Amplified Cosmetica is a skin clinic and beauty studio on Kaikorai Valley Road in Dunedin's Kaikorai, describing itself as the place where you find your 'beauty besties'. The team specialises in skin health and skin disorders, brow shaping, healthy lash lifts, and bridal and event makeup, all from a toxin and cruelty-free studio they call a safe little haven created with the client in mind.
The studio's approach is deliberately personal: everyone is unique, and so your treatments should be too. Rather than pushing a fixed menu, the team curates a journey specifically for you, with honest advice from people who say they practise what they preach. Their goal is to uncomplicate the often confusing beauty industry and to help you reach your skin, brow and makeup goals with intuitive care.
Alongside in-studio treatments, Amplified Cosmetica stocks professional skincare in its online shop — including O Cosmedics, DP Dermaceuticals, SIMKA, NEUROCOSMEDICS by Ginger & Me, RevitaLash and its own AC Bespoke Blends — and runs the AC Healthy Skin Club membership for clients who want accountability, discounts and early access to new launches.
Finding a beauty studio that treats you as more than an appointment slot can be a mission. Amplified Cosmetica, on Kaikorai Valley Road in Dunedin's Kaikorai, has built its whole approach around exactly that. The team introduce themselves as your 'beauty besties' — specialists in skin health and skin disorders, brow shaping, healthy lash lifts, and bridal and event makeup — working from a toxin and cruelty-free studio they describe as a safe little haven created with you in mind. They're also, by their own cheerful admission, award winning, and they'll happily tell you to come and see what the fuss is all about.
What sets the studio apart is how it frames beauty. The philosophy here is that everyone is unique, and so your treatments should be too. Rather than a cookie-cutter menu applied to every face, the team curates a journey specifically for each client. They're refreshingly honest about the industry, too: beauty can be confusing and hard to navigate, so their job is to uncomplicate it. Expect straight answers from people who say they practise what they preach, and the kind of intuitive care their clients regularly mention in reviews.
The Skin Edit is the heart of the studio. Treatments focus on skin health and skin disorders, and the team is emphatic that there are no cookie-cutter treatment menus here. Among the tools they champion is the OBSERV skin diagnostic device, used to look deeper at the skin before any plan is made. Home care is drawn from professional ranges the studio knows well: O Cosmedics — including its SPF and 1Skin foundation — DP Dermaceuticals, SIMKA, and NEUROCOSMEDICS by Ginger & Me. The online shop also carries the studio's own AC Bespoke Blends, RevitaLash for lashes and brows, The Glow Cloth, Soleil & Soul Beauty, and skin packages for clients committing to an ongoing journey.
The results speak through the clients. One long-time customer writes that after more than a year of visits her skin has never looked so good, that she's constantly fielding compliments, and that the process works because healthy skin isn't an overnight thing — it's a journey the team guides you through.
Alongside the skin work sits the Beauty, Brow and Body Edit. Brows are a genuine speciality — brow goals are named right up front, and the studio's junior brow therapist was reportedly booked out weeks in advance shortly after joining the team. Lash lifts are pitched as the healthy option for natural lashes, and the everyday beauty and body services round out the offering for clients who want one trusted studio for their regular appointments.
Makeup is where Amplified Cosmetica first turns heads. The team are bridal and event makeup specialists, with a dedicated Makeup Edit and Bridal Edit. The same client review praises makeup that looked beautiful and lasted well across two weddings — a useful data point for anyone nervous about how their big-day look will hold up from photos to last dance.
For clients who want structure and accountability, the AC Healthy Skin Club bundles the studio journey into a membership: early access to new product and treatment launches, product discounts, exclusive offers, birthday gifts, accountability to reach your best skin yet, and the option of weekly payments. It's clearly popular — when the doors last opened, every spot was reportedly taken in four minutes, so the studio runs a waitlist between intakes.
Amplified Cosmetica is at 284b Kaikorai Valley Road, Kaikorai, Dunedin. Appointments are booked through the Book link on the website, and the studio is active on Instagram and Facebook if you want a feel for the vibe before you go. If you're gifting, vouchers and the Little Treats gift guide cover everything from skincare to treatments, and joining the mailing list is the best way to catch club openings and new launches.