The Journal
Long-form writing from the people who perform the treatments — what each one does, what it does not do, and how to decide.
Treatments5 min read
The commonest regret is not too little. What an overtreated upper face actually looks like, why the dosing asymmetry only points one way, and what a well-judged first appointment should and should not do.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Filed under Treatments
Running threads rather than tags. Each archive carries its own introduction and links back to the treatments and concerns it belongs to.
Everything we have published, newest first. Nothing here is sponsored, and no article recommends a treatment we would not perform.
Treatments5 min read
Forty-five minutes, no treatment on the day unless you ask for it, and a written plan you can take home. What a first consultation actually involves.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Skin health5 min read
One responds well to light-based treatment. The other gets worse. How to tell melasma from sun damage, why heat is the trigger nobody mentions, and what a good outcome honestly looks like.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
5 min read
Skin health6 min read
Bone, fat, dermis and muscle change on four different timetables, and only some of it responds to treatment. What is actually happening between thirty and fifty, and the order in which it is worth addressing.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
6 min read
Treatments7 min read
Neuromodulators treat movement, fillers treat volume, biostimulators treat quality. They are advertised as interchangeable and they are nothing of the kind.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
7 min read
Treatments5 min read
You are assessing the injector as much as they are assessing you. The questions worth asking about product, plane, hyaluronidase and the nine-o'clock emergency, and the answers that should end the appointment.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Laser6 min read
Tanned skin and hair-removal lasers compete for the same light. Why we start most courses in October, and what to do in the four weeks before your first session.
Leila, Laser Technician
6 min read
Skin health5 min read
SPF 30 filters 97 per cent and SPF 50 filters 98, which is the argument people use to justify applying a quarter of what the number assumes. What the label measures, what it ignores, and how much to actually use.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
5 min read
Skin health6 min read
Melasma is heat-sensitive, hormone-influenced and chronic. Why aggressive treatment backfires, and what a protective, seasonal plan looks like here.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
6 min read
Skin health5 min read
Most people abandon a retinoid in the third week, which is when it looks worst and before anything has improved. The adjustment period described honestly, with the schedule that gets through it.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
5 min read
Skin health5 min read
Cleanse, antioxidant, moisturiser, sunscreen, retinoid. Everything else is an addition to a stable base, added one at a time, six weeks apart.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
5 min read
Laser5 min read
Six sessions is not the plan; the spacing is. Patch tests, growth cycles, wavelength by skin type, the real downtime for each kind of treatment, and the list of people who should wait.
Leila, Laser Technician
5 min read
Clinic notes5 min read
Move a light, change a lens, lift a chin, and you can show an improvement in a face that had no treatment at all. The five variables that must not change, and the tells of a dishonest pair.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Clinic notes5 min read
Standardised clinical photography, where the images live, who can see them, and why publishing one requires a separate form you are free to decline.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Aftercare5 min read
Sun protection and not picking are load-bearing. Arnica, a week without wine and avoiding flights are not. Which aftercare instructions have a mechanism behind them, and which are inherited habit.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
5 min read
Treatments6 min read
Same needles, different energy. One treats the surface scaffold; the other adds controlled heat at depth. How we choose between them, and what each costs you in downtime.
Maryam, Clinic Manager & Aesthetician
6 min read
Clinic notes5 min read
A proportion of our consultations end with nothing booked. The situations where treating is predictably worse than waiting, and what a consultation should still give you when the answer is not yet.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
5 min read
Aftercare6 min read
Four hours upright, no gym for a day, and a two-week review that is not a courtesy call. The aftercare rules that change results, and the reasons behind each one.
Narges, Founder & Medical Director
6 min read
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