How Microneedling Benefits Your Skin
Today, Med spas are a popular way for people to attend to their aesthetic medical needs. There is a wide range of non-surgical methods available in aesthetic medicine: hair rejuvenation, hormone therapy, collagen induction therapy, Botox, microneedling, and more, depending on your specific needs.
Just You Aesthetics, located in Tyler, Texas, understands that the impact of aging, as well as other hair and skin conditions, can negatively affect the quality of your everyday life.
But it doesn’t have to.
Our skin begins to degrade in our late twenties—sometimes earlier, depending on sun exposure. As we age, our skin creates more wrinkles and loses its elasticity.
The good news is there are many options to help, and you and your medical professional can choose which procedure or combination of approaches is right for you. While Botox for wrinkles is a solid decision, it’s not the only option.
Microneedling has gained recent attention as a proven effective treatment for various skin issues. It is a procedure for your skin that serves both medical and cosmetic purposes.
Microneedling harnesses the body’s natural healing to create younger skin, reduce blackheads, acne, and large pores, help eliminate scarring, and reduce wrinkles and fine lines, among other benefits.
How Does Microneedling Work?
The technique is not invasive and involves your medical professional using tiny, thin needles to create little holes in your skin’s top layer. The small amount of harm to your skin causes it to produce collagen and elastin as it works to heal itself.
While being poked with dozens of tiny needles might sound painful, the procedure is, in fact, relatively painless. Your medical professional may use numbing cream to help with any discomfort or stinging.
What to Expect After a Microneedling Treatment
After the first appointment, you’ll see immediate and long-term benefits. Skin redness will be present for one to two days after. Then you’ll see improvement immediately as the redness disappears. This is because microneedling causes the promotion of new collagen as well as rejuvenates existing collagen production.
While a small amount of redness may remain after the first day, it fades quickly so you can resume your normal day-to-day activities—unlike other facial procedures, which can leave the skin red for days afterward.
Different Types of Microneedling Treatments
While microneedling on the face is the most common application, the process is also used on the neck, back, or even legs.
Professional physicians such as our experienced team at Just You Aesthetics may also use microneedling with a combination of other therapies such as Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), Hyaluronate, or Carbon Dioxide Masks, depending on your skin’s individual needs.
Microneedling facials generally require more than one treatment to be fully effective. Still, you should be able to see positive results after the first or second appointment.
Unlike other facial procedures, microneedling doesn’t carry the risk of skin discoloration.
The procedure is simple, fast, and effective, and your skin will look and feel more youthful.
Do you struggle with stretch marks?
Microneedling, combined with hyaluronate, softens and fades stretch marks. The procedure helps new collagen form by breaking up scar tissue and creating smoother and fuller skin. Microneedling for stretch marks can help you feel confident in your bathing suit this summer.
Acne Scars?
Microneedling helps take care of scars from acne, as well as helping to reduce scar formation. Unfortunately, for many years there weren’t many options for people with acne scars on their faces and elsewhere. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case. Microneedling helps with scarring over a series of visits, although you should be able to see improvement after only two.
Bye Bye Blackheads
If you suffer from chronic blackheads, microneedling might be an excellent choice. Many products and procedures claim to help with blackheads, but rarely do they work long-term. However, microneedling is a great option to reduce blackheads. The process will help pores shrink for up to a month at a time.
Who doesn’t want to reduce wrinkles and fine lines?
Microneedling makes your skin look younger and reduces lines and wrinkles because the tiny holes created by the little, thin needles puncture the skin’s top layer. Creating this “damage” causes the skin to heal itself and work to repair the damage with the production of elastin and collagen. This increased production helps reduce fine lines—especially those related to sun damage.
In this instance, microneedling is particularly effective when paired with a Vitamin C serum.
Skin damage comes in many forms, and it’s often something that makes people’s daily lives more difficult.
However, there’s hope. Simple, effective, and affordable non-surgical skin care methods such as microneedling make it possible to significantly reduce the impact of age and other skin damage.