Medical aesthetics practiced like a Creole apothecary — slowly, deliberately, in candlelight.
Crescent Aesthetics lives in a second-floor townhouse on Royal, three blocks from Jackson Square. Every treatment is performed by a board-certified physician or master injector. Every visit begins with chicory coffee and an unhurried conversation. We do not rush beauty. We never have, and in New Orleans we never will.
“I feel like I walked into my grandmother's parlor — if her parlor happened to have a medical director.”
Four disciplines. Ten years of refinement. Everything on the menu, we do well — nothing is on the menu we don't.
Botox, Dysford, Daxxify; filler in the Juvéderm Vycross family, Restylane Lyft and Kysse, RHA. Drawn softly — the way grown women here actually want it.
Moxi, BBL Hero, Halo, Morpheus8 RF microneedling, PRP, and our signature Creole Glow peel. Calibrated for Louisiana sun and higher Fitzpatrick types.
CoolSculpting Elite, Emsculpt NEO, and laser hair removal in our private third-floor courtyard suites. Shutters closed. Jazz trio on the record player.
Physician-supervised GLP-1 protocols (semaglutide, tirzepatide), hormone balancing, NAD+ IV therapy, vitamin drips, and tailored peptide programs.
Dr. Maribel Lafayette opened Crescent in 2016 in an 1847 Creole townhouse on Royal Street, four doors down from the antique shop her grandmother kept for forty years. The philosophy is simple: medicine practiced with Southern patience. We do not accept walk-ins. We do not run specials. We pour chicory coffee, we draw the curtains, and we take the time New Orleans has always taken.
Ninety minutes. Coffee in the parlor. Photographs in window light. No treatment on the first visit — ever.
A handwritten protocol. What we recommend, why, in what order, at what investment. You take it home.
Performed by Dr. Lafayette or our senior NP. Topical numbing, soft music, warm compresses between.
Two-week check-in. Complimentary touch-up if anything wants refinement. Annual longevity review.
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Three generations of my family go to Dr. Lafayette. She treated my mother's skin at 72 and mine at 38, and the whole thing feels less like a clinic and more like a house call from a cousin who happens to be a genius.
My Creole Glow course brought back skin I hadn't seen since my twenties. We live in the sun and she knows exactly how to undo what the sun does. I will never see anyone else while I live in this city.
The GLP-1 program here is unlike the mill clinics. Monthly bloodwork, handwritten notes, honest conversations about dose. I lost 58 pounds over a year and felt cared for at every visit, not processed.
Every first visit begins in the parlor with chicory coffee, window light, and all the time in the world. We do not rush. We listen, we look, and we only recommend what will still feel right in five years.