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The Archive.

Everything written before 2022, kept because the answers still hold and because people still search for them. Some of it refers to how we did things at the time. The current answers are on the treatment pages.

Phil and Penny, 2016 to 2021 18 older pieces Back to the Journal

2020

Anti-Ageing

Vitamin A/Retinol

Vitamin A When it comes to skincare, some products are incredibly effective and can change the skin and some do not. This is all about having active ingredients in said products and not…

28 May 2020

Skin Therapy

What does ‘Natural Skincare’ mean?

I am a self-confessed skin nerd, I love it and my passion is for helping people regain their skin confidence, feel great about themselves and watch that inner glow shine through as their…

20 May 2020

2019

Body Contouring

Why do you put weight on too easily after losing it? (And how does fat destruction work?)

Let’s go back to the beginning… Weight Gain When you are young, a typical infant has 5 to 6 billion fat cells. Assuming you maintain a healthy body fat ratio, as a healthy adult you’ll have…

25 November 2019

LaserHairRemoval

Laser Hair Removal, Frequently Asked Questions

Have you ever wanted to find out more about laser hair removal? Our clients always have lots of questions so we thought we would share these with you. Hopefully these will answer any…

31 October 2019

Areola

Areola & Nipple Tattooing Is For Everyone

Understandably, when people hear the words ‘nipple and areola tattooing’, they think of female breast cancer survivors. It may surprise many to learn that nipple and areola tattooing can be…

3 June 2019

Medical Tattoo

Areola Tattooing

Having completed my nipple and areola training this year, I have a wonderful perspective on this treatment. I had already trained in scar reduction, cleft palate lip…

17 March 2019

eyeliner

Hayfever

tattooed eyeliner is a fantastic solution in hay fever season, here at DPC Clinic we offer a full range of styles and colours

17 March 2019

Male

Scalp micropigmentation SMP (Head Hair replication tattooing)

Frequently asked questions Many people are curious about different aspects of this treatment. Perhaps with good reason, to some I’m sure scalp tattooing sounds extreme. Like with most…

28 January 2019

2018

Permanent Makeup

Microblading v Machine Brows

Often in the permanent makeup (I’ll refer to it from here on as PMU) industry, clients & technicians alike will confuse one another with terminology. Allow me to clarify a few common…

15 April 2018

Permanent Makeup

Happiness is……..

There are many rewarding elements to my job, I’ve discussed them in previous blogs but, today I want to talk about the feel good factor for YOU, my clients! Confidence I’ve lost count of…

2 January 2018

2017

Skin Therapy

Chemical Peel, What’s The Deal?

What is a chemical peel? It can conjure images of faces peeling off, we remember Samantha from Sex and the City post ‘refreshing peel’ hiding her face or worse the dreadful images of ‘10…

18 December 2017

Skin Therapy

As One Pore Closes

I am very privileged to meet many men and women from all walks of life in my skin clinic. It truly is one of the most enjoyable parts of my work. Although there is certainly diversity…

24 November 2017

Skin Therapy

What is Digital Microneedling

This is an incredibly popular treatment in my clinic! It really is the next generation of effective, safe and results driven procedures. Microneedling, also known as Skin Needling or…

16 November 2017

Permanent Makeup

Eyebrow Hairloss

Where it grows or more importantly, where it doesn’t…Eyebrow hair… As we age, hair increasingly grows in places which we don’t want it to. Hair also changes colour. We go grey, some…

14 November 2017

Permanent Makeup

Permanent Makeup Eyeliners, Which Style Is For You?

Tattooing around the eye is an interesting treatment and is possibly my favourite. It is the challenge to use a client’s natural feature and to enhance it so if client has narrow or wide…

28 October 2017

Permanent Makeup

Permanent Makeup versus Tattoo Ink

At DPC Clinic we call cosmetic tattooing permanent makeup because we must assume that some residual trace of the pigment ingredients will remain in the skin…

15 October 2017

Skin Therapy

Enlarged Pores

A question I often get asked, ‘Why have I got enlarged pores?’ Did you know in just one square inch of skin we have 20 million cells, 20 blood vessels, 60 hairs, 650 sweat glands, 100…

10 October 2017

Permanent Makeup

Hair Loss & Permanent Makeup

My clients have different reasons for visiting my clinic to receive eyebrow and/or eyeliner tattooing. “I over-plucked them when I was younger”, “The older I got, I just seemed to lose…

3 September 2017