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Living in Skin

Lymph drainage therapist · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 112 Christchurch dermatology & skin care businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Living in Skin

Lymph drainage therapist · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#91of 112 dermatology & skin care businesses
Overall health1.9/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.01NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Where we can help

07Google search and traffic3.301Google listing3.003Map positions2.404Listings and social2.102Reviews1.905Facebook page1.508Opening hours1.306Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Living in Skin is a Christchurch Central City dermatology and skin care clinic specialising in lymphatic facial health, acne scar reduction and post-surgical scar revision. It is the South Island home of The Lymphatic Sculpt & Detox Method and The C-Section Scar Release Method. The clinic also supports pre- and post-menopausal skin health and offers skin and body memberships.

Living in Skin is a dermatology and skin care clinic located at 169 Victoria St in Christchurch Central City. The clinic presents itself as the South Island home of The Lymphatic Sculpt & Detox Method and The C-Section Scar Release Method and focuses on the interconnected health of skin and body.

Services include lymphatic facial health, scar revision after surgery, acne scar reduction and targeted support for pre- and post-menopausal skin. The clinic lists clinical products and tools such as SkinPen needling, Dermaluxe LED, Epicutis, Cosmedix, PCA and microbiome-balancing serums alongside supplements for skin and gut health.

Clients commonly describe positive outcomes, noting visible improvements in skin health, personalised guidance on skincare routines and an emphasis on treating underlying issues. Reviews reference practitioner-led knowledge and attentive treatment that leaves skin looking healthier and glowing after visits.

Locally, Living in Skin presents as a clinic combining lymphatic and scar-release techniques with medical-grade skin therapies and ongoing membership options. The mix of specialised methods, listed clinical brands and a focus on whole-body skin health are the practical features that distinguish this Christchurch clinic.

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Your Google listing

Living in Skin has a health score of 3.1 out of 10, indicating below-average completeness of its Google Business Listing. The listing already shows a title, open status, claimed status, a website link and a phone number, which helps customer access services. A key gap is the absence of a logo, while photos are improving but still below the local midpoint.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
  • 3
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (3)
Lymph drainage therapist · Christchurch Centre
Open 4 days · late Mon and Tue ✓
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From the business

With over two decades of experience, we specialise in lymphatic facial health, acne scar reduction, and scar revision post-surgery. We also focus on pre and post-menopausal skin health. As the South Island home of The Lymphatic Sculpt & Detox Method and The C-Section Scar Release Method we specialise in targeted body health. Skin and body Memberships available. Brands Carried: Epicutis Biojuve SIV biome balancing serum Cosmedix Mother Spf Aspect Sun PCA SkinPen Needling Dermaluxe LED Prin Microbiome Labs Serene Skin Thorne Collagen supplement Bestow skin and gut supplements

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Google listingChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Living in Skin shows a concerning start in Google review health, with a low overall health score of 1.7 out of 10. The business has a strong star rating, placing it in the top 10% for satisfaction, but activity is low overall due to limited review volume and engagement. The main takeaways are strong customer sentiment and a need to grow reviews and response efforts.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Response rateYou have replied to a small share of your reviews, so most customers reading your page still see feedback about you with no voice from you anywhere on it.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Connor B.★★★★★ · 3 months ago

Love Kate. Fantastic work and loves getting to the source of any issue or question you have for her. Big fan of the pomegranate protector. Skins always glowing

Response from the owner2

Hi Connor, its always a pleasure having you in clinic. I appreciate your support.

Google reviewsChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Living in Skin shows a low overall health score in Google Maps, at 2.3 out of 10, indicating limited visibility. Top findings show some presence in broader maps searches and a minimal local footprint, with borough recognition but room to improve local results positioning.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 5 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Clinic 14.9 ★ (46) · Lymph drainage therapist
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The Cosmetic Clinic Christchurch CBD4.9 ★ (211) · Lymph drainage therapist
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Silk Clinical Aesthetics4.8 ★ (137) · Lymph drainage therapist
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KM Surgical4.3 ★ (120) · Lymph drainage therapist
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Map positionsChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
You are #85 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Living in Skin shows very low overall health in social presence, but one clear strength is its Instagram profile, which is outstanding and highly trusted. The remaining platforms lack active profiles, limiting reach and trust with local customers.

Strengths

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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
You are #89 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
1.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
You are #95 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Living in Skin shows a below-average on-page SEO health score, with room for improvement in title and meta description length. The site already has a favicon, an SEO-friendly URL, a compact page size, and no frames, and the meta description is relevant. Key issues to address include optimizing the title tag length, refining the meta description to avoid truncation, and reducing render-blocking resources to improve load and crawl performance.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 2
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 3
    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Separate sites linking to you
2Meta description
3Page title
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How people find you on Google

Living in Skin shows below-average website traffic health with room for improvement in paid activity and ongoing SEO shaping. The key findings indicate potential gains from starting a small paid campaign with targeted pages and tracking conversions, while organic traffic remains modest but improving. Attention to paid visibility and conversion tracking could lift overall performance.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
  • 2
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Living in SkinNot in these results
31About 4 visits a month from search, across 10 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
You are #75 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Living in Skin's opening hours partly match Christchurch demand: 15 well-aligned peak hours but 33 missed high-demand hours and 5 low-demand open hours. Strong alignment occurs mid-week afternoons and Thursday morning, while notable gaps are mid-morning and early afternoons on Wednesday and Tuesday 9am. Some evening and late-week openings show low demand; modest hour shifts could improve commercial return.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Living in Skin
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Hours 1
Monday4:30pm-7pm
Tuesday10am-9pm
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am-1:45pm
Friday10am-1:45pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch dermatology & skin care · 112 businesses
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#91of 112 Christchurch dermatology & skin care businesses
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Christchurch dermatology & skin careOverall · 112 businesses
You are #91 overall
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