Halley Medical Aesthetics Blog 
Why is Our Bone Responsible For Our Beauty?
Our bone act as scaffoldings propping your skin up. While collagen keeps your skin taut, your bone moulds the shape […]
How Bad or Good Is Pasta?
Pasta is energy-dense which explains why a majority of performance athletes consume them. The key word here is “performance athletes” […]
Why Is Our T-Zone Always Oily?
Why are we matte on other parts of the face but always oily on the T-Zone? The T-Zone encompasses our […]
Our New Location at orchardgateway
We’ve recently started a new chapter and today, we are located at orchardgateway unit 03-15, on Singapore’s iconic shopping belt […]
Our Destiny of Beauty, Genetics and Aging
Remember the saying “a chip off the old block”? We may take after our parents but we can change our […]
CoolMini: A Step By Step Experience
We know makeup can do wonders. In fact, there is no shortage of tips and tutorials on how to use […]
Singapore’s Vintage Makeup
From makeup to cream and powder, we celebrate Singapore’s 51st birthday by taking a trip down to memory lane on vintage beauty products. […]
Why Does Our Décolletage Wrinkle Up?
Wrinkles schminkles! Did the skipping of sunscreen cost us a wrinkled décolletage and neck? Can Ultherapy help in stimulating […]
All That Jazz About Infused Fruit Drinks
Infused drinks are all the buzz these days. But what is the fuss with these colourful slices of fruits in […]
Dewy Skin Or Just Plain Oily? Get Powdered Look With Micro-Botox
Koreans can make anything trendy. From neoprene fashion to creating “dewy skin”, let’s just address skin issue with the […]
Beauty Sleep: The Link Between Aging, Weight Gain And Sleeping
Why is beauty sleep so necessary? What is the exact link between aging, weight gain and sleeping? It’s fascinating that we spend […]
The Real Price Tag of Beauty – The Cost Per Day
What is the real price tag of Beauty? Is the price of highly-priced facial skincare better than an investment in medical […]
Did you know that weight loss and fat reduction are two different things?
Weight loss and fat reduction are two different things. In Part 1 of this series, Dr Terence Tan from Halley […]
Age-Old DIY Extreme Beauty Treatment For Acne Reduction
Sometimes we wake up to an unexpected surprise – acne. Desperation calls for inventing or experimenting with DIY beauty treatments. […]
Hair Removal Options: Should Women Shave Their Faces?
Facial hair removal with intense pulsed light (IPL), laser, waxing, dermaplaning and shaving. To what extent would you go […]
The Gender Factor In Weight Loss
Losing weight is not as easy for some. The daily calories recommendation and the science of weight loss for women and men […]
Pay Tribute To Your Hardworking Body
Pay Tribute To Your Hardworking Body.
The Ice Age Of Body Contouring Treatments
There are plenty of natural beauty remedies for facial rejuvenation and body contouring but does being stung by bees count as […]
Anti-Aging Pills: Can You Regain Your Youth By Popping A Pill?
Who doesn’t like the idea of turning back the effect of time by taking anti-aging pills? As with topical creams, […]
Where Do We Get Our Calcium If We Don’t Drink Milk?
There are plenty of non-dairy foods packed with calcium. What are they? Calcium plays an important role in our overall […]
Water Doesn’t Keep Your Skin Hydrated. So What Does?
Unless we are a cactus, we do not retain water to keep our skin plump and hydrated. Water is important […]
Don’t Be An April’s Fool.
I Heard A Rumour: Debunking Urban Tales On Ultherapy, Laser And Other Aesthetic Treatments
Google reviews on any aesthetic treatments, and we are sure to find some man-in-the-street opinion that ranges from the […]
Your All-In-One Guide To Dermal Fillers: Myths, Usage And Aftercare
Dermal fillers are widely used in face treatments. It can be used to reverse and reduce the effects of aging […]
Ultherapy: When Aging Starts Showing In Your 20s
The truth is… aging starts the moment you were born. Happy birthday. While the only thing that increases as we […]
Keep Your Eyes Wide Open On Eye Bag Remedies
Bulging eye bag or puffy eyes make us look old and tired. We hate them with a passion and can’t […]
How Do You Maximise Results For Your Fat Reduction Treatments?
You’ve finally taken that first step to address the stubborn fats via CoolSculpting. How do you ensure maximum results for […]
Hunger Games: Get To Know The Pangs
Food is a basic necessity for all living things. Here in our sunny city state, it can be found everywhere, […]
What Causes Double Chin And How Do We Get Rid Of It?
Double chin makes one feels overweight, old, and unattractive. We did a poll and realised that many of us weren’t even […]
The Modern Women Of Today
Women… At Halley Medical Aesthetics, we believe that the definition of beauty should be an enhancement and maintenance of yourself. […]
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[Video] Beauty & Skincare Tips For Firm, Glowing Skin
Skincare Tips: When it comes to skin’s concerns, the often-asked question is how does one attain a natural-looking, firmer and […]
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” – Maya Angelou. Happy sweet Valentine’s Day.
CoolMini: CoolSculpting by Zeltiq has a New Fat Freezing Applicator in Town
CoolMini, Zeltiq’s new CoolSculpting applicator, is finally in town to help you say goodbye to double chin, armpit fat, and […]
Beauty Gadgets To Go
Beauty Gadgets… Necessity is the mother of invention as the proverb goes. Just flip the pages of your local newspapers, […]
Fermented Skincare – The Latest Korean Beauty Trend
Fermented skincare products are getting the attention in South Korea and around the world; from soy beans and hibiscus to snow […]
Understanding Fat Reduction/Body Contouring, Weight Loss & Skin Firming
Fat Reduction/Body Contouring, Weight loss & Skin Firming: Make sure your body treatments measure up to expectations by understanding your […]
Pairing Of Beauty Treatments – A Match Made In Halley
If you can mix and match your clothes and fastfood meals, why not your beauty treatments too? Pairing a newly […]
小J日记 Jpglicious: Cuteness On The Bunny Bag
We sooooo wanted to hug this soft, soft, soft bunny on Cassie’s (of 小J日记 Jpglicious) bag! We asked her for the story behind the bunny, […]
BEAUTY With A Difference
The Asian Fascination With The V-shape Face
Achieve the Korean V-shape face beauty dream without the need for invasive surgery. The Hallyu or K-wave has arguably influenced […]
Your Very Own Happily Ever After Fairytale
Fairytale transcends all cultural and background differences, and they are something we can all identify with. We grew up with […]
Your Beauty Red Carpet Dream
How do doctors gauge which celebrity look or beauty trend is suitable for you to achieve your Beauty Red Carpet Dream? […]
Counting Calories – How To Stay The Path?
Counting calories is a tedious process, as it is being on the journey of healthy living is an arduous one. […]
Moisturiser: Do You Need One Formulated For The Neck?
Should we use a moisturiser designed for the neck or can we just slather on whatever we use for our […]
Multi-Masking: The Latest In Skincare Trend
Time is of the essence and multi-masking might just be the answer. Image Source: Pop Sugar “The bad news is […]
So What’s Trending In K-beauty?
K-Beauty: Rubber Mask Image credit: dailymakeover.com The rubber mask is a powder that you add water to and blend until it’s […]
The Hair-raising Effect Of Aging
You may notice a hair-raising effect of aging. Look closely in the mirror and you might find unwanted facial hair… Wrinkles […]
Four Things To Do As You Cross Over To The 40s
Are you in the 40s age group now? No big deal! Take aging by the throat with our to-do list. […]
The Importance Of Lymph Nodes
To be truly beautiful is to know that you’ve taken good care of yourself. Lymph nodes play an important function […]
What’s The Fuss With Korea’s Water-free Skincare?
The benefits of water for skin, hair and health in general is a topic that has been touched on and […]
The Thin Line Between Fat And Curvy
How do you know if you are voluptuously curvy or just simply overweight and fat? As a child, we have […]
Forget Trends. Find The Right Doctor And Therapy.
Don’t jump too quickly on the beauty gadget trend bandwagon only to fall off because of less than desirable results. […]
Age is never so old as youth would measure it. — Jack London
Choosing A Clinic For Your Dermal Filler Is Not A Game Of Luck
When it comes to selecting an aesthetics clinic for your dermal filler to enhance an important asset—your face, it shouldn’t be […]
The Heart Bangs Hair Beauty Trend Might Cause You Acne
Heart Bangs Hair is a beauty trend in South Korea. With a curling iron and hairspray, it is styled to […]
Skin Woes
How often have we looked at ourselves in the mirror and feel that our skin looks like something out of […]
Looking At The Bright Side Of Photodynamic Light
We all have a love hate relationship with light but photodynamic light therapy helps to address skin issues as well as […]
Fat Cells: You Are What You Ate
Yup, you read it right. You are what you ate, or was fed, before age five. “After five years, our body […]
Ditch Those Stubborn Body Fats
Daddy Body – Regardless of how trendy it is nowadays, there’s no excuse for letting ourselves go. Even if we can’t own […]
Beauty Shines When Laser And Light Combine
Whether young or old, ladies worry about wrinkles, pigmentation problems, uneven skin tone, pore size, and pimple issues. Of the […]
So Long Turtlenecks!
Turtlenecks no more! Want to have a long, smooth, and slender jawline and neck worthy of Egyptian royalty like Queen […]
A Hat A Day Keeps The Sun At Bay
The Burmese have their thanaka which they apply to their face for sun protection. In Singapore (and many parts of Asia), the […]
Project Halley Beauty
There is a long, blank wall in Halley Medical Aesthetics (Halley) that was the personal bugbear of the clinic’s marketing communications manager, Khay, […]
Sculptra® or Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Filler: Which One And Where?
Most aesthetic doctors carry many brands of dermal filler, which are made of various kinds of materials developed for injection […]
Treating Gummy Smiles And Angry Looking Faces
Many people by now are more than familiar with the application of botulinum neuromodulators like Botox®, Dysport®, and Xeomin®. Jaw slimming and removing […]
Curiouser And Curiouser! Let’s Get To Know Beauty Blogger Charlotte A Little Better!
Beauty bloggers share so much of their lives with us, and sometimes we wonder if there could be something more […]
Acne Spot, Out! Out, I Say!
Whatever the diet and however thorough you are with your beauty regime, anybody and anyone can get acne. They say […]
Let’s Raise Some Eyebrows
Eyebrows. They are just hair on our face but so many of us fuss over its shape (arched or straight?). […]
V-shape Face: Creating The Perfect “V”
In response to the rise in popularity of cosmetic procedures, the term “gangnam girl” has been coined. This Korean slang word […]
I have Big Pores. What should I do?
The light at the end of the tunnel to big PORES-blems. Now that you’ve learned the top five reasons for big […]
I Need Help With My Big PORES-blem
We hate big pores. They are ugly. They make our face look rough and old. Why do we have pores, […]
Love Thy Neck
Neglect it and people can tell you are older than you look. Our neck often looks older before any other body […]
A Modern Approach To Facial Rejuvenation For Timeless Beauty
Dr. Terence Tan from Halley Medical Aesthetics (Halley) shares insights on recent trends in non-invasive rejuvenation procedures to improve the […]
Do One Thing A Day That Scares You
What is the craziest thing that blogger Pamela of Uyuteaparty want to do? It is not easy to get out […]
I Want New Skin. Which Exfoliant Is Best?
Mild exfoliant refreshes your skin and new skin contains loads of collagen. So which is most suitable — a scrub-based exfoliant […]
Make The Most Of Your Skincare: Importance Of Ingredients, Vitamin And Formulation
Strawberries are an excellent source of antioxidant-promoting Vitamin C, a vitamin for age defence. In part 2 of our “Skincare […]
Make The Most Of Your Skincare
How you use skincare products and the ingredients in the products play a big role in their effectiveness. If you’re […]
The Art Of Injecting Dermal Fillers
Very often, we leave it up to the experienced hands of our medical aesthetic doctor. But do you know that […]
(Superhero October) Wrinkles: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
So beauty blogger Maybeline wished for the power of invisibility in a Facebook Superhero October post. We can’t grant anyone that power but […]
Forget Dermaplaning. Get That Natural Glow Safely
There are safer and better ways of removing unwanted hair and exfoliating the face other than dermaplaning for a smoother, brighter, and glowing […]
Ultherapy: Don’t Let Time Be A Cruel Thief Of Your Youth
People always say: “We are only young once.” Signs of ageing can show as early as in your 20s. So don’t […]
The Skinny On Ultherapy: Enjoy The Beauty of Sound Yourself
You’ve seen Ultherapy at work on the web. The premise is so tempting because it is the only US FDA-approved, […]
Good Things Come In Small Packages: Micro-Botox
Affectionately termed as “Baby Botox” by Hollywood regulars, Micro-Botox is when diluted Botox is injected in very small doses on […]
Losing Weight, But Not In The Places You Want?
We strive hard in losing weight via dieting and exercise. But sometimes our problem areas like the stubborn fats on our tummy, buttocks, […]
Halley’s Firming Formula: Tickle Your Fibroblasts
Tickle, tickle? Yes, tickling your fibroblasts is the third and last part of Halley’s Firming Formula. (Read the first and second part.) That’s because fibroblasts are critical […]
The Bare Truth Of Hair Removal
In hot and balmy Singapore, it’s no surprises that our wardrobe is filled with sleeveless tops, shorts, and lots of […]
Step by Step Skincare With Brilliance
Our Brilliance skincare regime is getting increasingly complicated, with some routines comprising as many as 20 products. As consumers, we are spoilt for […]
It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Marilyn Monroe
Halley’s Firming Formula: Power-up Your Skincare Regime
Now that you know the nutrients you need in your food for firmer facial skin, the second step to Halley’s firming formula is to nourish […]
By Golly! What’s In My Bag?
Hmm… What are the things she can’t do without in her bag? Dry shampoo? We thought beauty blogger Golly-Locks was […]
Halley’s Firming Formula: Eat Your Tofu And Fish For Lean Protein
Why? Because wrinkles hate lean protein! Who would have thought that what we eat plays an important role in combating loose, […]
Halley, Who?
Nope, our clinic is not named after our doctor’s wife or mum, but actually, Halley’s Comet. This comet is one of […]
The Muse Behind Our Brand Image
In our mostly white and chic clinic interior, this red sofa set definitely stands out. We love it so much that […]