1. What this publication is
Glasgow Cosmetics is a guide to cosmetic treatment in Glasgow, written for the person paying for it rather than for the businesses selling it. It is published by Northbank Media.
Its purpose is narrow and specific: to make somebody in Glasgow a better informed buyer of cosmetic treatment. That means explaining what each treatment physically does and does not do, what regulation in Scotland actually covers and what it leaves out, what things cost and why the range is so wide, what a careful consultation contains, what can go wrong and who deals with it, and what to ask before anybody puts a needle near you.
It is not a clinic directory dressed as journalism, it is not a lead generation site, and it is not written to be pleasant reading for the industry.
2. What it will never do
It will never rank, rate or review a clinic, a practitioner or a venue. We have assessed none of them. We have not inspected premises, read complication logs, audited consent processes, observed consultations or followed patients up. Nobody who has not done those things can tell you which clinic is best, and a ranking published without them is an advertisement with a byline.
Where a subject naturally calls for that shape, we publish the criteria instead and explain how to apply them yourself. That is how to choose an aesthetic clinic in Glasgow, and it is the closest thing to a recommendation you will find here.
It will never invent anything. No fabricated clinic, address, practitioner, study, author, statistic or price appears on this site. Where a figure is not known, the page says so or describes the shape of the thing instead. Every price is published as a band with reasoning, and the method and its limits are set out at how we build price bands.
It will never present a paid placement as editorial. The commercial model is below, in full, on the page most people read first.
3. Why Scotland specifically
Health is devolved, which means a great deal of UK writing about cosmetic regulation is about England and does not describe your position at all. The regulator is different. The registration system is different. Some legislation applies in one nation and not the other.
A reader in Glasgow deserves to be told what applies to them, by a publication that has bothered to work out the difference. That is what the regulation section is for, and it is the part of this site we consider most useful.
4. How this is paid for, stated plainly
There is no advertising network on this site, no affiliate commission, no sponsored articles and no payment accepted for editorial coverage of any kind. There are two revenue lines and both are visible.
A paid clinic listing tier. A clinic may buy a listing. What it buys is a structured factual entry against criteria that can be verified: registration status, who prescribes, who manages complications and what the complications policy says. Listings are labelled as paid, sit in their own section outside editorial, are never ordered as a ranking and carry no endorsement. Buying a listing does not buy a mention anywhere else on this site, cannot change a price band, and cannot remove a warning. The full terms, including the criteria and what we refuse to list, are at clinic listings.
A newsletter sponsor line. The monthly briefing carries one clearly labelled sponsor line. A sponsor does not see the email before subscribers do, cannot request coverage and cannot have a page altered. The terms are at newsletter sponsorship.
That is the entire commercial model. If either line ever compromises the editorial position, the correct response is to end the line rather than to soften the editorial, and that is the standing instruction.
5. The two archive pages
Two pages on this site carry a single editorial outbound link each. Both are archive pages that were published at those addresses previously, are indexed, and have been rewritten to this publication's standard rather than deleted.
Each carries a publisher disclosure block naming Northbank Media and stating that the link is editorial, was never sold and is not a recommendation or an assessment of the organisation named. Every other page on this site carries no commercial link at all and says so on the page. The arrangement is described in full in our editorial standards.
6. Who writes it
Glasgow Cosmetics is written and edited by the editorial team at Northbank Media. It is not written by clinicians and it does not claim to be. It is written by people who read the regulators, the professional bodies and the published evidence, and who are careful about the difference between what is established, what is proposed and what is being sold.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the site says so on every page. Where a question needs a clinician, the page says that too.
7. Corrections
We would rather be corrected than be wrong quietly. If something on this site is inaccurate, tell us what and where, and we will fix it in place and say what changed. We do not delete pages to make a problem disappear.
Corrections are read first and answered first at contact the editor.
8. Where to start
If you are considering treatment for the first time, what a good consultation looks like and the questions to ask will do more for you than any treatment page.
If you already know what you want, how cosmetic clinics are regulated in Scotland is the page most people should have read before they booked.