Aesthetics · 22 September 2026 · 8 min read
How to tell a qualified aesthetic clinician from a great one
By Alaiyka Parvez
Owner, CoLaz Aesthetics Clinic
The short version
- • The UK aesthetic industry is largely unregulated, so the responsibility for checking a practitioner's qualifications falls on the patient, not a government body.
- • Six checks take about 60 seconds: regulator registration, JCCP or Save Face listing, Level 4 or Level 7 training, indemnity insurance, years of aesthetic-specific practice, and a named person you can reach afterwards.
- • Six more things only show up in the consultation itself, including whether they Fitzpatrick-type your skin, whether they will say no, and how honestly they talk about maintenance.
- • A great clinician is not the one who uses the most product or the strongest peel. It is the one who matches the treatment to what you actually want to change.
- • Every CoLaz laser and IPL practitioner holds a Level 4 qualification, and every prescriber sees patients in person before any script is written.
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About the author
Alaiyka Parvez
Owner, CoLaz Aesthetics Clinic
Alaiyka Parvez bought the CoLaz franchise network in 2023, having joined the company as a Slough clinic employee in 2013 and gone on to open the Hounslow and Wembley franchises. She writes here on the treatments CoLaz delivers across its seven UK clinics.
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