Ila Reed, NNP-BC, FNP-C, MEP-C
Ila Reed, NNP-BC, FNP-C, MEP-C
With over 25 years of experience in healthcare, Ila Reed brings a wealth of expertise to aesthetics. An Albuquerque native, she has worked as a CNP across the country, including in Florida, California, and Las Vegas, before returning home to continue her passion for beauty and wellness. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of New Mexico and her Master of Science in Nursing from Stony Brook University in New York and a post-graduate from Grand Canyon University.
As a certified injector, permanent makeup artist, and Co-Owner of Bella Aesthetica Medical Spa, Ila specializes in facial aesthetics and permanent makeup, helping clients achieve confidence through natural, beautiful enhancements.
Fun Fact: Ila holds a master’s in fine art degree in illustration, which inspired her journey into permanent makeup, allowing her to blend art with aesthetics. When she’s not transforming clients, she enjoys painting, drawing, and staying active—she even competed on the world stage in Spain for pole fitness!
Specialty in Facial Aesthetics and Permanent Makeup
Ila's primary specialty sits at the intersection of medical precision and fine art. Her practice is built around facial aesthetics and permanent makeup, two disciplines that require not only clinical skill but a deeply developed aesthetic sensibility. In injectables, Ila focuses on natural-looking facial rejuvenation using neurotoxins, dermal fillers, biostimulators, and skin-quality injectables to restore balance, softness, and youthful structure to the face. In permanent makeup, she applies the same meticulous attention to proportion and form that defined her fine art training, creating brows, eyeliner, and lip treatments that enhance each client's unique features with artistry that is genuinely rare in the industry.
The results Ila consistently delivers are a reflection of a practice philosophy that begins and ends with the individual. Her patients range from first-time injectable clients in their twenties exploring preventative care to patients in their fifties and sixties seeking meaningful, comprehensive rejuvenation. What they share is a desire to look naturally better, not different. Ila's approach, which is anatomy-guided, artistically informed, and deeply patient-centered, sets Bella Aesthetica apart in a market where the standard of care varies widely. Every treatment she performs is a reflection of both her medical training and her eye as an artist.
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Education, Experience, and a Commitment to Excellence
Ila Reed's clinical foundation is built on over two and a half decades of nursing and advanced practice experience across some of the most demanding and specialized settings in healthcare. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Science in Nursing from Stony Brook University in New York, and completed post-graduate advanced practice training through Grand Canyon University. Her certifications include NNP-BC, FNP-C, and MEP-C, reflecting her advanced qualifications across neonatal nursing practice, family nursing practice, and medical aesthetics. This depth of clinical training gives her an understanding of anatomy, physiology, and patient safety that extends far beyond what is required in the aesthetics industry alone, and it underpins every treatment decision she makes.
Ila's hands-on experience spans specialties including neonatal intensive care, family practice, and medical aesthetics across multiple states. Her years of injecting in varied clinical and aesthetic environments have produced an injector whose technique is precise, whose outcomes are consistently natural, and whose understanding of facial anatomy is deep and nuanced. In permanent makeup, her experience is equally extensive, with a portfolio that reflects not only technical proficiency but a genuine artistic intelligence that comes from her background in fine art illustration. The breadth and depth of this experience means that clients in Ila's care are in hands that have seen, treated, and resolved a wide range of clinical and aesthetic situations with skill and composure.
What Ila Does Best
Ila's signature treatments reflect the unique convergence of clinical expertise and fine art training that defines her practice. Whether she is sculpting a jawline with precision filler placement, softening expression lines with Daxxify, or creating a set of powder brows that looks as if they were drawn by a master illustrator, every treatment she performs carries the hallmark of someone who cares as much about the artistry as she does about the medicine.
PDGF
PDGF, or platelet-derived growth factor, is a regenerative injectable treatment that uses the body's own biological signals to stimulate collagen production, improve skin tone and texture, and support natural tissue renewal.
Sculptra
Sculptra is a poly-L-lactic acid biostimulator that gradually rebuilds the skin's collagen framework to restore lost facial volume, improve skin laxity, and create a naturally refreshed appearance over time.
Dermal Fillers
Dermal fillers are hyaluronic acid-based injectables that restore lost volume, enhance facial contours, and smooth deeper lines in areas including the lips, cheeks, chin, and jawline.
Neurotoxins
Neurotoxin treatments use Botox or Daxxify to temporarily relax the muscles that cause expression lines, smoothing wrinkles on the forehead, between the brows, and around the eyes with no downtime.
