Aesthetics with Aimee

“We always agree on a plan of action.”

Justine left that in her Google review, and I think it says a lot about how an appointment should feel.

I need to understand what you’ve noticed, what you want and what you’re comfortable with. You need to understand why I’m suggesting something - including when my advice is to wait or leave an area alone.

The plan is something we agree together.

If something has changed but you’re unsure where to start, that’s what AWA Facial Analysis is for.

Aimee x

Book AWA Facial Analysis in Studley.
https://partner-uk.pabau.com/online-bookings/aesthetics-with-aimee?category=197600&services=3811285&fallback=true

A profile is more than a jawline.

With jaw and facial contouring, I’m looking at how the chin, jaw and the rest of the face work together - not just treating the line someone points to.

The useful question is what would improve the balance while still looking like you. That starts with assessment, including where treatment may help and where it is better to leave things alone.

Jaw and facial contouring at Aesthetics With Aimee, Studley.

Aimee x

Explore filler / facial balancing appointments.
https://partner-uk.pabau.com/online-bookings/aesthetics-with-aimee?category=197230&fallback=true&serviceType=0

If you remember one thing from this carousel, make it this:

Seeing a result doesn’t prove the expensive serum caused the result — because microneedling itself works.

Microneedles can create microchannels and can improve delivery of molecules that struggle to cross intact skin. That part is biologically plausible and well established as a delivery concept.

But there is a jump between “microchannels exist” and “this exact PN/PDRN product, used this way, reaches the target tissue at a clinically meaningful dose and produces the effect being advertised”.

That jump needs product-specific evidence.

So I am not saying nothing gets through. I am saying the mechanism alone is not enough to prove the marketing claim.

That distinction matters when patients are paying extra for an add-on.

0.7ml. Same face. Just a little more balance. 🤍

This is exactly why real patient before-and-afters matter.

The aim here wasn’t to create a “filler look”. It was to add a little more shape, softness and definition while keeping the result completely in keeping with her face.

Small amounts can make a beautiful difference when the treatment is planned around the person rather than the syringe.

0.7ml lip filler.
Real patient. Real result.

If you like results that still look like you, lip filler appointments can be booked online:
https://partner-uk.pabau.com/online-bookings/aesthetics-with-aimee?category=197230&fallback=true&serviceType=0

PN. PDRN. “Salmon DNA”. Skin boosters. Microneedling add-ons.

The names are everywhere — but the name on the box is only the beginning of the question.

When a product is added to microneedling, I want to know what the molecule actually is, how that formulation is intended to reach the tissue, where it needs to act, and what evidence supports that route.

Because microneedling itself can improve skin. So seeing a result afterwards does not automatically prove the expensive serum caused the result.

This isn’t about saying these ingredients have no value. Polynucleotides are an interesting and developing area of aesthetic medicine, and PDRN has its own regenerative literature. It is about separating a plausible mechanism from proof for a specific product and delivery method.

Over this series I’m going to break that down without the hype — in normal language.

Popular doesn’t mean proven. And patients deserve to understand what they’re paying for.

Save this series if you want the evidence, not just the trend.

I should be able to explain why I am making every treatment decision.

Writing down and explaining each clinical decision makes that very obvious. When you have to explain why you are choosing a point, a product, a depth or a sequence, you cannot hide behind habit. You have to be able to justify the decision.

I think patients deserve the same clarity.

You do not need to understand every technical detail of your treatment, but you should understand what we are trying to improve, why I am recommending a particular route and why I may advise leaving something alone.

That is also why I would rather assess the face in front of me than have you choose a treatment from a menu because Instagram told you that was the answer.

If something has changed but you are not sure what would genuinely help, AWA Facial Analysis is the place to start.

Book via the link in bio.

Aimee x

Kind words like this mean a lot 🤍

“Aimee is such an amicable & clever aesthetician who clearly explained her approach with care & compassion for her clients before, during and post procedure”

— Lucy Chandler, Google review

The part I value most is what sits behind those words: being cared for, having things explained properly and knowing what is happening at each stage.

Thank you, Lucy, for taking the time to leave this.

Aimee x

0.5ml or 1ml?

It sounds like a simple lip-filler question, but the number on the syringe is not the treatment plan.

Two people can have the same amount and get very different results because their starting shape, tissue, proportions and the areas that actually need support are different.

Sometimes 0.5ml is enough. Sometimes 1ml is appropriate. Sometimes neither is the right answer that day.

I would much rather decide the amount from the lip in front of me than promise a volume before I have properly assessed it. And if your priority is subtle, tell me that — the aim is not to ‘use the syringe’. It is to make the smallest sensible change that fits your face and your goal.

Aimee x

If you are thinking about lip filler and want to talk through what would actually suit you, you can book via the link in bio.

Most of the photographs I take in clinic are not content.

They are there to help me compare like with like: where we started, what has changed, how something has settled and what I am actually seeing at review.

Memory is surprisingly unreliable when you are looking at your own face every day. Good clinical photographs give us something much more useful to compare than ‘I think this side looks different’.

A clinical photograph and a social-media post have different jobs. I do not need every appointment to become content.

For me, the camera is first a clinical tool — part of being able to assess, document and review treatment properly.

Aimee x