Betty Polec

Skin Intelligence Lead | Clinic Manager

Betty has worked in the beauty and skin industry since 2009, with a professional practice increasingly centred on one question: what will genuinely make a meaningful difference to this person’s skin?

Her education spans advanced skin therapy, permanent and medical micropigmentation and scar-focused treatments. She has trained across professional systems including mesoestetic, Sothys, Neogliss, Natinuel, BioRePeel and Medik8, alongside advanced education in chemical peeling, Cosmelan depigmentation protocols, mPen and Axion microneedling and mesotherapy/skin booster techniques.

Betty is also an experienced Permanent Makeup Artist, with specialist education through PhiBrows, Nouveau Contour and KB Pro, including Master Artist training, alongside medical micropigmentation and scar-focused education with AmazInk Areola and ScarINK. Her work has included cosmetic tattooing of brows, lips and eyes, as well as supporting clients affected by alopecia, surgical changes, scarring and loss of areola pigmentation.

At Betiva, Betty leads Skin Intelligence, treatment pathway development and Clinic Management.

Her approach to skin is deliberately assessment-led. Rather than beginning with a treatment, Betty begins with the person: skin history, current presentation, previous interventions, homecare, lifestyle and the factors that may influence how the skin behaves and responds. From there, treatment and homecare recommendations can be structured into a realistic pathway — including recognising when treatment should be modified, postponed or referred elsewhere.

This thinking forms part of Betiva’s wider philosophy: beauty should never compromise biological integrity. Betty is particularly interested in supporting clients whose skin does not fit neatly into a standard beauty-treatment menu, including changing or hormonally influenced skin and clients experiencing acne, sensitivity, impaired barrier function, pigmentation or visible signs of ageing.

Clients who enjoy understanding why something is happening to their skin tend to find themselves very much at home in Betty’s treatment room. She loves questions, challenges assumptions and would much rather explain why she doesn’trecommend a treatment than sell one simply because it is available.

And outside Betiva?

Betty is mum to a teenage daughter — but describing her as having hobbies would probably be optimistic. Given an unexpected free hour, she is far more likely to be found reading clinical papers, medical literature or university research on skin, wound healing, pigmentation and aesthetic practice than doing anything conventionally described as relaxing.

For Betty, Skin Intelligence isn’t particularly good work-life balance.

It is the thing she genuinely loves.