Simone Louise Ferguson: “I worry more about creating insecurities than fixing them”

For Simone Louise Ferguson, aesthetics isn’t just about a smooth forehead or big lips, it’s seeing “the confidence wash over people’s faces.”

The 33-year-old has been a registered nurse since 2010, with experience in surgery, medicine, maternity, gynaecology and community care.

She has always had an interest in the world of aesthetics, but as she started to get treatments herself, she “fell in love” with aesthetics.

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“I’d love to tell you it was all some big plan to move to aesthetics, but it was as simple as my husband buying me a very expensive birthday present, my first course.

“After this I began to treat family and friends and any profit that I made I reinvested into different courses, it was a long time before we saw any profit, I’m obsessed with courses.

“I worked alongside my aesthetics, nursing, and in fact, the night before I was due to be C-sectioned with my daughter Evie I was still working.

“Eventually I had to be brave enough to trust that I’d done enough to make the leap full time to aesthetics and it took 18 months in total,” said Simone.

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She then took the leap and opened her own clinic, Filtered Aesthetics by Simone, and she describes it as “very much a family business, with a touch of friendship.

“Our team combined has 35 years of nursing experience. We have recently expanded into training in Medical Aesthetics,” she added.

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The aesthetics industry has taken the UK and Ireland by storm in recent years, but it still remains “massively unregulated” in the UK.

Simone added: “With more and more people joining the industry it can make it very difficult for patients to find a safe and suitable practitioner.

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“Within our own city we have so many fantastic experienced and safe practitioners who offer exceptional treatments and provide safe medical environments.

“As medical professionals we have a duty of care to our patients.

“We are also registered with regulatory bodies who ensure we practice within the safest of guidelines and uphold standards, ensuring patient safety at all times.”

PRECONCEPTIONS

Simone said that one of the most common preconceptions about aesthetics is “big lips and smooth foreheads,” but she said it is “so much more than that”.

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“In our clinic we pride ourselves in providing subtle, safe and appropriate aesthetics treatments. There are so many treatments we provide and so many others are constantly being developed.

“These treatments like any treatment can come with risks, but with medical backgrounds we are trained to manage these.

“The confidence I see wash over people’s faces when I correct that insecurity, or simply make them feel that little bit better is something you can’t explain. I get to see this every single day.

“The ethos of our clinic is something I’m very proud of, we never point out something we can potentially change, we allow our clients to talk about what bothers them, then offer them solutions.

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“I worry about creating insecurities rather than fixing them.

“The feeling of helping someone really comes from my medical background,” she added.

Speaking about Medical Grade aesthetics, Simone added: “In my opinion, Medical Grade Aesthetics is a niche which lies between cosmetic surgery and medicine.

“I believe that, just as when practising in any medical field, that the treatments should be appropriate, safe and researched.

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“Our patients should be informed, realistically satisfied and involved in their treatment plans.

“Would I be extremely naive to believe that everyone attending my clinic has a medical rationale for receiving an aesthetics treatment? Absolutely.

“However the benefits of a safe, appropriate and planned treatment has extremely positive effects on personal insecurity and therefore has psychological impacts on that individual,” she said.

ADVANCED

The clinic provides not only the basics like wrinkle smoothing using prescription medication and medical devices, but they also offer a more advanced range of treatments also.

“We can correct the appearance of overbites, underbites.

”We have completed non-surgical or liquid rhinoplasties.

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“We remove benign growths, treat skin conditions, hair conditions and in fact can provide full face lifts.

“We also do corrective work which is growing increasingly more and more popular especially as people become more informed about aesthetic treatments,” she added.

Simone explained that facial anatomy is complex, and no patient is identical, so her team prides themselves on a system of reviewing any treatments provided.

READER QUESTIONS

Over the coming weeks, Simone will answer readers queries and questions about aesthetics, the science behind it, what to expect, outcomes, expectations and how they work.

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“Every day we receive thousands of messages asking questions about treatments, products, pain, efficacy.

“I hope to provide a safe non-judgemental forum for answering these questions to ensure that the knowledge and some misconceptions of aesthetics is changed.

“Aesthetics is such a passion for me as well as my business and I hope I can share that whilst ‘injecting’ a bit of my own humour too,” she added.

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