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Safe Botox isn’t only for Harley Street – it should be on the high street, too | Sali Hughes on beauty
If reliable brands can offer affordable injectables, customers won’t need to look for dubious alternatives
Every couple of years, I’m invited on to some radio show on the implicit understanding that as a Guardian beauty columnist, I’ll sound suitably appalled and outraged by the latest opening of a high street aesthetic clinic chain. Without them, we continue with a two-tier system whereby women with cash and contacts visit prestigious doctors with sexy equipment, extensive training and flawless technique ( Dr Wassim Taktouk of Taktouk Clinic, in my case), while those on a budget visit private residences, hair salons or “Botox parties”, to be jacked up with unlicensed chemicals by someone with a certificate from an internet college. Any objections to a highly insured middle ground in the form of quality nationwide chains are snobbish and downright dangerous.
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