Dealing with Unhappy Customers Dear Cosmetic Courses, Please help: I recently treated two patients (friends of mine) with Botox and they both left happy. 5 weeks later they called me wanting a top up. I would usually review up to 3 weeks after but I’d like your advice on this: should I just give them a […]
Report by Libby Stewart, Cosmetic Courses Trainer The on-going training of our professional team is very important to us here at Cosmetic Courses. In order to keep delivering the best to our delegates, trainers Libby Stewart and Ruth Atkins yesterday attended a day on skin health and diagnosing and treating acne and rosacea The meeting […]
Falling inline with the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the GDC have now issued guidelines against remote prescribing of Botox by dentists. In fact, the statement issued in October forebade remote prescribing for the provision of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in any form. The prescription or administration of Botox or injectable cosmetic […]
Coming to the UK for Cosmetic Training Courses? If you live in a country outside the UK and have decided to embark upon a career in medical aesthetics, you are probably well aware already that an English certificate in Medical Aesthetics (Botulinum Toxin, Dermal Fillers and other techniques like Genuine Dermaroller Therapy) is seen as, […]
There was a really interesting LinkedIn Aesthetics & Beauty Group thread recently about how best to deal with clients with rosacea. We thought this discussion could be of benefit to our delegates at Cosmetic Courses as it is a relatively common ailment presented in clinic and quite tricky to deal with. As a potential contraindication, […]
Advanced Medical Aesthetic Training So you have completed your Foundation Level Introduction to Botulinum Toxin and Dermal Fillers. You’ve gone away and practiced all you learned and now you’re chomping at the bit to discover more techniques, right? An Advanced Cosmetic Training Course is the ideal way to pick your basic skills up a level […]
There is a one vertical Procerus muscle and two Corrugator muscles that cause wrinkles and frowning in the area between the eyebrows. The frotanus muscle runs upwards from the bridge of the nose and inserts into the skin. Muscle fibres run upwards along the muscle and, when they contract, this produces shortening of the muscle […]
Latest developments in facial rejuvenation surgery Non-surgical skin treatments and surgical facial procedures often go hand-in-hand. The former, if begun early enough, can be a preventative to ward off the necessity for the latter until much later. Or, they can be used to compliment each other: there is little point a patient saving up and […]
The main factors that age the skin are sun damage, active lines (wrinkles), gravitational change from ageing and volume loss. Each of these should be treated independently to produce a harmonious youthful appearance to the face. Prevention is always better than cure and preventing sun damage is very important as this will maintain the quality of the […]
Question : Dear Cosmetic Courses, I did the basic course with you a while ago and wondered if you can give me some advice please. I saw a patient recently who received Evolance in her lips a year ago from another clinic. She now has hard lumps in her lips (collagen I presume). She asked […]
