By Mesmerising Beauty Team
Gosforth salon
Mesmerising Beauty is one salon at 77 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 4AA. Use the live treatment list before booking because service details, prices, and durations can change.
What a PDO Thread Lift Actually Is
A PDO (polydioxanone) thread lift is a cosmetic medical procedure. A qualified practitioner inserts dissolvable threads beneath the skin using fine needles or cannulas, then adjusts them to lift and support facial tissue. The threads dissolve over the following months. It is an invasive procedure carried out in clinics, usually with local anaesthetic, and it always requires a medical consultation first.
Because it is a medical procedure, questions about cost, suitability, risks and how long results might last are questions for a qualified medical aesthetic practitioner — not for a beauty salon. Prices vary widely between clinics depending on the areas treated and the practitioner's experience, and outcomes differ from person to person. Anyone considering a thread lift should book consultations with regulated providers, ask about qualifications and insurance, and take their time over the decision.
Thread lifts are not appropriate for everyone. A reputable practitioner will assess your skin, your medical history and your expectations before agreeing to treat you, and will talk honestly about possible complications. If a provider skips that conversation, walk away.
What Facial Threading at a Beauty Salon Is
Facial threading — the service Mesmerising Beauty offers — is something entirely different. It is a traditional hair-removal technique that uses a twisted cotton thread moved across the surface of the skin to lift unwanted facial hair out from the root. Nothing goes under the skin; there are no needles, no anaesthetic and no medical consultation required.
Threading can be used on eyebrows, upper lip, chin, sides of the face or the full face. An appointment takes anywhere from a few minutes for a single small area to around half an hour for a full face, and you can carry on with your day straight afterwards. Results last until the hair visibly regrows, and that timing genuinely varies from person to person — a salon should never promise how long you'll stay smooth or make claims about how hair grows back.
For current threading prices at our Gosforth salon, always check the live price list — we keep it up to date so you're never working from stale figures.
Understanding the Confusion
The mix-up between these treatments comes from both using the word "thread", but that is where the similarity ends:
PDO Thread Lift (medical aesthetic procedure):
- Threads are placed UNDER the skin
- Aims to lift and support facial tissue
- Performed by qualified medical practitioners
- Involves needles and usually local anaesthetic
- Requires medical consultation and aftercare
- Pricing and outcomes are questions for the clinic
Facial Threading (beauty treatment):
- Cotton thread moves ACROSS the skin surface
- Removes unwanted visible hair from the root
- Performed by trained beauty therapists
- No needles, no anaesthetic
- Results last until regrowth, which varies by person
- Current prices are on the salon's live price list
The treatments don't overlap or compete — they address completely different things. Some people have both, for entirely different reasons, from different kinds of practitioner.
Which Treatment Do You Actually Want?
If your concern is unwanted facial hair — upper lip hair, eyebrow shaping, peach fuzz, chin hair — you want traditional facial threading at a beauty salon. It is quick, non-invasive and leaves the skin visibly free of hair until regrowth appears.
If your concern is skin laxity, jowls or facial contour, and you are researching non-surgical lifting procedures, what you need is a consultation with a qualified medical aesthetic practitioner about whether a PDO thread lift (or any alternative) is right for you. That is a medical decision, and a beauty salon is not the right place to make it.
Most people searching for "thread face lift cost" are looking for the cosmetic procedure, and some are surprised to find beauty salons offering "threading" that has nothing to do with lifting. If that's you, we hope this page has saved you a confusing phone call — and if what you actually wanted was expert facial hair removal, you're very much in the right place.
Where to Get Each Treatment
PDO thread lifts are offered by medical aesthetic clinics, aesthetic doctors and specially trained prescribing practitioners. Always verify qualifications, regulation and insurance before booking any procedure that goes under the skin.
Facial hair-removal threading is offered by beauty salons and threading specialists — including Mesmerising Beauty in Gosforth, where threading is one of our core services.
Experience Face Threading at Mesmerising Beauty
Mesmerising Beauty serves clients from one salon at 77 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA.
For current treatment prices, appointment times, and availability, use the live booking route: