Consultant Dermatologist Dr Justine Kluk is London's go-to expert for acne treatment.
17/01/2026
Twenty snapshots from a week that felt VERY full 🫣
Clinic days. School runs in a coat I love (even if it’s mostly seen in the mirror by the front door). Brought my yoga mat out of a 4 week retirement & have mainly been living in my yoga/ Pilates kit and scrubs.
The light creeping back into the mornings has been my favourite bit this week; walking my daughter to school in the sunrise, spotting blossom that feels worryingly premature but still very pretty. Tulips and daffodils doing their best to convince the kitchen (and me) that it’s spring now, actually 🦋🙃
Food-wise: lots of plants, lots of feeding people I love. A grainy, beany butternut squash meal that was genuinely excellent (see step by step construction photos with tahini-bean sauce, olive and chilli relish etc). So filling and totally delicious. Also the usual quiet mission of getting more plants into my daughter (because if I say it to patients all day, I have to at least try at home too).
My PTIOX serum ran out again (a small sadness in the context of everything else going on in the world 😔). It’s been quietly doing the heavy lifting for glow and hydration, so yes, it’s already been replaced. And yes, I keep telling patients it’s my secret weapon 😉
Work was busy. Life was busy. But I made moments for myself this week and I’m feeling good for it. Ask me about my sleepbuds if you’re on a similar quest for your best sleep ever 👇🏻
09/01/2026
A bit of a life lately carousel (AKA random photos from my week so far)
Dark mornings = serious resistance to getting out of bed, but two before work Pilates classes done anyway (and always glad after 💫 ). Mirror selfies because… mirrors😉 & a new Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Blush Healthy Glow cheek stick I’m really enjoying (thank you to for the tip 👌🏼).
Trying to get back to feeding myself properly after the Christmas holidays: colourful breakfasts, natural yoghurt, fermented things (hello water kefir), broccoli cut and left to wait 40-90 minutes on the side before cooking after listening to .spector (apparently that’s a thing), plus a very good coffee, trout + soda bread lunch ♥️ ☕️
Remote clinic days = lightbox on full beam. In-clinic days = back with the team after Christmas, interviewing for a new role and easing gently into the year.
Also: sorting the bathroom shelf (deeply satisfying), a few outfits I liked and reminding myself that small, boring habits do actually add up.
And a very warm hello 👋 to any new faces who found me via the with this week - lovely to have you here.
03/01/2026
Low-drama skincare
Good food
Proper sleep
Fresh air
Unsexy. Uncomplicated. Surprisingly powerful 💥
Now the trick is how to bring this little slice of heaven back into the real world next week 😉
27/12/2025
I have not needed a holiday this badly in a long time 🙃
Huge thank you to my mother-in-law for hosting the whole family on Christmas Day, and to my mum for having all of us for lunch on Boxing Day. Being cooked for is an underrated luxury.
Oh… and the joy of having to make no decisions, except which earrings to wear.
Special mention to my husband, who stayed at my in-laws with our daughter so I could binge-watch Simon Cowell’s new boyband show on Netflix, have a lie-in, and get ready for Boxing Day entirely on my own timetable.
That meant a long “everything” shower, time to clean my makeup brushes, a body scrub, a podcast and even some quiet life admin. A pile of clothes that no longer fit for Vinted, an emptied fridge before a week away & passing on skincare products I know I will never use. It always takes me a few days to properly switch off, but this beats opening my laptop 🫣
Now off to the Cotswolds for a mini adventure, organised by my husband because my bandwidth is currently non-existent.
Feeling very grateful to lean on other people without too much guilt 😮💨 🫶🏼🩷🦋
24/12/2025
Over & out 🥂
I have had the busiest December I can remember & I am ready to decompress.
Happy Christmas to all my friends, family, patients & all the lovely people whose faces and names pop up under my posts regularly.
🎄 🎅🏼 🌟 👼🏻 🐑 🐪 🎁
21/12/2025
It’s been a month of being quieter than usual on Instagram. A mixture of busyness and change at work, and a heaviness that’s hard to ignore when you pay attention to the world beyond your own small orbit.
Over the past week, I’ve been thinking about what it means to show up as yourself when things feel uncomfortable or uncertain. Not loudly. Not performatively. Just honestly. So that’s what I’m doing.
This season has held both Christmas and Chanukah in our home. Light and moments of joy and excitement alongside fear, unease and grief.
A little message to the world, if I may. Show up for others in your community, even when it’s difficult. Choose tolerance, kindness and connection over anger and hate. Seek to understand others pain and remember we are ALL human. If we want a world that feels safer, gentler, more humane, it probably starts with how we live, what we model, and the small choices we make when no one’s asking us to.
Wishing you moments of light, wherever you’re finding them.
06/12/2025
It’s been a week. This is definitely a highlight reel 👆🏻
We’ve had clinics, Christmas shopping, Christmas wrapping, Christmas parties, practice meetings, piano concerts, nativity, the entire house coming down with a virus, handovers and hiring, resting, working, cancelled yoga and pilates classes, cancelled dinner parties, listening to audio books about how to avoid burnout (more on that tomorrow), GP visits, looking after my gut bugs with lentils, chickpeas, freekeh and lots of fruit and veg, being amazed my skin looks so good despite how chaotic my brain and body feel, sleeping, being able to look up and see the rainbow even when I’m under the weather and under pressure, feeling happy that my Spotify wrap up seems to have noticed all the self care steps I have put in place this year.
Club serotonin all the way 🪩 🌞
How has your week been? Please share 🫶🏼
25/11/2025
Eating 30 plants a week isn’t about counting (boring, boring 😴). It’s about rewilding the ecosystem inside you 🌿 🐛
Every fruit, seed leaf and root feeds a different gut bug that, in turn, fine-tunes your metabolism, immunity and even your mood.
👂🏻 You might be interested to learn that:
1️⃣ A 2024 randomised controlled trial found that eating 30+ plants a week significantly increased beneficial gut microbes, boosted energy, and reduced bloating and fatigue (Creedon et al., 2024)
2️⃣ Your microbiome is your in-house pharmacy.
Each different plant you eats feeds different bacteria, who in return produce chemicals that regulate your immune system, balance your blood sugar and even boost your brain chemistry (Sidhu et al., 2023); (Santhiravel et al., 2022)
3️⃣ Polyphenols (the pigments that make plants colourful) act like molecular messengers, communicating with your gut bugs to lower inflammation and protect your brain from age-related decline (Ross et al., 2024); (Minich, 2019)
4️⃣ The metabolites they make from fibre and polyphenols cross into your bloodstream, influencing serotonin, dopamine & even your ability to focus (Lam et al., 2017)
Takeaway 👉🏼 The more diverse your diet, the better your biology becomes 🧠 💩 ✨
22/11/2025
This week’s camera roll: Pilates, skincare… and my husband sending me Christmas mouse updates
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Consultant Dermatologist Dr Justine Kluk is London's go-to expert for acne and acne scarring. Read here about her own journey with breakouts and how she can help you in her clinic.
“I get asked all the time about why I decided to become a dermatologist. The short answer is this. Acne. I started to get spots when I was about 12 years old. My dad bought me Clearasil and told me that I would grow out of it. He’d grown out of it when he was my age after all, but not before developing scarring on his cheeks which is still there today in his sixties. So, I used my facewash and sometimes a bit of toothpaste (or Sudocrem or whatever happened to be knocking about on the bathroom shelf for that matter) and patiently waited for it to go away.
Having grown up in South Africa, my mum was always very concerned about skin cancer. I remember very clearly, later on as a teenager, being taken to a dermatologist to have a mole on my right shoulder checked. When I sat down on the examination couch the first thing the specialist said to us was “Never mind the mole. What are you doing about her acne?” This was just the start of my lifelong battle with breakouts, and harsh as it sounded back then, I was relieved for the validation that this thing that was a source of real unhappiness to me was deserving of proper attention and that now we were really going to do something about it. This is where my fascination with skin health began and how my passion and determination to help others feel good about their skin started.
Acne is the medical term used to describe spots or breakouts. It is easily the most common skin concern there is, affecting as many as 85% of teens. Unfortunately, research shows that more and more of us are continuing to suffer with it in our twenties, thirties and beyond meaning that spots are definitely not just a teenage issue. In fact, it is estimated that up to 20% of adult women are still battling blemishes. When you think that acne can lead to scarring, poor self-image and loss of confidence, this amounts to a big problem. If you’ve suffered with persistent acne, you’ll recognise the feeling that your face never feels clean. No matter how much time or money you spend on grooming, you still feel like a spotty mess. You long to be one of those carefree people who wakes up 5 minutes before they need to leave the house in the morning. Instead, you have to put aside a full 30 minutes to try and painstakingly conceal each and every spot and you definitely need to get to the bathroom first if you have a new partner for fear that they might reject you if they knew what you really looked like.
Yes, some people can manage the occasional pimple at home with appropriate store-bought products or advice from a GP. Many others are fed up by a lack of improvement and are understandably worried about developing dark marks or permanent scarring if their symptoms are left unchecked. Emotional scarring should not be downplayed either as acne erodes self-esteem, causing sufferers to feel embarrassed and isolated. It doesn't have to be like this! If you want really effective treatment for persistent acne or scarring, come see me in the clinic to talk about the options because there is plenty we can do. As well as prescriptions and procedures that really work, I’m keen that you have a skincare plan that helps you maintain the results in the longer run so you'll want to show your skin off, not hide away.”
