As we stride into 2025, let’s leave behind some aesthetic trends and practices that have no place in a safe, ethical, and evidence-based industry.

🚫 “Needle-Free” Pens
These high-pressure devices, used by beauty therapists to inject fillers and skin boosters,  are dangerous and unregulated with lumpy results . Even the FDA has issued warnings about this device.

🚫 Brazilian Butt Lifts
Dubbed the world’s most dangerous cosmetic procedure, BBLs have the highest fatality rate in aesthetics. This procedure should only be performed by a specialist plastic surgeon.

🚫 “Lemon Bottle”
It is against SA law for beauty therapists to inject anything, let alone a fat dissolving lipolytics. These high risk injections lack any scientific backing, and complications abound.

🚫 Overfilled Pillow Faces
“Pillow faces” are officially out of fashion. Fillers should enhance, not announce. The best injectable is undetectable.

🚫 Non-Doctor-Run “IV Bars”
This is a hard pass. IV treatments can cause anaphylaxis and be fatal if improperly administered. A doctor must be present & nurses require supervision. And no, you can’t just pick your “cocktail” off a menu.

🚫 Special Offers
Let’s leave unethical advertising of specials, sales, and prices on medicines and devices in the past! Doctors, make it your new years  resolution to brush up on HPCSA guidelines and play by the rules.

🚫 Alienisation
Snatched jawlines, platform cheeks, pinched noses, cat-like eyes—if you’re channelling an alien movie character, it’s time to rethink your aesthetic goals.

🚫 Deceptive Photography
Manipulated lighting, angles, focal length, filters, and makeup to make after photos look better? It’s not a good look—for the doctor. Credibility matters more than clever editing.

🩺Here’s to 2025!
Let’s leave these outdated and risky practices behind and embrace a new year of safe, ethical, and evidence-based aesthetics.

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