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Plates 13 — 19 · the menu

Priced by the minute

Six treatments, five durations, one price each. Nothing here is a course, nothing is a membership, and the number next to the name is the number you pay.

Pl. 13
09:40 · Room One · thirty minutes into an eighty

Four rules that decide what you pay

  1. 01

    The clock starts when you are on the table, not when you arrive. Consultation time at the start of a first visit is counted and charged; the ten minutes of talking at the end of every other visit is not.

  2. 02

    Actives are included. There is no surcharge for a mandelic peel inside an eighty-minute facial — if your skin can take it that day, it is in the price.

  3. 03

    If we stop early because your barrier is compromised, you pay the shorter duration. That happens perhaps twice a month and it is not an upsell in reverse.

  4. 04

    Cancel inside twenty-four hours and you are charged half. We hold one room empty on Thursdays precisely so that this rule can stay simple.

A macro crop of dark lashes against the curve of a closed eyelid
Pl. 1410:08 — the eye area is worked with one finger and nothing elseRoom Two
Each band is as tall as the treatment is long

The ledger

A client's hands resting at the back of her own neck, shoulders bare

Back facial

25 min
95 CHF

Cleanse, steam, extractions between the shoulder blades, cool mask. Booked almost entirely in the fortnight before a wedding, and it is the only thing we will do without a consultation first.

Pl. 15 · 16:40 · Room Three
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The reset

50 min
165 CHF

Double cleanse, enzyme, eight minutes of extractions, mask, massage. The shortest facial that leaves your skin measurably different a week later, which is why we do not sell a thirty.

Pl. 16 · 11:20 · Room One
A face at rest under a thin film of cream, light raking across the cheek

The long one

80 min
245 CHF

Everything in the reset plus twenty-five minutes of lymphatic work and a second mask under warm towels. Two thirds of our Saturdays are this treatment, booked six weeks out.

Pl. 17 · 14:00 · Room One
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First visit

90 min
185 CHF

Thirty-five minutes of questions, a lamp, a photograph, and then a short treatment chosen from what we just found. Deducted in full from whatever you book next, if you book within eight weeks.

Pl. 18 · 07:40 · Room One
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Peel & repair

110 min
330 CHF

Mandelic or lactic at a strength set on the day, then forty minutes of barrier work while it settles. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings only. You will flake on days three and four and you should plan around it.

Pl. 19 · 08:30 · Room Two
Three mornings a week, never on a Saturday

What a peel costs you besides money

Four days. Day one you look slightly flushed and perfectly presentable. Day two nothing. Days three and four you flake around the nose and chin and makeup will not sit over it. Day five it is done. We will not book one inside a fortnight of a wedding, a shoot or a holiday with sun in it, and we ask what is in your diary before we agree.

A single peel is rarely the answer either. Pigmentation moves over three appointments spread six weeks apart; acne scarring over six. We tell you the number at the consultation and we do not take the money for it up front.

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Mandelic acid at 30%, two minutes after application

Asked at the door, every week

If the answer you want is not here, telephone. We would rather spend four minutes on the phone than have you book the wrong thing.

Can I come in with active acne?
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Yes, and you should. What we will not do is extract an inflamed cyst — that is a dermatologist's job and we will say the word out loud rather than press on it. Everything else is ordinary work for us.

I am on tretinoin. Do I stop?
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Five days off before a peel, two days off before a facial, and back on the night after. Tell us at booking, not on the table — it changes which room you are in.

Do you do microneedling, injectables or laser?
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No, none of the three, and we are not planning to. There are two clinics within a ten-minute walk that do all of it well and we will write their names down for you.

How often should I come?
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Most people here come four to six times a year. Congestion that is actively being treated wants every four weeks for three visits, then it drops back. Monthly forever is a sales pattern, not a skin one.

Can I bring someone?
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Room One has one chair for a companion and we are happy for it to be used, particularly for a first visit. There is no waiting room; the stairwell is not one.

Are vouchers available?
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Yes, for a value rather than a named treatment, so the person receiving it chooses. They are written out by hand and they do not expire, which occasionally costs us money and has never once caused an argument.

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Eleven days for a weekday. Six weeks for a Saturday.

If you can take a Tuesday at half past seven in the morning, you can almost always come this fortnight.

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