Body
Stretch Marks
Marks from a growth spurt, pregnancy, rapid weight change or training. Act while they are still red.
Softer, smoother, less visible
Stretch Mark Treatment in London
A new swimsuit, a changing room mirror, and the marks you notice first. Red marks respond beautifully, white marks soften, flatten and become far less visible, and the colour of yours shapes the plan more than the device does. Your clinician on Wimpole Street matches the treatment to the mark.
Quick facts
- Treats Striae rubrae and striae albae, face and body
- Course 4 to 6 sessions
- Downtime 24 hours to 7 days
- Outcome Substantial, visible improvement
Price from
From £450 body area
per treatment
Concerns it addresses
What Stretch Mark Treatment treats
Colour shapes the whole plan. Red or purple marks are still inflamed and remodelling, a live process treatment works with beautifully. White or silver marks are settled scar tissue with no pigment cells, and they soften, flatten and become far less visible.
Skin
Crepey & Lax Skin
Treated alongside the marks, since the same resurfacing improves the skin around them.
Before & After Results
Abdomen
After a course of microneedling
Older white stretch marks respond to texture work rather than to colour work, so the improvement is in how flat and how reflective they are. Newer red marks respond faster. Image courtesy of SkinPen. Individual results may vary.
Red marks respond beautifully, and white marks soften and smooth.
Which colour yours are matters more than which treatment you choose.
Where it works
Where Stretch Marks Are Treated
Marks from a growth spurt, pregnancy, rapid weight change or training. Colour shapes the whole plan: red or purple marks are still remodelling, white or silver marks are settled scar tissue.
Abdomen
Marks from pregnancy or rapid weight change. SkinPen microneedling is the mainstay; CO2 laser is the strongest option for white, mature marks with textural change.
- What to expect
- Softer, less visible marks
- Course
- Four to six sessions
Hips and thighs
Marks from a growth spurt or training, treated in the same way and usually needing more sessions than facial work.
- Downtime
- A day for microneedling, five to seven for CO2
- Assessed
- Three months after the final session
Topical anaesthetic; body areas take longer than facial work. A day of downtime for microneedling, five to seven for CO2 laser. Four to six sessions four weeks apart, assessed three months after the last.
Your visit and your results
Your Journey at Regents Park Aesthetics
01
Day 0
Colour, texture and skin type
Colour, texture and whether the marks are indented, plus your skin type, which decides whether ablative laser is appropriate. Red or purple marks are still remodelling; white or silver marks are settled scar tissue.
What you feel or see A close look at the marks.
What to do If yours are red, act now rather than waiting to see whether they fade.
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Colour, texture and whether the marks are indented, plus your skin type, which decides whether ablative laser is appropriate. Red or purple marks are still remodelling; white or silver marks are settled scar tissue.
What you feel or see A close look at the marks.
What to do If yours are red, act now rather than waiting to see whether they fade.
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Topical anaesthetic. Body areas take longer than facial work.
What you feel or see Depends on the device: a scratchy vibration for microneedling, heat and prickling for laser.
What to do Plan the downtime for the device you are having.
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A day for microneedling, five to seven for CO2 laser.
What you feel or see Redness that settles quickly, or a week of healing.
What to do SPF and gentle care on the treated area.
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Four to six sessions four weeks apart, with body areas usually needing more than facial ones.
What you feel or see Each session repeats the same downtime.
What to do Keep to the four-week spacing so collagen can lay down.
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Assessment three months after the final session. Red marks improve substantially. White marks become far less visible and better in texture, blending closer to the surrounding skin.
What you feel or see A real, visible improvement.
What to do Photographs in identical lighting and position for comparison.
Assessment
Day 0
Results
Day 0 · Assessment
Colour, texture and skin type
Colour, texture and whether the marks are indented, plus your skin type, which decides whether ablative laser is appropriate. Red or purple marks are still remodelling; white or silver marks are settled scar tissue.
What you feel or seeA close look at the marks.
What to doIf yours are red, act now rather than waiting to see whether they fade.
Day 0 · Treatment
Topical anaesthetic first
Topical anaesthetic. Body areas take longer than facial work.
What you feel or seeDepends on the device: a scratchy vibration for microneedling, heat and prickling for laser.
What to doPlan the downtime for the device you are having.
Days 1 to 7 · Downtime
A day, or five to seven
A day for microneedling, five to seven for CO2 laser.
What you feel or seeRedness that settles quickly, or a week of healing.
What to doSPF and gentle care on the treated area.
Every 4 weeks · The course
Four to six sessions
Four to six sessions four weeks apart, with body areas usually needing more than facial ones.
What you feel or seeEach session repeats the same downtime.
What to doKeep to the four-week spacing so collagen can lay down.
Month 3 after the course · Assessment
Softer, less visible marks
Assessment three months after the final session. Red marks improve substantially. White marks become far less visible and better in texture, blending closer to the surrounding skin.
What you feel or seeA real, visible improvement.
What to doPhotographs in identical lighting and position for comparison.
Treatment or session
Milestone
Dotted line: how results build over time, schematic not measured
Substantial, visible improvement, course by course.
Assessment is three months after the final session, with photographs in identical lighting and position.
Stretch Mark Treatment at Regents Park Aesthetics
Meet your practitioners
Every patient is assessed by a qualified clinician, a doctor, nurse or other qualified practitioner, before anything is booked.
Kay Greveson
Lead Practitioner
Award-winning aesthetic nurse practitioner with more than twenty years of specialist NHS nursing and over a decade in advanced aesthetic medicine. Qualified independent prescriber and the clinic’s CQC registered manager.
Dr Grace Adamson
Doctor
MBChB, BSc (Hons), with First-Class degrees in Physiological Sciences and in Medicine and Surgery, and extensive NHS experience across medical and surgical specialties. Trained with DermaMedical.
Spirithoula Koukoufikis
Senior Aesthetician
Known to patients as SK. Over thirteen years’ experience and more than fifty aesthetic lasers and devices, having worked at five-star clinics across London.
Choosing between treatments
Microneedling or CO2 laser
The right choice depends on your skin and what you are treating; a consultation settles it.
| MicroneedlingSkinPen, micro pins only | CO2 laserFractional ablative laser | |
|---|---|---|
| Sessions | Four to six | One to three |
| Downtime | A day | Five to seven days |
| Darker skin | Safe, and our default | Real hyperpigmentation risk, assessed carefully |
| Explore microneedling | Explore CO2 laser |
Body areas need more sessions than facial areas. We quote the course.
Transparent pricing
Pricing
Planning your treatment
Course4 to 6 sessions
Downtime24 hours to 7 days
Your plan and the number of sessions are agreed at your consultation, before anything is booked.
Treatment
From
Microneedling body area, single session
£450
Microneedling, full face
£250
CO2 fractional, small area
£300
CO2 fractional, medium area
£450
Questions patients ask
Frequently asked questions
Substantially, particularly while marks are still red. The aim is softer, flatter, far less visible marks, and your clinician shows you what to expect for yours.
Anyone with marks from a growth spurt, pregnancy, rapid weight change or training, who would love them softer and less visible.
If yours are red, act now rather than waiting to see whether they fade, because the tissue is still remodelling and treatment can work with that. If they are white, treatment still helps, and your clinician shows you how much to expect.
Considerably. Red marks have active blood supply and remodelling tissue. White marks are mature scar and improve more slowly and partially.
Microneedling from £450 for a body area, CO2 laser from £300. We quote the course.
Four to six for microneedling, one to three for CO2 laser. Body areas need more than facial areas.
Microneedling suits most skin tones after a skin check, and it is our default. Ablative CO2 is assessed carefully on deeper skin tones because of the chance of pigment change.
Prescription creams, discussed at consultation, can help early red marks. For white mature marks, in-clinic treatment is the route that delivers.
For white marks, genuinely yes, because it stains surrounding skin and not the marks. Some people find it makes them more visible, so test a small area.
Yes. Marks from growth spurts and training are common in men and treated identically.
Stretch Mark Treatment at Regents Park Aesthetics
Ready when you are.
Every plan starts with a conversation and a close look at your skin, so the treatment you book is the one that suits you.
