Skin, read in daylight.
A skin clinic on the first floor of a Georgian house in Marylebone. We look at your skin by the window before we suggest anything, treat it in courses, and write everything down.
Book a consultation
£40
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We take the £40 off your first treatment. No injectables, no fillers, nothing medical.
By the window, before the lamp goes on.
Every course starts with a consultation.
Forty-five minutes, £40, and we take the £40 off your first treatment.
I
By the window
We look at your skin in daylight first, before the lamp goes on. Come without make-up if you can; if you can’t, we have cleanser.
II
Talking it through
What you use now, what you’ve tried, what bothers you, and what’s realistic.
III
Under the lamp
A closer look at texture, pores, pigment and redness.
IV
A plan, in writing
What we’d suggest, in what order, what it costs, and what to do at home. You take it away and decide. If we think you don’t need us, we’ll tell you.
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Lumen Skin Clinic
Blandford Street, W1
Your plan
An example
Seen
By the window, then under the lamp
We noticed
Breakouts along the jaw, and marks left by old ones
We suggest
Three peels, four weeks apart, each followed by blue LED
At home
A gentle cleanser, SPF every morning, no scrubs
Cost
£450 as a programme, less today’s £40
Next
Take it home and decide. No rush.
Esi
Skin therapist
An example plan. Yours is written for you, after we’ve seen your skin.
Treatments, and what they’re for.
Each one is chosen with you at your consultation, and each can be booked as a course of three, for less.
Chemical peel
Microneedling
LED light therapy
Skin consultation
45 minutes
Forty-five minutes at the window and under the lamp, and a written plan to take home.
£40
Taken off your first treatment
Hydrating facial
60 minutes
A deep cleanse, a gentle enzyme exfoliation and a long hydrating mask. For skin that feels tight, dull or dehydrated.
£95
Three for £255
Chemical peel
45 minutes
An acid solution brushed on and taken off after a few minutes, to lift away dead skin. We choose its strength at your consultation. For breakouts, marks, dullness and uneven tone.
£120
Three for £320
Microneedling
75 minutes, with numbing time
A pen with very fine needles makes tiny channels in the skin’s surface. For texture, enlarged pores and acne marks.
£230
Three for £600
LED light therapy
30 minutes
Twenty minutes under a panel of red or blue light: red for skin that feels tired or sensitised, blue for skin prone to breakouts. Or add it to any treatment for £30.
£55
Three for £145
Prices from January 2026. A course is three of the same treatment; peels and microneedling are four weeks apart.
Twelve weeks, for skin that needs a plan.
Some skin needs more than a treatment. Each programme is three visits, four weeks apart, a routine for home, and us in between.
Week 1
Week 5
Week 9
12
Acne-prone skin
£450
Twelve weeks, three visits
Three peels, four weeks apart, each followed by blue LED. A simple home routine, and a check-in by message between visits.
Ask about this programme
Pigmentation
£620
Twelve weeks, three visits
Three treatments, peels or microneedling, chosen together at your consultation. A home routine built around daily SPF, and a review at twelve weeks, with photos taken at the window at the start and the end, in the same daylight.
Ask about this programme
Aftercare, in writing.
Every treatment goes home with its aftercare written down, so you never have to remember what we said.
After a chemical peel
Your skin may feel tight and flake for a few days. No scrubs, retinol or acids for a week, SPF every day, and no sauna or hot yoga for 48 hours.
After microneedling
Your skin will be pink for a day or two. No make-up for 24 hours, nothing that makes you sweat, and the balm we give you.
After LED light therapy
Nothing to avoid afterwards.
After a hydrating facial
No exfoliating for 48 hours.
Before you come
Come without make-up if you can. If you’re pregnant, breastfeeding or using prescription skin medicine, tell us when you book: some treatments have to wait.
What to buy
We’d rather you didn’t buy a product at every visit. If your skin needs something at home, we write down the ingredient to look for. It’s often something you already own.
Two days after a peel
How’s your skin today? If anything worries you, send us a photo.
We message everyone two days after a treatment, and you can send us a photo whenever you’re unsure.
WhatsApp 07700 900790
“I know what it is to cancel plans because of your skin.”
Esi Mensah had acne from fourteen until her late twenties. She trained as a beauty therapist, then spent nine years in the treatment rooms of a dermatology-led clinic in the West End, taking advanced qualifications in chemical peels, microneedling and LED light therapy. She opened Lumen in March 2019.
Holly Brennan joined in 2022. She does most of our facials and LED sessions, and works Saturdays.
Not doctors
We don’t inject anything, and we don’t do anything medical. If we see something a doctor should look at, we’ll say so and suggest you see your GP.
Every skin tone
We take particular care with darker skin, which can mark after inflammation.
“The first person to look at my skin in daylight and tell me the truth. No hard sell, and a plan I could actually follow.”
Priya, Kentish Town
“I came in wanting microneedling and left with a cheaper plan and a sunscreen I actually wear.”
Hannah, Marylebone
Book a skin consultation.
Forty-five minutes, and a written plan to take home. £40, and we take it off your first treatment.
Seen us before?
Choose your treatment in the form.
Moving it
Please give us 48 hours’ notice.
Tell us
If you’re pregnant, breastfeeding or using prescription skin medicine.
Rather talk first?
WhatsApp 07700 900790
Call 020 7946 0790
Request my appointment
Ring the top bell.
41 Blandford Street, London W1U 7HE
We’re on the first floor, and the bell is marked Lumen. It’s one flight of stairs up, and there’s no lift. Six minutes’ walk from Baker Street, eight from Bond Street.
Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday
10am–7pm
Thursday
11am–8pm
Friday
9am–5pm
Saturday
9am–4pm
Sunday and Monday
Closed