While in private practice for seven years, Dr Tan had salvaged the skins of many clients who suffered from skin irritation, dryness, allergy and infection as a result of using products which were unsuitable or too harsh for their skins. These clients were either not properly advised or presented with insufficient facts from their aesthetics doctors or beauticians, to make a well-informed decision. There were others who vacillated from one aesthetic doctor or beautician to another, only to become more confused from a gamut of conflicting advice. Through such a trial and error process, these clients can only hope to find the right doctor to reverse all the damages.

Dr Tan herself, had endured a period of anguish from using the wrong skincare products and could relate to the feelings of distress, self-doubt and low self-esteem suffered by her clients. It is this burning desire to genuinely help her clients that propelled Dr Tan to set up Dermstetiq Clinic, with her own clinical skincare brand “Mei”, specially curated to suit the type and texture of Asian skin in mind.