Understanding Your Skin
Acne scarring refers to changes in skin texture that can remain after breakouts have settled. We offer treatments that may help improve the appearance of acne scarring, with a plan tailored to your skin and the type of scarring present.
What Is This Concern?
“Acne scarring” can describe a few different things, and telling them apart matters — because they respond to different approaches.
Flat red or brown marks that remain after a breakout has healed are not true scars. They are areas of discolouration, and they often fade gradually over time — sometimes helped along with suitable skincare or light-based treatments.
True scars involve a change in the skin’s structure — texture that feels or looks different from the surrounding skin. These changes are permanent in the sense that they do not simply fade on their own.
Scarring may appear as small depressions, uneven patches or raised areas. Texture changes are often most noticeable in certain light, or when foundation sits unevenly on the skin.
The most common acne scars are depressed — small indentations left where tissue was lost during deeper breakouts. They vary in shape and depth, and different scar types respond differently to treatment.
Because scars differ in depth, shape and cause, there is no single treatment that suits every kind of scarring. This is why an individual assessment — rather than a one-size-fits-all approach — guides everything we recommend.
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Where Scarring Comes From
The deeper and more inflamed an acne lesion, the greater the likelihood of a lasting textural change once it heals.
Manipulating breakouts can increase inflammation and damage surrounding tissue, raising the risk of scarring.
The longer active acne continues unmanaged, the more opportunity there is for new scars to form.
Some people are simply more prone to scarring than others, and this tendency can run in families.
Sun exposure can darken healing marks and affect how the skin repairs itself, which is why daily sun protection matters.
Our Approach
Treatment for acne scarring is always individual. What we can achieve depends on your scar types, your skin and how your skin heals — and no treatment can promise complete removal of scarring.
We begin by examining your skin, identifying the types of scarring or marks present and distinguishing them from any active acne. This shapes what treatment — if any — is appropriate, and in what order.
Where breakouts are still active, scar-focused treatments usually need to wait. Managing the acne itself comes first, so we are not treating new scars while old ones are being addressed. Persistent, severe or scarring acne may also warrant medical review with your GP or dermatologist.
For suitable candidates, treatments such as SkinPen skin needling and selected skin peels may help improve the appearance of textural scarring over a course of sessions. Results build gradually and vary between individuals.
Consistent skincare — including daily sun protection — supports your in-clinic results and helps protect healing skin. We can recommend products suited to your skin during your consultation.
An important note: treatment suitability depends entirely on an individual assessment of your skin. We will always tell you honestly what we feel we can — and cannot — help with.
Your Visit
We talk through your acne history, your skin and what you would like to improve — including how long scarring or marks have been present.
We examine your skin to distinguish post-acne marks from true scarring, identify scar types and check whether any acne is still active.
We recommend a realistic, staged plan — which may involve managing active acne first — and explain the results each step could reasonably achieve.
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