology.

 

She is the creator of four proprietary methodologies — Skin Signals™, PILLARS™, Breathe Again™, and Change The Ritual™ — each one built from lived experience and professional expertise. She has delivered paid speaking engagements on creativity, wellness, and transformation, and she is currently building the Love U Studios Holistic Wellness School in Dallas-Fort Worth — a first-of-its-kind institution offering programs in holistic esthetics, massage therapy, and herbalism.

 

"It looks good to feel good, so love you."

Our philosophy

Root Cause. Not Symptom Management.

At Love U Studios, we operate from a foundational truth: your body is not broken. It is communicating. The breakout on your chin, the tension in your shoulders, the fatigue that no amount of sleep resolves — these are not random occurrences. They are signals. And every signal has a source.

 

Our approach bridges ancient African and Eastern healing traditions with modern wellness science. We look at the skin as a mirror of internal health. We treat the nervous system as the foundation of everything. We honor the liver, the lymphatic system, the gut, and the endocrine system as interconnected — because they are.

 

We formulate our own products. We teach our own methodologies. We grow our own understanding — constantly, intentionally, without apology. This is holistic wellness the way it was always meant to be practiced: with depth, with dignity, and with love.

Credentials & Expertise

The Expertise Behind the Brand

Shantelle Love Dunkins brings over 30 years of combined expertise across multiple healing disciplines:

 

•        Licensed Esthetician — skin health, barrier function, root-cause skincare

•        Degreed Massage Therapist — Applied Science degree with Chinese Medicine focus

•        Practicing Herbalist — formulation, tincture-making, botanical medicine

•        Published Author — Lessons in Transition series (two volumes)

•        Former Corporate Subject Matter Expert — UnitedHealthcare, McGraw-Hill Education, TIAA

•        Paid Speaker — wellness, creativity, and professional transformation

•        Founder — Love U Studios Holistic Wellness School (Dallas-Fort Worth, opening 2026)

 

Proprietary methodologies developed and owned by Love U Studios:

 

•        Skin Signals™ — reading the skin as a map of internal health

•        PILLARS™ — the foundational framework for whole-body wellness

•        Breathe Again™ — nervous system restoration through intentional breath work

•        Change The Ritual™ — transforming daily habits into healing practices

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How We Serve You

Love U Studios offers a complete ecosystem of wellness products, programs, and education — all built around the root-cause philosophy that defines everything we do.

 

•        The Ancestral Tea Collection — eight functional herbal tea blends named in Swahili and Akan/Twi, each paired with an Adinkra symbol and formulated for specific body systems

•        Breathe Again™ Corporate Workshops — immersive nervous system and wellness programming for organizations and their teams

•        Wellness Lollies™ — functional herbal lollipops formulated for sleep, clarity, energy, and more

•        Smokable Herb Blends — ceremonial botanical blends for nervous system support and intentional ritual

•        Body Butters, Cleansing Balms & Facial Oils — small-batch, botanically formulated skincare

•        Skin Health Assessments & Consultations — root-cause skin analysis rooted in Skin Signals™ methodology

•        Love U Studios Holistic Wellness School — coming to Dallas-Fort Worth, offering professional programs in holistic esthetics, massage therapy, and herbalism

You Were Made to Feel Good.

This is not about perfection. It is not about following a protocol someone else designed for a body that is not yours. It is about learning to listen — to what your skin is telling you, what your nervous system is asking for, what your body has been trying to say.

 

Love U Studios exists to give you the tools, the knowledge, and the products to answer back. With love. With intention. With everything we have built over three decades of study, practice, and personal transformation.

 

"It looks good to feel good, so love you."

 

— Shantelle Love Dunkins, Founder

Love U Studios Holistic Wellness Center | Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

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