Specialist Skin Care Treatments in Cork

From your thirties on, your skin makes a little less collagen every year. The structure that supports your cheeks and jawline softens, and lines settle wherever your face moves most. It happens slowly, which is why most people notice it in a photograph rather than a mirror.

What helps depends on how far along it is. Early softening responds well to gradual firming. A more established change along the jawline is where HIFU earns its reputation, because it reaches the layer a surgeon would.

Pigmentation is your skin protecting itself. Sun and inflammation tell it to make extra melanin, and that melanin settles into patches, spots and uneven tone. The difficulty is that different kinds of pigmentation look almost identical and behave quite differently, and treating the wrong one can make it worse.

So we assess before we treat, every time. Once we know what we're looking at, a plan usually pairs in-clinic work with prescribed homecare, and daily SPF protects the result.

Active acne and the marks it leaves are two separate jobs, and the order matters. Inflamed skin needs calming and regulating first. Working on scars while the skin is still flaring achieves little and can prolong it.

Once things have settled, texture is where microneedling does its best work, particularly with exosome serum and LED. We'll tell you which stage you're at rather than suggesting the second step first.

Skin tags, broken capillaries, milia and whiteheads. None of them are serious and most are quick to deal with. Some have been sitting there for years because nobody ever mentioned how simple they are.

We'll take a look at them, tell you what they are and what it takes. If it's something for a doctor rather than us, we'll say that too.

There are two honest answers here and they suit different people. Waxing and threading are quick and last a few weeks. Electrolysis is slower and permanent, and it works on hair of any colour, including the fine, fair and grey hair that laser cannot see.

If laser is the better answer for you, we offer that too and we'll say so.

Usually dehydration, a build-up of dead surface cells, and skin that hasn't had much attention for a while. It's the least serious thing on this page and the most satisfying to brighten.

This is the concern where one appointment can change how you look in photographs, and where we can offer something for the same day rather than in six weeks.