New Tweakments I Want To Try In 2026

What new treatments am I keen to try this year, you ask. Well, I’ve got a little list. From supercharging my lips to the one tweak that I’ve had my eye on for a long time, here’s what I plan to book in for…

1. Lip hydration

You might think the best thing for hydrating lips would be to work from the outside in with peptide-rich serums – and those are great – but you can also give lips a shot of deeper, longer-lasting under-the-skin hydration with an injectable product like Skinvive, and I had this done in January (haven’t written it up yet, sorry, but soon). The product is a gel made with hyaluronic acid whose molecules are lightly ‘crosslinked’ – less so than you’d get in a filler, so it’s very soft – but there’s enough of this linkage to make it last in the skin for up to nine months. Very quick, very easy and nice subtle results in the form of a softening, rather than a volumising, of my lips.

2. Tackle thread veins on my legs

Regular readers may think they’ve read this before – and yes, you did, I said exactly this last year, and never got round to it. Why not? I guess because, as so often, I never notice the little veins on my legs until the weather becomes warm enough that I’m moved to wear shorts, and by then it’s too late. Also, to be honest, I’m not that bothered and the veins – thread veins rather than varicose veins – aren’t that bad, and if anyone else can see them and doesn’t like them, well that really is their problem.  I usually resolve to deal with these veins in the winter, then when the winter comes, my legs vanish into layers of thermal leggings and joggers, and I forget about them til the next summer. So why would I want to treat them? Because enough of you ask about treatments like this, I feel it would be a useful one to be able to show you.

3. Damp down pigmentation and rosacea

It’s been a while – well, years – since I had any sort of IPL or laser to treat pigmentation and/ or rosacea. Ok, so they’re not a big problem for me, I’m diligent with my skincare and SPF, but I know that rosacea is a condition that gradually worsens with time, and UV-induced pigmentation also accumulates over time, so keeping a lid on either or both would be a good idea. What treatment would I have? I just don’t know, there are so many choices. But if I get round to it, you’ll certainly hear about it.

4. More skin quality treatments

Last year I had Sculptra – which definitely improved the quality of my skin and has made it less… floppy, if that makes sense. Less lax and stretchable. I had one treatment with two vials, and a follow-up six weeks later with one vial, and I showed results at six weeks after the second treatment (you can see the video of these Sculptra results here) which were… modest. Then I forgot about it and was baffled as, over the course of an unusually stressful summer, people kept telling me my face was looking great… Ah no, said one practitioner, Sculptra is the gift that keeps on giving, your results will carry on improving for seven or eight months. After that, I tried Jalupro – an injectable which combines amino acids, to nourish the fibroblasts, with hyaluronic acid, which added more glow and consistency to the look and feel of my skin. So this year? I’ll be grabbing any skin-hydrating, fibroblast-stimulating, DNA-regenerating options that come my way. Like what? Let’s see. I’ll let you know.

5. Profhilo Structura

Not to be confused with Sculptra (which is an injectable biostimulator, details on that link), Structura is an injectable treatment made with the same hyaluronic acid as normal Profhilo but twice as concentrated. And whereas ‘normal’ Profhilo is used for hydrating the skin and improving its condition, Structura is designed to subtly remodel the fat cells in the superficial fat pads in the face, so it restores their volume. Not the deep fat pads that leave sunken hollows in the cheeks when they fade away with age (or medication-driven rapid weight loss), but the slim, near-the-surface-of-the-skin fat pads up along the temples, or just in front of the ears. I’ve had one treatment and have another scheduled, so I will report in due course.

6. Lip Blush

Having a hint of permanent makeup on my lips is something I’ve been curious about for years, but have never stepped up for, thinking, as you do, that’d I’d leave it for now. I’ve tried microblading of my eyebrows (which I loved at the time, though in retrospect it looks heavy and blocky). If I did it again, I’d go to the extraordinarily talented Rachel Pitman (just take a look at her work on that link, and the natural artistry in the results). I’ve tried semi-permanent eyeliner on my top lid (fab, but too subtle to make much impression, plus, I had no idea when I had it done that this would be an issue, it now means I can’t have IPL treatment close to my eyelids, because of all that black pigment.) Anyway, I’m now booked in for a lip blush with leading expert Karen Betts for May, so let’s wait and see how it goes.

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