About us
About the Larchmont Skin Guide
Larchmont Skin Guide is an independent neighbourhood publication about skin and aesthetic treatment, written so a reader can walk into a consultation knowing what to ask.
Larchmont is a village inside a very large city, and the two facts pull against each other. The village is small enough that a good injector's name travels by word of mouth in a week. The city is large enough that the number of doors offering treatment within a short drive is bewildering, and the marketing at every one of them is fluent.
We write for the reader caught between the two, in Larchmont, Hancock Park, Beverly Grove, or anywhere the brochure arrives before the facts. We do not treat anyone, we do not sell anything, and we do not have a clinic. That distance is the point.
What we cover
Two sets of guides. The first follows what changes in a face: cheek volume, under-eye hollows and dark circles, neck lines and laxity, firmness, and hydration. The second follows you into the clinic: how a good consultation runs, what to expect from a chemical peel, how dermal fillers differ, and treating uneven tone under Larchmont sun.
What we leave out
Prices, because quotes in this city change quickly and are built differently from one door to the next; we explain how a quote is put together and leave the numbers to the consultation. Recommendations, because clinics named here are examples to test against our questions, never endorsements. And medical advice of any kind: none of us holds a medical licence, and no line on this site pretends otherwise.
How a guide gets made
Each guide starts from a question neighbours actually ask, usually quietly: what is changing in my face, and what would a good clinic do about it?
The work behind it is close reading of consent forms, regulatory documents, clinical trials and the small print at the bottom of a brochure. Where the evidence is thin, the guide says so, in hedged terms, and it is clear about risk in a field where risk is routinely minimised.
Before it runs, each guide is checked against a short list of things we will not say: no claim about results or safety without its limits, no promised downtime, no loose use of a licence rule, and no sentence written as though this publication had a waiting room. Sun, licence rules and skin tone appear wherever they change the decision.
Money and corrections
We sell nothing, and we stay independent of every clinic we mention. Caveats are content, and a guide that omits the downside is advertising. Corrections are dated and left visible.
The neighbourhood we write from
Readers ask where to walk a dog during a recovery week without meeting the midday sun. We point them at the shaded early hours, and at the city's animal services for everything else.
Readers who cycle ask about wind and sun together, which dry the skin faster than either alone. The route and safety material from BikeLA's advocates covers the riding, while our hydration guide covers the skin.
Writing to us
We do not give medical advice by email or anywhere else. If something about a recent treatment worries you, the right call is to the clinician who performed it, and if it worries you a great deal, to a doctor today. For a correction, an idea for a piece or a question about a guide, say hello.