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and was slowly starting to enjoy it, and that really helped
me. I had a client base big enough to justify me working full-
time about nine months after qualifying ,” she says.
NEW HOME
Her mum and son now both recovered and healthy, in
2017 Whitworth decided to move into a proper space and
open her own clinic. Based in Armthorpe, Doncaster, KL
Aesthetics is housed in a large, semi-detached house which
Whitworth noticed one day on her way back from viewing
other premises. “We bought the house and converted it
into a three-room clinic. It was on the market for about two
years because it has a huge front garden on a main road but
no back garden,” she says. “This was perfect for us though,
as it meant we could offer lots of parking for patients in the
walled front garden.”
Whitworth admits that with no previous experience in
renovating a property for business purposes, the project atmosphere,” she says. “I’m a very relaxed person and we’re
ended up costing a lot more than she originally thought. a family-run business, which I actually think is partly why my
“When we looked into the regulations to pass for inspection client retention rate is so high.”
– fire doors and alarms, disabled access, emergency
lighting, etc. – everything had to be redone, it all had to go SOLID FOUNDATIONS
back to the bare brick and it’s basically a new house inside. The KL Aesthetics team consists of Whitworth, her
But it’s up to the standards it needs to meet, and that’s sister, who is a skin therapist, and one other full-time
the most important thing,” she says. In terms of the clinic’s aesthetic nurse. When the UK went into lockdown in March,
interior, Whitworth says she knew exactly what she wanted. Whitworth was looking to hire an additional nurse to work
“I want patients to walk in and to feel like they’re walking from the third treatment room and help manage the (then)
into a luxury hotel, and not be intimidated by a hyper-clinical waiting list of over six weeks, which is sure to have grown
during lockdown. As a top Allergan account in the north,
Whitworth says she received a lot of help from her business
consultant when she was recruiting her existing aesthetic
nurse.
“They get to know new practitioners in the north, so they
recommended some new nurses to the industry. I needed
help with the recruitment and management side, which
Allergan gave me,” she says. Whitworth performs the
more advanced injectable treatments such as non-surgical
rhinoplasty, temples and full-face rejuvenations, while
for the time being, nurse Hannah injects lips, cheeks and
jawlines while she continues to be mentored by Whitworth
in other procedures.
In addition to Allergan, KL Aesthetics also works with
ZO Skin Health for skincare, sales of which Whitworth
says have really taken off during lockdown. “People are
just loving it. I’ve started using it – I’m on the brightening
programme for pigmentation – and I’ve been posting my
progress on our social channels, so people can see how
quickly and effectively it’s transforming my skin.”
Alongside promoting and processing skincare sales,
Whitworth has used the downtime to focus on achieving
CPD certification for the training courses she plans to
launch when the time is right; one or two-day courses for
fully-qualified nurses and doctors where she will teach
foundation toxin and/ or dermal filler. The clinic’s double
garage will be converted into a training space. “I was
hoping to start the training around September time, but
we’ll have to see, and with social-distancing measures it
will probably now just be one to one,” she says. Despite
the uncertainty cast by the pandemic, Whitworth has a
positive outlook and is keen to start seeing the patients on
her lengthy waiting list when it’s safe to reopen the clinic’s
doors. For someone who had a shaky start in aesthetics, it
certainly seems like smooth sailing from here. AM

26 Aesthetic Medicine • June 2020