Calm, results-led facials in a quiet New Town studio — expert hands, honest advice, and not a ten-step upsell in sight. Just skin, properly looked after.
Nothing here needs fixing. But if any of this sounds familiar, it's worth an unhurried hour in the chair.
The sleep was fine, the concealer is new, and the camera still insists otherwise. Dullness isn't a flaw — it's a signal, and it responds beautifully to being taken seriously.
A retinol from January, two acids that arrived by algorithm, a vitamin C quietly going off in its bottle. Each one plausible on its own; together, an argument your skin keeps losing.
Enough time to make a real difference — too little to spend on guesswork. What that date needs is a plan, begun calmly, now.
A new decade, new hormones, a new city's water — whatever it was, the skin you knew has new opinions, and the old routine no longer gets a vote.
I'd rather do a few things beautifully than everything adequately. Each treatment begins with a proper look at your skin and ends with a plan you can actually keep up at home.
60 minutes
A deeply relaxing, results-led facial tailored to your skin on the day — cleanse, exfoliation, massage and treatment mask, finished to leave you glowing rather than raw.
75 minutes
For specific concerns — congestion, pigmentation, fine lines, dullness. Targeted actives and technique, always at a pace your skin can handle.
course of 5
A course of five treatments over ten weeks for real, visible change — my most-loved option for skin that needs consistency rather than a one-off.
We start with a real conversation about your skin, your history and what's realistic — no scare tactics, no miracle claims.
Unhurried, hands-on, and tailored on the day to what your skin needs rather than a fixed script.
You leave with a short, honest home routine — three or four steps that work, not a shelf of bottles.
I trained in Milan, spent a decade in busy city salons, and slowly grew tired of the part of the industry that sells fear — the up-sells, the "problem areas", the endless bottles nobody needs. Skin isn't a problem to be fixed. It's an organ having a perfectly reasonable response to your life.
So I opened a small, calm studio and built it around the opposite idea. I'm a CIDESCO-qualified skin specialist with twelve years' experience, and I treat every kind of skin — teenage, menopausal, sensitive, sun-worn, and the merely exhausted.
Honestly, gently, and with a lot less product than you'd expect. Good skin is mostly consistency, sun protection and a few things done well — my job is to treat your skin expertly in the room and then hand you a routine simple enough to actually follow. No packages you don't need, no miracle claims, and I'll always tell you when something is a job for a dermatologist rather than a facialist.
The studio is one quiet room off Dundas Street — soft light, good coffee, and time that never feels rushed.
Five treatments over ten weeks — the difference between a lovely afternoon and skin that has genuinely changed course.
£340 · Five treatments · ten weeks · In person
Course places are deliberately few, so every plan gets my full attention — returning clients are offered new dates before the list opens.
How the course unfolds“Sofia is the first facialist who didn't try to sell me half a shelf. My skin has never looked better, and my routine has never been simpler. Both things are her doing.”
“After menopause my skin felt like a stranger's. Five treatments and some honest advice later, it feels like mine again — calm, comfortable, and actually glowing.”
“The most relaxing hour in my calendar, and the only skincare that's ever made a visible difference. I've stopped panic-buying serums entirely.”
The diary opens on the first of each month, and the waitlist hears before anyone else. Join it, choose your treatment when the dates arrive, and take your time deciding — there's no countdown here. Treatments run Tuesday to Saturday from the Dundas Street studio.
Join the waitlistThere is a short waitlist at the moment — join it and I’ll be in touch as soon as a space opens.