Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP)

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The reassuring evidence about breastfeeding applies to botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid fillers specifically. Other injectables — biostimulators, polynucleotides, skin boosters, threads, fat-dissolving injections — and permanent makeup remain avoided while you are breastfeeding: there is less data on them, and more scope for systemic effects.

Sources: MDPI (peer-reviewed) · Pregnancy, Birth and Baby (Australian Government)

No controlled human safety data exists — trials in pregnancy are ethically impossible, so the studies that would answer this question will never be run. Manufacturers' prescribing information and all major bodies, including the NHS, ACOG and the EMA, advise against elective cosmetic injectables in pregnancy. Most aesthetic clinics in the UK will decline to treat you regardless.

Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists · NHS · Pregnancy, Birth and Baby (Australian Government) · US Food and Drug Administration

No controlled human safety data exists — trials in pregnancy are ethically impossible, so the studies that would answer this question will never be run. Manufacturers' prescribing information and all major bodies, including the NHS, ACOG and the EMA, advise against elective cosmetic injectables in pregnancy. Most aesthetic clinics in the UK will decline to treat you regardless.

Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists · NHS · Pregnancy, Birth and Baby (Australian Government) · US Food and Drug Administration

No controlled human safety data exists — trials in pregnancy are ethically impossible, so the studies that would answer this question will never be run. Manufacturers' prescribing information and all major bodies, including the NHS, ACOG and the EMA, advise against elective cosmetic injectables in pregnancy. Most aesthetic clinics in the UK will decline to treat you regardless.

Sources: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists · NHS · Pregnancy, Birth and Baby (Australian Government) · US Food and Drug Administration

This is about timing rather than safety. Botox lasts four to six months, which is long enough to overlap with an early pregnancy you do not know about yet, so the planning advice is to finish injectables about three months before you start actively trying.

Sources: Allergan (AbbVie) · Pregnancy, Birth and Baby (Australian Government)

Anaemia means less haemoglobin, so your blood carries less oxygen around your body. That makes you more likely to feel dizzy when you stand up, slower to heal, and more tired after a long appointment. This is a precaution rather than a barrier: mild iron-deficiency anaemia, which is what most anaemia is, sits comfortably with most treatments. Eat beforehand, say if you feel light-headed, and get up slowly at the end.

Sources: British Heart Foundation · NHS

With severe anaemia your blood is carrying markedly less oxygen: healing is slower, and fainting is more likely. Deep-tissue work and anything that breaks the skin are avoided until your GP has cleared you for them.

Sources: British Heart Foundation · NHS

Heart conditions usually come with medication that affects bleeding or the tone of your blood vessels, even when none of it is a blood thinner. The body's stress response to needles can also set off symptoms if your heart is susceptible. That makes injectables a caution rather than a no: if you are stable and well controlled on standard heart medication such as statins, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors, you can usually go ahead with a note from your GP.

Sources: British Heart Foundation

This is an acute medical emergency, or a very recent one, and while you are in that phase your circulation is unstable. No elective beauty treatment is appropriate: the risk of setting off a second event — a clot moving, a re-bleed, a blood-pressure spike — outweighs any benefit a treatment could give you. There is a published case of a fatal pulmonary embolism after a leg massage in an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. The right place for you while this is acute is under active medical care, not in a salon.

Sources: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · British Heart Foundation

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This is an acute medical emergency, or a very recent one, and while you are in that phase your circulation is unstable. No elective beauty treatment is appropriate: the risk of setting off a second event — a clot moving, a re-bleed, a blood-pressure spike — outweighs any benefit a treatment could give you. There is a published case of a fatal pulmonary embolism after a leg massage in an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. The right place for you while this is acute is under active medical care, not in a salon.

Sources: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · British Heart Foundation

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This is an acute medical emergency, or a very recent one, and while you are in that phase your circulation is unstable. No elective beauty treatment is appropriate: the risk of setting off a second event — a clot moving, a re-bleed, a blood-pressure spike — outweighs any benefit a treatment could give you. There is a published case of a fatal pulmonary embolism after a leg massage in an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. The right place for you while this is acute is under active medical care, not in a salon.

Sources: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · British Heart Foundation

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Heart conditions usually come with medication that affects bleeding or the tone of your blood vessels, even when none of it is a blood thinner. The body's stress response to needles can also set off symptoms if your heart is susceptible. That makes injectables a caution rather than a no: if you are stable and well controlled on standard heart medication such as statins, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors, you can usually go ahead with a note from your GP.

Sources: British Heart Foundation

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This is an acute medical emergency, or a very recent one, and while you are in that phase your circulation is unstable. No elective beauty treatment is appropriate: the risk of setting off a second event — a clot moving, a re-bleed, a blood-pressure spike — outweighs any benefit a treatment could give you. There is a published case of a fatal pulmonary embolism after a leg massage in an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. The right place for you while this is acute is under active medical care, not in a salon.

Sources: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · British Heart Foundation

Heart conditions usually come with medication that affects bleeding or the tone of your blood vessels, even when none of it is a blood thinner. The body's stress response to needles can also set off symptoms if your heart is susceptible. That makes injectables a caution rather than a no: if you are stable and well controlled on standard heart medication such as statins, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors, you can usually go ahead with a note from your GP.

Sources: British Heart Foundation

Heart conditions usually come with medication that affects bleeding or the tone of your blood vessels, even when none of it is a blood thinner. The body's stress response to needles can also set off symptoms if your heart is susceptible. That makes injectables a caution rather than a no: if you are stable and well controlled on standard heart medication such as statins, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors, you can usually go ahead with a note from your GP.

Sources: British Heart Foundation

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Heart conditions usually come with medication that affects bleeding or the tone of your blood vessels, even when none of it is a blood thinner. The body's stress response to needles can also set off symptoms if your heart is susceptible. That makes injectables a caution rather than a no: if you are stable and well controlled on standard heart medication such as statins, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors, you can usually go ahead with a note from your GP.

Sources: British Heart Foundation

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This is an acute medical emergency, or a very recent one, and while you are in that phase your circulation is unstable. No elective beauty treatment is appropriate: the risk of setting off a second event — a clot moving, a re-bleed, a blood-pressure spike — outweighs any benefit a treatment could give you. There is a published case of a fatal pulmonary embolism after a leg massage in an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. The right place for you while this is acute is under active medical care, not in a salon.

Sources: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · British Heart Foundation

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Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

If a mole or a pigmented patch is asymmetrical, has an uneven border, more than one colour, or has changed in any way, it needs a doctor's eyes on it before anything cosmetic happens over it. See your GP: there is an urgent referral pathway in the UK for a suspected melanoma, and you should be seen within about a fortnight of that referral. The treatment can wait. This is also the moment to say that beauty professionals are often the first to spot a change, and being told to get something checked is not an overreaction.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Skin that has not finished healing needs to be left alone. Treating over a new tattoo, a wound that has not closed, or an area that has just had laser or a peel risks infection, patchy pigment and scarring — and, with a new tattoo, pulling the ink about before it has settled. Away from the affected area, treatments carry on as normal. How long you wait depends on what happened and how deep it went, so ask the person who did it.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology

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Skin that has not finished healing needs to be left alone. Treating over a new tattoo, a wound that has not closed, or an area that has just had laser or a peel risks infection, patchy pigment and scarring — and, with a new tattoo, pulling the ink about before it has settled. Away from the affected area, treatments carry on as normal. How long you wait depends on what happened and how deep it went, so ask the person who did it.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology

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Keloids are raised scars that keep growing beyond the original wound, and the tendency to form them runs in families and is more common in deeper skin tones. If you have that tendency, any treatment that injures the skin can start a new one: needling, RF microneedling, PRP, ablative fractional laser, strong peels, injections and permanent makeup all create exactly the kind of micro-injury that triggers it. Earlobe piercings and lip permanent makeup are common culprits. Existing keloids can be treated — with steroid injections, cryotherapy or pulsed dye laser — but that is dermatology, not a salon.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology · British Association of Dermatologists

Keloids are raised scars that keep growing beyond the original wound, and the tendency to form them runs in families and is more common in deeper skin tones. If you have that tendency, any treatment that injures the skin can start a new one: needling, RF microneedling, PRP, ablative fractional laser, strong peels, injections and permanent makeup all create exactly the kind of micro-injury that triggers it. Earlobe piercings and lip permanent makeup are common culprits. Existing keloids can be treated — with steroid injections, cryotherapy or pulsed dye laser — but that is dermatology, not a salon.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology · British Association of Dermatologists

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Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Psoriasis responds to injury by producing new plaques exactly where the skin was hurt. It has a name — the Koebner phenomenon — and it is why waxing, needling, peels, dermaplaning and needle-based injectables are avoided over a plaque. The restriction is local: skin between plaques, and on areas that are clear, can be treated normally. Phototherapy is used to treat psoriasis, but that is dermatology under supervision, not something a salon offers.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · National Institute for Health and Care Excellence · National Psoriasis Foundation

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Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Skin that has not finished healing needs to be left alone. Treating over a new tattoo, a wound that has not closed, or an area that has just had laser or a peel risks infection, patchy pigment and scarring — and, with a new tattoo, pulling the ink about before it has settled. Away from the affected area, treatments carry on as normal. How long you wait depends on what happened and how deep it went, so ask the person who did it.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology

Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Skin that has not finished healing needs to be left alone. Treating over a new tattoo, a wound that has not closed, or an area that has just had laser or a peel risks infection, patchy pigment and scarring — and, with a new tattoo, pulling the ink about before it has settled. Away from the affected area, treatments carry on as normal. How long you wait depends on what happened and how deep it went, so ask the person who did it.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology

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This is a bacterial infection, and it needs antibiotics from a GP rather than anything a salon can do. Treating over or around it spreads the bacteria across your own skin and onto towels and tools, makes the infection worse, and — with anything that breaks the skin, such as microneedling or electrolysis — risks pushing the infection deeper, which is how a skin infection turns into a serious one. That is why the answer covers the rest of you too, not just the infected patch. Book back in once you have finished the course and the skin has healed. Nobody will think anything of it.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · NICE · UKHSA

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You are unwell and you are infectious, and a treatment room is a small space with someone leaning over you for an hour. Going in while you have symptoms passes it to your therapist and to whoever is booked in after you. It is also a miserable way to spend an appointment you have paid for: you cannot lie still through a facial with a cough, or face down on a massage couch feeling sick. Move the booking to once you have been free of symptoms for a couple of days. A good salon would far rather rebook you than have you turn up poorly.

Sources: NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · UKHSA

This is a bacterial infection, and it needs antibiotics from a GP rather than anything a salon can do. Treating over or around it spreads the bacteria across your own skin and onto towels and tools, makes the infection worse, and — with anything that breaks the skin, such as microneedling or electrolysis — risks pushing the infection deeper, which is how a skin infection turns into a serious one. That is why the answer covers the rest of you too, not just the infected patch. Book back in once you have finished the course and the skin has healed. Nobody will think anything of it.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · NICE · UKHSA

Chickenpox is about as contagious as an infection gets: it travels through the air as well as by touching the spots, so one person with it in a salon can expose everyone who comes through afterwards. That matters most for anyone pregnant in the first half of their pregnancy, for whom exposure carries a risk to the baby. Stay home until every spot has crusted over, then book back in.

Sources: NHS · Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists · UKHSA

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You are unwell and you are infectious, and a treatment room is a small space with someone leaning over you for an hour. Going in while you have symptoms passes it to your therapist and to whoever is booked in after you. It is also a miserable way to spend an appointment you have paid for: you cannot lie still through a facial with a cough, or face down on a massage couch feeling sick. Move the booking to once you have been free of symptoms for a couple of days. A good salon would far rather rebook you than have you turn up poorly.

Sources: NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · UKHSA

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This is a bacterial infection, and it needs antibiotics from a GP rather than anything a salon can do. Treating over or around it spreads the bacteria across your own skin and onto towels and tools, makes the infection worse, and — with anything that breaks the skin, such as microneedling or electrolysis — risks pushing the infection deeper, which is how a skin infection turns into a serious one. That is why the answer covers the rest of you too, not just the infected patch. Book back in once you have finished the course and the skin has healed. Nobody will think anything of it.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · NICE · UKHSA

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You are unwell and you are infectious, and a treatment room is a small space with someone leaning over you for an hour. Going in while you have symptoms passes it to your therapist and to whoever is booked in after you. It is also a miserable way to spend an appointment you have paid for: you cannot lie still through a facial with a cough, or face down on a massage couch feeling sick. Move the booking to once you have been free of symptoms for a couple of days. A good salon would far rather rebook you than have you turn up poorly.

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Every treatment is open to you, done exactly the way it is done for anybody else. That is the whole point of universal precautions, the principle salons have worked to since 1985: every person's blood is handled as though it could carry an infection, so nobody's safety depends on what anyone has disclosed. With single-use needles, proper sterilisation and gloves, the risk of passing anything on is essentially zero. In the UK the Equality Act 2010 makes HIV a protected disability from the day you are diagnosed, so refusing you a service because of your status is against the law. Modern treatment brings HIV to an undetectable viral load, which means untransmittable, and hepatitis B and C are treatable and often curable. Telling your technician is entirely your choice — it helps only with practical things, such as local anaesthetic and appointment timing around your medication.

Sources: CDC · NHS · National AIDS Trust · StatPearls / NCBI · UK Parliament

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Every treatment is open to you, done exactly the way it is done for anybody else. That is the whole point of universal precautions, the principle salons have worked to since 1985: every person's blood is handled as though it could carry an infection, so nobody's safety depends on what anyone has disclosed. With single-use needles, proper sterilisation and gloves, the risk of passing anything on is essentially zero. In the UK the Equality Act 2010 makes HIV a protected disability from the day you are diagnosed, so refusing you a service because of your status is against the law. Modern treatment brings HIV to an undetectable viral load, which means untransmittable, and hepatitis B and C are treatable and often curable. Telling your technician is entirely your choice — it helps only with practical things, such as local anaesthetic and appointment timing around your medication.

Sources: CDC · NHS · National AIDS Trust · StatPearls / NCBI · UK Parliament

Every treatment is open to you, done exactly the way it is done for anybody else. That is the whole point of universal precautions, the principle salons have worked to since 1985: every person's blood is handled as though it could carry an infection, so nobody's safety depends on what anyone has disclosed. With single-use needles, proper sterilisation and gloves, the risk of passing anything on is essentially zero. In the UK the Equality Act 2010 makes HIV a protected disability from the day you are diagnosed, so refusing you a service because of your status is against the law. Modern treatment brings HIV to an undetectable viral load, which means untransmittable, and hepatitis B and C are treatable and often curable. Telling your technician is entirely your choice — it helps only with practical things, such as local anaesthetic and appointment timing around your medication.

Sources: CDC · NHS · National AIDS Trust · StatPearls / NCBI · UK Parliament

This is a bacterial infection, and it needs antibiotics from a GP rather than anything a salon can do. Treating over or around it spreads the bacteria across your own skin and onto towels and tools, makes the infection worse, and — with anything that breaks the skin, such as microneedling or electrolysis — risks pushing the infection deeper, which is how a skin infection turns into a serious one. That is why the answer covers the rest of you too, not just the infected patch. Book back in once you have finished the course and the skin has healed. Nobody will think anything of it.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · NICE · UKHSA

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This is a bacterial infection, and it needs antibiotics from a GP rather than anything a salon can do. Treating over or around it spreads the bacteria across your own skin and onto towels and tools, makes the infection worse, and — with anything that breaks the skin, such as microneedling or electrolysis — risks pushing the infection deeper, which is how a skin infection turns into a serious one. That is why the answer covers the rest of you too, not just the infected patch. Book back in once you have finished the course and the skin has healed. Nobody will think anything of it.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · NICE · UKHSA

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Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Ringworm, athlete's foot and jock itch are all the same family of fungus, and they spread through contact with infected skin, tools, towels, surfaces and floors. A pedicure on a foot with athlete's foot can put the fungus into the foot bath, the files and the towels, which is how it reaches the next person. Treatments away from the affected patch are fine. Sort the infection out first: a pharmacist can sell you clotrimazole or terbinafine cream over the counter without a prescription, and once the skin has been clear for a week or two you are back to normal.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · NHS · NICE · Primary Care Dermatology Society

Shingles is the chickenpox virus waking up again, and while the blisters are open the fluid in them can give chickenpox to anyone who has never had it or been vaccinated — including the person treating you and everyone in the room. The rash itself is painful and fragile, and shingles on the face can involve the eye, which is an urgent matter for a doctor rather than a salon. Everything waits until every blister has crusted over and healed. Rest is genuinely the treatment here.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · NHS · UKHSA

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Active TB in the lungs spreads through the air, which makes an hour in a treatment room exactly the wrong place to be. If you have active TB you should be under a specialist team, and the first stretch of treatment is about getting you to the point where you are no longer infectious. Beauty treatments wait until your TB team confirms you are not. Once you have completed your course, everything is open to you again.

Sources: NHS · NICE · UKHSA · UKHSA

Once you have completed the full course of TB antibiotics you are not infectious, and every treatment is open to you on the same terms as anyone else. There is nothing to declare and nothing that needs adapting.

Sources: NHS · NICE · UKHSA · UKHSA

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You are unwell and you are infectious, and a treatment room is a small space with someone leaning over you for an hour. Going in while you have symptoms passes it to your therapist and to whoever is booked in after you. It is also a miserable way to spend an appointment you have paid for: you cannot lie still through a facial with a cough, or face down on a massage couch feeling sick. Move the booking to once you have been free of symptoms for a couple of days. A good salon would far rather rebook you than have you turn up poorly.

Sources: NHS · NHS · NHS · NHS · UKHSA

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Autoimmune blistering diseases make the skin extraordinarily fragile — in pemphigus, gentle sideways pressure on normal-looking skin is enough to lift it and start a new blister. Beauty treatments in that situation can set off a flare, cause painful blistering, let infection in and make the disease itself worse, and that is true of gentle treatments as much as strong ones. These conditions are looked after by dermatology and immunology teams, and most people are on high-dose steroids and other immune-suppressing medicines at the same time, which adds infection risk on top. Treatments wait until the disease is in stable remission and your dermatologist has said yes. Nothing about this is contagious — it is about protecting your skin, not anyone else's.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation

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Autoimmune blistering diseases make the skin extraordinarily fragile — in pemphigus, gentle sideways pressure on normal-looking skin is enough to lift it and start a new blister. Beauty treatments in that situation can set off a flare, cause painful blistering, let infection in and make the disease itself worse, and that is true of gentle treatments as much as strong ones. These conditions are looked after by dermatology and immunology teams, and most people are on high-dose steroids and other immune-suppressing medicines at the same time, which adds infection risk on top. Treatments wait until the disease is in stable remission and your dermatologist has said yes. Nothing about this is contagious — it is about protecting your skin, not anyone else's.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation

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Autoimmune blistering diseases make the skin extraordinarily fragile — in pemphigus, gentle sideways pressure on normal-looking skin is enough to lift it and start a new blister. Beauty treatments in that situation can set off a flare, cause painful blistering, let infection in and make the disease itself worse, and that is true of gentle treatments as much as strong ones. These conditions are looked after by dermatology and immunology teams, and most people are on high-dose steroids and other immune-suppressing medicines at the same time, which adds infection risk on top. Treatments wait until the disease is in stable remission and your dermatologist has said yes. Nothing about this is contagious — it is about protecting your skin, not anyone else's.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation

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Anything that breaks the skin asks more of your body's healing than it would in someone without type 1 diabetes. Wounds close more slowly, infection takes hold more easily, and the small punctures left by needling, injectables and permanent makeup are wounds like any other. This is a caution, not a refusal: if your blood glucose is well controlled and you have no problems with your feet or your circulation, plenty of people with type 1 diabetes have these treatments safely. Tell your practitioner, expect a careful aftercare conversation, and get anything that is slow to heal looked at.

Sources: American Diabetes Association · Diabetes UK · NHS · NICE

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Chemotherapy commonly takes your eyebrows and eyelashes, and regrowth afterwards is slow and often incomplete. Permanent makeup to restore a brow line or a lash line is actively indicated once you are at least six months past the end of your treatment — the difference it makes to how you feel about your own reflection is the point of it, not a side benefit. Confirm the timing with your oncologist first. Whether medical tattooing is available on the NHS varies from one trust to another, so ask your cancer care team whether it is available locally.

Sources: American Academy of Dermatology · Look Good Feel Better UK · Macmillan Cancer Support

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A high temperature means the appointment gets rescheduled, for two reasons. The first is other people: a fever usually means an infection, and an infection you can pass on does not belong in a room where someone leans over your face for an hour and then treats the next person. The second is you — your body is busy, you will tolerate the treatment badly, and lying still while you feel awful is nobody's idea of a treat. Phone ahead rather than turning up: most salons will move you without a cancellation fee if you tell them why, and the ones worth going to would far rather you did.

Sources: General Medical Council (UK) · UK legislation

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If you have been drinking, the appointment should be rescheduled, and a salon that says so is protecting you rather than judging you. Consent has to be informed to count, and alcohol takes that away — which matters most for the treatments you cannot undo: nobody should wake up to permanent makeup or filler they agreed to after a couple of drinks. There is a physical reason too. Alcohol thins the blood and dilates your vessels, so you bruise and bleed more, and anything involving a needle marks worse. Come back another day, sober, and you will get a better result and a decision you still agree with next week.

Sources: General Medical Council (UK) · UK legislation

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At stage 4 or 5, your kidneys are no longer clearing drugs and chemicals from your blood the way they used to, and that is what makes these particular treatments a conversation rather than a booking. Anything injected, and anything spread over a large area of skin and absorbed through it, puts a load on the system that clears it. There is a second reason too: advanced kidney disease affects how platelets work, so you bruise and bleed more easily than the same treatment would suggest. None of this is an outright no. Tell your kidney team what you are considering, tell the person treating you which stage you are at, and if you are on dialysis, book for a non-dialysis day when you are least depleted. At stages 1 to 3, with function still reasonable, none of this applies in the same way.

Sources: Kidney Care UK · NHS · NICE

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Treatments that change something permanently, or that put a needle in, ask for a kind of consent dementia makes complicated. Under the Mental Capacity Act, consent has to be informed and specific: you have to be able to take in what is being done, weigh up what could go wrong, and hold on to that long enough to decide. Tattooed brows and injected filler outlast the memory of agreeing to them, and someone who cannot recall the conversation cannot change their mind about the result. So the answer here is no unless capacity for this specific decision has been assessed and documented — and never on the basis that a family member thinks it would be nice. Nobody should be talked into a procedure they cannot fully understand. Gentle treatments are a different matter entirely, and they are the ones worth booking.

Sources: Alzheimer's Society · Dementia UK · NICE · UK legislation

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At stage 4 or 5, your kidneys are no longer clearing drugs and chemicals from your blood the way they used to, and that is what makes these particular treatments a conversation rather than a booking. Anything injected, and anything spread over a large area of skin and absorbed through it, puts a load on the system that clears it. There is a second reason too: advanced kidney disease affects how platelets work, so you bruise and bleed more easily than the same treatment would suggest. None of this is an outright no. Tell your kidney team what you are considering, tell the person treating you which stage you are at, and if you are on dialysis, book for a non-dialysis day when you are least depleted. At stages 1 to 3, with function still reasonable, none of this applies in the same way.

Sources: Kidney Care UK · NHS · NICE

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If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

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Sources: British Thyroid Foundation · NHS · NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries

If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

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If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

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Menopause restricts nothing. It is not an illness and it is not a contraindication — the average age in the UK is 51, perimenopause can start in your late thirties, and every treatment on this site stays open to you. What changes is the skin, the hair and the nails you bring to the appointment: drier, thinner, less collagen, more shedding, and sometimes the first pigmentation you have ever had. So the useful adjustments are small ones. Shorter, cooler facials if hot flushes are part of your day. Gentler exfoliation on skin that has thinned. Extra moisture, everywhere. And if you have started on HRT, say so — it changes two small things worth knowing about.

Sources: British Menopause Society · NHS · NICE · The Menopause Charity

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If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

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While an overactive thyroid is not yet under control, your body is already running hot and fast — a raised heart rate, a low tolerance for heat, sometimes a tremor. Treatments that add heat, that stimulate with electrical currents, or that ask you to lie still for a long stretch are the ones to approach carefully: a heated treatment can tip heat intolerance into feeling unwell, and staying still for two hours is harder than it sounds when your heart is racing. None of this is permanent. Once you are on treatment and your levels have settled, most of it becomes straightforward. In the meantime, tell your therapist, keep sessions short and cool, and stop if you feel your heart pounding. If your eyes are affected too, that is thyroid eye disease and it has its own rules for anything done near the lashes.

Sources: British Thyroid Foundation · NHS · NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries

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If you already react to things, the answer here is almost always the same one: patch test, 48 hours before, every time you meet a product for the first time. Reactions to salon products run from a bit of redness to anaphylaxis, and the ingredients that cause most of them are predictable — PPD in hair and brow dyes, the preservatives in creams, the cyanoacrylate in lash glue, latex in gloves, nickel in tools, fragrance in almost everything, and formaldehyde releasers in some nail products. Two things people get wrong. A patch test is not a formality to be waived because you are in a hurry, and having had something before does not make you safe: sensitisation builds with exposure, which is why lash adhesive should be retested every six to twelve months and why people react to a dye they have used for years. Tell your therapist exactly what you react to, and take an allergy history seriously enough to say it out loud before, not after.

Sources: British Association of Dermatologists · British Contact Dermatitis Society · UK legislation

Badly dehydrated is not the state to have a treatment in, and it is worth rescheduling rather than pushing through. Dehydration drops your blood pressure, which makes fainting much more likely when you have been lying still and then sit up quickly, or when a treatment involves heat, pain or the sight of a needle. Your skin also heals less well when there is not enough fluid in it, so anything that relies on recovery gives a worse result. Drink, eat, rest, and rebook for a day when you feel like yourself.

Sources: General Medical Council (UK) · UK legislation

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An underactive thyroid is not a barrier to any beauty treatment. What it does is change the material your therapist is working with: skin is drier, nails are more brittle and split more easily, hair sheds more and grows back slowly, and you feel the cold and tire faster than other people in the room. So ask for the gentle version of everything — no aggressive filing, no harsh removal, plenty of moisturiser, and a shorter appointment if sitting still for two hours is a lot at the moment. One thing worth knowing: if your hair has started shedding all over and your nails have turned brittle and you have not had your thyroid checked, ask your GP for a blood test. Beauty professionals notice this pattern long before anyone else does.

Sources: British Thyroid Foundation · NHS · NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries

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Frailty changes what a treatment asks of a body. Skin is thinner, healing is slower, bruising comes easily — often helped along by blood thinners — and lying still on a couch for an hour is genuinely tiring. None of that makes an injectable or a hands-on body treatment off-limits; it means shorter sessions, gentler handling, easier access on and off the couch, and a practitioner who knows what else you are taking. Frailty is individual: the question is how this person is doing, not how old they are.

Sources: Age UK · British Geriatrics Society · NICE

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Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are inherited differences in collagen, the protein that holds skin and joints together. In practice that means skin that tears and bruises easily, healing that takes longer and scars that spread thin, and joints that move further than they should. None of that rules out mechanical, injected or light-based treatments, but all of it changes how they should be done: gentler handling, less traction on the skin, more support under hypermobile joints, and an expectation of more bruising than the practitioner is used to seeing. How much caution you need depends on your EDS type, so bring that detail with you.

Sources: American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C · Ehlers-Danlos Support UK · NHS · The Ehlers-Danlos Society

Treatments that injure the skin so it can rebuild — injectables, chemical peels, microneedling — ask for weeks of healing and give nothing back in the meantime. In palliative care that trade is the wrong way round: the discomfort lands now and the benefit arrives after a point that may not come. A therapist declining this is protecting your comfort, and the gentle treatments in the same list are where the good is.

Sources: Hospice UK · Look Good Feel Better UK · Macmillan Cancer Support · Marie Curie

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There is no medical reason body size changes what treatments are open to you. What it changes is whether the salon is set up for you, and that is worth checking before you arrive rather than discovering on the day: treatment couches carry a weight rating, gowns and robes come in a range of sizes, and headrests and armrests fit some bodies better than others. A good salon answers that question straightforwardly and has the answer ready. How you are spoken to while they answer it tells you the rest.

Sources: NHS · UK Obesity Federation

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Avoid over the affected area — other areas are fine.

Nothing goes over or near the surgical site while it is still healing — no wax, no heat, no needles, no products worked into the skin there. Away from the site the picture is different, and plenty of treatments are reasonable once you are past the first week or two of recovery. Because we cannot know where you were operated on, treat this as a restriction on the area itself rather than on the treatment everywhere, and get your surgeon to confirm when the site is closed and settled.

Sources: British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons · NHS · Royal College of Surgeons of England

Leave two weeks between a vaccination and an elective injectable treatment. A vaccine deliberately stirs up your immune system, and injecting something cosmetic into that window does three unhelpful things: it adds inflammation where the needle goes, it overlaps with the rare delayed swelling reactions reported in hyaluronic acid fillers after COVID-19 vaccination, and if something does go wrong nobody can tell which of the two caused it. Fourteen days is the standard separation. Nothing about a vaccination affects non-injectable treatments.

Sources: JAMA Dermatology

Being disabled is not a contraindication. The treatment itself is usually exactly the same treatment; what has to change is the room, the communication and the equipment — a step-free entrance, an adjustable couch, help transferring, a description of what is about to happen if you cannot see it, writing or BSL if you cannot hear it, plain language and a longer consultation if that is what works for you. Making those adjustments is a legal duty on the salon under section 20 of the Equality Act 2010 in England, Scotland and Wales, and under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as amended in Northern Ireland. It is not a favour, and you do not have to ask for it as one.

Sources: Equality and Human Rights Commission · Mencap · RNIB · RNID · Scope · UK Parliament · UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)

Being disabled is not a contraindication. The treatment itself is usually exactly the same treatment; what has to change is the room, the communication and the equipment — a step-free entrance, an adjustable couch, help transferring, a description of what is about to happen if you cannot see it, writing or BSL if you cannot hear it, plain language and a longer consultation if that is what works for you. Making those adjustments is a legal duty on the salon under section 20 of the Equality Act 2010 in England, Scotland and Wales, and under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as amended in Northern Ireland. It is not a favour, and you do not have to ask for it as one.

Sources: Equality and Human Rights Commission · Mencap · RNIB · RNID · Scope · UK Parliament · UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)

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