Cosmetic Nursing & Skin · Melton, Victoria
Skin changes through perimenopause, after weight loss and with time.
Nurse Tracey has spent thirty years in medicine learning to read your skin and she will tell
you honestly what will help and what won't.
Where most of our clients start
Most people arrive not knowing what happened, only that the face in the mirror stopped matching the person behind it. Find yours below.
The hormonal shift
It is not your imagination, and it is not your skincare. When oestrogen falls, collagen goes with it - and the routine that worked for twenty years stops working almost overnight.
Read about perimenopausal skin →
After the weight comes off
The weight came off, and people started asking if you were unwell. Nobody told you the face goes first.
Read about skin laxity after weight loss →
The Australian tax
Sun damage does not arrive on schedule. It sits under the skin for decades and then surfaces all at once, usually in your forties.
Read about pigmentation and sun damage →We also treat
Free · 60 seconds · No obligation
Answer five questions about your skin and we will send you back a straight read on what is actually going on, what would help most, and what order to do it in - a plan that fits you rather than a menu. Written by a nurse of thirty years, not a chatbot.
What we do
Where a treatment has a price, the price is on the page. Where it depends on your face, we say so rather than guess. No hidden menu, no "from" prices that turn into something else once you are in the chair.
The person treating you
Cosmetic Nurse · Melton, Victoria
Thirty years in medicine before she ever picked up a cosmetic needle. Nursing, midwifery, critical care, and a Masters as a Nurse Practitioner. That is a career spent looking after people at the most critical moments of their lives, and it is why the conversation here sounds different from the one you get in a shopping centre.
Tracey has a special interest in full facial assessments, volume restoration, fine-line and wrinkle prevention, and skin enrichment therapies. Her bias is towards restraint and towards natural results - she would rather you left looking like yourself on your best day than like somebody else entirely.
She will also tell you when the answer is no. That is the part clients remember.
The clinic
One nurse, one client, and as long as it takes. You will not be rushed, or feel like just another number.
Client results
We have them. Plenty of them. But Australian law does not allow a clinic to show you before and after images of prescription treatments on a public website, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to win your click.
After your consultation, Tracey will give you access. You will see real results from real clients, relevant to your face and your concern, with the context to understand what you are looking at.
I have an access codeAccess is provided to clients following a consultation, in accordance with AHPRA and TGA advertising requirements for prescription-only treatments. Individual results vary and are not guaranteed. Any procedure carries risks, which will be discussed with you.
In clinic
Prescribed to your skin at your assessment, not sold off a shelf. Most people need fewer products than they have been told.
Gift vouchers
Available online or in the clinic, and they can be put towards treatments or products.
Buy any time and print it out at home. Your voucher arrives as a printable PDF with its own gift code and expiry date, ready to hand over.
Pop in and pick up a paper gift card, also with a gift code and expiry date. Drop by during opening hours, or call us on 0434 710 010.
Either kind can be redeemed in the clinic against treatments or products. Bring the gift code with you and we will take care of the rest.
Questions
Including the ones clinics normally avoid. If your question is not here, call 0434 710 010 and ask it.
No, and most people do not. That is the entire point of the consultation. You come in, describe what you are seeing, and Tracey works out what is actually causing it. Plenty of people arrive able to say only that something has changed.
A full facial assessment. Tracey looks at structure, laxity, texture, pigment and what has changed, then talks you through what she has found and what would help, in order of what would make the biggest difference. Every treatment at Bonnie Lass includes a free consultation, an individualised treatment plan, and a complimentary follow-up appointment to review your results.
No. Tracey will tell you when the answer is skincare and sun protection, or nothing at all right now. Her position is that she would rather you trusted her than booked with her, and a consultation with no treatment is a legitimate outcome, not a failed sale.
Say it anyway. Tracey spent thirty years in nursing, midwifery and critical care before she came to aesthetics. There is genuinely nothing you can raise that will faze her, and the thing people are most embarrassed about is usually the thing most easily treated.
No. The assessment on this website is a short questionnaire that gives you a starting read on what is likely driving the change in your skin. The consultation is in person, with Tracey, looking at your actual face. The assessment is a useful first step, not a substitute.
It varies by treatment, and Tracey will tell you honestly what to expect before you commit. Microneedling is uncomfortable rather than painful. PRX-Plus uses no needles at all. Discomfort is managed, and nobody is expected to grit their teeth through anything.
It depends on what you have. PRX-Plus is specifically a no-downtime treatment - there is no needling and no peeling, so you can have it and go back to work. Microneedling will leave you pink for a day or two. Injectable treatments may cause slight redness, swelling or tenderness in the treated area, which is expected and usually resolves within a few days.
More than one, for most things, and Tracey will give you the real number up front rather than after you have paid. Microneedling is at least three sessions two weeks apart. PRX-Plus is a course of three to five, two weeks apart. BYRYZN is three sessions four weeks apart. Bio-remodelling starts with two, four to six weeks apart. A single session of most of these is a taste, not a change.
That is the outcome we are actively trying to avoid. Tracey's stated bias is towards restraint and natural results, and most of the treatments relevant to skin quality change how your skin behaves rather than change your face. The aim is that people say you look well or rested, not that they can identify what you had.
It depends entirely on the treatment. Some collagen-stimulating treatments build over weeks and hold for many months. Lifting threads lift from day one, with continued tightening over six to twelve weeks and results lasting twelve to eighteen months. Muscle-relaxing treatments typically last three to four months. Tracey will give you a realistic range rather than a best case.
Some, yes - which is unusual. PRX-Plus and BYRYZN are safe for all skin types and all seasons. Other resurfacing treatments are better saved for winter, and Tracey will tell you which is which rather than take your money in January.
Because some are purchased and some are prescribed. Skin treatments like PRX-Plus, BYRYZN, Rejuran and microneedling have a fixed price, and it is published on this site. Injectable treatments depend on your face, the area and the amount required - quoting a number before Tracey has assessed you would be a guess, so we do not.
Yes. You will know exactly what a treatment costs before you agree to it. Nobody is billed for a surprise.
Where a treatment genuinely needs a course, yes. The microneedling course of four with NCTF is $1,170, which saves $130. The exosome course of four is $1,350, saving $150. The packages exist because the course is what produces the result, not as a sales tactic.
Yes, and you can buy one two ways. Online, which gives you a printable PDF you can hand over straight away, or in the clinic as a paper gift card. Both carry a gift code and an expiry date, and both can be redeemed with us against treatments or products.
The free skin assessment, then the consultation. Both cost nothing, and Tracey will frequently tell you that the highest-value thing you can do is skincare and sun protection - which is the cheapest intervention there is.
Most treatments are performed by Nurse Tracey. She holds Bachelor's degrees in both Nursing and Midwifery, a Post Graduate qualification in Critical Care and a Masters as a Nurse Practitioner, with over thirty years of experience in the medical field. Nurse Gaba also treats clients here part time. She holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Post Graduate qualification in Neonatal Intensive Care, and trained in cosmetic nursing after that. You are welcome to ask for whichever injector you would prefer when you book. Some procedures also require a pre-treatment video call with a cosmetic doctor, and Tracey will arrange that.
No, and that matters. A consultation with a registered nurse is required before any procedure specifically to assess whether you are a suitable candidate. Some people are not, and they will be told so.
You will be given specific instructions for what you have had. After volume restoring treatments, the general advice is to keep the area clean, avoid heavy oil-based creams and makeup while healing, avoid heat and direct UV, avoid exercise for 24 to 48 hours, avoid alcohol for the first 24 hours, avoid AHAs, BHAs, retinol and vitamin C for 24 hours, avoid laser, microdermabrasion and chemical peels for two weeks, sleep on your back for the first few nights, and take paracetamol rather than ibuprofen or aspirin if you need pain relief. No flights for 72 hours.
After volume restoring treatments, lumpiness and unevenness in the first two weeks is normal - the product takes time to integrate with your own tissue and lumps soften over time. Book a follow-up appointment for two weeks after the procedure to check everything is settling as it should. If anything worries you before then, call the clinic.
Call the clinic on 0434 710 010. Do not sit at home worrying about it. If you experience any unusual symptoms, seek medical assistance.
Yes. A complimentary follow-up appointment to review your results is included with every treatment.
Because Australian law does not permit clinics to advertise before and after images of prescription-only treatments to the public. That is an AHPRA and TGA advertising requirement, and any clinic showing you injectable before-and-afters on a public page is breaking it. We are not going to break it to win your click.
Yes. After your consultation, Tracey will give you an access code for the private client gallery, where you can see real results from real clients with the context to understand what you are looking at. She can also walk you through relevant results in person at your appointment.
Yes. Every image is a Bonnie Lass client treated by Tracey, published with their written consent, shot at the same angle and in the same lighting. Individual results vary, and yours will depend on your face, your skin and your history.
No, and nobody honestly can. Individual results vary and are not guaranteed. Any procedure carries risks, and those will be discussed with you before you consent to anything.
44 Smith Street, Melton VIC 3337, in Melbourne's outer west.
Open seven days, 9am to 7pm, by appointment only.
Book online through our booking system any time, or call 0434 710 010. The free 15 minute consultation can be booked the same way.
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