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SKN Lab by Omnia · A K-Aesthetic skin practice · Hilton & Ballito

Most women treat their skin. The ones who care for it age differently.

Here's the honest truth: your skin doesn't need more products — it needs someone who truly knows it. We care for your skin the way the Korean approach always has: gently, patiently, and with a real plan. So it gets healthier month after month, not just glowy for a good week.

Come in for a skin chat · R395 See how it works
Built by a doctor, delivered with care Gentle, never harsh A plan made just for you
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Sound familiar?

Sixteen bottles on the shelf. Over 160 ingredients on your face. R1,500 a month. And still that quiet feeling none of it was ever really meant for you.

There's a better way — and it starts with someone actually looking.

Treated vs cared for

There's a world of difference between being treated and being truly looked after.

Treated · the way it's always been

The once-off cycle

  • You book when something's bothering you
  • Someone does a treatment, on the day
  • You glow for a week, then it fades
  • Nobody's really keeping track
  • And round and round it goes
Cared for · the way it could be

The managed way

  • We get to know your skin — its story, its moods
  • Every visit builds gently on the last
  • We can actually see what's changing
  • Your home routine is chosen for you, never guessed
  • And slowly, quietly, it just keeps getting better
How it works

It's not an appointment. It's a relationship with your skin.

No more once-off treatments and crossed fingers. From the very first chat to your seasonal check-ins, we're beside you — gently, consistently — watching your skin get better, together.

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First, we get to know your skin

Before we suggest a single thing, we take a proper look — an Observ 520x skin analysis that shows us what's happening under the surface: the early sun damage, the dryness, the pigment you can't see yet. From there we map out where your skin could be in a year or two, and how we'll get there together.

R395 · credited to your first visit
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Then, your monthly ritual

Once a month you come in for your stack — your own little ritual, gently layered and matched to where your skin is right now. In a calm, unhurried space, cared for by people who know you. Never a rushed facial.

Included in membership
3

We check in — you never have to chase us

A message after your visit to see how you're doing, a nudge when it's time, a friendly ear on WhatsApp. We reach out first, always — usually within five minutes.

Looked after
4

Every season, we see how far you've come

Every three months we re-read your skin with the Observ, side by side with where you started. Softer texture, calmer tone, more hydration — shown, not just promised. It's the loveliest part.

Included
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And it all keeps building

Consistency is the quiet magic a once-off can never give you. Your membership means a price that stays yours, a routine kept topped up for you, and a team who know your skin better with every visit.

From R1,250/mo
Your treatments · The Stacks

Seven little rituals, each one chosen for your skin — never off a menu.

Think of a stack as a considered ritual: gentle steps layered to work together, the way a good Korean routine does. Yours is assigned from your Observ assessment — and as your skin evolves, your stack evolves with it. We'll always tell you what it's for; how we make it work is the craft we've poured years into.

Stack 01

SKN RESET

Hydration + barrier repair · all skin types

Where every skin journey starts. A universal entry protocol that brings your skin back to baseline — ideal for first visits, post-travel, or sensitive, compromised skin.

Stack 02

SKN GYM

Anti-ageing · fine lines · texture

Because results are built, not applied. Precision needling and peptide actives train your skin to produce what it naturally loses with age — collagen, elasticity, firmness.

Stack 03

GLOW STACK

Radiance · dullness · uneven tone

For skin that's lost its spark. Brightening exfoliation and active infusion for the kind of dullness no highlighter can fix — visible from the first session, compounding with every one after.

Stack 04

SKULPT

Contouring · lifting · definition

Skin that's lost structure doesn't need more product — it needs targeted work. Microcurrent and lifting protocols for the areas that soften first: jawline, cheeks, around the eyes.

Stack 05

CLEAR SKIN STACK

Acne · congestion · breakout-prone

Not just the breakout you can see — the conditions that create it. Deep cleansing, sebum regulation and blue LED, managed consistently until your skin's behaviour changes.

Stack 06

FOCAL FRAME

Targeted corrections · pigmentation

Precision work for specific, localised concerns — pigment patches, post-inflammatory marks, sun damage — with a protocol designed around that exact area.

Stack 07

RECUT

Resurfacing · texture · annual reset

A deeper resurfacing protocol for skin that needs more than maintenance — irregular texture, post-summer recovery, or an annual reset for established members.

Recommended once your skin is established on the programme.
Wondering about peels & needling?

They live inside the stacks.

Chemical peels and microneedling aren't menu items here — they're modalities woven into GLOW, FOCAL FRAME, RECUT and SKN GYM, prescribed when your skin asks for them. Protocols, not promises.

Not sure which is yours?

Your skin decides. We read it.

Your stack is prescribed from your Observ 520x analysis at your first skin chat — never guessed, never sold.

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A little extra love, wherever you'd like it.

Gentle add-ons can join any stack session whenever it's right for your skin — deeper work on a specific area, without ever replacing your core ritual.

Neck & décolleté · +30 min Eye area focus · +20 min Lymphatic drainage · +20 min Back treatment · +45 min Extractions · +30 min Scalp treatment · +30 min Dermaplaning · +20 min Brow sculpt · +30 min Lash tint · +20 min Lip blush prep · +15 min
Membership · by invitation

Your skin, cared for like it's the only one we've got.

Membership is what turns skincare from a scramble of one-off decisions into something steady and kind — a plan that grows with you, month after month. Every one is built around a single person: you.

Essential

A gentle place to begin.
R1,250/mo
  • One protocol session monthly
  • Quarterly Observ 520x skin analysis
  • Three prescribed home-care products
  • Price locked for life
Choose Essential
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Pro

For when you want to see it sooner.
R2,200/mo
  • One protocol + one extra session monthly
  • Quarterly Observ 520x skin analysis
  • Three prescribed home-care products
  • 5% off everything in The Skin Store
  • Price locked for life
Choose Pro

Elite

Everything, and all of you.
R3,200/mo
  • One protocol + two extra + one add-on monthly
  • Quarterly Observ 520x skin analysis
  • Three prescribed home-care products
  • 10% off everything in The Skin Store
  • Priority booking
  • Price locked for life
Choose Elite
Founding member · window now open

Be one of our first, and the price you join at stays yours.

For as long as you're with us, it never goes up — think of it as a thank-you for trusting us early, not a discount. Not ready to commit just yet? You're always welcome for a single visit at R1,400.

Claim your founding price
The philosophy we live by

We fell in love with the Korean way of caring for skin.

You've probably met K-beauty already — the dewy masks, the ten little steps, that dreamy "glass skin". We adore where it points. But the part that stole our hearts runs deeper than any product: the belief that skin is something you tend to, gently and often, the way you'd tend to anything you love.

K-Beauty · the products & the look

We borrow its beautiful words

Sheet masks, layered routines, "glow" and "glass skin". They're lovely, and we'll happily borrow the dream — but a shelf of pretty bottles was never the whole story.

K-Aesthetic · a way of caring for skin

This is who we are

Starting early. Protecting daily. Being gentle, not aggressive. Treating skin health as the foundation of everything, and letting results come naturally, over time. It's less a treatment and more a quiet, lifelong kindness to your skin.

Made for our skin — because South African skin deserves gentle, and deserves knowing.

So many of us carry pigment-prone skin — the melasma, the dark marks that linger long after a breakout has gone. Harsh, one-off treatments can make all of that worse. Our way is softer and smarter: sun-first, prevention-led, kind. We work with your skin, never against it — and we'll never make you feel there's anything about it to fix.

What we believe

Prevention. Regeneration. Simplification.

Three quiet ideas, borrowed from the Korean way of thinking about skin, and made for the skin you're in.

One

Look after it early

The Korean instinct is to care for skin long before anything goes wrong — daily sun protection, gentle habits, small consistent acts of kindness. Start now, and your skin ages on your terms.

Two

Help it heal, not hide

We're not here to paint over the surface. We help your skin do what it already knows how to do — rebuild, renew, and hold onto the good stuff it loses over the years.

Three

Make it simple again

Sixteen products and twenty opinions is the problem, not the answer. We hand you one plan, chosen for you, and take the guesswork off your shelf. Simplicity, honestly, is the real luxury.

We carry the complexity. You enjoy the outcome.
Real skin, real change

We'd rather show you than tell you.

We read your skin when you start, and again every season — so you can actually see how far it's come, not just take our word for it. Every skin is its own journey, and yours unfolds at its own gentle pace.

Observ before
Observ after
Member skin analyses shown with written consent. No retouching applied — no filters is a policy here, not a caption.
★★★★★

"It's not just skin care… it's an ongoing experience. I am living my best skin life."

Leonie Vos · Google review
★★★★★

"Dr Nicky is lovely, and so knowledgeable — I learned so much about my skin. Wonderful experience."

Kelly Watson · Google review
★★★★★

"The best group of therapists — always so gentle and thorough, and always willing to help a mum with time constraints."

Kirsty Meyer · Google review
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Two homes, one heart

Omnia is the medicine. SKN Lab is the everyday love.

Sisters, really. One's there for the bigger clinical moments; the other's here for the gentle, month-to-month care of your skin. We'll always point you to the right one.

The mother practice

Omnia

The full medical side of things — injectables, IPL, depigmentation, hair restoration — for when your skin needs a doctor's clinical hand. It's the trust everything else is built on.

Explore Medical Aesthetics →
Your monthly skin home

SKN Lab

Gentle rituals, a real plan, and a team who get to know you — dreamed up by Dr Nicky, delivered with heart, and checked against real imaging every season. You're already here.

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Your home shelf, prescribed

Three products, chosen for you. Not sixteen, guessed.

Members leave with a small, prescribed routine from The Skin Store — chosen from your skin data to work alongside your monthly ritual. Active SKN Lab members save 15%. And when our K-Skincare Edit lands from Korea, members hear first.

Visit The Skin Store Join the K-Edit waitlist
Come and see us

Let's start with your skin.

Your first visit is a proper skin chat and Observ 520x reading — R395, credited in full to your first session if you decide to stay. No pressure, just a real look at what your skin needs.

SKN Lab at Omnia · Hilton

Suite 6, First Floor, Hilton Health, Cnr Monzali Drive & Hilton Avenue, Hilton, KZN

WhatsApp (+27) 82 838 8741 · admin@omniahealth.co.za

We answer quickly — usually within five minutes. Ballito, we're coming for you soon.

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