Standing up to the onslaught of ageing, injury and sun damage, our skin is remarkably resilient. Although our skin does a good job of healing itself, the effects of these problems don’t always go unnoticed, leaving behind tell-tale signs such as wrinkles, pigmentation and some times scarring. While these skin issues can impact your self-esteem, they can now be diminished using the revolutionary skin needling treatment, which stimulates your body’s natural skin-healing properties to reduce the appearance of common skin complaints and blemishes. Dr Pen is an advanced micro-needling system that uses very fine needles to stimulate natural skin-healing proteins, treating a variety of skin problems.
Dr Pen works by using tiny needles to pierce the skin, causing microscopic injuries. This stimulates your body’s own natural production of collagen and elastin, the proteins that repair your skin and keep it supple. This effectively harnesses the body’s own healing system to bring about improvements in your skin, giving it a better tone and texture, maintaining the skin’s structure and strength as well as reducing the appearance of ageing, scarring. pigmentation and other skin complaints.
Skin Needling is used to treat the following:
- Aged sagging skin
- Fine lines & wrinkles
- Smokers lines around the lips
- Delicate or harder to reach areas such as under the eyes
- Skin tightening and rejuvenation
- Large pores
- Stretch marks
- Acne & surgical scars
- Alopecia
Dr Pen Treatments can be effectively paired up with Skin Peels, Skin Rejuvenation, Pigmentation, Broken Capillary treatments for optimum results
Frequently Asked Questions
Client’s skin is thoroughly cleansed and a topical anaesthetic cream is applied to the area for 20 minutes. This assists in making the treatment comfortable for the client. The Dr Pen itself uses a disposable cartridge which has 16 tiny vertical needles that rapidly pulsate, gliding over your skin so that you barely notice that your skin is being pierced. Serums are applied to the area during and after the treatment followed by a tissue mask to help soothe as well as heal the skin.
Skin needling treatment causes minimal discomfort, though it varies according to the depth of needle penetration required. A topical anaesthetic cream is applied to the area for 20 minutes before the treatment is administered for comfort. After your treatment, you might notice some redness on the treated area, and it may feel a little tight and tender, but this feeling should dissipate within 24 hours.
The length of the session takes around 90 minutes on average.
All skin types can be treated. Contra-indicated to pregnant and breast-feeding woman.
The results of your skin needling treatment are instant, lasting and more significant results will occur after 4 to 6 treatments. Your skin will continue to improve over the next 6-12 months after a course of treatments and when combined with the recommended post treatment care.
Skin needling produces good results with just one treatment, but for the best results we recommend the following:
Rejuvenation: 6-8 treatments 6 weeks apart Acne scarring: 6 treatments 6 weeks apart Stretch marks: 10 treatments 4-6 weeks apart.
Generally no, but you may experience facial redness and slight tenderness to the touch for 12-48 hours after the treatment. Most people are able to return to normal daily activities immediately after the treatment. Application of the Lycogel breathable camouflage will seal the skin and cover any redness for an immediate return to work.
