Restraint, stated as a standard.

What we treat

Nine non-surgical treatments, covering movement lines, lost volume and structure, skin quality, scarring and localised fat. Each is offered where it addresses the finding, and declined where it does not. Laxity, volume loss, movement and skin quality are four different problems; treating one of them with the wrong tool is the most common reason a well performed treatment disappoints.

The treatments are set out in full on the treatments page, each with what it changes, who it suits, recovery, aftercare and the circumstances in which it is the wrong choice.

The standards we hold to

In place of badges and figures, the commitments that actually determine how treatment goes.

Assessment before treatment, always

A full facial assessment and medical history before any treatment is proposed. Where a prescription-only medicine is involved, the prescriber assesses you face to face. No exceptions, and no prescribing from a photograph or a form.

A written plan you take away

Areas, sequence, product, quantity, cost and the risks that need a protocol, in writing. Consent is taken after you have had time to read it, not in the same breath.

Conservative first, adjust at review

A first treatment is deliberately light. It is far easier to add at the two-week review than to reverse an overfilled result or wait out a heavy dose of toxin.

A complications protocol, not a promise

Every treatment carries a written protocol for what happens if something goes wrong, a route to reach a clinician out of hours, and for hyaluronic acid filler, access to hyaluronidase and a practitioner competent to use it.

Cost that follows the assessment

No price list, because a number quoted before anyone has looked at your face is a shopping prompt rather than information. A written quotation follows the assessment and states what is included, what is not, and what a complication would cost to manage. What drives cost.

No result photographs, no testimonials

Cosmetic photography can be made dramatically more flattering without editing anything, by changing lighting, angle, distance, expression and make-up alone, so a gallery is a poor basis for a decision. How to read the evidence a clinic shows you sets out what to look for instead.

Regulation in Scotland

Independent clinics in Scotland where the service is provided by a doctor, dentist, nurse, midwife or dental care professional must register with Healthcare Improvement Scotland and are inspected. Practitioners outside those groups fall outside that requirement. Botulinum toxin is a prescription-only medicine and must be prescribed for you individually after a face-to-face assessment. Dermal fillers are regulated as medical devices, so there is currently no general licensing requirement to inject them at all.

Two premises on the same Glasgow street can therefore be working to entirely different standards. The questions that establish which is which apply here as much as anywhere, and you should ask them.

Editorial approach

The treatment pages describe mechanisms, indications, contraindications, recovery, complications and the regulatory position as it stands in the United Kingdom, with Scotland's differences set out where they matter. Where the position is uncertain or changing, that is stated rather than smoothed over. Where a treatment cannot achieve what people commonly hope it will, that is stated too.

Nothing here is medical advice or a substitute for an in-person assessment. Regulation in this field has been moving for several years and the position may have changed since a page was written.

Contact

Enquiries: hello@aestheticlaunchlab.com. This website is operated by Aesthetic Launch Lab and enquiries are handled by them. Please do not send clinical details or photographs by email. If something has gone wrong after a procedure, contact the practitioner who treated you, or NHS 111 in Scotland, rather than waiting for a reply.

Full details are on the contact page.