Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara

Carmelita Gibbons was working as an oncology nurse in University Hospital Galway when she decided to pursue her love of skincare. Having gone back to college to further her nursing qualifications while raising two teenagers, returning to study was not as daunting as it might be for others.

But she had to travel to London to train in aesthetics while holding down her full-time role. She then worked on Saturdays at the Galway Skincare and Laser Clinic to deliver hyaluronic injectables and dermal fillers to clients since 2012.

“I’ve always had an interest in looking after skin and managing the aging process. I love getting skin to look as good as it can and helping people feel as amazing as they can. In a way it’s an extension of my nursing, helping people, letting them know there is something that can be done and they are in control.”

She took early retirement from UHG in 2019 and opened her own clinic on the Newcastle Road, opposite her old workplace and underneath the Wig Clinic where her patients would visit after losing their hair. And then the lockdown happened.

But that did not deter her from investing €60,000 in the BTL Exilis Ultra 360, a machine said to offer the world’s leading non-invasive body sculpting, skin tightening and facial rejuvenation technology.

“It really does what it’s meant to do. It’s no Mickey Mouse thing,” she confides.

The Corofin therapist explains that the machine uses infiltratory technology that delves deep into the layers of your skin to tighten it with heating and cooling energy.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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