Chances are that you didn’t fully appreciate your fresh and bouncy youthful skin back in the day. However, once the aging process starts to take its toll, it doesn’t take long before people begin to yearn for the smooth and flawless complexion that they once sported.
Fortunately, whether you may be dealing with fine lines, deeper wrinkles, sagging skin, or any of the other skincare joys that come with age, you have a few options when it comes to turning back the clock on your appearance. Read on as Introlift shares some of the most effective treatments for regaining plump and youthful skin once again.
Topical Products vs Professional Treatments
It goes without saying that a good skincare routine is a must-have if you’re trying to promote youthful skin. However, it’s worth keeping in mind that topical products can only help to a certain extent.
The majority of the topical products that you apply to your skin work on your skin’s surface. Some of them may be capable of penetrating into the epidermis, which is the outer layer of skin. However, it’s very rare for a topical product to be able to reach the dermis. This is the middle layer of skin, and it’s where your collagen and elastin fibers, along with your blood vessels, hair follicles, and sweat glands, can be found. This is the layer of skin that needs to be stimulated if you’re hoping for a significant improvement in your complexion.
Of course, that’s not to say that topical products that work on the skin’s surface won’t help to give you younger-looking skin too. However, their effects are likely to be short-lived. For deep and long-lasting changes, you need treatments that are able to target the dermis, which is where professional treatments come in.
Let’s take a look at some of the best professional treatments to turn to if your ultimate goal is smooth, firm, and youthful skin:
LED Light Therapy
In their quest for youthful skin, many people shy away from professional treatments because they think that they’re all invasive. However, this is definitely not the case, with LED Light Therapy being the perfect example. All this treatment requires is for you to lie on a bed underneath a machine that emits LED light. It’s not painful in the slightest – it even feels pretty relaxing!
Although this treatment may not be an invasive one, it’s still incredibly effective at reducing the visible signs of aging. Different LED wavelengths, or colors, are used to target specific issues. When it comes to aging, red LED light is usually the go-to. This stimulates collagen production in the skin, with collagen being one of the main proteins that give your skin its structure and volume. The more collagen your skin has, the smoother and firmer it will look.
Since it’s completely non-invasive, LED light therapy doesn’t come with a recovery time. However, you’ll need a series of treatments in order to achieve your desired results. After this, you’ll be able to maintain your results with a couple of treatments per year.
Venus Legacy
Another non-invasive professional treatment that can help you to achieve the youthful skin that you’re seeking is the Venus Legacy.
This revolutionary device makes use of both multi-polar radio frequency and pulsed electromagnetic fields. This unique combination enables the device to stimulate a thermal reaction in the skin’s tissue, triggering the skin’s natural healing response. Protein production is a big part of this, which is how this treatment is able to significantly tighten the complexion, soften wrinkles, and diminish the look of cellulite. It’s an extremely popular treatment for encouraging youthful skin on both the face as well as the body.
The results provided by Venus Legacy treatments can be impressively dramatic, but a series of treatments will be needed for this. However, even after you’ve had your final treatment, you’ll likely still continue to notice new improvements in your skin for the next few months.
Again, since this is a non-invasive treatment, there isn’t a recovery time. You may notice that your skin looks a little flushed for an hour or so after your procedure due to the thermal reaction produced by the device. However, this will settle soon enough, with no other side effects to worry about.
Botox
Unlike some of the treatments on this list, Botox is nothing new. It has been around for decades, made famous by the many celebrities that have flaunted its results. While there may now be so many more options available for reducing the appearance of wrinkles, so many still choose to return to this tried and tested classic.
What’s so great about Botox? It’s extremely effective at softening the look of dynamic wrinkles. These are the wrinkles that form on your face whenever you make a facial expression. In youthful skin, these fine lines disappear when the face relaxes, which is what Botox injections also achieve. By inhibiting muscle activity under certain areas of the skin, Botox smooths away any dynamic wrinkles that would have otherwise appeared on that part of the face.
In addition to reducing the visibility of existing wrinkles, Botox is also a great preventative treatment. Turn to it in your 20s and 30s and you’ll be able to considerably delay the appearance of wrinkles in your 40s and 50s.
Although Botox involves the use of a needle, it’s considered to be a minimally invasive procedure. If you’re concerned about pain, the area can be numbed before the treatment is administered. Most treatments require a few injections to target the entirety of each wrinkle but they don’t take long – patients can often be in and out in 20 minutes or so, with no downtime to deal with afterward.
Facial Fillers
Facial fillers are all about restoring lost volume in the skin. This is a common side effect of the aging process and is once again due to the natural decline in collagen and elastin production. Without the integrity of these structural proteins in place to hold the skin up from within, it loses volume and starts to sag.
Facial fillers address this by plumping the skin up from within. They replace the protein and fat that the skin has lost. This essentially pushes the skin outwards, stretching it out more to give it a tighter and crease-free appearance. The extra fullness that the skin experiences also helps to give the complexion a brighter and more rejuvenated finish.
The reason why fillers are becoming so popular is because of their long-lasting results. Although it depends on the type of filler you opt for, some can last for up to two years.
Again, this treatment doesn’t come with much of a recovery time. You should ideally avoid strenuous physical activity for a day or two but, other than that, you can get back to your normal routine immediately after your treatment.
Microneedling
Remember how we mentioned that the natural decline in collagen production over the years leads to a loss of volume and wrinkles? Well, Microneedling is a treatment that’s aimed at boosting collagen production back up. This then helps to alleviate the wrinkles that you were experiencing while also leaving the skin looking more voluminous.
If you’re not familiar with microneedling, it may sound a little intimidating at first. It involves the use of multiple sterilized needles, which prick the skin to stimulate its natural healing response (don’t worry – your skin will be numbed first!).
Since this treatment relies on your skin’s natural healing processes, results aren’t instant. It can take a few weeks before you start to see changes in your skin. Results can last for up to six months, but you can extend this indefinitely by booking yourself in for regular treatments. Each microneedling session only takes about half an hour, so you won’t need to take too much time out of your busy schedule!
Don’t want to wait so long to see results? At Introlift, in addition to regular microneedling, we also offer a Microneedling With PRP treatment. This involves drawing some of your blood to create a platelet-rich plasma. This is then administered back into the skin during the microneedling treatment. It significantly enhances the effects of the treatment, bringing you more dramatic results in less time.
Laser Skin Rejuvenation
Aging isn’t all about wrinkles. One of the other visible signs of aging that people commonly experience is dark spots. This discoloration occurs for a number of reasons, with sun damage being a major contributing factor. Either way, those dark marks on your skin are caused by excess melanin clustering up in small areas of your skin, with melanin being the pigment that gives your skin its color. Too much melanin in one area gives that patch of skin a darker appearance.
One of the best ways to tackle that and once again enjoy the bright and balanced finish that your youthful skin had is with Laser Skin Rejuvenation. This treatment makes use of a Q-switched laser to send light energy into the epidermis. This breaks up the melanin clusters that form the foundations of your dark spots. Once your lymphatic system absorbs the excess melanin, it’s then eliminated from your body.
You’ll see this happening slowly over the course of a few weeks. At that point, you should notice that your dark marks have either disappeared or are significantly less noticeable.
What makes laser skin rejuvenation even better is that it also stimulates collagen and elastin production. So, in addition to targeting your dark spots, it will also help to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and restore the look of volume.
Achieve Youthful Skin With Introlift
With the aging process beginning when a person is in their 20s, youthful skin doesn’t stick around for very long. Instead, fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin soon become the norm, with topical skincare products failing to fully address your visible skin concerns. Fortunately, if you have a good med spa to turn to, you won’t have to worry about the skin aging process too much. With so many treatments to choose from, each one targeting the signs of aging in its own unique way, you’ll be enjoying bright, smooth, and youthful skin in no time.
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