Author: Premier Laser

Over the years we have kept a record of the many tattoos we have successfully removed. Here is the list, in no particular order!.

1. Exes name
2. dolphin
3. quotes and spelling mistakes
4. barbed wire
5. stars
6. butterfly
7. Chinese symbols
8. Celtic designs
9. signs of the zodiac
10. fairy

Can you identify with the list? Are you or someone you know guilty of any in the top ten?

Removal or covering your tattoo

Body art has become much more popular in recent years, with celebrities like David Beckham actively showing off their ink and looking fantastic for it. However, for every appreciated and much loved tattoo, there are many that are deeply regretted.

Perhaps they are symbols of emotional scars we want to forget, perhaps they were done on impulse and don’t represent who we are right now – maybe they simply don’t look good or don’t even mean what they were supposed to. With today’s advanced laser you can now have your tattoo removed or faded so you can have it covered.

Advanced laser technology

Previously tattoos could be considered a permanent piece of body art, with no real successful tattoo removal treatments being present on the cosmetic market.

Studies show that more than half of people with three or more tattoos regret at least one of their designs. Yet only one in 20 tattoo fans have had their designs either erased or changed, despite technology making removals far easier.

With innovative technology advances, laser tattoo removal has revolutionised the industry, enabling anyone and everyone with a tattoo they want removed painlessly, effectively and quickly.

Top 10 tattoo regrets

10. Fairy

90’s sensation Britney Spears has a fairy tattoo, as does The World Is Not Enough star Denise Richards. According to this study, it turns out for some, fairies aren’t always so magical.

9. Signs Of The Zodiac

R&B star Rihanna and heroes star Hayden Panettiere both have signs of the zodiac tattoos. Did the horoscopes predict regret for the owners of these mystical tattoos?

8. Celtic Designs

Canadian actor Jay Baruchel has a large Celtic cross design on his arm, as does singer, songwriter and actor Justin Timberlake and gorgeous Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. It looks like the luck of the Irish doesn’t prevent lots of people regretting their own Celtic tattoo designs.

7. Chinese Symbols

David Beckham has them, Megan Fox has them, Justin Bieber has them and Britney Spears has them. They can often be mistaken for something else and are notorious for meaning something different to what the owner thought they meant, for example; Britneys Chinese symbol on her hip was meant to say ‘mysterious’ but it actually means ‘strange’. They were a huge tattoo fad in the 90’s, but the fad is most definitely over for many owners of Chinese symbol tattoo designs with them being the seventh most regrettable tattoo designs in this study.

6. Butterfly

Mariah Carey has one, Vanessa Hudgens has one as does Paris Hilton and Kelly Osbourne, but these pretty insects don’t stay pretty for long according to our study, with them being the sixth most regrettable tattoo design in the study.

5. Stars

Stars became fashionable after super star Rihanna had stars tattooed on her back and behind her ear. Jessica Alba, Avril Lavigne and Sienna Miller also all have star tattoos. But at 5th most regrettable in the study, many owners of star tattoos are wishing upon them to go away.

4. Barbed Wire

Pamela Anderson was most definitely the creator of this 1990’s tattoo fad, with Cheryl Fernandez Versini paying homage to the design incorporating it with a rose on her thigh. Sadly, as the 4th most regrettable design in the study, it most definitely didn’t keep plenty of barbed wire tattoo owner’s feeling like Baywatch Babes for long.

3. A Quote Misspelled From A Different Language

Unfortunately, this tattoo issue is extremely common, and usually only gets discovered after the tattoo has been completed. The most famous case of this happening is with David Beckham who had a Sanskrit tribute to his wife Victoria on his arm, only to find Victoria had been spelt ‘Vihctoria’ – proof this kind of tattoo regret can happen to absolutely anyone.

2. Dolphin

Another 90’s fad, dolphins adorned the shoulders, feet, hips and various other places on peoples skin in the 90’s, but more than a decade later, plenty of dolphin tattoo owners want their marine life art, well and truly released back into the wild.

1. Ex Partner’s Name

The biggest tattoo taboo is having your ex partner’s name inked somewhere on your body. Although tattoos will last forever (without treatment), relationships definitely aren’t always as reliably permanent. Celebrities who have had their exes name tattooed include :

• Angelina Jolie
• Heidi Klum,
• Marc Anthony
• Johnny Depp
• Christina Aguilera
• Kathy Griffin
• Rob Kardashian
• Charlie Sheen
• Denise Richards
• Eva Longoria
• Melanie Griffith

All had ‘ex tattoos’ and opted to have them removed or covered up after they split up.

We have seen a 25% rise in removals over the last two years as more and more people opt to get body art.

A Premier Laser Clinic spokesperson said:

“When your personal life is a volatile as Katie Price’s it is perhaps not the wisest move to have your husband’s name tattooed on your arm. We have had celebrities in our London clinics quietly erasing tattoos of former lovers made in haste. Without a doubt, the most common tattoo that we remove at Premier Laser Clinic is an ex-partner’s name – we would advise people to think long and carefully before inking their lover’s name onto their skin!.

If you do make a mistake and regret having your tattoo whether it’s and exes name or a baby unicorn!, it has never been easier to remove an unwanted tattoo and we can leave the skin looking almost brand new.The procedure is quick and pain-free.”

Next Steps…

if you want to speak to someone about tattoo removal and you live in London near one of our 9 clinics, get in touch for a free consultation

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Introducing Lipotripsy, the latest cellulite and body shaping treatment from Premier Laser. Many people have issues with cellulite, in fact it is thought to affect 80% of women. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that various companies and clinics have tried and failed to produce effective cellulite treatments over the years. With our advanced and innovative approach to cosmetic procedures, we are now proud to present a cellulite treatment that does work – Lipotripsy. It works to reduce cellulite and greatly improve the overall look and health of your skin. The basic science of it is very simple – your skin requires excellent blood flow along with consistent levels of fat to be healthy – Lipotripsy increases blood flow and perfusion within the skin.

Continue reading “Lipotripsy – The Next Generation Treatment That Has Everyone Talking”

Everyone has a past, and for most it’s easy to move on from it, forget about it and move forward. However, for some people, they are reminded of their past every single day, in the form of a permanent tattoo. Tattoos that might be an impulse decision, that may have been done badly by a negligent tattoo artist, or tattoos that remind us of a person or time we have moved on from.

Everyone and anyone can get regrets about their body art. Your average person working in a 9-5 job, all the way up to celebrities and royalty, like Princess Sofia – no one is immune to potential regret.

Continue reading “Princess Sofia Had Laser Tattoo Removal”

Summer in the UK is in full swing, and it’s actually a pretty good one so far (more than one afternoon of sun!). So it’s time to bare the flesh and be summer ready for early evening barbecues, trips to the seaside and of course that all important holiday where sunshine and good times are guaranteed.

By now it’s likely you’ve scrubbed up, put on the fake tan and tried to tone up a little in a desperate attempt to be beach ready – but why go through all that extra effort when Premier Laser can do all the work for you? We have a great selection of body beautifying treatments that will help improve your looks and your confidence, giving you that all important beach ready glow.

Here are just a few of the aesthetic treatments we offer at Premier Laser;

Continue reading “Aesthetic Procedures For A Body Perfect Summer”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since celebrities became a ‘thing’ people have always tried to emulate their look, beauty regimes and style. These days with social media and celebrity magazines, we are constantly flooded with the latest pictures of celebrities on holiday, at star studded events and even just walking their dog, which means there’s even more inspiration for us to take from the things they do and use to look so incredible.

You would think every celebrity had the bank balance to opt for the most expensive lotions and potions, and they probably do, but you’d be surprised to know a lot of them have some shockingly cheap and simple beauty routines and products affordable to all of us.

So what are the unusual & cheap celebrity beauty hacks we don’t know about?

Eye Cream As Face Cream

According to the Daily Mail, Beyonce “applies eye cream all over her face instead of using standard moisturiser”. Which actually makes sense, because eye cream is generally lighter and more easily absorbed than standard face cream. Although this is a simple hack, it’s probably not something to follow if your eye cream is expensive – the tubes and tubs are tiny so you’ll look great, but your bank balance will be empty!

Kale

Kale is definitely a big hit at the moment, with people juicing it, steaming it and consuming it in raw salads. It’s the humble superfood that causes everyone and anyone to go ‘Kale Yeah!’. Mr Weatherford, advisor to singer Rhianna and model Karlie Kloss states that “it’s important to nourish the body from within” – (Daily Mail). And it makes sense – true health comes from within, so if you want your skin to naturally glow – eat the right foods.

Mayo Hair Dip

Hair can become extremely brittle at the ends when you don’t have regular trims, or when you colour or bleach it regularly. According to Blake lively her Mum used to – “put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower. That way, when she would shampoo, the soap wouldn’t strip the bottom of the hair and dry it out, making it brittle.” – (Daily Mail). According to the same article, it’s a tip she still follows today which shows sometimes Mums do know best!

Apple Cider Vinegar Toner

Lots of celebrities will try and be eco-friendly and stick to more natural beauty regimes where possible. They might have access to all the most expensive products, but that doesn’t necessarily mean those products are the best. According to the Daily Mail – “Scarlett Johansson decided to seek a natural way to keep her porcelain skin clear and glowing.”.  Apple cider vinegar might not smell very nice, but it’s only around 80p a bottle from a well known supermarket, and have you seen her skin? Perfection.

Strawberry Teeth Whitening

Catherine Zeta Jones is a home grown beauty from Wales and it looks like her beauty solutions are pretty home grown as well. In a recent Now interview she stated – “‘I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth – they always look polished afterwards,If there aren’t any apples in the fruit bowl, a strawberry will suffice.The juice or pulp of strawberries contains malic acid which serves as an astringent and can lighten surface stains.”. – (Daily Mail). So there you have it, save yourself hundreds avoiding laser teeth whitening and nosh on some of Britain’s red dimpled favourites to get that A lister smile!

Ground Coffee

In an interview with Cosmopolitan Halle Berry said that she likes to mix ground coffee and body wash together to create a detoxifying scrub. Although it might sound odd to some, this isn’t actually that crazy. When you drink coffee it is known to cause cellulite but when you apply it directly to the skin, it has the opposite effect as it contains lots of useful antioxidants that help drain the lymphatic system and flush out those pesky dimples.

Loofah Hair Smoother

If you thought straighteners were the only way to get Gwyneth’s poker straight locks, you were wrong. According to the Daily Mail – “Gwyneth’s hairdresser apparently wraps her damp hair around the sponge before blasting it with a hairdryer to tame loose fly-aways.”.

Loo Roll Armpit Mops

One of the worst things that can happen when you go on a night out is you sweat on the journey and start off your evening with ugly sweat patches on your dress. Nobody can walk that look off with confidence. Jessica Biel told Elle – “In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I’ll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don’t soil the delicate dress fabric.” – (Daily Mail). It’s a novel way to keep sweat ruining your look but we sure don’t fancy catching the number 28 into town with loo roll under our pits!

So there you have it, a few wacky and wonderful beauty hacks from those at the top of their game. Will you be using a loofah to straighten your hair? Or are you planning on dipping your hair in mayo when you get a shower later? We say, do whatever works for you, we love the sound of Halle’s coffee scrub but we’ll be sticking to drinking our Soy Hazelnut Latte for now.

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Are you looking for cleaner, clearer, younger looking skin? Then we have the perfect solution for you. Here at Premier Laser we have an incredible new treatment available in our Soho clinic called Skinbreeze, designed to provide our clients with the latest innovative, skin resurfacing technology.

What Is Skinbreeze?

Skinbreeze is a salon based, skin resurfacing treatment that combines LED light therapy, O2 infusion, and Orbital Microdermabrasion. The Orbital Dermabrasion reduces fine lines and blemishes gently and effectively. The LED light therapy neutralises bacteria and reduces redness. And the O2 product infusion increases the skin’s absorption of all the high quality Skinbreeze products used on your skin throughout the treatment. Skinbreeze is a thorough and detailed 3 step treatment using groundbreaking techniques to obtain optimum results.

What Does Skinbreeze Treat?

Skinbreeze is an innovative treatment able to freshen, brighten and smooth all skin types. It can effectively treat or significantly improve:

• Wound healing
• Inflammation of the skin
• Lines and wrinkles
• Acne
• Stretch marks
• Sun damage
• Age spots
• Dry skin

What Are The Benefits Of Skinbreeze?

Skinbreeze has many benefits for all skin types and is a fantastic choice for anyone looking for a significant improvement in the appearance of their skin. The main benefits of the treatment are:

Anti Ageing

Skinbreeze combats the signs of ageing and helps improve under eye dark circles, wrinkles and fine lines

Skin Brightening

Skinbreeze actively brightens your entire complexion, reducing redness, balancing out the overall tone of the skin, reducing discolouration and pigmentation

It’s Needle Free

No need for a needle with Skinbreeze which means it’s a fabulous and effective alternative to cosmetic injections like fillers

Hydration

Skinbreeze hydrates the skin by replenishing any moisture loss

Combatting Sun Damage

Skinbreeze effectively calms, soothes and repairs sun damage

Smoking Lines

Skinbreeze softens smokers lines, improving the common lip lines associated with smoking. The treatment plumps the skin, contributing to fuller looking lips

Hands

Skinbreeze helps diminish age spots on the hands, evens out the skin tone and intensively moisturises hands leaving them looking plumper, smoother and younger looking

A Step By Step Overview

Skinbreeze involves a 3 step treatment which takes approximately 60 minutes in total.

Step 1

Our treatment begins with gentle Orbital Dermabrasion and LED light therapy. We use silicon carbide coated tips which come in three different levels of coarseness depending on your skin type. The orbital microdermabrasion treatment can be used with 20 different speed settings, which means we can tailor its use to the different areas of your skin, and to your skin type ensuring a bespoke treatment and optimum results for your individual needs.

The tips gently exfoliate the skin whilst the blue and red LED lights help the skin recover from the signs of day to day skin damage, ageing and sun damage. The lasers also help stimulate collagen production.

Step 2

Following your Orbital Microdermabrasion treatment we deliver a Skinbreeze serum to your skin using a high pressure O2 infusion technique. The O2 infusion enables the serum to penetrate deeply into the skin, reducing fine lines and wrinkles and producing a firmer, plumper appearance. After this treatment we use an air powered spray gun which delivers a fine mist of hydrating serum to the skin, reviving it, cooling it and refreshing it.

Step 3

The last phase of the treatment is a Skinbreeze Hydro Mask which is placed on the skin for 20 minutes whilst we massage your skin using an orbital ebrasor. The ebrasor gently massages the face encouraging any excess fluids to drain towards the lymph nodes which will reduce any residual puffiness.

If you’re interested in our latest innovative Skinbreeze treatment, please don’t hesitate to give us a call, we’re excited to talk to you about this wonderful new service on offer right now at our Soho clinic.

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As women, we all have certain times of the day we feel our best. Some of us are morning people and simply glow in the AM, some of us are night owls and feel the most energetic of an evening. But regardless of how we feel, when do we look our best?

A poll of a thousand women completed by London Premier Laser showed that women look their best at precisely 10.06AM on a Monday morning. Who knew?

The day we all dread, the start of the working week when we’re still getting over our weekend sins is when we hit our beauty peak. Definitely good to know when we’re morbidly sipping coffee questioning our ‘unorganised chic’ office attire grimacing thinking of the week ahead.

The poll showed that:

• 10.06AM is when we’re most likely to get chatting with colleagues at the start of the week
• Women feel their lowest at 4.05PM on a Thursday
• Between 9AM and 11AM is when we’re at our ‘beauty peak’
• 31 per cent of women consider Monday their favourite day of the week (which shows how many of us love our careers)
• 23 percent of us consider Friday our favourite day of the week (no need for explanation there!)
• 72 percent of women like to ‘hit the ground running’ when it comes to their beauty routine

If you’re not a morning person it might surprise you to see you’re at your most gorgeous around an hour after you start work and your least gorgeous in the afternoon.

But if you think about it, by late afternoon most days you’re probably more than ready to go home, coming down from your afternoon chocolate sugar hit and in need of a makeup refreshment. So it actually makes sense.

And by Thursday afternoon when we feel our lowest, most of us have the weight of the week on our shoulders and the poll shows, that it shows in our face.

If you want to glow all the time and don’t want the time of day to dictate your WOW factor, here are three beauty boosting complexion treatments you could try:

The Vampire Facelift

We’ve all heard about it, but who has actually tried it? Well the vampire facelift has proven to be a popular facial treatments at London Premier Laser , why? Because it’s not as grim as it sounds! It only takes up to an hour, uses your own blood, there’s no recovery time and it can lead to smoother, brighter skin. Quick enough to fit into your lunch break on maybe…Thursday?

Vitamin C Rejuvenation Peel

We know vitamin C is good for us, but did you know it’s 20 times better for your skin applied directly than when you eat it? That’s why the vitamin c rejuvenation peel treatment is so popular. It’s basically a gentle exfoliation treatment from London Premier Laser using pharmaceutical grade Vitamin C, Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids and fruit enzymes. Sounds great right? It is! It can help with acne, sensitive skin, dry skin, older skin and even Rosacea. Plus, while it’s doing it’s magic on your skin you get a shoulder and scalp massage thrown in – all in less than an hour. Makes the skin brighter, younger looking, more refreshed and the results last up to 6-8 weeks.

Obagi Blue Peel Radiance

Sound exotic? That’s because it is! The Obagi Blue Peel Radiance is so exotic in fact it could give you that 10.06AM Monday morning feeling all day every day for months! It’s a quick, salicylic acid-based peel available from London Premier Laser and is suitable for all skin types, helps with acne scarring, photodamage, melasma as well as contributing to smoother, younger looking skin. Takes up to an hour, has little to no downtime and results can last up to 4-6 months.

So remember, when you’re feeling your worst after a weekend of fun, when the clock hits 10.06AM you might not feel great, but you look fabulous! Want that 10.06AM feeling all day every day? Consider some facial treatments from London Premier Laser.