Correct Eye Hollows & Dark Circles with Dermal Fillers - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Dark circles beneath the eyes are one of the biggest beauty problems that women face. Waking up in the morning and staring back at dark under-eye hollows in the mirror is never a pretty sight and although they aren't a serious problem, they can make us look older, unhealthy, tired and exhausted. Dark circles under the eyes are a normal occurrence, especially after a night out, a busy day at work or if we have sleep deprivation.

The darkness of the skin beneath the eyes is usually known as dark circles, dark rings or shadows, and they can creep up unannounced as the skin below the eyes is the thinnest and the veins underneath become visible for the slightest reasons. An increased production of melanin make women with darker skin tones more prone to hyperpigmentation around the eyes, where those with lighter skin tones often present dark circles with a reddish or purple hue.

As we age, we notice certain facial changes, and one that's commonly commented on is the dark circles under the lower eyelids, which can make us look tired and older than you really are, and it only gets worse as time goes on. The skin can also lose some of its volume and elasticity and the decrease of collagen production and elastin causes it to becomes thinner, and the loss of fatty tissues can cause a hollow or sunken appearance.

• Loss of volume around the eye area exposes the orbital bone, which can result in a hollowed appearance beneath the eyes.
• Changes in the skin's colour or pigmentation are common among those of African or Asian descent, causing dark circles under the eyes.
• Eye bags and dark circles can also be genetic, and there's a high chance that you could develop it as well, if some of your family have them too.
• Sun exposure can produce excess melanin which can also cause darkening around the eye area.
• Allergies, such as hay fever and cat hair, are common culprits often resulting in a dark purple hue around the eyes. 
• A hectic social life, with late night outs, excess alcohol or smoking, can all temporarily darken the eye area.

Sunken eyes can now be corrected using advanced dermal fillers, which can also help correct the dark shadowing beneath the eyes. Dermal filler not only fills in that hollow area, but it also helps to increase collagen production. The dermal fillers we use are non-animal based, and are extremely safe. We inject the filler into the deeper layers of skin, and over the following weeks will cause rehydration of the skin and underlying tissues, improving and rejuvenating your face.

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Mags.
Clinic Manager.

Rejuvenate Your Skin With a PDO Thread Lift Treatment - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

When we're young and in our prime, the skin on our face is usually smooth and taut but we all grow older, and the worst part of this is seeing the way our face ages. These changes can make us feel self-conscious and many of us would like to turn back time.

It's quite demoralising when we get to an age when our features are no longer as sharp or as defined as they once were. The facial profile suddenly becomes a bit blurry and we notice that our cheekbones are starting to sag down our face, causing the jaw-line to become undefined and the neck starts to look wrinkly.

Collagen is lost over time, making the skin less elastic. This looser skin is gradually pulled downwards, causing the skin around the cheeks to become thinner, and resulting in jowls in the lower face, making us look older. Today's women prefer less invasive and non-invasive treatments that involve less recovery time and less self-care after the treatment.

An ideal cosmetic treatment that will tighten and tone the loose skin, without undergoing an invasive surgical procedure, is a PDO thread lift. This thread lift can deliver what is essentially a face lift, but without the invasive surgery. There are no cuts or incisions, just simple injections which we place in strategic places on the face.

A PDO thread lift will lift loose or sagging skin, improving and rejuvenating the of the structure of the face. PDO threads are inserted into the skin with a very fine needle, either just under the skin, or in the fatty layer just beneath the skin, lifting the tissue and muscle and greatly improving the texture of the skin. It's a minimally invasive treatment achieving tighter, younger looking skin and lasting for up to two years. The threads are absorbable so they don't need removing from the body. Once inserted, they will pull up the jaw-line, lift the cheeks and will reduce the lines around the eyes, nose and mouth, and tighten the neck.

An instant facial lift is often noticeable straight after the treatment, but what's even better, is that the effects will continue to improve for days and weeks afterwards. The PDO threads produce collagen around the threads and the new collagen that's produced, lifts the skin and creates more volume.

PDO threads get inserted all over the face and combine beautifully with dermal fillers to reveal a new, rejuvenated you. Thread lifts are an extremely versatile treatment, they're very simple, safe and almost painless. It's a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure that leaves you with a natural, rejuvenated look.

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Enhance Your Face Using Dermal Filler Treatment - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Anti-ageing treatments for the face are very popular, and dermal filler procedures are one of the most requested at cosmetic clinics. Dermal fillers are an ideal option for those who want to regain their youthful features, improve their facial contours and reduce deep wrinkles. This versatile injectable procedure can plump up, add volume and lift the skin, leaving it smooth, contoured and looking younger.

Our skin stays plump due to the high content of water. The main constituent of dermal fillers is hyaluronic acid, which is a substance that's naturally present in the body, which absorbs moisture and keeps the skin hydrated. If you want to keep your face looking plump, soft and with fewer lines, it's important that your skin stays hydrated.

Jawline refining with dermal filler 

Ways to check your skin's hydration:

• One way to check your skin’s hydration levels is to gently pinch the skin beneath your eyes and release. How quickly it plumps back up, indicates how hydrated and elastic your skin is and the faster it snaps back shows the healthier skin quality.
• Likewise, if you pinch your cheeks and it leaves fine lines, this shows that your skin might be dehydrated or have reduced elasticity.
• You can check the skin around your mouth by puckering up as if you are going to give a kiss, and if fine lines remain once you have released the pout, this could mean less hydration in the skin.

A doctor injects filler under the skin with a fine needle. The procedure is almost painless and any side effects; such as slight redness, mild swelling and tenderness, are minimal. The treatment can last from 20 minutes to an hour, all depending on what areas you're having done. There's no downtime or recovery needed and you can to return to your daily activities straight away.

Dermal fillers benefit:

• The face - as anti-ageing treatments, they soften creases, lines and wrinkles and plump up the skin
• The lips - fillers can reshape, redefine, rejuvenate and rehydrate, giving us a perfect pout
• The cheekbones - restoring facial volume can drastically improve sunken cheeks
• Jawline and chin - they can easily be broadened, re-built and re-shaped using fillers
• Eyes - dermal fillers can fill in the under eye hollows during tear trough treatment
• Overall - when used together, fillers and botox can achieve a non-surgical face lift
• Scars - fillers can improve recessed scars
• Hands - the skin on the hands can look rejuvenated and rehydrated with filler treatment

Dermal fillers used on the nasolabial and marionette lines

Static wrinkles that are visible on a resting face without expression, are ideal for dermal filler treatment. Deflated and sunken areas of the face caused by loss of volume, and can easily be restored using dermal fillers.

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Make Your Face Look Younger With A Botox Brow Lift - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Botox eases the lines and wrinkles on the face, that appear through repetitive facial movements, etching them into the face. The frozen looking face, that some people worry about getting with botox injections, will only happen when too much gets injected. At Selston Cosmetic Clinic, Dr Bassi  has performed thousands of injectable treatments and has over 10 years experience as a specialist cosmetic practitioner and he performs careful and technical exact injections, resulting in a fresh and healthy appearance, not a startled and expressionless look.

As you get older, your brow may drop or sag,  but Botox treatments will allow you to lift the brow, 
giving your face a more youthful look and making you look less tired. A chemical brow lift is a botox injection treatment that can raise the skin tissues around the eyes and eyebrows, to raise the natural eyebrow arch. This treatment can also make the eyes look wider, resulting in a more youthful look. We recommend the brow lifts to those with mild to moderate brow heaviness, due to low-hanging eyebrows or naturally drooping eyelids.

The ‘botox brow lift’, or chemical lift, is a popular procedure for those who have a mild to moderate heaviness in the brow area and don’t want to undergo invasive surgery. We can perform the brow lift on all skin types, and those who have naturally drooping eyelids and low-hanging eyebrows may find it particularly effective. Injecting botox into the brow will literally lift the skin tissues above and around the eyebrows, resulting in the natural eyebrow arch raising a few millimetres higher.

Botox is a non-surgical way to improve the look of your face, it has many benefits:

• When compared to other procedures, botox requires no downtime.
• It's a relatively affordable cosmetic procedure.
• When combined with fillers, it can give your whole face a more youthful look.
• Botox is clinically proven to be safe and effective
• You might be less prone to future wrinkles because your muscles can actually start gravitating toward a more relaxed state after receiving botox injections.
• Botox may help treat chronic migraines, excessive underarm sweating and other conditions.
  It's designed to yield attractive, natural and understated results. Your face will look like your face, only better. 

Botox used in tandem with other injectables can fully rejuvenate the face, leading to reduced wrinkles, plump lips and volumised cheeks, which all work together to soften the effects of age.

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Younger Looking Skin With Laser Skin Rejuvenation Treatment - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Enhanced laser skin rejuvenation treatment is one of the treatments on offer at Selston Cosmetic Clinic, where we use an advanced state of the art laser scope laser system for enhanced skin rejuvenation.

This treatment is a non-invasive laser treatment for fine wrinkles, ageing and sun-damaged skin and is often called the non-surgical face lift. It's non-ablative, so the surface of the skin remains unchanged and there's no healing or recovery time.

Enhanced Laser Skin Rejuvenation Treatment:

• Gives even face colouring
• Gives a youthful glow and a silky feeling skin
• Tightens up the skin
• Plumps up areas such as the cheeks

The gentle lasers reach deep down to the collagen level of the skin, and the precise therapeutic light energy stimulates production of collagen and elastin fibres, improving the tone and texture of the skin and smoothing out facial wrinkles. Slight imperfections, such as pigmentation irregularities e.g. brown sunspots are also corrected and broken blood vessels and red and blue facial veins erased.

The benefits:

• Reduces facial wrinkles and fine lines
• Treats sun damage, including age spots and brown pigmentation
• Improves broken blood vessels, red and blue facial veins
• No recovery time, return to activities immediately
• Safe for face, chest, neck and hands & anywhere sun damage shows

The enhanced laser skin rejuvenation procedure normally takes around 40-60 minutes to perform and we recommend six treatments, spaced 3-4 weeks apart. The treatment effects are cumulative, with optimal results appearing after 4 to 6 months. Most clients experience minimal discomfort when we are delivering the laser pulses, but some may experience a minor stinging sensation on the skin. We can offer topical anaesthetic cream to make the treatments more comfortable.

• Procedure time - 30 minutes
• Treatment course - 6 treatments, each 4 weeks apart
• Back to work - Next day
• Duration of results - 12 months
• Anaesthetic - Local
• Results seen - 4 - 6 weeks

Following your treatment, we recommend that you use sun block daily. There's no down time, and you can wear make up and resume your normal activities immediately. Many clients return to work immediately afterwards, making it an ideal procedure to have done during your lunch time. Occasionally you might experience redness or swelling for a few hours, or on rare occasions, for a few days.

At Selston Cosmetic Clinic, Dr Bassi will discuss your requirements and expectations and recommend a personalised treatment plan. The results this cost-effective treatment can achieve, without the use of needles or cosmetic surgery has delighted both us, and our clients.

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Clinic Manager.

Firmer, Tighter Skin with PDO Thread lifts - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

If you are starting to get a saggy face, with jowls at your jaw and drooping eyelids but feel that you don't want to go to the time and expense of a face lift, then PDO thread lifts is the treatment for you.

Treads being inserted during a PDO thread lift procedure.

PDO thread lifts are really a face lift without surgery, and the procedure itself is very simple as there are no incisions or cuts, just simple injections placed in strategic places. The threads used are Polydioxanone (PDO) which are a synthetic fibre, used in medicine for many years, typically in surgery. Before treatment, local anaesthetic gets injected, which dramatically reduces any discomfort from the injections. The PDO threads are simply inserted into the skin with a very fine needle to lift tissue and muscle and improve skin texture. They dissolve after a certain amount of time in the skin.

When we start to get older we tend to lose the volume in various areas of our face and PDO thread lifts are ideal for loose or sagging skin. The treatment is non-invasive and is done purely with injections. They are extremely versatile and can treat all around the face and neck, treating vertical and horizontal wrinkles on the forehead, drooping cheeks, sagging brows, sagging jaw line, pronounced nasolabial (nose to mouth) and marionette (corner of the mouth to the chin) folds and neck and folds and wrinkles on the chin.

PDO thread lifts can improve

• The horizontal and vertical forehead lines and wrinkles
• A forehead lift
• Sagging eyebrows
• Lower eyelid - bags under the eyes
• Marionette lines
• Jaw line
• Naso-labial folds
• Creased cheeks.

Thread lifts will give the skin an immediate lift, take away fine lines and wrinkles and improve the skin's appearance. They lift and tighten the skin by promoting collagen and elastin and smooth the skin by promoting the formation of hyalauronic acid, which improves skin hydration / moisturisation. PDO threads will dissolve at around 6 months and by this time the collagen will have been rebuilt and the effects will last up to two years.

As with all injectable treatments, bruising can happen after the procedure. The amount of bruising is different from client to client and will also depend on the area being treated. The recovery time for this treatment is usually under a week and you should avoid strenuous exercise for between two to three weeks.

PDO thread lift treatment will improve your skin texture, leaving you with tighter, firmer skin and natural looking results, giving you a refreshed, rejuvenated, youthful look.

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Quick Anti-Ageing Solutions for Rejuvenated Skin at Selston - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Christmas day is getting closer by the minute, and most men, when left to their own devises, can come home after Christmas shopping with predictable, or else some very strange gifts.

A cosmetic procedure can make a fabulous a gift, although maybe not a surprise gift - it’s probably best to speak with your partner first, just to make sure it's something they do want. There are some cosmetic procedures or beauty treatments that are quick to perform and give instant results, making them ideal gifts.

The Image Skincare range is proving extremely popular at Selston Cosmetic Clinic, due to the impressive results people are getting! The range is aimed at ageing and sun damaged skin and it treats acne, rosacea and hyper-pigmentation. Image Skincare is a high quality, affordable skin care product and their aim is simple; cleanse, protect and repair. The brand has something for everyone, and older looking skin can look rejuvenated with the use of these anti-ageing products, which help to treat and prevent wrinkles, fine lines and other signs of ageing.

Image Skincare

Vital C Serum - which is our top seller of the Image range, is a hydrating serum used morning and night under your moisturiser. It's targeted at skin that's dehydrated, has rosacea and is sensitive, stressed or fatigued. It's also good for smokers, travellers and skin that just needs pure moisture!
Image Clear Cell - a medicated acne lotion that's a perfect blend of everything needed for effective improvement.  It kills bacteria, soothes and heals sore, acne lesions. It's safe enough to use up to twice a day and it dramatically clears up the skin in days.
Daily Defense Hydrating Moisturiser SPF30 - which suits dry/dehydrated, as well as sensitive/rosacea prone skin. It's enriched with vitamins and anti-oxidants, as well as green tea as an anti-inflammatory agent. It provides the greatest protection against the ageing effects of the sun, while hydrating the skin.

 

Microdermabrasion - is a non-surgical procedure which treats the face, neck, chest and hands. It's a skin rejuvenating technique, designed to improve the texture and appearance of the skin. Using fine crystals, like a hoover effect all over the skin, it gently and painlessly removes dead and dull cells from the upper layer of the skin, resulting in polished smooth and glowing skin. The results are subtle, resulting in a fresher look, reducing fine lines and acne scarring. It's altogether a brilliant treatment which makes it a lot easier to apply make-up, leaving it feeling smoother and looking healthier. Following the treatment you can immediately return to normal activities.

Semi-permanent make-up - is increasing, especially with those with a busy lifestyle who might not have the time to apply makeup. Semi-permanent make-up will save you time every morning, it's also one of the most effective non-surgical anti-ageing treatments available. Each procedure will enhance your natural features so you can have perfectly shaped brows, defined eyes, enviable eyelashes and beautifully contoured lips - all without having to wear any make-up. We can create a look that's perfect for you, from natural and understated to the obvious and glamorous.

The idea of gifting cosmetic procedures is getting more popular with the younger generation, and booking treatments to have them done during the holiday season is increasing!

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Accent Radiofrequency for Skin Tightening & Firming - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

Accent Radiofrequency is a relatively recent technology, for treatment to the face and body areas that are in need of skin tightening and cellulite reduction. For those who are looking for improvement without needles or an incision, then this is the treatment for you.

We use Accent, either as a stand alone treatment or combined with other treatments to enhance results. It's a great way to tone, tighten and smooth your skin, rejuvenating the firmness of the skin and giving it a look of toned youthfulness.

Radiofrequency is an energy that causes heating by using radio waves. It's a non-surgical skin tightening treatment for the face and body, and is best suited to patients with mild to moderate sagging of facial tissues. It's the heating that causes both the fat cells to disrupt and skin to tighten. By heating the skin to a certain temperature you will improve collagen formation, increase the blood flow and circulation that will strengthen the tissue and improve the texture. This will address skin laxity and the firmness of the skin.

Accent radiofrequency is excellent for:

• Skin Tightening
• Cellulite
• Stretch Marks
• Neck Tightening
• Face Tightening
• Arm Tightening (aka Bingo Wings)
• Lines & Wrinkles

At the start of the procedure we lubricate the skin with massage oil and gently heat it until it reaches 42 degrees. The treatment is likened to a ‘hot massage’ usually with minimal or no pain or discomfort. The Accent treatments can take between 30 to 60 minutes depending on the area being treated. An improvement of cellulite and fat reduction can sometimes be seen after the first session but most people will see a significant improvement after several sessions.

To get a permanent result, it's recommended to have a course of six treatments, four weeks apart, but more might be required depending on the extent of the problem. Collagen reduces as we age, but the good news is we can rebuild it, so the more sessions you have the better the result! It's not an exact science, and you probably should aim for six sessions, and then reassess.

Dr Bassi is a fully trained, very experienced specialist cosmetic Doctor, and has performed thousands of face treatments at Selston Cosmetic Clinic. He has over 10 years of experience as a specialist cosmetic practitioner, delivering outstanding results which are specific to you. Accent is proven in its effectiveness in tightening loose skin, promoting healthy collagen production and improving body shape.

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