High-Tech Treatments
Some things skin needs cannot be done by hand. Radiofrequency heats the deeper layers to tighten what has loosened. Cryotherapy does the opposite — cold to calm inflammation and firm the surface. Microcurrent and EMS work on the muscle underneath rather than the skin on top. Which of them you need depends entirely on whether we are treating laxity, inflammation or tone, and that is decided by looking at your skin rather than by which machine is fashionable.
- Duration
- 45–60 minutes
- Investment
- $150
- — Loss of firmness along the jaw and cheeks
- — Inflammation, redness and reactive skin
- — Scarring and texture, with microneedling RF
- — Loss of tone in the facial muscles
- — Adding to a facial when the skin needs more than hands
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Skin analysis
Laxity, inflammation and loss of tone look similar in the mirror and need completely different machines. This is the step that decides.
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Prep
Skin is cleansed and a conductive medium applied where the device needs one.
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Treatment
Worked section by section, with the intensity set to what your skin will take rather than the maximum the machine will do.
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Finish
Serum, sometimes LED to settle the skin, and SPF.
Which one you need is decided after I look at your skin.
- Cryotherapy / RF skin tightening
- $150
- RF / cryotherapy added to another treatment
- $75
Book the entry level if you are unsure — it is easier to move you up on the day than to have you pay for more than your skin needs.
High-Tech Treatments, honestly
- What is the difference between RF and microneedling RF?
- Plain radiofrequency heats the deeper layers through the surface of the skin. Microneedling RF delivers that heat through micro-channels, so it reaches further down and does more for scarring and texture — at the cost of the downtime that microneedling brings.
- What does it feel like?
- Radiofrequency feels like a warm massage, and it should never be more than comfortably hot. Cryotherapy is cold and bracing. Microcurrent and EMS you mostly do not feel at all, beyond an occasional twitch.
- Is there downtime?
- None for RF, cryotherapy, microcurrent or EMS — you may look flushed for an hour. Microneedling RF is the exception and follows the same recovery as microneedling.
- How many sessions before I see something?
- Tightening is cumulative: a course of six or so, spaced a week or two apart, then maintenance. Anyone selling you a single session for lasting tightening is overselling it.
- Can I add this to a facial?
- Yes, and that is how it is most often used. Added to another treatment it is $75 rather than the standalone price.
Microneedling
Collagen induction therapy that softens texture, scarring and fine lines by prompting the skin to rebuild itself.
Biostimulators
Regenerative actives driven deep into the skin by microneedling or electroporation — no injections — to rebuild where it has thinned.
Hydrofacial
Cleansing, exfoliation, extraction and hydration in one pass — the treatment to book when your skin needs resetting rather than rebuilding.