| Singapore has many aesthetic doctors but one of | | | | other people with skin ailments,” shares Dr |
| them sticks to mind - thanks to her glamourous | | | | Georgia Lee. |
| appeal, celebrity friends and cutting-edge fashion | | | | A stickler for high quality and cost-effective |
| style. Her clinic at Holland Village is a mecca to | | | | aesthetic practice backed by the most up-to-date |
| celebrities who zip in for skin rejuvation and botox | | | | technology and pharmacy, she will fly up to the |
| treatments. It is also a tome and showcase for | | | | factories to talk to the engineers and meet the |
| the celebrity doctor with media features of her | | | | doctors who are using the machines before |
| plastered on walls and in the magazines available | | | | making a purchase. |
| for browsing there. | | | | Besides her winning personality and |
| Dr Georgia Lee is one of the most renowned | | | | state-of-the-art treatments, Dr Georgia Lee is |
| aesthetic and skincare doctors in Singapore and | | | | also renowned for her generosity. Not in the |
| patients wait up to three months to see her! | | | | material sense, but in her genuine desire to help |
| She spent six years working in a few hospitals | | | | people. “I always give more than I get, |
| after graduation and opened TLC Medical | | | | that’s why my husband says I will never be |
| Center in Holland Village, in 1999, with $300,000 | | | | rich,” she says with a laugh. She frequently |
| capital from her husband. Dr Georgia Lee started | | | | organises ‘self-improvement’ parties for |
| out as a general practitioner but it was a bad | | | | her customers - most recently, she held a |
| allergic reaction that kick-started her interest in | | | | make-up class conducted by famous make-up |
| aesthetics. “A contraceptive that I took made | | | | artist, Andy Lee. She pays for these parties out |
| me develop ugly blisters on the left side of my | | | | of her own pocket. “I also told one of my |
| face. The blisters went away but I was left with | | | | clients, a stressed-out housewife, to take time |
| pigmentation that was so bad that I hid at home | | | | out daily for herself, and if she succeeds, her |
| and people thought I was either beaten up by my | | | | next treatment will be on the house!” |
| husband, had herpes or had Aids.” | | | | She also travels frequently around the region to |
| She spent the next six to nine months | | | | offer consultations to other aesthetic practitioners |
| researching on lotions and managed to heal her | | | | and give talks. Not one to rest on her laurels, Dr |
| scars. “That unfortunate incident was a | | | | Georgia Lee has just launched her own brand of |
| blessing in disguise as it got me interested in | | | | medical-based beauty and make-up products, |
| aesthetic treatments and made me want to help | | | | called drgeorgialee skincare. |