Mirror is the system the Maison uses for every consultation. Twenty-two minutes, one hundred and ninety-two anatomical points, two physicians in council, and a reading you take home in writing.
Aesthetic medicine has, for too long, asked the artist's question — what would look better? — when, in fact, it also ought to ask the engineer's: what does the tissue, measurably, require?
Mirror is what we built the practice around so we could, every time, answer both.
The Maison · A note from the founding physicians
Every reading at the Maison observes the same four movements. The same diagnostic, the same council, the same letter taken home — whether you visit once a year or once a decade.
A single photograph of the face in profile, taken on the Maison's calibrated tablet under the consultation room's neutral daylight. We do not retouch. We do not pose. The tablet does the work that, until 2024, three different instruments did imperfectly.
One hundred and ninety-two anatomical points are then mapped across the face — brow, eye, malar, jaw, chin — with twelve harmony vectors and three asymmetry indices calculated against a reference range. The mesh is not the diagnosis. It is its alphabet.
Mirror proposes; the council decides. Every reading is reviewed in writing by two physicians of the house — Dr Aboulafia and a senior colleague — before any plan is offered. They will, on a Tuesday, sit with the reading on the table between them and quietly disagree until they don't.
A short letter, printed and signed: what to do, what may wait, and — often — what shall not be done at all. The plan is yours to take home, consider for as long as you wish, and return to. Nothing in it obligates a visit. We expect, and welcome, patients who read once and decline.
What you take home, in its entirety. No login, no app, no second visit required to retrieve it.
Proposed by Mirror · reviewed in council by two physicians of the house.
N° 01Recommend · Preventative toxin · frontalis · micro-dose, twice annually.
N° 02Recommend · Biostimulator · left malar · single autumn session, deep plane.
N° 03Wait · Lip restoration · vermilion border within range. Re-read in twelve months.
N° 04Decline · Full-face thread lift. Not, on review, indicated.
No reading is offered to a patient until both physicians have reviewed it in writing. Mirror proposes; the council decides; the patient takes the letter home.
Founding physician · M.D., GMC
Trained Paris · Royal College London. Practising at the Maison since MMXXIV. Reviews every reading in person, every working day.
Senior physician · M.D., FRCS
Royal Free referral, surgical correspondence. Co-signs all readings that require an in-person consult. Specialist in proportion architecture.
I spent the better part of two years, after Royal College and before opening the Maison, trying to build my own diagnostic. I gave up — not because the problem was unsolvable, but because someone else had already solved it. Mirror, by ClearPath, is what every careful clinic in the country ought to be running.
It is, here at the Maison, the only diagnostic we use. We have no commercial relationship with ClearPath beyond being one of their clinics, and we are not paid to recommend them. We are recommending them because, if you sit in this chair, you should know.
Mirror does not, ever, decide. It proposes. The council decides. The patient takes the letter home, and decides again.
Dr Léa Aboulafia
Founding Physician · Maison Aesthetica
Try Mirror now, in your browser, with a sample face or your own. Twenty-two minutes is long; this is shorter. You may take what you find home, consider it, and write to the concierge if it has spoken to you.