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Beauty clinics cash in on 'Love Island' jabs by hijacking branding - Mirror Online Posted: 22 Jun 2019 11:54 AM PDT Beauty clinics are ripping off the Love Island brand to tempt TV fans into buying package deals for Botox and cosmetic fillers, a Sunday Mirror investigation has found. We uncovered scores of social media posts using the ITV2 show's logo, catchphrases and pictures of current stars such as Maura Higgins, 28, and Molly-Mae Hague, 19. Girls and young women are lured by "special deals" which expire when the summer series ends. Some – with no connection whatsoever to the show – offer the "Love Island look" while many plug discounts for treatments dubbed the "Love Island Package" or "Pamper". It is feared impressionable young fans may feel pressured to have lip-plumping and anti-ageing injections without researching them. MYA Cosmetic Surgery was banned from advertising in this year's series after its breast enhancement ads shown during episodes in 2018 were ruled "irresponsible" and "harmful" by the Advertising Standards Authority. Ashton Collins, director of non-surgical treatment regulator Save Face, warned: "Love Island promotes a very specific look by casting women who have undergone cosmetic treatments. "It is no small wonder so many women already under a constant and relentless pressure to conform to an idealised version of beauty go on to seek out cosmetic treatments. "This has created a huge window for unscrupulous practitioners who take to social media to exploit young women. Social media is flooded with posts promoting treatments using hashtags like #loveislandlips and #loveislandlook which are used to target young girls with cheap deals and packaged treatments. "These posts are sometimes by people who set themselves up as providers without relevant training and insurance, and who often source cheap products over the internet with no idea of their safety or efficacy." There is no suggestion that any of the clinics we contacted fall into this category, but Love Island does not officially endorse any of them. Non-surgical procedures, such as Botox and fillers, account for nine out of 10 beauty procedures and are worth £2.75billion a year to the industry. Save Face – which has a register of accredited practitioners – received 934 complaints last year over procedures gone wrong. We found dozens of ads by searching for hashtags like "Love Island" or "Love Island look" on Facebook and Instagram . Skin Therapy – a chain of clinics across the North East of England – posted "before and after" photos of current contestant Maura alongside official Love Island branding and the caption: "The difference lip fillers can make. Complete Game Changer... Book in NOW for your FREE consultation." Love Islander Molly-Mae's photo was used in a post by Dr Nina Bal, who spoke of a "perfect example of a heart-shaped face". Circled areas denoted how fillers would help others achieve the look. The blurb was posted on a profile linked to Facial Sculpting clinic in London. Another clinic, Aesthetics by Jenna, in Stoke-on-Trent, said clients would save £280 if they bought lip and mouth injections in a £250 "Love Island offer" – and used the show's logo. An ad by Hollywood Aesthetics, in Leicester, promoted four areas of filler for £400 and promised: "This package will last the entire time Love Island is on TV!" ADL Aesthetics, in Leeds, posted an ad for lip fillers and fat-freezing. Its "Love Island Pamper" package had the show's branding and was listed on Facebook marketplace. And an ad for The Salon in Gloucester claimed to have a £130 filler "as used by Love Island stars". Some of the show's former stars have been open about using injectables and social media to plug clinics. Megan Barton-Hanson, 25, shared a video of herself getting fillers in her jaw. Olivia Attwood , 28, admitted she had filler in her top lip dissolved after going "too far" over six years. We contacted the clinics for comment – and there is no suggestion that their practitioners are unqualified. Hollywood Aesthetics declined to talk. Aesthetics by Jenna said: "We'd never want to make anyone feel targeted. Every client has to be at least 18, provide ID and sign a consent, which includes mental health questions." Dr Nina Bal insisted her post was intended to "educate the public". She said: "I am a qualified medical practitioner and a member of Save Face for three years, where I have 'Excellence Status'. "My posts were certainly not urging anybody to do anything." She said she does not treat anyone under 18 or vulnerable and insists on pre-treatment consultations. |
Why I loathe my daughter's Love Island lips - Daily Mail Posted: 22 Jun 2019 02:00 PM PDT It took Maggie Williams all of a few seconds to realise, with a queasy sense of unease, that there was something strangely different about her daughter Sophie's face. It was December last year, a few days before Christmas. Maggie, a 52-year-old boutique owner from Torquay, had arrived, excitedly, at the railway station to collect her elder child whom she hadn't seen for months due to her busy marketing career in London. In recent years – as any parent would – she'd felt a slight discomfort at her 25-year-old daughter's Instagram page full of glamorous selfies, some of them showing her in swimwear. Maggie Williams and her daughter Sophie, who succumbed to the allure of cosmetic medicine, and had her lips 'done' Maggie consoled herself by deciding that this was just normal for girls her age. However, this was different. 'It was her lips,' recalls Maggie, visibly wincing at the memory. 'They were just… so big. I actually wanted to cry out, "Oh God, help!" In the end, I managed to ask, calmly, "What have you done to yourself?" 'I tried to keep my cool, but I was actually on the verge of tears. She's my beautiful girl. She didn't need to do this to herself.' Like rocketing numbers of perfectly attractive young women, Sophie had succumbed to the allure of cosmetic medicine, and had her lips 'done'. The augmentation procedure involves injections of a viscous gel – known as a filler – which sits beneath the delicate skin of the lips, adding volume. First developed to treat facial wasting in AIDS patients, the jabs were quickly adopted as a cosmetic 'rejuvenation' procedure. Today, record numbers of teens and twentysomethings in Britain opt for treatments (Pictured left: Sophie before the treatment. Right: Sophie afterwards) Older women opted for the treatments to restore the plump pout of youth that is naturally lost with age. But today, record numbers of teens and twentysomethings in Britain opt for treatments, alongside anti-wrinkle jab Botox – not to make them look younger, but to radically alter the shape and proportions of their faces. Many youngsters are being driven by pressure to look good in selfies uploaded to social media sites such as Instagram, which can grossly magnify any perceived flaw. And hit shows like ITV2's Love Island – currently on our screens in its fifth season – mean pouting, pillowy lips are increasingly a coveted commodity among both the show's female contestants, and the show's 3.3 million viewers. For older women, a discreet 'nip and tuck' would have been something admitted in confidence only to close friends, if at all. Today's reality TV stars wear their extreme makeovers as a badge of honour – and one Love Island contestant, Megan Barton-Hanson, 25, was reported to have spent £40,000 on cosmetic procedures, having had her first visit to a clinic at the age of 14. Such is the concern about the influence of these shows, earlier this month The Royal Society of Public Health called for a ban on giving fillers to those under 18. Sophie, however, is delighted with her new look – and says 'at least half' of her friends have undergone similar tweaks. She says: 'Every generation has its trends and with my generation, having cosmetic surgery has absolutely become the norm. 'Ten years ago, I'd never have said I'd do it. Now, it's cheap, it's readily available, it's a quick fix and it instantly makes you look and feel better. 'The question is: why wouldn't I do it?' The look: Love Island contestant Anna Vakili in an Instagram picture A 'GOLDEN TICKET' TO A GLAMOROUS LIFE The cosmetic injectables industry is big business, estimated to be worth £2.75 billion in the UK – 75 per cent of the value of the entire cosmetic surgery sector. These are only estimates because the true picture is not known as the market is unregulated. Yet plastic surgeon Rajiv Grover, a former president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, worries that shows such as Love Island are tantamount to 'brainwashing', and imply to viewers that fillers and implants offer a 'golden ticket' to a glamorous lifestyle, without warning of the serious potential consequences of such procedures. The risks of filler treatments, if carried out badly, include pain, swelling, bruising and infection. Lumps known as granulomas can form in around one third of all cases, which can be difficult to remove and cause lips to appear deformed. In rare, worst-case scenarios, fillers injected accidentally into blood vessels can cause blockages that restrict the blood supply to other tissues. American medical regulator the Food and Drug Administration has warned this can lead to stroke, vision problems and permanent facial disfigurement. Yet social media and reality TV are, apparently, more influential than real life. Sophie, who lives in Clapham, South London, openly admits that Instagram helped to drive her own decision. But she claims the procedures – the first of which she had on her 25th birthday in September 2018, and cost £350 – have given her new confidence. She was so happy with the result of her initial lip enhancement, she went back three months later for more, spending £270. Sophie wants additional fillers when the effect dissipates in three months' time. 'I'm so much more confident and love the way it looks in photographs,' Sophie says. 'I'll never stop getting it done. 'The Instagram trend for fuller lips has definitely influenced me, absolutely. My job marketing brands involves me spending a lot of time on Instagram and I work every day with models, bloggers and social media influencers. 'I spend hours on the site flicking through pictures. I follow a lot of beautiful women – not so much the Love Island girls – and models like Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley.' She adds: 'I've always been self-conscious about my teeth after having braces when I was younger, and my thin top lip. I felt I had this gummy smile, and wouldn't smile in pictures. Now I don't worry, and I'm always happy to be in a selfie.' There is a difficult conflict, of course, between the ideals of the #MeToo generation – who want to avoid the sexual objectification of women – and the results of such cosmetic work which, it could be argued, is entirely designed to make women look more sexually alluring. But Sophie claims: 'All women feel the pressure to look sexy, of course. Those models on Instagram with huge lips… men see them as the ideal woman. So, I want to be seen as attractive, with that pouty smile you know guys like. 'But I did it for myself, for my own confidence and not for how some guy would perceive me.' Maggie sees it differently, though. 'I understand having her lips done has been a big confidence boost, and as a mum you just want your kids to be happy. Sophie is so bright. She has a first class degree with honours and a good job. 'I disagree with this whole look. It's like girls all want to appear the same – the same hair, and clothes and now faces. No one wants to be an individual any more.' HIGH STREET CHAIN TARGETED STUDENTS Last August, high street chemist Superdrug – a former sponsor of Love Island – drew criticism when it started offering Botox and lip jabs in stores. Yet the retailer was just one of many. Today, specially created Love Island-themed Botox and fillers packages are also being offered by cosmetic clinics, while adverts for such procedures – combined with images of women with so-called 'perfect' lips – are widespread on Instagram. One chain, Kavas Cosmetics, which has 27 branches across the UK, targeted youngsters on Facebook last September by offering 'Freshers competitions': free treatments to those who enter with a valid student card. The same company is currently offering 'Love Island' discount packages for those who book filler procedures at the same time as a fake tan or manicure. Last year, Love Island itself was rapped by regulators for featuring a cosmetic surgery clinic during advert breaks. Little wonder, then, that it is young women who are succumbing – a report by cosmetic surgery directory WhatClinic.com found 42 per cent of visitors to lip augmentation pages were aged 18 to 24. It was on social media that Sophie discovered her own practitioner, Dr Krystyna Wilczynski, a dental surgeon with training in facial aesthetics. The appointment took 45 minutes, and involved a numbing cream being added to her lips before the injections, mostly to her top lip, were administered. 'Now I send Dr Krystyna a selfie of my lips regularly to check when she thinks I need them done again,' she said. The injections aren't permanent and the effects wear off so 'topping up' is needed. But, over time, it can lead to the skin being over-stretched, and scarring and hardened tissue at the site of injections which, if the treatment is stopped, can ironically cause the face to appear even older. It is, for Maggie, her biggest fear. 'I do get scared because, basically, she's putting poison into her body,' she says. 'She was perfect the way she was. 'And what will happen in a few years time, once these things have been inside their bodies for a while? We just don't know.' Surgeon Mr Grover says: 'These treatments were originally brought on to the market to restore youth in older people. With age, the lips and cheeks lose volume so fillers can inject that back. 'But in young people who already have full lips, fillers create deformity. Many of these girls' lips look like sausages. 'Young people want to look good on Instagram but the tragedy is it doesn't look good in real life. In fact, they'd look better without it.' Plastic surgeon Nigel Mercer, who chairs the steering group for the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, said the mental health condition body dysmorphia – an obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body or appearance is severely flawed – is now 'a significant issue' affecting young women. 'This Instagram look is obviously a fashion statement, and how we've got to a stage where people think it's attractive is hard to understand,' he said. 'There's very little information out there about the drivers that push this market and it's obvious that people aren't being screened adequately to make sure they are psychologically fit to undergo a medical procedure that alters their appearance. 'Of course, a reputable doctor will turn a patient away if they have unrealistic expectations, or if they're asking for something that could essentially leave them looking worse. 'But there will always be someone prepared to perform the procedures. 'One in 20 women now self-harm, and this is pretty much the same – we all have a responsibility to keep it in check.' Maggie seems resigned to her daughter's choice, but is concerned. 'I worry that once people start down this road, they get hooked,' she says. 'It's up to her, of course, but I'd rather she'd never started.' |
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Game Changers: Meet Scientist and Synergie Skin’s Founder Terri Vinson - Women Love Tech Posted: 21 Jun 2019 11:54 PM PDT Synergie Skin founder Terri Vinson is a self-confessed "science nerd" and "beauty tragic." Her brand, Synergie Skin, has won a legion of fans since she founded it in 2005. As a scientist with a passion for cosmetic chemistry, Terri recognised the importance of skincare that combined clean ingredients with scientific innovation. With a degree in immunology and the microbiology of cells, Terri completed her post-graduate study in formulating chemistry. After working as a teacher, she then became an educator and formulator for a cosmetic company. She realised consumers are aware more than ever about potentially harmful ingredients, but equally says great skincare "has to have grunt, and it has to be backed by clinical data." Her aim was to empower consumers with a scientific understanding of the products they use. "To me, clean beauty should use the very best of both science and nature in synergy," Terri explains. "Harnessing the positive attributes from both will result in a product that produces the best results with the highest safety profile." From the outset, Terri's aim was to deliver"Clean Science" to skincare consumers: something that is defined by research, intelligent formulations, and a mindful approach to beauty. From skincare to mineral makeup, Terri's Synergie Skincare range is free from parabens, phthalates, SLS, PEGs, Propylene glycol, artificial colours, synthetic fragrances, talc, and dimethicone. Importantly, they are effective because they contain potent Vitamin A blends and high-grade Niacinamide and Vitamin C – ingredients scientifically proven to reverse and prevent the signs of ageing. Committed to remaining Australian made and vertically integrated, she says trust in Australian made products is a huge asset, and she wants to continue to provide jobs for her local team. It also means she retains control over formulation and production. "I formulate, develop, and test my products in my Melbourne based laboratory," Terri says. "As a mother, I have always felt that if I won't put it on my face, or my children's face, I wouldn't put it on my customer's." What is important to her is producing cosmetic formulations that cuts through the marketing hype to deliver the safest and most effective results for consumers. What's next for Synergie Skincare? The skincare brand will continue to lead the market in Australian Cosmeceutical skincare while pursuing growth in Asia, Europe, and the United States. As for product development? Terri feels integrating AI is the next step "genetic profiling will allow us to create bespoke skincare for Synergie's customers." Watch her interview with Sarah Harris to find out why Terri Vinson is a Game Changer in the beauty industry! About Synergie Skin: Synergie Skin is a "clean science" based cosmeceutical and mineral makeup range. It combines active, scientifically proven ingredients with clean technologies and delivery systems. The Synergie Skin skincare range contains Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Vitamin B and peptide actives with calming, restorative and nourishing moisturisers, eye creams, and cleansers. They have recently released the Plabeau G4+ – a groundbreaking plasma technology based portable skincare device that is the first of its kind. Discover your tailored Synergie Skincare regime by taking their skin assessment test here. |
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