Microneedling for fine wrinkles
There are two kinds of line and they ask for different things. A fine line is there even when you relax your face and comes from skin that has become thinner and drier. A fold forms because a muscle pulls the skin together. This works on the first kind; not on the second. We do the same treatment with the Dermapen 4 as well; which pen it becomes is chosen by the therapist per area.
Why this here does about it
From about twenty-five the skin makes slightly less collagen every year. So the upper dermis becomes thinner and the top layer sits more loosely, and that is what you see as a fine network of lines.
Needling gets healing going in exactly that layer. The new collagen makes the skin slightly thicker and firmer, and thicker skin folds into small lines less easily.
That is not filling. Nothing is introduced; the skin makes it itself, which is why the effect builds over weeks and also fades again gradually.
What is goes differently than usual
Carefully around the eyes
The skin at the eye socket is thinner than the rest of the face. There the work is done at a lower setting, and sometimes not at all.
Often with a booster alongside
In the same appointment hyaluronic acid can go into the channels with it. That makes the skin feel fuller straight away while the building gets going.
Three to six, and then maintenance
With four weeks in between. Then once or twice a year to hold on to what has been built.
What it gives you
After the series, skin that feels smoother and in which the finest lines stand out less. The best moment to compare is three months after the last session, because then the building is finished.
- How often
- A series of three to six, with four to six weeks in between.
- Recovery time
- One to three days red, like a strong sun flush.
- From
- € 180
When you would choose something else
- A fold between the eyebrows or a smile line formed by muscle movement does not go away with this. We do not work with injectables for that.
- With a drooping eyelid or genuinely slack skin this is too light; then tightening with laser is more to the point.
- On freshly tanned skin we wait, even at a light setting.
What people asked about this.
No, it works on something else. Botox relaxes a muscle and thereby removes a fold; needling changes the quality of the skin itself. On a muscle fold needling does little, on thin skin with fine lines botox does little.
In the first days your skin looks fresher from the swelling; that is not yet a result. What lasts starts building after about four weeks and carries on for roughly three months.
What we Microneedling with the SkinPen use it for
SkinPen for acne scars
Acne scars are not marks but shapes: the skin is missing connective tissue there, and so it catches the light differently.
SkinPen for coarse pores
A pore cannot close; oil has to get out.
SkinPen for surgical scars
A surgical scar is different tissue from the skin around it: the connective tissue lies in one direction instead of criss-cross.
Microneedling for stretch marks
Stretch marks are tears in the dermis formed from within because the skin was stretched faster than it could grow with.
Whether this suits you,
your skin will show.
Everything above applies to this concern in general. What is going on with you and whether this is the right route is established by the therapist at the skin consultation. If the answer is no, you hear that too.