ES Tests: Margaret Dabbs Laser Rejuvenating Hand Lift

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Margaret Dabbs
Melanie McDonagh24 September 2018

What is it?

Margaret Dabbs: Laser Rejuvenating Hand Lift

You may well know Margaret Dabbs for feet – and since you’re asking, her medical pedicure (hardcore podiatry plus the feelgood stuff) is the best thing on earth you can do for them – but she’s less well known for that other extremity, the hands. Her Ultimate Manicure is very good indeed. Now she’s come up with a new treatment, Laser Hand Therapy, to “tighten and illuminate the skin on the hands”. It makes sense…we don’t think twice about high tech treatment for our face, but somehow forget about our hands, which are even more exposed to the elements and get more wear and tear.

What does it do?

It uses laser light therapy on the hands. The idea is that the energy – expressed as light and heat - penetrates the dermis and stimulates collagen production. So your skin is plumped out and lines are diminished.

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What happens?

It hurts. Take that on board at the start. But the principle is precisely the same as I’ve had in many a facial, viz, your therapist takes something like a big ballpoint pen attached to a machine and rolls it over a grid marked on the back of your hands. It’s hot. It hurts – but if you whinge, the therapist can turn down the heat setting, which is easier to bear but won’t work so quickly. However, the roller doesn’t stay for long on one area. Then it moves to the back of your fingers, an area you rarely even think about. It lasts about 45 minutes.

Anything else?

You have to get a brief patch test a day or two before the main treatment to see if there are any adverse reactions, but the £50 is taken off the £150 price of the treatment. And ideally you follow up the treatment with Margaret Dabbs hand products, specifically the serum which promises to address things like skin discoloration which the laser doesn’t do and a sun protection product.

Does it work?

Yes it does. You can see immediate effects when you compare a lasered hand with your unlasered one: the little lines on the knuckles are visibly reduced. And the effects continue. Around four hours later your skin really is plumped up and healthier looking, though it’ll never be that of a teenager.

The downside?

It’s not meant to be a one-off treatment; you’re meant to have a course of six, at monthly intervals, which comes to – eek! – £750 (you get one free), not counting the cost of the products. But if you can afford it, this does help the appearance of older hands and is, therefore, very good for morale.

Laser Hand Treatment, 50 mins, £150. Course of 6 for £750. MargaretDabbs.co.uk

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