***I'd like to start this by stating clearly and ethically- I have deleted my prior post I wrote where I rated New Image Works Glenview 5 stars, and I'd like explain why I have changed it to only one star. To give you my background, I have my Bachelor's degree in Marketing Communications with a concentration in PR, my aesthetician license in the state of IL, and professional certification for makeup artistry as well. I started my work for a board certified plastic surgeon on the Upper East Side of NYC where I developed my passion for this industry at age 24, and I am now 31. 7 years of experience later, a rapidly growing market, and money hungry, dishonest business owners- something I unfortunately ran into with this scam of a practice, New Image Works Glenview- owners Dmitry & Tatiana Alexeev, and here I am, writing my story to help others from getting taken advantage of.
THE FULL STORY:
Let me begin with, AMERICAN (or Russian in their case) GREED IS REAL, no matter what industry you're in. When you're a dishonest business owner, you can only get away with doing the WRONG thing and being deceitful so many times until someone catches you, and I happen to be the person who's caught you and the system you're running red handed, and I sure don't mind writing this lengthly review to inform everyone else who reads it so they can choose to go to another medical spa or plastic surgery office that operates ethically and handles business the RIGHT way, because we do have MANY options these days.
I originally visited New Image Works Glenview to get my lips injected with Hyaluronidase (an enzyme that dissolves filler) to un-do years of injectable build up and also use the mask mandate to my advantage. I had seen all the work that the nurse injectors post on Instagram, specifically Virginia's images, which are beautiful, and decided to give them a call. When I made my appointment, I was able to get in with Violetta. I should've done my research prior to coming in, because to date, (now this may change if they contact whoever handles their website to make a simple adjustment), Violetta is actually the only person who does not have any of her bio information listed such as her education or where she attended nursing school; it's completely blank.
One month later after my lips were dissolved, on January 15, 2021 at 3pm, I returned to have my lips re-injected from Violetta. I had absolutely no filler remaining, and she mentioned that she may have to inject more Hyaluronidase to dissolve what was still at my central vermilion border. I explained to her that since I was a baby, this been the anatomy of my lips. She made an educated guess after meeting me one time, but she was wrong. If I had been the injector, I would've asked for a picture of what my lips looked like prior to injections, but she just assumed she knew, which makes sense because she told me she's only been injecting for 2 years, which in the grand scheme of life is not very long at all. Don't get me wrong, Violetta was very kind, sweet, and I genuinely liked her, I even offered to babysit her kids to give her some date time with her husband), so I wrote Tatiana, the CEO, on Instagram (since Violetta said that's the best way to contact her instead of email) that my experience was very good with her and sent a lot of positive energy and praise her way. I will say though, I've never heard of any successful CEO of a legitimate company being best reached over Instagram, a platform where you can literally unsend messages, but usually people are so quick to highlight the negative and not send positive feedback a business's way, so I figured it was one of the only means for me to share my experience. Besides writing a Google review to help positively promote their business as a thank you, I also took around 40-50 of Violetta's business cards, wrote my name on the back of them and passed them out at a fitness studio I attend here in the city.
Violetta had mentioned using Allergan's Juvederm injectable opposed to Galderma's Restylane Kysse like I had requested. Her response was, "All the younger girls are coming in and getting Juvederm, and it will give you a significantly fuller look rather than the Restylane Kysse. I reminded her again how I'm 31 years old and didn't want to look like the younger girls or these "Instagram influencers" that in my opinion all look the same now and are setting a completely unrealistic standard of beauty for the younger generation of girls and women in today's society. I wanted a soft, natural look that felt real. She bargained with me telling me the Juvederm was $50 cheaper, and I said I was okay with spending a little more to have a more natural result. Having a good eye for what looks aesthetically pleasing and being trained by a board certified plastic surgeon on the structural anatomy of the face and body, I just wanted to look like an enhanced version of my true self and not like a duplicate copy of ev read more