Hi, I’m NIKKI
(NDI COSMETIC NURSE)
I am a Registered Nurse providing identity-first cosmetic aesthetic procedures to Melbourne’s inner north.
I have navigated healthcare environments both as a practitioner and as someone holding identities that do not always fit neatly into conventional spaces.
I am queer.
I am neurodivergent.
Before entering cosmetic nursing, I worked across industries that are often misunderstood and stigmatised.
Those experiences did not sit separately from my clinical training. They shaped it.
I understand what it feels like to move between worlds.
WHY THIS PRACTICE EXISTS
In many service-based environments, subtle social rules operate.
Clients may be expected to:
Be easy
Want the “right” things.
Participate in trends.
Present a socially presentable/digestable version of themselves.
I have experienced what it feels like to mask in professional settings.
To soften edges.
To pre-empt judgement.
I refuse to recreate that dynamic inside my clinical room.
NDI exists to remove performance from service-based interactions
(and aesthetic health care more specifically).
HOW THIS TRANSLATES CLINICALLY
You are not looked at strangely for your preferences, spoken down to for your perspective, or subtly steered toward what is considered “normal.”
You are not expected to perform confidence, fabricate small talk, or dilute parts of your life to avoid an awkward chair-side interaction.
Instead, consultations involve thorough anatomical assessment, honest discussion of risks and alternatives, and treatment planning that respects both your biology and your identity.
Patients leave with a grounded understanding of what is realistic, what is unnecessary, and what does not need to be fixed. They leave knowing that their perspective was taken seriously. They leave having been treated as complex, contextual people rather than aesthetic problems to be solved.
Nothing about you needs to be edited to sit in this chair -
I want to get to know my patients as they truly are.