Your Skin After Pregnancy

Most mothers, after having delivered their bundle of joy, notice some repercussions of the birth process to their skin.  Some may think you just have to live with this “new normal” way that your skin has begun to look. However, there are many great treatments that can take your skin, and particularly your tummy, back to the way it used to be before you gave birth.

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Of course before you look into any treatment we would recommend that you are following a healthy lifestyle (as much as you can with a newborn baby!). And that you are active or exercising and eating good nutritious food. This will make any treatments you consider more effective. As much a you want to get back into your old shape, there is no magic pill or overnight cure. Think of the treatments as part of on-going process that will make you look good and feel good.

HIFU Skin Tightening

HIFU skin tightening is a revolutionary skin tightening treatment, which can work wonders on tightening and lifted the common ‘mummy tummy’ so many women face after having children. After pregnancy, the skin surrounding the stomach area tends to lose some of its elasticity. HIFU skin tightening, using Ultraformer technology, tightens loose skin on the stomach, thighs, and just under the buttocks.

The applicator is placed along your problem area(s) and the ultrasound energy from the applicator destroys fat cells, whilst your body stimulates new collagen production.  The outcome is smooth and restored skin in just under an hour and with minimal pain involved.

Cryolipolysis Fat Reduction

Cryotherapy fat freezing

A number of processes are available to help with getting a mother’s body back into shape after the birth of a child.  Cryolipolysis procedures can help with stubborn areas of fat that will not relent, even when you have practised diet and exercise with vigour.

Cryolipolysis uses freezing technology to target your most problematic areas.  When fat cells are frozen, they crystallise and die.  Your body will then process those dead cells, leaving your shape sculpted and contoured.

Often, a lipotripsy package is added to spur the natural drainage process and get the desired results even quicker.  Two applicators can be used during the treatment, targeting two problem areas at one time

Dermapen/INFINI™

Stretch marks after the birth of a child can be hard to deal with.  There might seem like there’s just no way to get rid of them.  But, you needn’t worry anymore, as we have two great treatments that can help to reduce stretch marks. Using either the INFINI™ 3D Skin Tightening therapy or our micro-needling treatment Dermapen we can help to restore your skin to how it looked pre-pregnancy.

With the combined therapies used in the INFINI™ treatment, you will see maximum results with minimal downtime afterwards.  It uses 3D technology and micro-needling to get the fullest degree of benefits for your skin.

Tiny micro-holes are made with tiny needle tips that are precisely placed to let in the radio frequencies needed to stimulate collagen and elastin production.  This precision ensures your skin’s dermis (second layer) is not damaged in any way.

With the Dermapen, micro skin needling has been revolutionised for safe, more effective, and less painful results.  It makes navigating across the skin easier and is able to get more accurate penetration to the points in your skin that will make the most difference.  Also, if you have scar tissue where the micro needle should be placed, the Dermapen can easily penetrate those skin cells through it’s vertical delivery system.

Next Steps

A special note to mothers:  the majority of these procedures cannot be performed while breastfeeding.  We take the overall health of our patients very seriously.  When you are ready to seek treatment, we will be right here with the latest innovative technologies to help.

 

 

Your Essential Wedding Skin Guide

The big day is coming fast, and you want to look nothing short of amazing. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to make that happen, and it starts as soon as you get engaged. Take a look at this skin care guide to help keep you on track to becoming the beautiful, blushing bride you’ve been seeing in your dreams.

A Year Before Your Wedding

It may seem like you have quite a bit of time on your hands, but the reality is that it’s coming faster than you think. One of the first procedures you’ll want to schedule is laser hair removal. If you want to see the maximum reduction in hair growth, it can take up to six sessions, and those have to be spaced at least four weeks apart. Wondering where you might want laser hair removal? Consider how that bikini line might look on your honeymoon. You might also want to finally eliminate underarm hair, leg hair, or even problem facial hair.

Tattoo removal starts as soon as you get engaged too. If you have a tattoo you’re embarrassed about, or simply one you don’t want showing when you don that gorgeous dress, we can help, but it’s going to take some time. Professional tattoos usually take four to six treatments to remove, and treatments have to be scheduled at least six weeks apart.

Acne scarring is one other issue you may want to address right after you get engaged. It will help both your engagement photos and your wedding pictures look fantastic. Dermapen Microneedling is the best way to eliminate the scarring. This innovative treatment pushes the skin to release collagen, which means a complete elimination of the scars you’ve dealt with for so long. Depending on the severity of the scars, though, it may take several treatments to see real results.

Six Months Before the Wedding

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Still dealing with acne on a regular basis? That’s the last thing  you want your guests to see, and a Spectra Carbon Peel, also sometimes called the Hollywood Peel, you can put a stop to the problem. Regular treatments mean improving your collagen levels and putting an end to acne, but you’ll want to retreat at least once before the big day for best results.

Loose skin may need to be tightened before your wedding as well, and the Ultraformer is the way to make that happen. It targets the deepest layer of skin, which can help lift your eyebrows, deal with that sagging skin on your face or your neck, and even help eliminate wrinkles. you’ll see real results within three months.

Hoping to say “yes” to the dress that doesn’t quite fit now? Cyrotherapy fat reduction is easily the best way to eliminate fat in those problem areas. It uses fat freezing technology to help target the fat cells you find most problematic and break that down. You could see a loss of a few inches within three months after a single treatment.

Three Months Before the Wedding

HydraFacial

Hydration is as important for your body as it is for your skin, and our HydraFacial is one great way to make that a reality. It revitalises and exfoliates your skin to give you that natural glow you’ll want to see in the pictures.

Your big day is going to be perfect! Don’t forget to consider an annual package for some of our services so you can maintain those amazing looks throughout the year.

Body Contouring! The hottest new trend

Contouring is a trend that isn’t set to go away for a long while. YouTube is full of tutorials aimed at facial contouring tutorials with a variety of brushes and shades. But what about your body? With spring finally here, people are focusing more on getting their beach bodies, and there isn’t anything makeup can do about that! Enter body contouring as the solution for targeted, beautiful results.

While facial contouring is all about illusion through quality cosmetics, body contouring goes beyond dieting to sculpting the body to your perfect shape. Worried about invasive surgery? There is no need to be concerned. These treatments help you achieve the look you want without the downtime of surgery.

Starting out with healthy diet and lifestyle ensures maximum results; no treatment will ever replace the need to stay healthy. Hydration is also key for a lot of bodily functions, and without proper hydration, sometimes the body will hold onto water, giving you a bloated feeling and look.

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Where body contouring helps are areas that often diet and exercise just cannot target – we are talking about your love handles, the inner thighs, stubborn stomach areas, under the top of the arms and the back of your thighs beneath your buttocks. If that is the case, then you would do well to experience Cryotherapy Fat Reduction, which targets stubborn fat cells. Dieting and weight loss can shrink fat cells, but they don’t actually go anywhere. Cryotherapy delivers controlled fat freezing technology to specifically targeted areas, crystalising the fat cells and causing them to breakdown. Once your body processes these fat cells, only the sculpted results are left behind! One treatment results in the permanent inch loss.

Another issue exercise and diet cannot resolve is the issue of loose skin. In some cases, the skin left behind after serious weight loss or due to ageing can be very difficult to tighten. There is no exercise routine that can shrink skin that has been stretched out and many people worry that surgery is the only option to tighten skin. Enter HIFU Skin Tightening treatment. Using ultrasound to penetrate deep into the skin, heat is applied, causing the skin to tighten and leaving a firmer, leaner appearance. No surgery required!

Spring is a great excuse to get the body you really deserve or to sculpt those areas that are just not responding to exercise after all your hard work. No illusions or fancy makeup required!

The science behind Cryotherapy Fat Reduction

For decades, athletes across the globe have turned to Cryotherapy to help decrease their recovery times and deal with muscle and joint pain. Recently, however, it has been used in the world of weight loss to help increase the amount of weight you can lose in a fairly short amount of time.

What Is It?

Cryotherapy is the process of exposing the body to very low temperatures. During a session of Cryotherapy Fat Reduction or ‘fat freezing’, the area you would like treated will be suctioned into a device and held there for 60 minutes, as you lay back and relax. Cryotherapy targets the fat cells in your body, not the normal cells or tissues, and once it does, your lymph system breaks them down, then drains them out of your body.

A Quick Science Lesson

This ‘fat freezing’ process is called Apoptosis; the fat cells are exposed to -9 degrees cooling energy for the optimum results in non-surgical fat reduction. This process does not damage any surrounding areas or cells, only targeting the fat cells.

The new 360 degree cooling method used by our innovative device transfers cooling energy to the whole area, and maintains stable temperatures for optimum results.

How do the fat cells drain away?

The bodies natural waste drainage system, called the Lymphatic System, takes the broken down fat cells and remove them from the body naturally. This process takes up to 3 months, which is when you will see optimum results from the Cryotherapy treatment.

One way to boost this natural process is through Lipotripsy, which encourages the body to remove toxins and waste and helps to reduce a build up which can cause cellulite. By combining fat freezing and Lipotripsy, you can improve your results and see visible inch loss.

Cryotherapy Fat Reduction is a great way to jumpstart your weight loss program and eliminate the fat cells from your body fast, without the need for surgery or extensive downtime. To book a session or learn more about the process, contact us today!