About Alice Hart-Davis
Alice Hart-Davis is an award-winning beauty journalist and author. For nearly 20
years she
has been reporting on the aesthetic cosmetic procedures colloquially known as
tweakments,
and has trialled countless procedures in order to review them.
Alice has won many awards for her work, though none for services as a cosmetic guinea
pig.
She attends aesthetics conferences around the world and spends a lot of time
catching up
with the doctors, surgeons, dentists, nurses and the companies behind the technology
in this
fast-expanding field, the better to understand the tweakments on offer.
Over the years Alice has seen — and experienced first-hand — plenty of bad
treatments, and
understands the many problems that beset the aesthetics industry, from the lack of
regulation to the rising incidence of body dysmorphia among cosmetic patients and
practitioners.
Despite this, she remains an advocate of good, understated cosmetic work — the sort
which
goes undetected and unremarked, because it doesn’t lead to weird-looking hamster
cheeks or
frozen foreheads. She is also still enthusiastic about the potential of tweakments
for
making people look that bit better, which in turn makes them feel better about
themselves
and better able to get on with the rest of their lives.
She lives in London, a short bicycle ride from Harley Street, with her husband and a
lively
Jack Russell terrier. Her three young adult children take a dim view of tweakments,
but
accept that these are something she does for work (and are too kind to use the word,
‘vanity’).