Our Story— Beginnings.

Our founder, Corrie Davis, began her journey into beauty and wellness with an early recognition that care is never superficial—it is a system. Long before SXII Esthetics existed, she understood ritual as technology: touch, adornment, and reflection as modalities that regulate, affirm, and reorient the self. What began as intuition evolved into a praxis shaped by her lived experience as a Black queer neurodiverse femme navigating the entanglements of pleasure, perception, and trauma.

Over time, Corrie developed a framework that treats beauty not as an outcome, but as an interface—where body, mind, and environment continuously inform one another. As a licensed aesthetician, cultural producer, and interdisciplinary educator known for a edutainment-based approach, she has spent over a decade building what would become SXII Esthetics: a sensual systems practice that integrates beauty, public health, and EI (erotic intelligence) into cohesive, lived methodologies.

SXII Esthetics (pronounced “sexy”) is both a studio and a conceptual container. Through it, Corrie guides Afropolitan women and kindred seekers into ritual as infrastructure—structured yet fluid practices that cultivate embodied awareness, sensory literacy, and sustainable softness. Here, sensuality is not reduced to performance; it is treated as data, as language, as a vital axis of wellbeing that informs how we relate to ourselves and others.

Her signature approach, sensual systems beauty advisory, operates at the intersection of clinical knowledge and pleasure-informed design. It reframes beauty rituals as adaptive systems—responsive to stress, environment, identity, and desire. Within this framework, erotic knowledge is not reducible to sexuality; it is relational, intuitive, and deeply embodied. In the tradition of Audre Lorde’s articulation of the erotic as a source of power and knowing, it functions as a way of sensing, connecting, and orienting toward what feels true. This knowledge is not abstract—it is archived in the body, expressed through habit, and refined through intentional practice. Clients are supported in building personal ecosystems—rituals, spaces, and relational patterns—that sustain creativity, regulation, and intimacy.

Beyond the treatment room, Corrie’s work extends into community-based sexual health education, erotic arts programming, and research initiatives that position beauty practitioners as critical agents of care. Her contributions to projects such as PrEP4Love, Getting to Zero, Duke Teen Health Club, and Texas Christian University’s Beauty Shop Study underscore the role of culturally competent, health-based environments in advancing collective health outcomes.

At its core, SXII is grounded in a central ethos: softness is not passive—it is a calibrated, intentional force. Sensuality is not singular—it is layered, contextual, and deeply intelligent. Corrie’s leadership articulates a living archive of care practices that sit at the convergence of liberation, intimacy, and design—continuously evolving toward deeper forms of collective EI. In this way, the work positions erotic intelligence (EI) as a critical counterpoint to artificial intelligence (AI): not as opposition, but as a necessary complement—offering a framework for ethical intimacy, digital sovereignty, and collective healing.