Independent guidance on non-surgical aesthetic treatment in London. What each procedure does, who it genuinely suits, what the law asks of the person treating you, and the questions that separate a careful practitioner from a persuasive one.
Most writing about aesthetic treatment exists to fill an appointment book. This exists to help you decide, including deciding against treatment altogether. Every page sets out the mechanism, the realistic result, the recovery, the complications that need a protocol, and the specific questions to ask in the room.
You will find no prices here, no testimonials, no before and after photographs and no list of recommended clinics. Each of those absences is deliberate and each is explained where it arises. What is here instead is the material that lets you judge what you are being offered.
Who operates this website, and why it is built this way.
Each page covers what the treatment changes, what it cannot change, who should decline it, and what a careful practitioner will tell you before you consent.
Treatment
A prescription-only medicine. The difficult part is not the injection, it is the dose.
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Treatment
A medical device, not a medicine. That single fact explains most of what is wrong with the market.
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Treatment
The most requested treatment in Britain, and the one where technique shows fastest.
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Small volumes, thin skin, high stakes. The area where patient selection matters most.
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Treatment
The highest-leverage area on the face, and the easiest one to ruin by degrees.
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Treatment
Definition comes from proportion. Frequently the chin is the answer, not the jaw.
ReadBotulinum toxin is a prescription-only medicine. It must be prescribed for you individually by a qualified prescriber who has assessed you in person, and advertising it to the public by brand and price is prohibited.
Dermal fillers are not medicines. They are regulated as medical devices, which means there is no prescription requirement and, at present, no general licence needed to inject them. In law, a person with no clinical training can buy filler and inject your face.
Legislation enabling a licensing scheme in England exists but has not been brought into force. Until it is, the safeguard is your own ability to check who is treating you, and that is what this site is for.
The decision
Verify the individual rather than the brand. Check their clinical registration on the regulator's own register, establis...
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Before treatment
A full medical history, a discussion of what actually bothers you, an examination of your face at rest and in movement, ...
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Cost and value
Because advertising a prescription-only medicine to the public is prohibited under UK medicines law, and because a figur...
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After treatment
Keep the area clean and undisturbed, stay upright for a few hours, avoid heat and strenuous exercise for around a day, s...
ReadThis website sells nothing and books nothing. It exists so that you walk into a consultation already knowing which questions separate a careful practitioner from a confident one, and already knowing when the correct answer is to leave without treatment.
hello@aestheticlaunchlab.comEnquiries are read and answered by Aesthetic Launch Lab, the UK aesthetics digital specialist that operates this website. Please do not send clinical details or photographs. If something has gone wrong after a procedure, contact the practitioner who treated you, or NHS 111, rather than waiting for a reply here.