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Skin, Aesthetics & Healthy Ageing Journal

Evidence-based advice from Dr Caroline Warden, NHS GP and aesthetic doctor in Hale, covering facial ageing, menopause skin, regenerative aesthetics, skincare and natural-looking aesthetic treatments.

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Why Do Some People Struggle to See Their Own Beauty? Self Image, Body Dysmorphia and When Aesthetic Treatment Is Not the Answer

Someone says you look lovely and your eyes go straight to the flaw. A Hale GP and aesthetic doctor explains the psychology of self image, where ordinary self criticism ends and body dysmorphic disorder begins, what the evidence says helps, and why a good aesthetic clinic should sometimes say no.

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What Happens During an Aesthetic Consultation? A Doctor’s Step by Step Guide for Hale and Altrincham

“I don’t want to be sold to” is the first thing most new patients say. A Hale GP and aesthetic doctor explains exactly what happens at a consultation, step by step: how long it takes, what it costs, what to bring, what she is looking at when she looks at your face, the questions worth asking any practitioner, and why the right outcome is sometimes treatment that day, sometimes skincare and sometimes nothing at all.

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