Your Questions Answered

We offer appointments to suit your needs, including late nights and Saturdays. To ensure you get an appointment when it suits you, and with the Beauty Therapist you want, please ring us well in advance (1-2 weeks). For the same reason, we recommend you schedule your next appointment before leaving Images Medispa. Regular 4-6 weekly appointments are easy for you when planned for 6-12 months ahead. Credit card details are required for bookings of more than one hour.

We would appreciate 24 hours notice for cancellations or rebookings. If less than 2 hours notice, a charge of 50% of appointment may occur or loss of Bonus Points.

A few minutes before your appointment will allow time for you to unwind. If it is your first visit with us, your consultation forms will take a few minutes to complete. If you are late, your appointment may be reduced and will still end on time so that our next client is not delayed.

To maintain a healthy, relaxing environment for all our clients, we have a no-smoking policy. We also ask that you turn cell phones and pagers off while in the clinic.

We like to reward your loyalty with a fantastic system so please ask your Therapist about it. Points are collected on your purchase of skincare, makeup and treatments.

Our Gift Vouchers are available in selected dollar values and can be used for any of our treatments or skincare purchases. Vouchers make it easy for you to spoil someone with a truly personal gift, or for you to receive a voucher gift you will truly appreciate. Please treat gift vouchers like cash as lost vouchers cannot be replaced. For more information just ask us.

If you find it difficult to visit Images Medispa to purchase your home skincare products or Gift Vouchers, we offer a nation-wide courier delivery service. Packing and delivery of purchases is $10 anywhere in NZ. Valid credit card phone orders are welcome.

We accept eftpos, visa, mastercard and cash. We no longer accept cheques.

We have regular special offers of treatments and savings on products. Are you missing out on our email newsletters and special offers? To join our free mailing list, just email us your name and email address to: info@imagesmedispa.co.nz

First of all, take care of skin, nails, and body grooming with a standing monthly appointment by booking ahead so there’s no last minute panic. This is a great time to plan your 2011 skin maintenance with an Images Turn Back Time Program. Choose monthly Grooming maintenance like nails, wax and tints, or de-stress time out with an Interlude Package – 12 hours over 12 months, includes a monthly facial or massage for a year! Select what you need most.

Monthly facials to correct, restore, hydrate and renew, work! Omnilux Revive light is the best facial of all. You will be growing new skin cells and collagen, every time. Best result is our Dramatic Results Duo – micro or peel with Omni light.

Through out life, women change all the time! Skin changes with the seasons and hormone balance, so the skincare you use at home needs to be adjusted with those changing needs. A diagnostic skin scan and your therapist’s expertise will match skincare that corrects and restores skin health. 70 % of skin health result, is what you do and use at home. It will keep your facial active every day. Acne, fine lines, uneven texture and pigment will diminish as skin becomes PH balanced and behaves normal, as it should.

Protect - Use an SPF sun block every day on face, neck, décolleté and backs of hands – the areas that age first which, over time, can lead to skin cancers. Apply last after skincare, before makeup. This is the best antiageing thing you can do for yourself and family. Damage accumulates daily - stop that with the best sun block, and I mean block, not sun screen only! The best ones are ‘broad spectrum’ and contain zinc, blocking UVA and UVB. Our pick - Matis SPF 50 ($77 ) , Joyce Blok SPF 30 and 15+ ($35) and True Solutions (from $61.50) all tested under violet light, best protection. You will still tan, but without the damage.

Eyes - The molecules in a face cream are too large to absorb properly in to the fine skin around the eyes, sit under the skin and may cause bags. Use the best eye cream you can around eyes; we have many to choose from for improving lines, bags, sagging. From $70. Freshen eyes - include an Eye Lift treatment with your facial or lash tint every month. To firm, an eye serum that lifts and plumps gently, visible immediately. Use daily on eye and lip zones, so skin remembers to be firmer ($199).

Makeup - Pure mineral makeup. We stock the best from New Zealand – Bella Vi and Jane Iredale (USA) brush on - swirl, tap and brush! Or Liquid minerals. Both are skincare makeup, fast, safe, easy to create a flawless finish and have SPF 15 and 20 protection - safe enough to be used on a baby as a sun screen. Images therapists makeup experts can show you tips to speed up your morning makeup, then into evening glam, easily. Some bases are water resistant so good for long lasting on those humid days

Lips - Lip glosses that plump, on their own or over a lipstick, make your teeth look whiter and give your face a touch of colour that says you care, without that made up look on holiday. Keep it in your handbag. Great gift too. ($39.50 - $50.50). For White Smile maintenance, Pure White Teeth strips, kit ($66.50) and whitening pen everyday ($36) - for the car or handbag.

Hair - removal by IPL or electrolysis (both permanent reduction), or waxing monthly, use Tendskin after wax, to prevent ingrown hair ($46) or Depileve hair retardant ($10.50) to slow regrowth. By now, your winter IPL and electrolysis treatments have paid off and there’s little to maintain – hair free, freckles, pigment and red veins gone! For those who want this result, plan for next year now!

Nails - New semi permanent shellac manicure lasts 2 weeks or more, and a regular monthly pedicure for gorgeous glossy nails and smooth heels. Choose a French style polish or a colour that goes with most of your wardrobe and looks good day and night. Add some diamantes for special occasion sparkle. Like a traditional polish? Quality polish, and touch up fingernails at home every 2nd day for long lasting polish with Orly glossy colour and top coat (all $22.50). More about nails in a future issue.

Exfoliate all over 2 – 3 times a week. We recommend the Duo Riffi body mitt in the shower, one side for face, makeup removal, 2nd side regular, for body exfoliation. The Riffi strap, for your hard to reach back, good for the guys too. Helps stop a build up of old skin that can cause blocked pores, acne and blackheads on backs and shoulders, so the oil flows instead of blocking. Great for preventing ingrown hair too. These Riffi products live in the shower, and last for years, so are a good investment. $27.50 - $40.

Book a Crystal Exfoliation with us ($85) and your therapist can include a Mud Wrap – a facial for the body ($155 for both), or at home, use a body scrub that leaves skin glowing ready for moisturising. Some scrubs leave an oil film automatically, replacing oil that’s missing. We recommend Cuccio or Nume Fiji body sugar scrubs, butters, lotions and oils, ($14.50 to $33.70) Orly, Joyce Blok, and Skin Deep scrubs, creams, lotions and oils ($10 to $36). MD Formulations Face and Body Scrub ($97.50) 250ml.

Do this scrub once a day and moisturise twice a day for 5 – 7 days, and your skin will be ready for tanning. We spray tan in clinic ($41 - $65) or you can apply at home. We recommend at home, Joyce Blok Autobronze, and St Tropez Mousse or Everyday Tan Builder ($40 - $60.30) No shower or water contact for 8 hours, then moisturise daily for a long lasting golden glow. Lasts 7 – 10 days, (sheds with your old skin) then exfoliate, and come in for your next spray tan, or reapply.

A Paramedical treatment, highly skilled, manual exfoliation of the skin. A special sterile blade is gently stroked across the skin removing the outermost layer of dead skin cells and the fine facial hair often called peach fuzz. It’s painless and, believe it or not, relaxing.

Corundum crystals skim the skin’s surface, via a sterile hand piece, removing the outer most layer of dead skin cells and impurities, then vacuumed to remove.

After Microdermabrasion,the skin may be slightly red and dry, similar to a light sunburn. Some skins may experience slight peeling after a few days, which is normal, as loosened skin continues to shed. Your skin will have a smooth, polished feel and be clear and glowing. Because these treatments are non-invasive there is no impact on your daily routines as in more invasive peeling like chemical peels and deep dermabrasion. After Dermaplaning your skin looks and feels incredibly smooth and glowing. Comparing it to your inside arm or a baby’s bottom, isn’t going too far. In fact, both Dermaplaning and Microdermabrasion have been called ‘The Lunchtime Peel’ – back to work without concerns of obvious treatment.

Any type of skin, whether it is normal, sensitive, couperose (reddened) or post-acne conditions can be treated effectively.

Because your skin is ready for regrowth and regeneration after Dermaplaning or Microdermabrasion, you will need to keep it well hydrated. Your therapist will assess the best hydrating cream or lotion with high levels of antioxidents, for your skin type and condition to continue the best results for you.

It is very important to protect your new skin from UV damage with sunscreen, applied after moisturisers and under makeup. Matis SPF 50, Joyce Blok SPF 15 – 30, True Solutions All Day Moisture SPF 30, tinted or untinted., are all gentle on skin, won’t sting and are all broadspectrum. (from $32 - $71 and you can trust. At Images Medispa, we recommend and use Mineral Makeup as well as sunscreens, - Bella Vi Minerals and Jane Iredale, as they are SPF 15 AND 20 and are skincare that’s safe to use even on babies. (from $55).

Dermaplaning and Microdermabrasion are progressive treatments. The optimum results for most procedures are 3 – 5 treatments. Some conditions will require more treatment, while others will respond beautifully with the minimum – the results you are trying to achieve will be your guide.

Dermaplaning is a once-a-month treatment that maximises the absorption of medical grade skincare afterwards, so it’s ideal before a peel, Omnilux Light facial or IPL treatments. $95. Microdermabrasion, depending on skin type and `condition`, a minimum of 2 weeks, up to 4 weeks between treatments. $85

Fear not – hair does not grow back thicker or darker. In fact, the reverse can happen. People who have been having Dermaplane on a regular basis, report less facial hair.

Apply ORLY CALCIUM SHIELD nail building basecoat – thickens and strengthens weak and thin nails with a double dose of calcium. $24.50

Use ORLY NAILTRITION premium growth and strengthening treatment – packed with powerful natural ingredients to help stimulate healthier, faster nail growth. Great for rebuilding nails after acrylics and nails that just won’t grow. $24.50

Use ORLY NAIL DEFENSE strengthening and repairing basecoat – seals nail layers to prevent breakage.$24.50

Use ORLY TOUGH COOKIE premium strengthening basecoat for sensitive nails – nourishes dry and brittle nails with African Okoumie extract – an Images favourite.$24.50

CUTICLE CARE - ORLY CUTIQUE removes dead dry tissue from cuticles and nail stains, leaving nails whiter. ORLY CUTICLE OIL+ with orange blossom and wild cherry to moisturise dry cuticles, help prevent hang nails, clear dry white spots and promote healthy nail growth from the matrix, especially for hands in water alot. Both $24.50

Stop biting your nails with ORLY NO BITE. A bitter-flavoured deterrent, helps break the nail biting habit, allowing for new nail growth. Sometimes nail biting is a sign of a lack of selenium or or silica orother trace elements in the diet which the nail provides for the body’s need. Add silica / alfalfa and bean sprouts to your diet to provide those trace elements and the need to bite nails, diminishes.

These are very common and appear for a variety of reasons...

..nails are dehydrated. Rehydrate the nail by applying ORLY CUTICLE OIL+ ($24.50) night and morning ...a lack of zinc in the diet. Take a zinc supplement.

..injury or incomplete keratin in these areas, which do not adhere to the nail bed. Use ORLY NAILTRITION. ($24.50)

We recommend and use, with excellent results, Joyce Blok Collagen hand cream $26, JB bath and body oils $36. Nume Fiji body butters, lotions and oils from $14.50 Cuccio milk & honey or pomegranate body butter $33.70 Orly scrubs and creams from $10. And don’t forget, apply sun block to backs of hands daily. Gifts for Mums, friends, daughters and yourself, when only the best will do!!

This is an infection of yeast-like organisms, called Paronychia and strikes when the hands are constantly in water or moisture is trapped in pockets under sculptured nails. Wear cotton lined rubber gloves when wet-working, remove sculptured nails immediately to allow nail to breathe. At Images, we do not do manicures or pedicures until all infection is cleared – a safety measure for you and us. Consult your Doctor for antifungal and or antibacterial prescription. Disinfect your own nail files and clippers. We at Images, use hospital grade disinfectant and a sterilising cabinet, discard and replace regularly.

Nail plate separation from the nail bed can follow an injury. Other factors are psoriasis, fungus or bacteria, hyper- or hypothyroid disease. Often a toe nail condition in the elderly or those who have been ill, with poor circulation. Avoid sculptured nails as they may cause permanent nail damage. Throw away all your nail files and sticks immediately, never share them! Apply under nails twice daily, SKIN DEEP MANUKA KANUKA oil concentrate as an antifungal. Wash socks, shoes, slippers, separately with at least 10 drops added to wash and rinse water.

ORLY treatments, base, polishes and top coats are the quality products of choice for Images Medispa Therapists for healthy natural nails. All $24.50 each. You can enjoy excellent results at home with these same treatments between your salon visits...

Step 1: Clean nails of old polish or oil residue, then one coat of your favourite basecoat. BONDER, rubberised basecoat – grips nail lacquer to the nail surface for extra lasting adhesion. RIDGEFILLER, primer basecoat – fills ridges and smoothes rough nail surfaces. TOP TO BOTTOM, basecoat and topcoat all-in-one – grips and protects lacquer for long lasting colour with a high shine finish.

Step 2: Apply two coats of your favourite Orly colour, then one topcoat. Choose from - GLOSSER, high shine top coat. WON’T CHIP, helps resist chipping, SEC’N DRY, quickly dries multiple lacquer layers, hard finish. IN A SNAP, quick dry topcoat- with UV protection to prevent colour fading. All $24.50. ORLY MINI POLISHES $10.50 – same top quality finish. The NEW COLOURS are here now to choose.

2 – 7 days depending on the health of the natural nail and your lifestyle. After your manicure, apply 1 coat of top coat or strengthener, sealing the free edge. Every 2nd day, apply one coat of colour and top coat, always sealing the free edge.

The new SHELLAC polish system available here at Images lasts at least 2 weeks and up to 4 before it grows out – great for French polish. We remove it in salon and reapply. It actually strengthens nails, is safe and dries hard as nails quickly – no waiting for nails to dry – polish and go! We love it. Manicure with Shellac polish $56.50.

Yes. Now is a perfect time to treat these with our Quantum Lumenis Cool Laser Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), because we are not outside in the UV light so much now it’s Autumn. If you’ve been in the sun recently, without UV Sunblock, you will need to wait 5 – 6 weeks to allow any tan on your face and chest to fade before you are able to have IPL treatments.

As long as you’ve used an spf rating of 30 minumum on the area to treat, you can receive IPL right now. A medical consultation is required and includes a test patch where possible. Consultation is $26 and redeemable on treatments on the day.

The surface patches will change to a darker colour at treatment, then shed. Any brown patches appearing later are not the same pigmentation. The sun damaged brown patches from the deeper layer migrate to the surface, as the new skin cells and collagen produced below, push the old sun damaged cells to the surface – ready to be shed. With a series of IPL treatments during winter, these will also disappear.

A minimum of 3 treatments one month apart, then possibly up to 3 more, 6 – 8 weeks apart till gone. Sun block needs to be worn during this time, so new damage doesn’t occur and undo all your good work.

There certainly is! If you have broken facial capillaries (red veins) or reddened ‘chicken skin’ on your chest and neck, these conditions respond very well to our Quantum IPL, leaving your skin texture and colour, even and smooth!

Treating by the best IPL machine, the best results are permanent. New collagen and elastin produced as a result of your treatments, continue up to 18 months after the last IPL as long as you observe the sun safe advice of your IPL Therapist and use recommended skincare –like Vitamin C to fade pigmentation, or potent antioxidents to nourish all those new skin cells in the deeper layers. Combining treatments in a course where each one enhances the action of the other partnered treatment, produce the best long term results. Eg Images Dramatic Results Duo, Illumination Duo, Ultimate Trio or Red Carpet Series to maintain and improve your skin continuously.

Yes, Omnilux Revive Red Light and Vitamin C serum – more on that next time.

Yes Omnilux Revive Red Light Therapy. If you want optimum long-lasting results when needles or knives aren’t for you, this is the GO-TO treatment for a skin overhaul. It’s intensive and relaxing. It’s Anti-ageing at it’s best!

Omnilux Revive is a red Light Therapy – it works by beaming skin with a specific wavelength of light to stimulate collagen. The light is completely free from UV harmful rays – and there’s no pain or risk. It is thousands of low-intensity light-emitting diodes (LED), wavelength is exactly 633 nanometers of pure red light which reaches the collagen level deep in the skin. Omnilux is neither a laser nor an IPL, it’s non-invasive, requires no recovery time and is suitable for both men and women.

Omnilux contains NO UVA or UVB rays and differs to other light-source treatments such as IPL and laser, which depend on the use of heat to set of the process of skin-rejuvenation. Omnilux is non invasive and does not generate heat.

This Light is particularly effective on sun damaged or ageing skin. A single treatment is a great pick-me-up ($123) or in addition to a specialised skin care treatment ($85). Great when used to accelerate healing from laser, IPL, microdermabrasion, peels and other cosmetic treatments. For enhanced results that naturally plump up fine lines and wrinkles, a course of 9 is recommended.

Dr Glen Calderhead, one of the original founders of Omnilux, recommends a course of 10, 20 minute sessions, over 3 – 4 weeks. With one treatment the collagen increase gradually drops, with five, you get to keep the new collagen created. Nine treatments assist with long term firmness of the skin’s ‘mattress’. Calderhead says “By the end of the 3rd week, you will see plumping of skin, removal of fine lines and wrinkles. By the 4th week it’s more noticeable: cells have been activated by light which they build upon. Twelve weeks later the results peak” Similar to how photosynthesis works in plants. Beware any wavelength less than 633 nanometers as this only stimulates surface epidermis and has no benefit to collagen improvement.

New collagen and elastin produced as a result of your course last 10 – 12 months as long as you observe the sun-safe advice of your Beauty Therapist and use recommended skincare- like Vitamin C to fade pigmentation, (Joyce Blok Serum C10, C20 or CEF, $87 - $138), antioxidants and hydrating skincare to nourish all those new skin cells in the deeper layers.

Maintain the new collagen and new skin cells by adding an Omnilux Light to your regular facial to keep the hydrated plumped results.(Add-On just $85). We recommend Images Medispa Dramatic Results Duo,(microdermabrasion or peel with Light,$180) Ultimate Trio Facial (micro or peel, light with serum infusion$245) or Goddess Red Carpet Series (combination course of all the best treatments $1025) to maintain and improve your skin continuously.( Ask about our easy payment plan for programs taken over 12 months).

Drier winter air plus more time indoors with heater and air-con contribute to our skin drying out. We recommend a course of peels or microdermabrasion to remove the top layer of dead cells so that your moisturiser can absorb and start working for you. Add a serum under your moisturiser for better hydration that lasts all day – and don’t forget a night cream for oil and antioxidant replacement.

When you’re fighting old sun damage, ageing or just dryness, no one treatment works best by itself and that’s why we have designed combination therapy so that we can achieve better, longer lasting results. Our Goddess Red Carpet Package combines both IPL and Omnilux, along with peels and microdermabrasion to achieve better results in a very short time. And that’s the Images difference.

YES of course. The combination of these different therapies is the best maintenance, whether it’s once a year to keep the benefits of your Omnilux or IPL treatments going, or following a course of any individual treatment, peels or micro or lights. Just as going to the gym 2 or 3 times doesn’t make your body fit, it’s the regular visits and year round maintenance that keeps your health and fitness up . So too, your regular beauty maintenance will deliver glowing, healthy skin.

Appearance Enhancements have definitely improved in the last decade and claims to make us look 10 years younger are true. For best results, most people need a combination of a few of these as there are now plenty of tools in the toolbox – and one single procedure is never going to be the rejuvenating panacea for absolutely everything.

While Botox is great at smoothing lines, you wouldn’t use it to replace volume in the face or correct the texture and quality of the skin. Images’ skilled, medically qualified therapist will advise you which injectibles to use, and where, in the face, to get the best youthful plumping and smoothing of lines and hollows.

Professional grade cosmeceutical or superceutical skincare, used every day, will correct the texture and quality of your skin alongside any of these anti-ageing clinic treatments : IPL Rejuvenation Photofacial, Paramedical Peels, Microdermabrasion, Dermaplaning, Oxygen Infusion facials, Omnilux Rejuvenation Light Therapy. Images Beauty Therapists specialise in these treatments and see fabulous results regularly. Priori, DERMed, MdFormulations are some of the cosmeceuticals in Images Medispa tool box.

70% of the results are determined by what you use at home, every day, to support the clinic treatments that kick start corrections for healthy skin. Remember, some of the skin concerns you see, happened gradually over time, and will correct with consistent support you give yourself. We advise Cleanse, Correct, Hydrate and Protect – (sun protection that is.)

Combined treatments together in an inter-woven progressive course, where each treatment increases the effectiveness of the partner therapies is the ultimate action. Images Medispa has Combination Therapy Packages for the best corrective results – just ask our Therapists.

Yes! Images Medispa can create a Turn Back Time Program to help you look as young as you feel. We assess your skin’s need and create the solution of skincare and treatment combinations that have proven to work, with an easy payment plan over 6 - 12 months to suit your budget while you are enjoying the results. Just make a time to talk to one of our Therapists.

Appearance enhancements have definitely improved in the last decade, and claims to make us look 10years younger are true. For best results, most people need a combination of a few of these as there are now plenty of tools in the toolbox - and one single procedure is never going to be the rejuvenating panacea for absolutely everything.

While botox is great at smoothing lines, you wouldn't use it to replace volume in the face or correct the texture and quality of the skin. A skilled, medically qualified therapist will advise you which injectibles to use, and where in the face to get the best youthful plumping and smoothing of lines and hollows.

Professional grade cosmeceutical or superceutical skincare, used every day, will correct the texture and quality of your skin alongside any of these anti-ageing clinic treatments: IPL rejuvenation, photofacial, paramedical peels, microdermabrasion, dermaplaning, oxygen infusion facials, Omnilux Rejuvenation light therapy. Images beauty therapists specialise in these treatments and see fabulous results regularly. Priori, DERMed, MdFormulations are some of the cosmeceuticals in the Images Medispa tool box.

70% of the results are determined by what you use at home, every day, to support the clinic treatments that kick start corrections for healthy skin. Remember, some of the skin concerns you see, happened gradually over time, and will correct with consistent support you give yourself. We advise cleanse, correct, hydrate and protect - (sun protection that is)

Combined treatments together in an inter-woven progressive course, where each treatment increases the effectiveness of the partner therapies, is the ultimate action. Images Medispa has combination therapy packages for the best corrective results - just ask our therapists

Yes! We assess your skins needs and create a solution of skincare and treatment combinations with an easy payment plan over 6-12 months to suit your budget while you are enjoying the results. Just make a time to talk to one of our therapists.