Microneedling

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Microneedling is all the rage in skin care and for good reason. This device holds a collection of ultra-fine needles that create tiny punctures/channels in the skin. These wounds are miniscule and only skin-deep, but your body responds with alarm, sending in healing factors that boost skin strength, radiance, and health. Although these micro-injuries are so small that they close almost instantly, the process stimulates your skin to heal by producing fresh collagen and elastin.

Reduces the appearance of lines and wrinkles

No one wants to look older than they are. But premature aging that presents as fine lines and wrinkles does just that. The tiny injuries from a microneedling session boost collagen and elastin production to fight lines and wrinkles.

Collagen and elastin are compounds in your skin that add structure and strength, lending a youthful quality. The wound-healing mechanisms also stimulate your body to produce new skin cells, making fine lines, crow’s feet, and forehead wrinkles less apparent.

Because microneedling stimulates collagen and elastin production, it’s also super effective in addressing acne and other scars on your skin. The only type of scar not possible to treat is keloid, or raised scars.

Microneedling is effective in reducing the appearance of sun damage, particularly hyperpigmentation and age spots. If you have a blotchy, brownish complexion, which is probably a result of too many days of sunning, microneedling and its ability to stimulate new collagen and skin cells can reinvigorate your look and even out your tone.

Aging doesn’t just show up as wrinkles and discoloration. As you get older, your skin loses its elasticity, so it appears lax. Aging skin may also look dull and lack a lustrous glow. Microneedling can change this.

The buildup of collagen that occurs in response to the tiny wounds can improve skin structure to fight sagging. Plus, just 24 hours following a session, you experience a radiant, fresh glow.

Despite the fact that microneedling involves punching holes in your skin, it doesn’t increase the size of your pores. In fact, it helps your pores appear much smaller. When the collagen around your pores is stimulated, the area around each pore plumps, making the pore itself almost disappear.

Because of the improved delivery of topical applications, you can use microneedling to help improve the effectiveness of topical acne treatments. Regular microneedling applications can help your skin clear up.  

Microneedling improves skin tone and texture

The benefits of boosting your collagen and elastin production extend beyond addressing lines and wrinkles. This is a popular treatment because it also visibly improves your skin tone and texture. 

Again, this happens because healthy, collagen-rich tissue is undamaged and has an even tone.

The ruddiness and skin thickening of rosacea can be addressed with microneedling. If you suffer from this skin condition, you experience a hastened breakdown of collagen. Microneedling stimulates the growth of collagen to offset and replace this breakdown, so your skin looks less inflamed and irritated. 

Melanin doesn’t always spread evenly, so you may find you have areas of skin that are darker than others (hyperpigmentation). In addition, hyperpigmentation can be caused by sun damage, acne, cuts, bites and other causes of skin trauma.  

By triggering the skin’s natural healing response, skin needling encourages the treated area to make new, healthy skin cells and to reduce the amount of melanin concentrated in that area.

If the hyperpigmentation resides in the epidermis (the outer most layer of the skin), then skin needling can deliver fantastic results. It’s not a cure-all for everyone, but it some people see clear improvements to their skin tone, while others benefit from coupling skin needling with other treatments designed to tackle hyperpigmentation.