By Bailey Pettway
Licensed Medical Aesthetician
Microneedling is a tool that uses sharp needles to create tiny micro injuries into the skin.
In response to these micro injuries, your body produces collagen and elastin to help heal the wound naturally.
Who Can Benefit from Microneedling?
Who can benefit from microneedling? All skin types, all Fitzpatrick’s all skin concerns except active acne.
Why Not with Active Acne?
Whenever you go to like microneedle, if there’s any active acne in anywhere, you can drag that bacteria everywhere, causing more damage than good, just because those little needles are creating little injuries into the skin.
And if you’re spreading the bacteria, that’s just a recipe for disaster. Yeah, it’s really good for people who have like post acne scars and stuff like that.
And What is “Fitzpatrick”?
Fitzpatrick is like, it talks about like the ranging of like what I ask people, like do you hold tan? Do you burn easily? It’s got to do things with like your ethnic background.
Is Microneedling Painful?
The procedure is painless. Each patient comes in and is numbed for a total of 30 minutes to ensure total comfort.
What About Aftercare?
What to expect the first two days after being microneedled is you’re going to look a little red.
here’s no pain involved. There’s a little bit of flaking, some skin shedding by day three. Other than that, you’re going to be back to normal looking great.
Microneedling aftercare is simple. You’ll avoid your actives and sweating for about 48 hours. After 48 hours, you’re safe to go back to your normal routine.
What are “Actives”?
No active products mean retinols, any exfoliants glycolics, salicylic washes, none of that for the first 48 hours.
Anything Else?
My favorite thing about microneedling is that it can be done all year round, even in the summer.
Microneedling is usually done in a series of three. After three treatments, it’s proven to have rebuilt collagen all throughout your face.
