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What to know before you book an injectable treatment

Practical writing on choosing a clinic, reading a quote, checking who is treating you, and telling the two kinds of facial ageing apart. No treatment is sold on this site, which is why these can say what they say.

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A practitioner talking a client through an assessment at a consultation desk
Before You Book · 6 min read

How to Check the Person Treating You, in About Two Minutes

In England, anyone can legally inject your face. There is no licence to hold and no inspection to pass for most non-surgical treatment. What does exist is a set of free public registers that take about two minutes to search, and almost nobody uses them. Here is exactly how.

A practitioner going through a skin analysis on a tablet with a client
Before You Book · 6 min read

How to Read a Quote for a Course of Injections

Two clinics in the same district can quote several hundred pounds apart for what sounds like the same treatment, and usually they are not quoting for the same thing at all. Six questions turn two incomparable numbers into a comparison you can actually make.

A client looking at a close-up skin map of the eye area on a tablet during a consultation
Before You Book · 7 min read

Skin Quality or Volume? The Question That Decides Your Treatment

Almost every disappointing outcome in facial aesthetics starts with treating the wrong one of these two problems. They look alike in a mirror, they are described in the same words, and they need opposite answers. Here is how to tell which one you have before anybody quotes you for anything.

A gloved practitioner marking a client’s brow during an assessment
Before You Book · 5 min read

Nine Questions Worth Asking at an Aesthetic Consultation

A consultation is supposed to be an assessment. Quite often it is a sales meeting with a clinical vocabulary, and the difference is not always obvious from the inside. These nine questions separate the two, and the reaction they get is as informative as the answers.

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