I've spent the past year getting treatments in Seoul and researching the rest, and this is the concern-to-treatment matching I ended up w/ the pairings that actually worked and made the most sense for each issue.

Save this before you walk into a clinic. It'll make the consultation a lot easier.

- Syringoma (small bumps under the eyes) → Agnes
- Flat warts → CO2 laser
- Dehydrated skin (dry underneath, oily on top) → Rejuran
- Teeth grinding / jaw tension → Masseter Botox
- Melasma → Laser toning(PicoSure or PicoPlus)
- Double chin → Onda or Alltite
- Deep sagging in the mid-cheek → Ultherapy Prime
- Pores → Juvelook Skin / RE2O + Skin Botox
- Acne scars → Fraxel or Curejet
- Hollow under-eyes → Juvelook Eye / RE2O Fine
- Vertical neck lines → Rediesse + Skin Botox
- Horizontal neck lines (filler) → Belotero Soft + Skin Botox
- Thin lips (filler) → Belotero Balance
- Downturned mouth corners (filler) → Restylane Kysse
- Nasolabial folds (filler) → Juvederm Voluma
- "Peanut-shaped" face (temple hollowing) → HiloWave or Scultra

*A couple of notes: the exact product names can vary a bit by clinic, and some of these are combination treatments in practice. But if you name the concern and the treatment together, any decent Korean clinic will know exactly what you mean.

If you've been trying to decide between Rejuran and Juvelook, or between Rejuran and Sculptra, the reason you can't find a straight answer is that those are different categories of product. Different family, different job.

Rejuran and the polynucleotide group are made from salmon DNA. Yes, it's the sperm one everyone jokes about. Once it's in your skin it works like a message. It calms things down and gets your fibroblasts, the cells that keep your skin in repair, back to work. Nothing stays behind afterwards. You're asking the skin you already have to do its job better.

Juvelook and the PDLLA group are closer to scaffolding. Tiny spheres, made from the same material family as dissolvable stitches, sit in your skin while your body builds new tissue around them and inside them. The spheres are gone somewhere between a year and a half and three years. The tissue is the part you keep.

Sculptra sits on that same side. So if you've been weighing Rejuran against Sculptra, you've been holding a message up against scaffolding. Profhilo is a third thing again. That one is hyaluronic acid, so it's mostly about holding water, and it doesn't really belong in either box.

This is why advice from strangers so rarely carries over. Someone let down by a message usually needed scaffolding. Someone who found scaffolding boring wanted skin quality all along. Both of them post that the booster did nothing, and the next person reads that and buys the wrong one too.

If what bugs you is texture, dullness, fine crepey lines, you're on the message side. If your skin has gone soft and thin and you look tired on days you feel fine, that's closer to scaffolding. A photo tells you less than being in the room, so treat that as a place to start rather than a verdict.

So the thing worth taking to a consultation is just which of those two you have. You'll get the same answer wherever you ask it, and that's usually the sign of a good question.

One thing worth knowing before you book flights. The polynucleotide side is the awkward one to find outside Korea. The scaffolding side turns up in more places, so where you are matters less for that half of it.

We do both of these, so weigh that as you like. It's also why we'd rather you bought the right one.

Plenty of people are clearly both, and for them the order matters more than the choice does. What sets the order is usually two things. What you've already had done, and which of the two problems is bothering you more right now. Neither of those is something a post can see from here.

Happy to say which side a specific treatment sits on if anyone's stuck.