Lucidum8.00 mm
Lucidum
A long limestone reception counter under arched cast-iron windows, nobody waiting

Every room is lit from the north.

One floor of a cast-iron building on Greene Street. Four treatment rooms, a consultation table and no waiting room.

A pale oak consultation table with two chairs, a round hand mirror and a glass of water
The consultation table, before the first appointment.

Appointments are spaced so you never sit next to a stranger. Every room has the same north light, which is also the light we photograph your skin in, so the pictures you see at each visit can be compared fairly.

Greene Street on a wet morning, seen through an old cast-iron window
Greene Street from room four.
A neat stack of folded grey and white waffle towels on a steel shelf
Linen is changed between every client.
The open palm of a hand in window light, where the stratum lucidum actually forms

Stratum lucidum

The clear layer, about two hundredths of a millimeter down. It only forms in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, so your face does not have one. We borrowed the name for what it means.

Who works at which depth

  1. Jiwoo Park smoothing a fresh sheet over a treatment chair before a facial

    0.00 to 0.06 mm

    Jiwoo Park

    Licensed aesthetician

    Facials and peels. She works in the top few hundredths of a millimeter and keeps the surface in order between everything else.

  2. Dr. Aldous at the consultation table, holding up a hand mirror for a client

    0.05 to 8.00 mm

    Dr. Helen Aldous

    Medical director, dermatologist

    Reads every treatment plan before a first appointment, and does the light treatments and the deepest filler herself.

  3. Theo Mensah studying a client’s face in profile before marking it with a white pencil

    1.00 to 8.00 mm

    Theo Mensah, RN

    Nurse injector

    Boosters, neuromodulators and filler. He watches you frown and smile, and marks every face by hand before anything is drawn up.