Marjorie & Marilou Celebrate 5 Years With Us
Our two senior nurses Marilou and Marjorie have both just reached a very special career milestone. We sat them down for a quick Q&A to chat about how they started out and how their journey with TFP is going. You started with us, 5 years ago...
Topping Up the Tan – How Pigmentation is Formed
So, you’re looking forward to getting some rays this summer and working on your tan? Before you make the decision to tan, you might want to consider the consequences. A tan is a defence response - your skin is desperately trying to protect itself. Repeated sun...
PRP For Hair Loss – Q&A With Advanced Senior Nurse Marilou
You’re doing a lot of PRP for hair loss treatments these days. Tell us how it works, in a nutshell For this treatment, we take your blood, concentrate the platelets to make the PRP and then inject it back into areas where hair is thinning. For some PRP treatments we...
Q&A With Our Chief Marketing Officer, Mikayla
As we celebrate 5 year anniversaries for our 3 Ms; Marjorie, Marilou and Mikayla, we sat down with each of them to find out a little more about what their last 5 years at The Face Place have looked like. Not only was it a great opportunity to hear about...
Sunscreen – The Complete Truth
New Zealand sun is the leading cause of premature ageing; dry, crepey, pigmented and wrinkled skin. It's also to blame for New Zealand's most common cancer - skin cancer. Skin Team Leader Lauren breaks down the truth about sunscreen: ingredients (what to look...
Progressive, Not Aggressive
The most positive, long-term changes in the skin come from feeding it with good, topical nutrition. By contrast, treatments that force the skin into repair through trauma without nutritional support will at its worst have a negative outcome and at best have a very...
Team Spotlight: Registered Nurse Camille
Registered nurse Camille Belle started with The Face Place in March of 2020. Here she gives us a little peek into her world. What brought you to The Face Place and a job in cosmetic medicine? I studied nursing with the desire to branch into the...
Collagen – The Glue That Holds us Together
No doubt you have all heard about collagen and the unfortunate news that we have less of it as we age. Why is this? Because existing collagen is broken down significantly by UV, which also inhibits its ability to produce more, and chronological ageing dictates...
Banning Instagram Plastic Surgery Filters – Dr Cat’s Take
We are celebrating the recent move by Instagram to ban plastic surgery filters such as Plastica and FixMe, which created exaggerated features, unrealistically smoothed out skin, and even bruising emulating cosmetic surgery. Not only do these filters glorify...
Hormones And Their Effects On Your Skin
We are generally all aware of changes in the skin due to hormonal fluctuations, but what can we do to counteract these responses? Understanding the skin's response to hormonal changes helps us accept them and be proactive in using the ‘tools’ we have to lessen their...
How ThermiVa Treats A Leaky Bladder
If you suffer from a leaky bladder, you're probably familiar with that feeling of embarrassed trepidation when you get a severe cough, go to a good comedy show, or god forbid, get invited onto the trampoline! If you don't know this feeling, you...
Treating Men With Injectables
The infamous male patient - the patient which every injector would love to treat but doesn’t always have access to! We often find male faces to be anatomically less complex and have fewer 'rules' attached to them. As a bonus, male patients usually like to know the...