If you suddenly had £1,000 to drop on tweaking your face – how would you spend it? What might give you the best results?
Alice Hart-Davis asks some of TTG’s expert practitioners including Dr John their opinions on what would give you the best result for your £1k wad of cash…
Lasers, says Dr John Quinn
First thing is, £1k will buy you more outside of London says Dr John Quinn so if they want to spend their money wisely, consider that.
Regenerative medicine (aka treatments that help your body work better) is also a big buzzword at the moment, much as I love evidence and hate trends. In terms of lasers, they have the benefit of giving long-term regenerative improvement, and any laser treatment will give you younger skin, simple as that.
If I had £1,000 to spend I would probably aim for something like Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) or Laser Genesis, or a course of non-ablative laser. £1,000 is enough to have a full course of four or five sessions of any one of those, which will definitely improve your skin.
Which to choose? ‘It depends on your specific concern,’ says Dr Quinn. ‘If you are menopausal and flushing and red, why would you not have something like intense pulsed light? The Lumenis M22, is my favourite. If your issue is more about texture and benign sun damage, then you might think about the Lutronic LaseMD, it’s a fractional, non-ablative laser that really gets results. And if you’re younger and your skin is more oily, then the Cutera Laser Genesis is a very nice option.’
Is there anything else apart from laser that Dr Quinn would recommend? ‘If patients are under 45, with lots of collagen, it’s easy to work on and bank that collagen with radiofrequency,’ he says. ‘I’ll often recommend a good old-fashioned radiofrequency treatment like Exilis before moving on to anything else, it’s great for skin tightening.’
And should people spend any spare change on sunscreen? ‘Absolutely,’ says Dr Quinn. ‘100%!.
(ALICE HART-DAVIS, 2024)