I have always been interested in skin, body health, and the mind, and I still believe they are all connected.

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I absolutely love what I do. After more than 20 years in cosmetic aesthetics, I still find faces fascinating; I still enjoy learning, and I still genuinely enjoy sitting down with someone and talking about what brought them to see me.

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A lot has changed in aesthetics since then. I have changed too.

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I probably think about ageing differently now than I did when I first entered this industry. I don’t think ageing well is about trying to look younger at all costs, and I certainly don’t think every change that happens to a face needs correcting.

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I think it is much more individual than that.

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You can care about your appearance and still be comfortable with ageing. You can choose aesthetic treatments and still leave certain things completely alone. You can look after your skin, move your body, eat well, meditate, wear makeup, have treatments, go grey, colour your hair, do all of it or very little of it.

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There isn’t one right way to age well.

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A LITTLE OF MY STORY

I became a Registered Nurse in 1996 and spent part of my earlier nursing career working in operating theatres as a scrub nurse in both general and plastic surgery.

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I eventually moved into cosmetic aesthetics, where I have now worked for more than 20 years. During that time, I have worked clinically, as well as in education and training roles teaching and mentoring other healthcare professionals.

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It’s an industry I have watched grow and change enormously.

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Some of those changes have been wonderful. Others have made me stop and think.

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Social media has changed how we discuss treatments. Trends move incredibly quickly. The amount of information available to people is extraordinary, although more information doesn’t necessarily mean better information. And I think our perception of what looks normal can shift without us even realising it.

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Those are conversations I am increasingly interested in having.

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WHO ELSE AM I?

Cosmetic nursing is only one part of my life.

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I am also a qualified meditation teacher and yoga teacher, and I have my own meditation and yoga studio, Tiroana, in Ayr.

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The two sides of my professional life are completely separate, but naturally, one has influenced the other.

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Meditation has taught me to slow down. To listen. To notice when there is an urge to immediately fix something. And perhaps most importantly, to become more comfortable with the fact that not everything needs fixing.

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I think that has a place in aesthetics.

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I’m also a wife, a mum, part of a family business, and someone who still loves travel and music and probably has far too many things she wants to do.

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My life now looks quite different to the life I imagined when I was younger. I suspect that’s true for many women.

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And maybe that’s part of ageing well too.

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THE BLOG

I started this blog years ago as a place to write about cosmetic aesthetics, skincare, and ageing.

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I’m bringing it back, but probably a little differently.

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There will still be education around aesthetics and skin, but I also want somewhere to talk about the things I find interesting after spending more than two decades in this industry.

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Ageing. Faces. Trends. What we’re normalising. What experience has changed my mind about. The pressure to look younger. Knowing when enough is enough.

 

And occasionally meditation, yoga and the other things that influence how I think about getting older.

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Some posts will be educational. Some will simply be my opinion.

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You don’t have to agree with all of it.

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But hopefully it gives you a better understanding of who I am, how I work and why I believe ageing well can look very different from one person to the next.

 

Shona xx

 

 

 

Shona Great BNSc
Registered Nurse · Cosmetic Injector
Townsville, Queensland

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Current AHPRA registration available here.