If you’re someone who suffers with unwanted hair on areas such as the legs, underarms or bikini line, you’ll know how annoying it can be to keep it at bay. The average woman spends around £12,000 and hundreds of hours in her lifetime on shaving, waxing and epilating the read more

As time passes by, you may start to notice small or medium sized patches of brown or greyish pigments on the face, hands and décolletage. These harmless, uneven brown marks are commonly known as ‘age spots’. However, age spots are not necessarily caused by the onset of age, but read more

Laser hair removal is now considered the most effective way to permanently reduce unwanted, excess hair from the face and the body. It is a device-led technology which uses specific wavelengths of light to penetrate the hair follicle and heat the hair, damaging the hair and deterring further hair read more

Hair removal has been going on for centuries, but it’s mostly been associated with women. In the past, men have traditionally been thought of as less than masculine if they waxed, plucked or shaved any hair apart from that on the face. Times are changing and latest trends in read more

Milia removal at your next facial If you are experiencing tiny white, hard bumps under your skin in areas such as under the eyes, the nose, cheeks and the chin, you’re most likely seeing Milia. Milia are small collections of a substance called keratin, which is a natural component read more

Taking care of oily skin can be a thankless task and something we get asked about a lot here at Skin Perfection. Oily skin is medically referred to as seborrhoea and can happen because of excess skin oil (sebum) produced within the pores. Oily skin usually starts during puberty read more

This is a question I get asked all the time and a perfectly sensible and valid one. The truth is, hair doesn’t grow at the same rate, at the same time all over the face and the body (we do have hair pretty much everywhere apart from the palms, read more

It’s so tempting isn’t it, to bask in the sun as soon as it starts to creep through after what seems like an age of winter. It’s human nature to want to absorb those rays and the vitamin D that the sun produces can offer health-giving benefits. However, sun-damage read more

I get asked a lot about stretch marks (or Striae in medical terminology) and by all types of people, both male and female. It’s a bit of a myth that stretch marks only appear during pregnancy. It’s possible to get stretch marks at any age from puberty onwards and read more

For anyone who has ever suffered with acne and won that battle, the effects of the condition can be imprinted on to the skin in the form of acne scarring and can be a life-long reminder of the condition. I see many patients who have got over the embarrassment read more

As an expert on light based systems for the removal of unwanted or excess hair, I am always being asked if shaving the hair makes it hair grow back thicker and courser. The simple answer I give is “no” as indeed, shaving doesn’t change the thickness, colour or rate read more

Dark circles can be tough to eliminate. It actually-depends on why you have them as to how you go about treating them. In many cases, dark circles are caused by not drinking enough water, drinking excessive alcohol and sleep deprivation. These factors can all lead to your skin becoming read more

If you have ever had to go through the annoyance of regular shaving or the agony of painful waxing or epilation, you’re probably one of the many thousands of people in the UK who look for alternatives to these methods to get rid of unwanted and excess hair. Being read more

Laser hair removal is one of the most effective, long-term solutions for unwanted or excess hair. However, older technologies have meant that this treatment was not necessarily suitable for Asian skins, due to the single wavelength of laser light. Risk of skin burning was high as melanin in the read more

Rosacea is an inflammatory chronic skin condition that can affect both men and women. As a rule, rosacea usually begins at around the age of 30 and happens when certain blood vessels, usually in the facial area enlarge. Rosacea appears as facial redness and can also produce small, red, read more

Acne is a chronic skin condition which is thought to affect 80 percent of people between the ages of 11 and 30. It can especially affect those from the ages of 14 to 19 and some people continue to experience acne in to adulthood. Hormonal acne is not a read more

The latest Laser Hair Removal technology Excess and unwanted hair is extremely common. Most of us will experience this at some time or another. It can be a real nuisance and sometimes embarrassing, especially if you are a woman who experiences hirsutism or you have particularly course or dark read more

Does Laser Hair Removal hurt? The average woman will spend over £12,000 in her lifetime on hair removal products and treatments, most of which are only very temporary solutions and can be extremely painful! Waxing and epilating involve ripping the hairs out from the root, so you can imagine read more

Ingrown hairs are hairs that have grown up and out of the upper layer of the skin and have curled back around and re-entered at the hair follicle. Ingrown Hairs can happen when the hair follicle becomes clogged with dead skin cells, which blocks the channel of hair growth read more

We live in a fast world. Busy lives, super-innovative technology and great expectations mean that in everything we do we want results and we want them now. In the world of cosmetic treatments, the desire for instant results that last is on the rise and the industry must move read more