on beauty...

so “a friend of a friend of my cousin” is opening a clinic which will specialise in laser treatment (hair removal and what not). In addition to laser, there will also be a couple of other procedures one of which is lip enhancement with dermal fillers such as Restylane.

They have commenced interviews for staff for the clinic and a brilliant idea to try out the talent, first hand so to say, came to mind.

The procedure was lip enhancement, which the friend of a friend of my cousin (aka the clinic owner), has had done previously.

Minor, non-operative procedures such as dermal fillers (and a bunch of others) have become common and almost day-to-day in the last decade. I myself may or may not have tried a couple.

Of course one of the major points for me is secrecy… I don’t see the point of getting something done and having other people question it as ‘fake’.. when it is much easier to keep that to yourself and pretend you were born with it until someone asks. At that point you have two choices: to lie or not to lie.

The scenario is simple: run into the clinic on Friday night (preferably a long weekend when everyone is out of town), 30 minutes of hell, tip-toe out of the clinic in the shadow of darkness and lock yourself in the house for the weekend until the swelling, redness or skin-shedding finally goes away. Monday morning – back to work in full glory!

Over the years the perfected scenario has become so familiar that you stop taking it seriously and it becomes something similar to a manicure where you wouldn’t think twice about it.

BUT! All of this is only possible if the person performing the procedure is good at what they do.

Alternative scenario: you try out a new staff member at your own clinic, and end up with uneven lips, excessive bruising and swelling, you cancel your meetings for that afternoon as you do not want to scare other people with your appearance. You curse the f*cker and promise yourself you will never get your lips done again. You fire the f*cker.

Needless to say, the moral of the story is to look for those clinics that have a good reputation and that you know (or have seen on others) do a good job at whatever it is you are wanting to get done. Extra couple of hundred dollars for the quality of the job done will go a long way in the aftermath of the procedure. Quality anaesthetic and genuine products be it Botox, Restylane or Juviderm as well as the skill of the person performing the procedure are vital in getting the best results possible!

So far Skinmedics in Pyrmont has been my clinic of choice (I have been there at least 3 times for different procedures and once they turned me away because they didn’t think I needed the procedure that I was wanting to get done) but my research of clinics is ongoing.

I am yet to visit the friend of a friend of my cousin’s clinic. Will report!

M x