AestheticTalk.
Nearly twenty years of clinical wisdom, organised around four frameworks — cells, space, time and judgement — and applied chapter by chapter across the face.
Published by HSI Press. The complete Aesthetic Talk book — the frameworks set inside the career and the clinical stories that produced them — is coming soon.
The book, typeset for print.
Aesthetic Talk is now set as a 6 × 9 inch hardback interior in EB Garamond — six parts, forty-six chapters, running heads, notes, references and a full subject index. ISBN and barcode are placeholders until registration completes.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Trim
- 6 × 9 in
- Spine
- 0.833 in
The chapters, grouped under the frameworks they apply.
Theory first, then its application. Or switch to Read in order for the linear path — the preface is the best place to begin.
The craft and the consultation
Philosophy, patient selection and the hands. Start here.
The Three-Cell Model
Fibroblast, melanocyte, keratinocyte. What the skin is made of, and how each cell is treated.
Read the framework paperThe Three-Layer Filler Model
Needle-in-skin, cannula-in-subcutaneous, needle-on-periosteum. Deep fat is a selective anatomical target inside the structural category — not a fourth mandatory plane.
Read the framework paperApplied region by region
Biological Sequencing
Treat by stage, not by age — in the order the face actually ages.
Read the framework paperThe Case for Restraint
When not to treat, and which techniques do lasting harm.
Read the framework paperThe same spine, at three depths.
Read them in this order. Each tier is deeper than the last, and each one rests on the same four frameworks.
- Depth 1
The four framework papers
Free · ~10 minutes each
Cells, space, time, judgement. The core ideas in four short papers.
Start with Part 1 - Depth 2
Aesthetic Talk online
Free · self-paced · 10 AiCE Points
The frameworks applied chapter by chapter, with an assessment and CPD certificate.
Begin the course - Depth 3
The printed Aesthetic Talk
The complete work
The frameworks set inside the career and the clinical stories that produced them.
Get the book
Read, reflect, certify.
Complete the chapters, pass a short assessment, and submit a brief clinical reflection to download your certificate. No cost. No deadline. Just the work.
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The full argument — with the clinical stories, the technique, and the twenty years behind it — is in Aesthetic Talk.