The Timing Guide, When to Book Before an Event

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6 months out

This is where the slow-building treatments live. None of them have a shortcut.

Hair PRP. A series spaced about a month apart, and you're judging the result at three to six months, not before. If thinning hair is the concern, this is the one that needs real runway.
Biostimulant filler doesn't add volume, it prompts your own collagen, and that takes months, built up in stages. Great for the long game. Useless as a last-minute fix.
Your first tox appointment. If you've never had it, start now. I find your dose, watch how you move, and adjust at the next visit. By the event, you'll be on a known quantity.

3 months out

Series treatments start here. Anything billed as three sessions, four weeks apart, has to begin now.

Microneedling with PRP. Usually three sessions about a month apart. Collagen keeps building for months after the last one, so finishing early works in your favor.
Chemical peels follow the same logic. A course does more than a single peel, and peeling skin two weeks before a wedding is a bad memory nobody needs.
PDO threads. Results build gradually and keep improving as collagen forms along the thread path. Three months gives it room to look like nothing happened, in the good way.

6 to 8 weeks out

The sweet spot for most injectables. Enough time to see it, judge it, and refine it.

Dermal and lip filler. It settles into its real shape around two weeks. Book here and there's room to review, and top up if we want to, without rushing.
Tox peaks around two weeks and holds for roughly three months. Booked in this window, you're at your best on the day and still covered after.
Your last new thing. Whatever you haven't tried before, this is the cutoff. Past this point we refine what's already working instead of introducing something new.

2 to 4 weeks out

Refinement only now. We're adjusting, not introducing.

A small tox top-up, if the two-week check showed we needed one.
A light peel or a hydrating facial. Nothing that resurfaces hard.
This is also when I want your skincare routine fully settled. No new actives from here on.

The final two weeks

The most useful thing I can give you here is a list of what not to do.

No new treatments. None. Not a facial from somewhere new, not a product a friend swears by.
Don't start retinol, and don't step up the strength of anything you're already using.
Skip waxing and threading if you've had a peel recently.
Go easy on alcohol and salt for the two days before. It shows up as puffiness more than people expect.
Drink water and sleep well. Leave your face alone. That's really it.

Counting backward from the day that matters

6 months
Anything new to you
First-time filler, first threads, a first peel. You want room to see how you respond.
3 months
Start the series
Microneedling and peels work in courses of three, spaced about a month apart.
6–8 weeks
Biostimulants
Sculptra and Radiesse build your own collagen slowly. This is the last sensible window.
2–4 weeks
Tox
Far enough out to review at two weeks and adjust anything that needs it.
Final 2 weeks
Nothing new
Skincare only. No first-time anything, and no dental work if you have had filler.
The day

The buffer is not about danger. It is about having time to adjust if your face wants something different from what we planned.

The Timing Guide