Melanie Pinet, Nurse Injector

What if your skin wasn’t the problem but rather a reflection of a deeper imbalance?

Redness, dullness, breakouts and even skin laxity are all signs of what’s happening within our bodies.

Aesthetics can be somewhat ‘surface’ and it’s often easier to make treatment suggestions based on what we can see, rather than truly addressing the cause.

I think it’s time we start looking for the root of the problem.

As a nurse, my training and experience encourages me to dig deeper. I ask different questions because I like to look at the skin not only as a system itself, but as a system that connects to every part of the body beneath it.

Before “what can we do?” comes “why is this happening?”

Skip the why, and you’re just guessing at solutions. Start there, and everything else makes sense.

The why gives us the full picture. It allows us to present options that can actually make a difference.

It starts with asking the right questions.

👩‍⚕️ Melanie Pinet RN
📍 Skinjections Medical Aesthetics, Cochrane AB

Soft. Natural. No drama.

Right after your appointment, your skin may look a little pink and feel slightly swollen. This is normal. For most people, this settles quickly.

You might also notice a small bruise at the site. This is common with any injectable treatment. It can be covered the next day and fades away on its own.

You will see a visible difference right away. NaturaGel delivers immediate soft volume, so the change is noticeable from the start. As the gel is gradually absorbed into the skin, results will continue to shift and settle over the following weeks.

We walk you through exactly what to expect at your appointment, including how to care for your skin afterward.

Curious if NaturaGel is right for you? It starts with a consultation.

📍 Skinjections Medical Aesthetics, Cochrane

⚕️Medical oversight from NP Jessica Tsang

Did you know there are two type of aging?

There’s the one we’re born with: Genetics, the cellular clock, the hormonal shifts like menopause. That part happens no matter what we do, and it’s not a fight we will win.

The other comes from outside of us. It’s years of sun exposure, pollution, stress and sleepless nights. It’s the everyday wear on our skin. Unlike the first kind, this part of aging responds to lifestyle changes and what we do.

We don’t have to accept it as ‘just aging’ Here’s what we have control over...

Sun exposure alone is estimated to account for around 80% of visible facial aging over a lifetime. Not genetics. Instead, it’s years of small, daily exposures sneaking up on you.

So when someone tells you (or you tells yourself) “it’s just aging” and leaves it there, you’re leaving out the single most important part of what we can do.

I don’t tell people this to make you feel like you’ve missed out on years where you should have been wearing sunscreen. I tell you this because it changes how you move forward and it changes the statement. Not “I guess it’s just aging” but “what’s actually happening and what can I do about it?”

That’s a very different conversation from resigning yourself to the aging process to now having a plan and having influence over it.

Skincare is about having healthy skin. And healthy skin starts with an assessment. Taking a real look at what’s actually happening and having an opportunity to learn what you can do differently.

👩‍⚕️ Melanie Pinet RN
⚕️ Medical oversight from Jessica Tsang, NP

💕 It’s here and we’re READY!

Six months ago, NaturaGel was something we were still deciding whether to investigate.

Since then, it’s been a lot of research, reading the evidence, checking it against Health Canada requirements and our scope of practice as Registered Nurses. Then vetting the supplier directly and asking questions that don’t have marketing answers. Then hands-on training, because reading about a treatment and being trained to deliver it safely are two very different things. Then spending time using it ourselves and getting comfortable with the technique before opening it to clients.

That’s the process behind everything we bring into the clinic. You just don’t usually see the process. This time, we wanted you to know.

NaturaGel is now officially part of Skinjections, Cochrane. It’s an additional option for patients looking for a non-synthetic approach to volume and skin support, alongside everything we already offer.

Booking is now open, starting with a consultation, because candidacy is something we determine together.

If you’re curious about whether it’s a fit for your skin, it starts with an assessment. 🤍

📍 Skinjections Medical Aesthetics, Cochrane
⚕️Medical oversight from NP Jessica Tsang

She asked for a midface refresh. This is immediately post treatment. We softened her nasolabial folds and restored cheek volume. Nothing drastic. Just soft and natural. A little pink to the cheeks is to be expected after touching the skin 😏 It settles quickly.

NaturaGel is autologous which means it’s made entirely from a small sample of your own blood, processed into a PRP-based gel and put back into the skin. No synthetic fillers, no foreign material.

Results build gently as your own collagen responds.

✨ Made by you, for you.

📍 SKINjections | Cochrane, AB

Treatment: Melanie Pinet, RN
Medical oversight: Jessica Tsang, NP

👩🏼‍⚕️ All NaturaGel treatments are provided by a Registered Nurse
💕 Results are individual and never guaranteed.

Filler or NaturaGel? The honest answer: it depends what you’re looking for.

Filler is precise. It goes exactly where you place it, which makes it the right call when the goal is structure: a jawline, a cheek contour, lips with definition.

NaturaGel works differently. It’s made from your own platelets, and alongside offering some short-term volume, it can support your skin over time. It tends to come up for patients who want a non-filler option, or who want to address skin quality as soft volume.

Neither one is better than the other. They do completely different jobs. Some clients end up using NaturaGel for one area and Filler for another.

If you’re curious about what’s right for you, it starts with a consultation 🤍

📍 Skinjections Medical Aesthetics, Cochrane
⚕️Medical oversight from NP Jessica Tsang.

NaturaGel has become our go-to option for refreshing the under-eye area and these photos show exactly why 🥰

If we’re being honest, we know that through every stage of a woman’s life, a good nights sleep is often hard to achieve. Motherhood and kids, perimenopause and hormones 😴 And the under-eye area is often the first place that shows it. The skin there is some of the thinnest on the face, sitting over a shallow fat pad that continues to thin over time. As that support shifts, the area hollows and shadows, and no concealer really solves it.

NaturaGel works with your own tissue to support skin quality and structure in the under-eye, cheek and nasolabial area over time.

This client came in wanting her under-eyes refreshed. Mission accomplished ⭐️

Curious if this is right for you? Let’s start with a consultation.

👩🏼‍⚕️ All NaturaGel treatments are provided by a Registered Nurse
⚕️ Medical oversight from Nurse Practitioner, Jessica Tsang
💕 Results are individual and never guaranteed.

NaturaGel for the lower face. Areas treated: nasolabial folds, marionette lines, vertical upper lip lines, chin, and jawline.

Nearly every woman beyond the age of 40 will eventually point to the lower face and say ‘what can we do here?’

Why the lower face? The mouth is dynamic, it moves all the time and with enough movement and the natural loss of skin elasticity with age, we get lines that age us before we’re ready.

NaturaGel is made from our own PRP and works as a biostimulator, supporting the tissue’s own collagen and repair processes. As tissue quality improves, the face can carry a softer, more supported look, not from added filler, but from our own biology doing what it used to do more easily.

That’s why we’re reaching for NaturaGel in this area. Soft tissue responds well to being supported, not just filled.

If this is the area you keep coming back to in the mirror, a skin health assessment is where we start.

👩🏼‍⚕️ All treatments are provided by an RN with medical oversight from our NP Medical Director.

⚕️Results are always individual and never guaranteed.