A Kind of Magic Aesthetics

✨ THE WAND IS OFFICIALLY ON CHARGE 🪄🔋✈️ ✨

Just a little heads up to all of my lovely clients that as of tomorrow, 6th September, I am officially on annual leave! 🥳☀️

After what feels like approximately 472 years of working, studying, being a Mum, running a business and generally surviving on chaos, carnage and caffeine… I am FINALLY switching off and heading away with my kids and family for some very much needed family time. 🥹❤️

You all know how much I absolutely LOVE my job and how ridiculously dedicated I am to my clinic, and you — I will squeeze people in, work until midnight, reply at stupid o’clock and generally perform minor miracles to look after you all 😂🪄

But even magic needs recharging occasionally, so for the next couple of weeks the wand is officially on charge while I put the phone down, be present with my family and enjoy the memories we’ve worked so bloody hard for 🥰

My next day back in clinic is Friday 25th September and then normal magical service will resume. 💉✨

Messages may still be answered while I’m away because, realistically, I know who I am 😂 BUT replies will be much slower than usual, so please don’t panic if you don’t hear back from me straight away.

Thank you, as always, for keeping me so unbelievably busy and allowing me to do a job I genuinely adore 🩷

Now please behave yourselves while I’m gone.

No emergencies.
No faffing with your faces.
No booking your Botox the day before an event.
And absolutely NO “any chance you can just squeeze me in?” from 3,000 miles away 😂😭

See you all on the other side — hopefully rested (hilarious), running purely on Mickey Mouse shaped food items, with a blood type of Gatorade, and with a fully recharged wand ready to get back to work 🪄🔋✈️☀️🩷

I really do love you all!

Danielle 🪄
A Kind of Magic Aesthetics

I will NEVER not get ridiculously excited by results like this...and then to see the confidence oozing from this gorgeous lady, just absolutely tops it for me 😭

Love love love that this is my job 🫶🏻

Grateful every day that this is my life. Thank you universe, and thank you me 🥰

Danielle 💋
A Kind of Magic Aesthetics

Client selfies from the most gorgeous human 🫶🏻

PMU Lip Blush & previous lip augmentation using dermal filler, done by me 🥰

Love love love!

Danielle McGill 💋
A Kind of Magic Aesthetics

Facebook memories properly got me today!

10 years ago today, I posted to announce that I finally had my engagement ring...

We'd actually been planning to get engaged for a while, but I remember being apprehensive about telling people because of some of the toxic people I had around me at the time.

And isn't that sad?

Looking back at that post a decade later makes me really sad for the Danielle who wrote it… but it also makes me incredibly proud of the Danielle I see in the mirror today.

And, admittedly, it makes me laugh a little when I think about some of the absolutely vile humans I allowed to have such a huge influence over my life back then — and how glad I am that they no longer have a seat at my table.

I won't get into all of the weird, bizarre s**t that person and others did, because we'd be here until next Thursday. 😂 But put it this way…

Sometimes the people who are supposed to love you the most see you at your most vulnerable and, sadly, instead of wanting to protect you through it, they secretly thrive on it. And boy do I have some weird stories to tell on how they thrived! You wouldn't even believe me if I told you!

And I didn't understand that then. How lucky I am to not understand how people like that could exist?!

When I look at my soulmate today and think about everything we've been through together, I feel nothing but love and admiration.

Two weeks before I married Sean, I was 34 weeks pregnant, my Dad was in the last few months of his life, and my "best friend" and maid of honour told me, in her exact words, "I have to tell you that I think you'd be stupid if you married Sean."

The same maid of honour who then stood up and made a speech at our wedding. The same maid of honour who controlled every aspect in the lead up to, and day of my wedding, to the point it didn't feel like my wedding at all, and part of the reason that we are getting married again in 2028.

Looking back now, I can see just how toxic, controlling and frankly fu***ng bizarre that "friendship" was. At the time, I couldn't. I was living through some of the most devastating periods of my life, intertwined with moments that should also have been some of my happiest, and I had people around me who somehow managed to make even those moments feel heavy (and about them).

But do you know who was still there?

Sean.

And 10 years after that post, he still is.

Have we achieved everything we want to achieve? No.

Do we still have a ridiculous number of plans, dreams and things we want to do? Yes.

Has life thrown an absolutely unreasonable amount of s**t at us? Also yes. 😂

But through every single version of our life together, have we remained consistent in the fact that, when everything else falls away, we have each other?

Yes. Every. Single. Time.

And seeing that post today and remembering the people I had around me during some of the most vulnerable years of my life really made me realise just how far I've come, and how far we have come, despite the sabateurs.

Because 12 years, 4 kids, approximately 700 dogs, a million different versions of ourselves, some absolutely horrific times and some fu***ng incredible ones later…

I'm still sat here with this plonker by my side, and he is still utterly obsessed with me (which I pretend that I hate, but I secretly love)❤️

And I couldn't be prouder of us.

But I'm also really proud of me.

Because you really are a product of your environment, and one of the biggest things I've learned as I've got older is that you have to love yourself enough to be incredibly selective about who gets access to you. It's been hard getting rid of the toxic people, but the universe has given me a few nudges along the way, and what a difference!

Love yourself enough to walk away from people who only seem comfortable with you when you're struggling.

Love yourself enough to stop shrinking your happiness because you're worried about somebody else's reaction to it.

Love yourself enough that it doesn't matter who doesn't.

Love yourself to still be you, even when someone tells you that you're too much, your laugh is annoying, you're too loud, or that they 'hope they're never like you' (yes, these are all things these people said to me...)

Because ultimately, the moment you stop needing acceptance from people who benefit from keeping you small is the moment you give yourself permission to grow.

10 years ago, Danielle was nervous to tell people she had an engagement ring.

Today, she's looking around at the life she built with the man she was apparently "stupid" to marry…

And I think she did alright. ❤️💍

Danielle 💋
A Kind of Magic Aesthetics

which sunbed shops would you beautiful human beans recommend in Washington?

Thank you in advance 😘

Danielle 💋
A Kind of Magic Aesthetics