Start with the finding rather than the device. If you are not sure which of texture, pigment, redness or skin quality describes your concern, read the guide on choosing a clinic first.

Treatment
The most reliable low-risk texture treatment, and the one most often undermined by home devices.
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Treatment
Microneedling with heat added. More remodelling, more downtime, considerably more operator dependency.
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Treatment
Controlled injury with a century of clinical history. Depth and skin type decide everything.
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Treatment
The most powerful resurfacing available, and the least forgiving of a careless assessment.
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Treatment
Four different conditions wearing one word. Getting the diagnosis wrong here is expensive and sometimes permanent.
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Treatment
Two problems, in strict order. Active acne is a medical condition; scarring is a staged programme.
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Treatment
A medical condition first and a cosmetic one second. The order matters more here than anywhere.
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Treatment
Hydration delivered into the skin rather than onto it. Useful where resurfacing is risky.
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Treatment
A newer category with genuine promise and marketing that has already outrun the evidence.
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Treatment
Prepared from your own blood in the same appointment. The variability between clinics is the whole story.
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Treatment
The best version of an event treatment. Real, immediate, and temporary by design.
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Read the treatment you had in mind, then read the section on what it does not treat. A large share of disappointment in skin work comes from a well performed procedure applied to the wrong finding, and that is a diagnostic failure rather than a technical one.
Then read how to choose a skin clinic and how to read results. Between them they cover most of what determines whether a course of treatment is worth what you pay for it.
Nearly every disappointing skin result starts with the wrong problem being treated. This site exists so that you can work out what you are actually looking at before anyone points a device at it, and so that you know which questions a good clinic will welcome.
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.