AESTHETICS
Transcending The Surface A more considered approach to skin resurfacing
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ife on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is lived largely outdoors, and treatments trigger the body’s repair response and encourage new the skin keeps the score. Years of sun, salt and surf eventually collagen formation, helping to address texture, pigmentation, fine lines show up as uneven tone, rougher texture, fine lines and and certain types of scarring depending on the treatment selected. pigmentation. For Chelsea Hyett, founder of Freshwater-based Sisä CO₂ laser may still wear the “gold standard” crown in resurfacing Skincare, these concerns rarely arrive in isolation. More often, they are circles, but for Hyett, modern best practice is defined less by maximum the compound interest of cumulative UV exposure and age-related intensity than by clinical judgement. collagen decline. “The technology has always been capable,” she says. “The standard “People often say their skin no longer looks as fresh or even as it is in matching the right energy, depth and approach to the individual, once did, but they cannot always pinpoint why,” Hyett says. “When within a careful assessment and safety framework.” we assess the skin closely, it is usually a combination of changes It was that philosophy that led Sisä to Alma Hybrid, making the clinic happening at both the surface and deeper the only provider of the platform on the structural level.” Northern Beaches. Combining ablative That distinction sits at the heart of CO₂ resurfacing with a non-ablative 1570 Sisä. Shaped by Hyett’s background nm erbium laser, the technology allows across surgical nursing, oncology, quality practitioners to treat the skin’s surface control and cosmetic nursing, the nurseand deeper dermis within the same led skin and laser clinic begins every treatment. For Hyett, the appeal lies in treatment with a detailed skin and medical the control. The balance between the two assessment, with Registered Nurses wavelengths can be dialled up or down, delivering care under medical oversight. planned as a lighter, lower-downtime From left to right: Jamae Ocampo, The approach mirrors a broader change session or a more intensive resurfacing Chelsea Hyett and Abi Gowenlock in what patients are asking for: not an procedure depending on the patient’s obviously “treated” appearance, but skin skin, concerns and capacity for recovery. that simply looks healthier and refreshed. The platform has also changed the “Skin quality has become a bigger part nature of consultations at Sisä. of the conversation,” she explains. “Even “Patients are asking more informed tone, smoother texture and firmness read questions about skin quality and as health. Patients increasingly understand resurfacing,” Hyett says. “Having a that improving the skin means addressing platform I can genuinely tailor means both its surface and underlying structure.” those consultations can be honest and Resurfacing is where that thinking specific, and people can leave with becomes practice. By delivering controlled a clear plan that suits their skin and energy into the skin, resurfacing circumstances.” 52 | SPA+CLINIC