The practitioner
Ashleigh Trickett
Registered Nurse & Aesthetic Practitioner. Founder of Charis Aesthetics.
Ten years in the NHS, four of them in critical care.
I am a Registered Nurse. I have spent ten years in the NHS, four of them in critical care, and I hold a postgraduate certificate in it from Manchester Metropolitan University. That is not background colour — it is the reason this clinic works the way it does. Critical care teaches you to assess before you act, to understand why something is happening rather than just what it looks like, and to be comfortable saying that the right course of action is to do nothing.
Before nursing I worked for nine years as a professional makeup artist. It is an unusual pairing, and it turns out to be a useful one: nursing gave me anatomy and physiology at a cellular level, and makeup gave me proportion, balance and an eye for the small details that make a face look like itself. Aesthetic medicine sits exactly at that intersection.
The name comes from the Charites of Greek mythology — the goddesses associated with grace, beauty and creativity. Those are still the values I want the clinic to be judged on.
How I work
Anatomically considered, evidence-led, and willing to say no.
After advanced facial anatomy education at the Royal College of Surgeons, studying with surgeons and facial anatomists, Charis became a consultation-led clinic focused on treating causes rather than symptoms. In practice that means I will often decline to treat the thing you came in asking about, because the change that produced it happened somewhere else on your face.
Every product I use is selected on its clinical evidence, its safety profile, its manufacturing standards and how it behaves in the tissue — not on how heavily it is marketed or how well known the brand is. I am happy to explain any of those choices to you, and to tell you where a different product would genuinely serve you better.
I would rather build gradually across two appointments than overfill in one. I would rather dissolve and rebuild properly than add more product on top of something that is not working. And I would rather lose a booking than perform a treatment I do not think is clinically indicated. That last one costs me money regularly, and it is not negotiable.
BAMAN Awards 2026
Finalist — Rising Star of the Year
Shortlisted by the British Association of Medical Aesthetic Nurses — the professional body representing medical aesthetic nurses in the UK, and the organisation that sets the standards this clinic is built to.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse — Nursing & Midwifery Council
- PGCert Critical Care
- Ten years' NHS experience, four of them in critical care
- Advanced facial anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons
- Member, British Association of Medical Aesthetic Nurses
- Trained in the management of vascular occlusion
- Fully insured for all treatments provided
Come and talk it through
Consultations are £30, redeemed against your treatment if you go ahead. If you are not sure what you want, or you are not sure whether you want anything at all, that is a perfectly good reason to come in.
Get in touch
Book a consultation
Consultations are £30, and that comes off the cost of your treatment if you go ahead. No pressure to book anything on the day — if you are not sure whether you want treatment at all, that is still a good reason to come and talk.