Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2007 | Page 81

Fashion, Health & Beauty
Darkness into light!
Just ten minutes at the Orchard
and a lifetime's agony of selfconsciousness can be over.
Inset:
Dr Máire
Rhatigan and
new assistant
Jo-Anne Ryan

Two's company
Before treatment

The Orchard Clinic welcomes Jo from
New Zealand to its staff. She's keen to
educate the Isle of Wight about skincare

New Zealand Jo

The Orchard Cosmetic
Skin Centre in Newport
has celebrated its second
anniversary – and has recently
taken on another experienced
professional. Back in January
Jo-Anne Ryan joined Dr Maire
Rhatigan. Jo had trained in
her native New Zealand as
a registered nurse, and after
nine years chose to work for
a plastic surgeon at a private
institute. She ran the cosmetic
side of the practice, dealing
mainly with dermal fillers, Botox
and light treatments. She also
assisted in theatre, and her
duties as nurse chaperone
to patients plainly honed her
skills in putting patients at
the Orchard at their ease.
“People can feel good under
the protective umbrella of our
joint experience,” Jo says. “We
really enjoy what we do, we’re
really into it! We try very hard to

do the best for our patients.”
Máire and Jo stress the
importance of looking after a
patient from start to finish with
a big emphasis at the clinic on
discretion as many find the first
visit a daunting prospect. “A lot
of it is also helping someone
to prepare how to wear their
new look. It’s about giving
them confidence” says Jo.
It’s also, she says, about
education. “Once people have
had a treatment it’s just as
important to look after their
skin. The Isle of Wight has a
large sailing community, it’s a
very outdoorsy place. So part
of a treatment is educating
patients about environmental
skin damage and protective
creams. Protection is the
soundest advice we can give”.
The Orchard Cosmetic
Clinic, 189 Fairlee Road,
Newport. Tel: [phone].
www.orchardcosmetic.co.uk.

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bag lightening”,
or the “tear trough
filler” which injects
the filler Restylane
in the tear trough,
underneath the skin,
just below the lower
eyelid. The effect
is to dissipate the
hollow translucence
and take away
the dark circles. A
secondary effect
is that the tear
trough becomes
elevated and so
“lifted” – without
the need of a surgeon’s knife.
“The results were literally
instantaneous,” says Stephanie.
“It was simplicity itself with
the minimum discomfort
of tiny pricks, and the
second I looked in the mirror
afterwards I was amazed.”
Stephanie was told in her

“I’ve always been selfconscious about the dark
circles under my eyes, but I felt
strongly that surgery was not
the way to go,” says Stephanie.
“I work in the fitness industry
and unnecessary surgery would
so go against the message I
spend my life preaching.”
So, after
seeing television
programmes
about non-surgical
treatment, Stephanie
took herself off to the
Orchard Cosmetic
Skin Centre to
have a consultation
with Consultant
Ophthalmologist Dr
Maire Rhatigan.
“I feel young, and
I work in a young
industry,” said
Stephanie, aged
After treatment
63, who is a water
exercise consultant. “But I
consultation that the treatment,
wanted some sort of help to
costing around £300, would
delay the ageing process. To
last between six months to a
be