Most clients are looking for help to soften a few lines, and shadows; wanting to look fresher, but natural. SkinViva Clinic’s process treatment planning process illustrates four key concepts everyone should know before having treatment. Dr Tim Pearce’s Essential Concepts to Know When Considering a Treatment
To help you get the most from your time with our fabulous SkinViva Aesthetic Clinicians, Dr Tim Pearce has written a guide on ‘Essential Concepts to Know When Considering a Treatment‘.
Artist and scientists have studied the geometry, proportions and attributes of faces that are beautiful for centuries, and there is a consensus as to what constitutes ‘perfect’ proportions. A lot of this work is based on the golden ratio – a proportion found throughout nature in beautiful things, including faces. It is vital that doctors work within this framework to achieve natural looking rejuvenation this client requested.
Our doctors can use these rules to spot areas of potential beautification and rejuvenation. By using the science of beautiful proportions, a more effective treatment plan could be developed than if we had only looked at lines and wrinkles.
Within the blink of an eye, our brains know roughly how old or how beautiful someone is. Our brains are processing vast amounts of information on skin texture, tone, lines, wrinkles, contrast, volume, shape, symmetry and proportion and converting it instantly and unconsciously into a sense. In this case, the hidden gains are only available if a skilled doctor looks for signs in the face that we only usually perceive unconsciously.
Skilled adjustments in all of these factors can produce freshness without the casual observer becoming consciously aware of specific changes. In other words, you look like a fresher or more beautiful version of yourself. The ‘blink concept’ means your friends may notice you looking well, but not notice what exactly has changed – the process happens instantly and unconsciously.
It’s normal to be annoyed by particular lines, and often these are directly treatable. However, chasing one line only, can eventually lead to imbalance.
Our clinicians report this occurring particularly with nose to mouth lines: The crease is the distraction, but in some cases it is the cheek that is the route of the problem – if you address the face holistically, you get a natural looking result, if you just treat a line in isolation, eventually imbalance occurs.
More than 50% of the benefit can come from treating the cheek, rather than direct treatment of the nose-to-mouth line. What is more, if the nose to mouth line had been treated directly, the width of the lower face would have been made broader – at odds with the science of beauty, even if the lines were smoother.
It’s very common for clients to attend consultations and ask for specific treatments. Though they are often correct, intended results are really what the focus of the consultation should be. With the underlying aims defined, the doctor can then use the right tools to increase beauty or freshness in a way that really solves your core concern.
In summary, make sure your treatment is grounded in a scientific understanding of beauty. Make sure that your on-going plan takes your whole face into account. Appreciate the power of the subtle tweak by considering the blink effect- even the unnoticed feature is used by the unconscious brain, so subtle but powerful gains are available to those who appreciate these concepts, and ask for the result instead of the treatment.
