Are Old-School Cosmetic Facelifts Your Skin’s Best Friend?
Like everything in life, change is inevitable. However, not all change is hard. Lots can be excellent news. It’s a question of modernity: does the transformation mean better outcomes? Indeed, if you’re looking to refresh and rejuvenate your skin, non-invasive methods of anti-ageing don’t come with the scar tissue excess that a facelift would. They don’t come with any at all. They also don’t come with other memories of this aggressive surgery, like the risks while you heal, the weeks of healing time itself, the post-op pain and the time away from work and life. So, what’s the other strategy? There are a few gentler plans that all focus on healing and repairing your skin.
RF Microneedling: Tighten and Save Skin
Apart from the build-up of scar tissue (this changes the structure of your skin), the other downside of facelift surgery is bleeding and bruising. What if micro-needles delivered heat energy into the dermis instead of a knife cutting into your skin? Still invasive, you’re thinking? Incredibly less so. It does amazing things for skin that needs essential de-ageing collagen to be built up again.
With Endymed RF Micro-needling, the dermis (the middle layer of skin) gets treatment based on collagen remodelling. This is needed when it may feel like it might be time for that traditional facelift. Sagging skin and wrinkles can both be renewed, as well as rough textured skin. Endymed RF Microneedling is a management tool that can assist with tackling conditions such as melasma (hormonal pigmentation) and scarring from acne and surgery. All skin types and tones can be wonderfully treated (no threat of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation), and risks and downtime are minimal.
Carboxytherapy: Smoothed and Recondition Skin
If something has a miracle in the description, then either it’s too good to be true or a “run, don’t walk” situation. Fortunately, with Carboxytherapy, it’s the latter. That’s something you want to get on board with. While skin laxity and deep, engrained wrinkles are tell-tail signs that you’re maturing, so are conditions like hooded eyes and crow’s feet wrinkles. Smash all these issues with a gas that floods skin with oxygen. Why do we need more of it? It’s an ageing thing.
As young as 40, roughly 50% of the oxygen the body needs has disappeared. And of that percentage, the skin gets the last vital resource. This means it’s more likely to look older and develop acne, redness and sensitivity. Ouch! Carboxytherapy can correct all that, especially ageing issues that a traditional facelift might have seemed the answer to, cue smoothing deep-set wrinkles and lifting and firming skin. With the reintroduction of necessary oxygen, blood flow is boosted, and essential growth factors such as VEGF(Vascular endothelial growth factor) encourage new blood vessels to spark. All this surges oxygen and nutrients to charge circulation. The result for your skin? Skin cell restoration and collagen stimulation make your lines and wrinkles smooth out.
Biostimulators: Building Scaffolding From the Inside Out
Skin tech is quite extraordinary. Just when you thought every avenue of modern non-invasive procedure was open to treating your skin, the following skin rejuvenator revolutionised the way forward. Biostimulation, like Sculptra, is a gradual neogenesis (reforming of tissue) to produce collagen. Like other treatments that stimulate collagen creation for de-ageing, bio-stimulation ultimately leads to firmer, plumper skin.
However, this is a process that is slower and steadier. But we know how that story goes. And while six weeks post-facelift, it is encouraging to start seeing results, a no-recovery treatment that can be performed in your lunch hour and comes with low to medium risks is perhaps totally worth a longer reveal time. We think so. This is because it's continuing to stimulate collagen, restoring the skin’s scaffolding from the inside out. And that’s an important point; it’s a restoration rather than structural change. In other words, you’re renovating our skin for its health rather than adding scar tissue, which forever alters its structure.
The final word on skin reconditioning procedures is that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing to be impactful. The idea of no pain, no gain has long become a tired notion. Moving on from the idea that what serves you has to be drastic means you open yourself up to a world of cutting-edge treatment about skin health, healing it and making it look its best. And that’s a beautiful youth boost. All gain without the unnecessary risks, complications and time spent recouping. Ready for it? We bet you are.