This post contains all the information you need to know about how our move will affect your training or gold, silver or charity day treatments.

GOLD Clinics

These will still be with Tracy and we are able to confirm that all the same treatments will be offered along with some new ones.  The price of some of her treatments will be reduced and clinic hours will be extended to offer more evening appointments.  You will soon be able to book appointments online by visiting www.cosmeticaskinclinic.co.uk/goldbooking

Charity Days

These will still predominantly be with Tracy under the same terms and conditions for prices and charity donations.  You will soon be able to book appointments online by visiting www.cosmeticaskinclinic.co.uk/charitybooking

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In his latest BBC documentary, Dr Michael Mosley investigates the benefits of consuming your own blood as despite years of research the regenerative properties of blood are only just beginning to be exploited.

Whilst eating sausages containing your own blood might not be to everyones taste, the benefits of blood are well know within the aesthetics industry and are utilised in the Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) or ‘Vampire Facelift’ treatment.

Along with Thread Lift treatments, the Vampire Facelift is one of the most talked about treatments currently on the aesthetics market and is an amazing addition to any cosmetic clinic.

During the treatment a small volume of the patient’s blood is taken and then separated in a centrifuge. The platelets and plasma can then be injected into scars and wrinkles providing amazing results for patients.

Our one-day PRP training course is available to all doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives and costs just £295+VAT.

Medical professionals are highly qualified to undertake a wide range of foundation and advanced cosmetic courses, whilst training can be easily sought, setting up a business may not always be as easy to some.  The cost of training initially can be expensive and this is recognised by Cosmetica Training.  We have therefore produced a variety of business in  a box offers that will help you recoup the cost of your training fee meaning you could receive Botox training free of charge.

When undertaking our chemical peel course at a cost of £450 + VAT , you will receive a 4 peel TCA kit free of charge that will enable you to earn £600 undertaking 1 peel on 4 patients or 1 course of 4 peels on 1 patient that you will charge £550 for.

Booking our dermaroller course for just £415 + VAT, will give you 2 dermarollers for which you can earn a total of £500. For delegates who wish to book both chemical peel and dermaroller training, a multiple course booking discount of 10% will be applied, allowing you to train in both procedures for just £778 + VAT.  You will still be eligible to receive both business in a box kits allowing you to earn up to £1100.

The same benefits can be achieved from booking onto our botox and dermal filler training course.  The business in a box for this course consists of all the consumables you would need to undertake your first few dermal filler and Botox treatments, as well as a syringe of Juvederm Ultra, a vial of Azzalure and a vial of Botox * The products in this business in a box can earn you up to £1050.

*terms and conditions apply

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.

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.

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.