Our skin is something of a hero. Protecting our insides from infection, punctures, and a multitude of other potential hazards, most of us don’t treat our skin with the tender loving care that it deserves. With harsh soaps, sun damage, scratches, acne, over-exfoliation, not exfoliating enough, extremes of weather, we only add to the daily …
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When the sun is out, many of us take the opportunity to be out with it, usually baring not-quite-all in order to get that bronzed body. In fact, too many of us will skimp on the sun cream or forego the basic sun safety rules in order to maximise the tanning potential. Others think that …
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Over the years there have been some pretty terrible trends within the beauty, cosmetics, and aesthetics industries. They have often seen celebrities and subsequently, the idolisers of celebrities go to extremes for what was deemed at the time, the perfect look. Amongst some of the worst have been the terrible ‘trout pout’, over-done breast enhancements, …
Queen asked ‘who wants to live forever?’, maybe not that many of us, but if we asked instead, who wants to keep their youthful complexion for as long as they live, everyone’s hand would go up. As well as anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers are one of the most-loved treatments for my patients at KP Aesthetics …
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Oh Botox, that most renowned of anti-wrinkle injections. Over the years it has become the most popular and yet the most publicly discriminated aesthetic treatment. It is given the same treatment as Love Island which welcomed incredible viewing figures of almost 4 million on the first night yet more than half of that number will …
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Ever since the #KylieJennerChallenge, there has been an exponential rise in the number of people looking to get the perfect pout. At the same time, we have witnessed the rise in judgement and misconceptions surrounding lip and dermal filler treatments. As a qualified aesthetic nurse regularly delivering lip fillers to my patients at KP Aesthetics …
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Everyone prepares for the sunny seasons in their own way. For some it will begin with gradual tanning moisturisers (no streaks please!) for others it may be a new hair cut or highlights to give the sun-bleached look; for many clients at KP Aesthetics in Hale, Altrincham, it means having long lasting super smooth skin …
Blue skies, flowers in bloom, temperatures comfortably in their twenties, we seem to have forgotten the spring showers that are so synonymous with the season, and instead we are being treated to an early summer of sun. With the heat creeping up, our layers start to shed as we swap turtlenecks for tank tops and …
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Fine lines and wrinkles, thinning hair, darkness around the eyes and loss of volume are just some of the most common visible signs of ageing – and guess what – there’s no gender distinction here. The stress, the sagging skin, it makes no difference whether we are sporting the XY or XX chromosome, so it …
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For better or for worse, the beauty market moves from trend to trend as often as we do our laundry. We have seen everything from nose hair extensions to halo brows, many of which may have us questioning the sanity of the beauty gurus who bestow these movements upon us. A relative newcomer to the …
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