Maintaining a vigilant skincare routine is vital to achieve healthy, glowing skin.
To see the best results, you may like to include non-surgical cosmetic procedures in your skincare routine to help reduce signs of ageing, treat skin problems, promote blood circulation, and offer deeper cleansing of the skin.
Below we have listed five non-surgical procedures to start your new skincare journey and help dramatically change your appearance.
Radio Frequency Skin Tightening
Radio frequency skin tightening is a treatment used to help firm sagging skin, giving you a more youthful appearance.
Radio frequency skin tightening uses a safe level of low-frequency electromagnetic waves to generate heat. This heat is applied to the skin to penetrate deeper layers of skin, to help stimulate new skin production and the production of collagen and elastin – two important components to skin cell strength and flexibility.
The radio frequency skin tightening process helps sagging skin regain its firm shape and feel, improves skin tone, can help minimise sun damage, and reduce wrinkles and fine lines. The procedure will generally take an hour and recovery time is minimal, with some mild redness and swelling that should dissipate within 24 hours.
Derma Fillers
Derma fillers are a procedure that temporarily reduces the appearance of wrinkles by ‘plumping’ them out and smoothing the skin.
Derma fillers involve using a fine needle to “fill” in a wrinkle, line, or depression with products such as collagen, hyaluronic acid, hyaluronan, polylactic acid, polyacrylamide, or fat injections. These fillers are injected just under the skin, and the procedure can range from 15 minutes to an hour.
Derma fillers can help to plump up wrinkles, smooth lines, and restore volume to your face. For the first few days after the procedure, it is recommended to not expose the skin to extreme temperatures, to keep the treated area clean, not to touch or rub the treated area, and to use paracetamol for pain relief. You may experience some bleeding, bruising, itching, swelling, and redness.
Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty
Non-surgical rhinoplasty is an alternative for those who want to change the shape of their nose, but do not want to undergo plastic surgery.
Non-surgical rhinoplasty can temporarily change the shape of your nose by using derma fillers to reshape the nose, smooth bumps and modify other characteristics. While it can smooth bumps and help create symmetry, it cannot make your nose smaller as surgical rhinoplasty can.
Non-surgical rhinoplasty can add volume to your nose, enhance the tip, smooth lumps or bumps, and straighten a slightly crooked nose. Results are immediate and reversible. The treatment generally takes less than an hour, and side effects are minimal, but you may experience a fever, blurred vision, redness or swelling, or vision loss.
Chemical Peels
Chemical peels improve the look and feel of your skin by removing the top layer with a chemical solution.
Chemical peels vary in strength, with some penetrating only the outermost layer of skin, while others are designed to reach the middle layer of skin for more intense treatments. The chemical peel is applied to the area being treated, which causes the skin to exfoliate and eventually peel off. The new skin underneath is smoother, less wrinkled, and may have less damage.
Recovery time for chemical peels will vary depending on whether you received a light, medium, or deep treatment. Some swelling may occur, as well as redness, dryness, stinging, and in extreme cases, deeper peels may cause you to lose the ability to tan. Chemical peels can vary in strength.
Laser Resurfacing
Laser resurfacing uses an energy-based device to improve the look and feel of your skin.
The procedure itself can be used to reduce fine lines, age spots, sun damage, acne scarring, and uneven skin tone. There are two main devices used in laser resurfacing; an ablative laser uses a beam of energy to destroy the outer layer of skin and heat the underlying layer to stimulate the growth of collagen, or a nonablative laser that is less aggressive but still stimulates collagen growth.
Laser resurfacing typically takes between 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the severity and size of the treatment area, and can have some minor side effects such as inflamed or swollen skin, acne, infection, or changes in skin colour. You may also be at a slightly higher risk of scarring.
