'North London’s best kept beauty secret' – TimeOut Magazine
Skin is a storyteller. And I am its translator.
The story began in a small North London home, long before the clinic, long before the waiting lists. I was just a girl watching my mother’s world spin in too many directions – until she sat down, quietened it all and gave herself a manicure.
It was alchemy. Not vanity. A ritual that stitched her back together again. And when she finished? She walked differently. Taller. Lighter. That single act of care changed everything. That was my first lesson in confidence: not the showy kind, but the kind that rises from within.
That is the essence of my work now.
Not transformation for the sake of perfection – rather restoration for the sake of self.
I have never been interested in skin-deep fixes or curated ideals. That is not my style. I work with skin the way it was meant to be worked with: gently, truthfully, honestly. I see your skin as a mirror of your internal world, your emotions, your environment, your elemental makeup. It is never just surface – it is always a signal – and the reason everything I do is bespoke.
Rooted in intuition, guided by science and shaped by the realness of life.
I started this path at thirteen, declared it with fire in my chest. I was that girl in the salon on Saturdays, doing professional manicures at an age when others were still figuring themselves out. That fire never left. It carried me through one-room setups, broken sleep, borrowed furniture, relentless days… until I built what you see now – a clinic that holds the energy of all that graft and all that heart.
Today, from a light-filled floor in a Georgian townhouse in the City of London, I meet people from every corner of the globe. Some come to me broken out, burned out, at a loss. Others come simply seeking truth. Wherever you land on that spectrum, I meet you as you are. And I build from there.
There are no quick fixes here.
No empty promises.
Only care. Only honesty. Only the real work.
I act as your skin’s advocate, your soul’s co-pilot, your guide. Whether we work together in person or online, the ethos remains the same: we go deeper, we listen harder, we give space for healing to rise.
You will not leave here with a 10-step routine and a bag full of stuff you do not need. You will leave with clarity. With a plan. With your feet firmly back on the ground and your skin finally feeling understood.
You will leave with a sense of coming home.
Because this isn’t just about skin. This is about wholeness.
And your skin? It is not a problem to be fixed.
It is a compass. A communicator. And it deserves to be met with respect.
If you give me your time, I will give you the radiant skin you have been dreaming of.
Not perfect. But real. Honest. Alive.
Radiant in its own way – just like you.
I am Ingrid Raphael.
Your Skin Specialist. Your Elementologist®.
And I am so glad you are here.
Nurturing soul to skin, always.
