Botox, fillers, lasers, peels…everything you’ve ever wanted to know about non-surgical cosmetic procedures, by the woman who has tried them all. If you are curious about tweakments and you want independent,
unbiased advice on which ones do what, and how – this is the book you need. Would facial fillers, wrinkle relaxing injections or ultrasound treatment work for you? What does a treatment feel like? How much would it cost, how do you avoid looking overdone and how do you find a good, safe practitioner and avoid the cowboys?
Alice Hart-Davis is a journalist and aesthetics industry expert who has spent 20 years investigating the fastmoving and confusing world of tweakments. She and has trialled countless procedures to review them, attends aesthetics conferences around the world and spends a lot of time catching up with the doctors, surgeons, dentists, nurses and the companies behind the technology, the better to understand the tweakments on offer.
This book is for:
Anyone who is curious about what they might do to help keep their face looking as fresh and youthful as they’d like it to look.
Anyone who has looked in the mirror and realise your face needs more help than you can give it through skincare, diet, and getting more sleep.
Anyone who doesn’t know where to start in this complicated and highly confusing area.
Anyone who wants to know what all their options are when it comes to cosmetic treatments, and who wants unbiased advice to help them work out which procedures might work best for them.
This book will tell you everything you need to know about the following topics:
Why your skin and your face look the way they do as you get older.
What you can do with skincare to help improve your complexion.
Which tweakments — from high-tech facials to lasers, Botox, injectable fillers, and thread lifts — can help with which particular concerns, and how well they work.
What it is like to experience one of these treatments, by someone who has tried it, and whether you will need any ‘downtime’ after a particular treatment.
What the treatments cost, and where to find them.
How to find a good practitioner.
How to avoid things going wrong — but what to do if they do.
Which home-use devices can help and which ones work best.
This book is organised by describing the main concerns about the face, then explaining the ways that these can be improved — first with skincare and then with various different types of tweakments.
It explains the technology behind each tweakment and reviews many of the tweakments, to provide an idea of what each procedure actually involves, what it feels like to have it done, and what sort of results it gives.
The chapters are organised by each concern, such as ‘Dynamic’ lines and wrinkles, skin texture, uneven pigmentation (the age spots that result from sun damage or are hormone-related), thread veins, rosacea and redness, pores, and acne spots, loss of volume, sagging skin.
It then explains there are lots of different ways to treat each of those concerns covering treatments such as injections of wrinkle-relaxing toxins such as Botox; medical needling, laser resurfacing, under-the-skin moisturising injections, laser and intense pulsed light treatment, skin peels, microneedling, injectable fillers, radiofrequency, ultrasound, laser, and heat-based skin tightening; thread lifts.
There’s also a list of the most commonly offered tweakments in ‘The Basic Recipe for a Fresher Face’
to give you an idea of the procedures a cosmetic practitioner might suggest, and in what order.
Visit www.thetweakmentsguide.com for more information.
Table of Content
Introduction: Who This Book Is For and Why I Wrote It
Part 1: The Lowdown
Chapter 1: Tweakments — What They Are and What They Aren’t
Chapter 2: What Sort of Changes Do You Want to Make?
Chapter 3: Finding the Best Practitioner for You
Chapter 4: Entry-Level Tweakments: ‘Facials with Benefits’
Chapter 5: Home-Use Devices
Part 2: The Tweakments
Chapter 6: Managing Lines and Wrinkles on the Forehead
Chapter 7: Smoothing the Texture of Dry, Rough Skin
Chapter 8: Softening Pigmentation
Chapter 9: Minimising Thread Veins, Rosacea and Redness, Large Pores, Acne
Chapter 10: Reshaping the Face with Fillers
Chapter 11: Tightening Sagging Skin
Chapter 12: What About the Neck and Décolletage?
List of Treatment Reviews
Hydrafacial
Intraceuticals
CACI Synergy
The Face Gym Signature Electrical Workout
Radiofrequency Skin Tightening: The Venus Freeze Facial
Marie Reynolds: the Masterlift
Crystal Clear COMCIT Elite
i S Clinical Fire & Ice Facial
The Light Salon: Near Infra-Red Light Therapy
The TT Facial
Skin Laundry Laser and IPL Facial
Skin Matters Facial with IPL or Laser
Debbie Thomas Laser Facial
Clarisonic Smart Profile Uplift
The Microcurrent Machine: Nu Face Trinity Toning Device.
The Lip Plumper: Pmd Kiss
Glo Pro Microstimulation Facial Tool
The Facial Shrink-Wrapper: The Tripollar Stop.
The Skin-Tightening Laser: Tria
The Collagen-Boosting LED Light Device: the Photizio Blush
The Light Mask for Crow’s Feet Wrinkles: Dr Dennis Gross Spectralite Mask
The Spot-Buster: Neutrogena Visibly Clear Light Therapy Acne Mask
Botox in the Forehead
The Gold-Standard Tweakment: Botox to Relax Muscles and Soften Lines
Tixel Skin Tightening and Resurfacing
The Neo Strata Retinol peel
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment
Dermaroller
Dermaplaning
Laser Genesis
Laser Skin Rejuvenation with the Pico Way Resolve
Radiofrequency Skin Resurfacing with Endy Med FSR and Endy Med Intensif
Profhilo
Juvederm Volite
Restylane Skinboosters
Mesotherapy
Clearing Pigmentation and Age Spots with IPL
Clearing Pigmentation with Laser: Fraxel Treatment
Removing Thread Veins with Fotona Laser
Reducing Skin Redness with the VBeam Perfecta Laser
Dr Joney de Souza’s Pore Patrol
What Do These Hyaluronic Acid Fillers Do, and Where Are They Used?
Pros and Cons of Hyaluronic Acid Fillers
Pros and Cons of ‘Stimulating’ Fillers
Under-Eye Injectable HA Fillers for Hollow Eyes
Instant Cheek Volumising to Reduce Nose-to-Mouth Lines with Hyaluronic Acid Fillers
Gradual Cheek Revolumising with Sculptra
Fillerina Lip Plumping Gel
Perk — the Non-Invasive Lip Treatment
Full Lip Enhancement
Minimal Treatment to Improve Lip Symmetry
Anti-Ageing Lip Treatment
Lip Hydration with Cannula
Botox for the Marionette Lines That Pull the Face Down
Non-Surgical Nose Reshaping
Facial Redesign with 10ml of Filler
Ping Radiofrequency Eye-lift
Tightening wrinkled, sagging lower eye lids with Plexr
Thermage Radiofrequncy Skin Tightening
Intracel
Ultherapy Skin Lifting and Tightening
Midface Thread Lift
Fat Freezing with Coolsculpting
Ultherapy
Botox for the Neck
Restylane Skinboosters for Crepey Decolletage
Ultrawon Ultrasound Tightening
The Moisture Jab – Profhilo with Aliaxin for the Neck