Soften the lines. Keep the expressions.
A consultation for the treatment of lines and wrinkles: honest, unhurried, and built around keeping you looking like you.
When your face says “tired” and you’re not
Over time, the expressions we make every day (concentrating, squinting, laughing) begin to leave their mark: forehead lines, frown lines between the brows, crow’s feet around the eyes. For a lot of people the frustration isn’t vanity; it’s that those lines say “tired” or “cross” when you’re neither.
There is a range of treatment options for softening lines and wrinkles, and the right one depends on your face, your skin, your medical history and the result you actually want. Some options are prescription-only, which means they can only ever be prescribed by an independent prescriber who has examined you in person, at a separate short appointment, every time you are treated. That’s not red tape, it’s what safe practice looks like.
You’ll recognise yourself here
Lines that make you look tired, worried or stern when you’re not
Make-up settling into creases it never used to
You want softening, not freezing: friends should say “you look well”, nothing more
You’ve thought about it for ages but worried about ending up overdone
What happens at your consultation
You’ll sit down with Nicole for a proper conversation: what bothers you, what you’d like to change, your medical history, and what’s realistic. She’ll assess your face at rest and in movement, talk through all the suitable options (including the ones that involve no treatment at all), and give you a clear, written plan with pricing. Then you take time to think. Nothing is ever agreed on the day.
Because the options here are prescription-only, there is a second, shorter appointment on the same day: an appointment with an independent prescriber, who goes through your medical history and medication and confirms the plan you and Nicole have agreed is safe and suitable for you. Nicole is trained and insured to carry out the treatment, but she is not a prescriber, so this examination has to be done in person by someone who is, every time you are treated. It cannot be done remotely. Treatment itself is then booked for a later day.
Sometimes the best advice is “wait”
Softening lines is not right for everyone, and it isn’t a fix for everything. Sometimes skin-quality treatments are the better answer; sometimes the honest advice is to wait. That advice is free, and it’s always genuine, because the only result worth having is the one that’s right for your face.
Asked all the time
Will I look frozen?+
The whole philosophy here is the opposite: soften, don’t switch off. The aim is a rested version of you, with every expression intact.
Does it hurt?+
Most people are surprised how quick and comfortable treatment in this area is. And gentle technique with nervous patients is Nicole’s specialty.
Why can’t I just book a treatment directly?+
Because safe, legal practice for prescription-only options requires a face-to-face consultation and assessment first. A practitioner who offers them without one is cutting a corner you don’t want cut.