Filming for our new videos for the Cosmetica Training website took place on 23^rd July during our Botox training course and dermal filler course, shooting footage of the practical training session as well as the business presentation.  We were fortunate to receive 8 testimonials from our delegates that day also.  The delegates were asked a number of
questions based on why they chose Cosmetica for their Botox training course,
how did they find the e-learning aspect of the course, what were the highlights
of the day and would they recommend our Botox courses to others and if so why.

Part two of the filming took place on Wednesday 27^th
July with our presenter Alex Leigh  talking to camera about the benefits of our Botox courses and providing information for models who wish to have a cost price Botox or dermal filler treatment.

The production company we used, Insight Moving Images, who we found to be professional, knowledgeable and managed the whole day
successfully.   After an initial visit to our site to ascertain the specific lighting requirements and placement of their equipment during the day, was carried out to enable a smooth, seamless filming session with little to no disturbance to the training session.

Our new website will be live within the next few weeks to include a video clip on each page of the Cosmetica Training website.  This will allow all users of our website to view the short, informative clips giving information about our aesthetic training courses and to view our clinical training centre.

To book any of our courses call us on 0845 467 7732, we will need your registration number for GDC, GMC or NMC as well as seeing photographic identification on the day of your course.  Courses can be booked for a £100 deposit with final balances due 4 weeks before the start of the course or payment in full by credit or debit card.

When we look at NHS prescribing we constantly hear “prescribe generically” so that the pharmacist can choose to dispense the most competitively priced medicine.  Patients have their favourite and will probably continue to ask for their favourite medicinal product rather than allow the budget to decide what they should take.

Is it true for products in aesthetic medicine? Botulinum toxins are the most commonly used prescription only medicine within the aesthetics industry. If you were to show this picture to the general public they would probably all state it was an injection of Botox.

Allergan have cashed in on the use of the word Botox and whilst there are other toxins, Dysport and Xeomin on the market, are we right to still call them all Botox? Dypsort, manufactured by Ipsen, has been given unfair reports of how it spreads more and leads to unnecessary ptosis. What controls the amount of spread is the amount of diluent that is used; as the more diluent used to mix the toxin with, the greater the volume that is injected and the greater the spread of the product around the injection site.

So what does lead aesthetic practitioners to use the toxin that they use?  Is it marketing support from the manufacturer, incentives by the company reps, keeping to the toxin that they trained in or just simply down to the pricing structure?  Practitioners want to offer a safe product, one that will achieve the results and be safe to use but also one that will offer an acceptable profit margin.

According to the BNF, toxin prices range from £64 to £154 although discounts can be applied to multiple purchases. Price matching is also available through various pharmacies such as Wigmore price matching against Church Pharmacy for the purchase of Azzalure. In short, in the private sector, medical professionals can choose to prescribe by brand to favour one toxin over another, patient preference should be considered however, but often the brand of toxin used may be down to injector preference and they may call the toxin that they use Botox even though it may be Dysport or Xeomin that is used.

After four weeks of renovation, our premises in Mossley Hill, Liverpool is finally completed. Cosmetica Training was established in October 2007, training medical professionals in the administration of certain cosmetic procedures. Around this time, our courses taught by our highly experienced tutors, were held in business suites and conference rooms in luxury hotels, but due to the progressive growth over four years and a strong need for a clinical environment we decided to open a purpose built training centre.

After finding a large building complex on Allerton Road, we began work to update the interior from a dated set of offices to a modern clinical environment. The renovation varied from painting ceilings to relaying floors to moving walls, all of which contributed to a newer, fresher look throughout our premises.

Now that all of our construction has been completed, the grand opening of our dedicated training centre will occur on 6^th September 2011, although our Botox, Dermal Filler and Dermaroller courses will run monthly from 23^rd July.

If you partake in one of our highly acknowledged courses, you will be trained in the administration of products produced by Allergan, Galderma and Aestheticare to name a few; you will receive our promotional materials, be able to access our ‘Business in a Box’, which gives you all the consumables and products you need to treat new clients, allowing you to earn a minimum of £550; you will be safe in the knowledge that our teaching is one of the fully approved courses recommended by the medical insurance company Hamillton Fraser and you will also receive CPD accreditation.

Places on our cosmetic courses fill up quickly, so if you have the appropriate qualifications and are keen to attend Botox courses, Dermal Fillers courses to administer fillers such as Juvederm, or train to do Chemical Peels, Dermaroller or LNI, please reserve your place today. For further information, see our booking page .

As a medical professional you may wish to enter the aesthetics industry to be able to administer a wide range of non surgical treatments.  You will have spent time googling which company to go for to make sure it meets your needs before, during and after completion of your training. If a professional, indepth course that allows you a vast amount of injection experience is your top priority then look no further than us, Cosmetica Training.

We cater for both foundation and advanced botox training courses and dermal filler courses as well as other aesthetic courses that can improve the texture of the skin to enable you to holistically treat your future patients.

Our location is based in a fully equipped and dedicated clinical training centre and is easily accessible from the all over the UK. It has also been reported today that Liverpool is listed second as the city that offers visitors value for money.  The research factored in accommodation in a 4* hotel, food, drink and local transportation.

You can not only start your aesthetics career in a purpose built clinical training centre but also enjoy Liverpool’s culture and vibrant nightlife at a competitive cost too for those wishing to stay overnight.  We are able to source local accommodation and arrange transfers for delegates who request this at the time of booking, all associated charges will be billed to the delegate.

Chemical skin peels are a highly sought after treatment and any practitioner wishing to undertake them need to ensure they book on the right training course.  You need to ascertain which type of peels you wish to do and what sort of down time the patient is going to go through following the treatment.

There are superficial salicylic acids, glycolic acids and the more popular trichloroacetic acid. Dr Philippe Deprez is the man behind the Easy TCA Skin Tech range which is used by many practitioners world wide, it is easy to use and achieves the desired results with different protocols available for varying conditions.

Taking America and many other countries by storm is the prescription strength products from Dr Zein Obagi.  With a 15 % and 20 % TCA, their Blue peel achieves controlled penetration to either a superficial depth or penetrating deeper to the papillary or reticular dermis.  The Obagi line is not matched by any other medical range we have seen and is reflected in the price tag.

The blue peel allows for 3 clinical end points as a guide to show the depth the peel has reached, 2 of which are frosting and epidermal sliding. A papillary peel will mean a down time of around 5 – 7 days duration following a 6 week skin preparation course.  The active ingredients of Obagi Nu Derm should be stopped around 4 days prior to having the blue peel and should be gradually introduced following the blue peel application.

The risk of post inflammatory pigmentation is reduced with the blue peel due to the preparation and continual use of the Obagi range, making this peel suitable for any skin type.

Our new Cosmetica clinic sees the launch of the Obagi blue peel which is available from our trained medical staff. For prices and further information please contact us on 0845 467 7732.

Throughout the years we have seen systems come and go that are supposed to make our lives as an aesthetic injector easy, but we are yet to use a system that delivers the ease, speed and comfort that we can achieve in daily clinics using expertise and topical or local anaesthetic.

We remained sceptical when we heard of the new Artiste system by Nordson Micromedics.  We were approached to see if we were interested in utilising this system during our botox and dermal filler training courses, our initial thoughts were that we could not see it fit into our company although it may be of interest to our tutors.

Upon delivery of the system, it was easy to assemble and to use with fool proof instructions.  The old Juvederm Ultra syringes do not fit the hand pieces, however all other syringes can be accommodated by the different hand pieces that are available.

The pressure gauge is easily changed to adjust to the different thickness of dermal fillers that are to be injected and the higher the pressure the faster the flow.  The system would be suitable for use by all although great care and skill is still required to ensure the right injection depth is gained.  it is also suitable to those practitioners that prefer to inject quickly or at a slower pace.

Booked into our Cosmetica clinic today we had lip augmentations, peri oral lines, oral commissures and liquid face lifts.  50 % of the patients were injected manually and the remaining patients were injected using the Artiste system.  All patients had topical anaesthetic applied for 30 minutes prior to treatment and were asked to score the treatmetn on a pain scale of 1 – 10, the lower the number equating to a pain free treatment.

Those patients injected manually assessed their pain scale as 6 – 7 whereas the patients injected with the Artiste system stated their pain scale was around a 3. All patients had been injected previously and the Artiste group had previously been inejcted manually and made a comparison of the manual inejction being a pain scale of an average of 6 out of 10.

As well as the comfort scale we noted that each syringe of dermal filler lasted longer than we would normally expect when using manual skills yet achieved the same results.

The positives of using the system are the economisation of the product and the comfort of the patient but does this outweigh the negatives?  We could only really find 2, firstly the price £3000 + VAT and the treatment time was extended reducing the profit margin that can be expected.  In time you may be able to shorten the injection time and we will monitor this throughout the next few weeks.

We do not think it would be a system we could use on our basic courses in view of the fact that new aesthetic practitioners may not be able to justify the price tag.  However, it is something that we would use in clinic, in our advanced courses and we would recommend that all injectors trial this sytem.

The media love to cover how celebrities are having fillers, botox and face lifts trying to highlight when possible where it has “gone wrong”.  Photographs of unnatural looking lips, swollen faces and tell tale bruising are adorned across the pages of gossip magazines, sometimes suggesting that natural is better.  However, they also imply that we should try to achieve perfection; that we, as men and women of today, should aspire to have flawless skin, a radiant smile and look forever youthful.  They portray that no matter what age, people should always look younger and try to prevent the ageing process.

In a ‘news’ page of a weekly magazine, two well known age defying stars, were featured looking less taut than they normally do. Said celebrities, both around the 50 year age mark, are known for holding back the tell tale signs of their age, are more often than not, are praised for their youthful appearance. They will not deny any rumours of cosmetic surgery or beauty enhancing treatments, but  unfortunately, they are also subjected to criticisms stating that they should focus less on maintaining their young looks. Nevertheless, when these stars go out without makeup on, with faint wrinkles in view, they become a theme of gossip.  A 50 year old non-celeb is free to walk around au naturale and be free of judgemental  glances, but the famous are criticized for their lines, that are often the result of genetics.

Over time, as the media and entertainment world increases in size, A Listers have become one of the main topics of conversation in our everyday life.  Everywhere we look, there are magazines that feature celebrities on the covers. But more often than not, the cover stories are based on their appearance. Why is it that our society today appears to care more for how actors look then the films they appear in? If it was not for their talent, we would not be aware of these icons, so why do we choose to discuss their looks, and more specifically their ageing?

Things are progressing with our new training centre, the furniture is being delivered and being stored until Jeff completes the new flooring and the decor has been completed. The completion date is 12th July which will enable us to run our first course from our new clinical environment.

We have pleasure in announcing that no VAT will be charged on any courses booked in July*, if you have a registration with any of the governing bodies that we recognise and accept, you can book your botox course and dermal filler course for just £695. Any course booked after 1st August will incur VAT at the current rate of 20%. The 30% reduction offer on our course is applicable to any combined course throughout the year providing it is booked in July. 

If you cannot attend our aesthetic course on 23rd July why not book for 3rd September? At the end of the week we can work within our offices again and will upload our 2012 course dates to the website ensuring you can benefit from this fantastic offer throughout 2012 also.  Once you have booked your botox training course why not further your learning with our skin peel training ? Skin peel allow you to address issues that cannot be eradicated by fillers and botox alone.

*limited to 15 courses only

As many of you are aware we have been making vast changes to our new training centre where we will be offering botox courses from a clinical environment on a full time basis in the heart of Liverpool.  Our new location has previous links to the world famous band the Beatles, is a short distance from Penny Lane and less than 2 miles from the end of the M62 motorway making us highly accessible from any location within the UK.

In conjunction with our new aesthetic and  botox training course location we are offering huge savings off the normal price of our courses.  Why not take advantage of our 30% off discount, enabling you to train in both dermal fillers and  at a cost of just £695, a saving of £300 .  Spaces are limited and the offer is only valid for bookings received until the end of July

We are only able to offer dermal filler and Botox courses to those with a medical qualification, namely Doctors, Dentists, Nurses and Paramedics in. Each application will be checked with their governing body before acceptance onto any of our courses.

The first training date to take place at our new training centre will be Saturday 23rd July and we have 26 models booked in for treatment of 33 indications. If you meet our acceptance criteria why not book a place on line now or call us on 0845 467 7732 from Friday 1st July when we can gain access to our offices again?  This week continues to see our entire first floor and stairwell being fitted with clinical grade wood fx flooring which will limit our access to the second floor on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th June.

We have it drummed into us from an early age from the beauty counters to cleanse tone and moisturise.  We are sold day creams, night creams, eye serums, creams with SPF15 and any other anti-ageing craze the beauty industry comes up with. Is this regime doing our skin more harm than good? Do we need to use moisturiser at all? Ask the majority of people and the answer will be a resounding “yes of course you need to use moisturiser”, but do we?

We have always promoted the fact that if your skin is healthy you do not need a moisturiser. According to a recent course update an explanation was given as to why we do not actually need a topical moisturiser. Our body has the ability to hydrate itself and if your skin is healthy we should avoid using moisturiser at all.  If you look at the Obagi skin care range, there is actually no moisturiser in their kit yet all their users have beautifully healthy and young looking skin. When first using their Nu-Derm kit the skin goes through a period of “down time” which the effects can be reduced by using http://nygoodhealth.com/product/propecia/ moisturiser, however, in using the moisturiser you will put yourself back a few steps in achieving healthy skin.

The top layer of the epidermis is the stratum corneum, in these skin cells there are levels of natural moisturizing factor produced by filaggrins. The NMF is responsible for maintaining hydration of the skin, when there is a lack of moisture, NMF is produced by the body.  However, when we do as we are told and falsely hydrate our skin with moisturiser our own production of NMF is slowed down as we trick our body into thinking it is well hydrated. With continued false hydration our body ceases to produce NMF as it relies on the moisturiser to hydrate the skin. 

This has a marked effect on our protective layer and can be seen when we do not apply moisturiser, the skin becomes, dry, tight and flaky.  If you were to stop using moisturiser your body would naturally start to produce NMF although it may take a few weeks for this to happen. Do you think you can you stop using moisturiser?