Microneedling: Face, Neck & Décolleté

Before your visit

• Stop using retinol and acids one week before the treatment.
• For one week before, avoid tanning, sunbeds and hair removal on the face or the area to be treated.
• Do not shave the treatment area right before the visit, so the skin is not irritated.
• Come without make-up on the day, or be ready to remove it completely before the treatment.
• Tell your cosmetologist about all medicines, active skincare products and recent aesthetic treatments.

Aftercare

• Redness usually lasts 24–72 hours, longer after a more intensive treatment.
• From the next day you can go back to your usual home skincare.
• No make-up for at least 24 hours; after a more intensive treatment, wait until the skin has fully recovered.
• Intensive exercise and heavy sweating after 24–48 hours, longer if the skin is still red.
• Sauna after 48–72 hours at the earliest. Swimming pools and open water after 48–72 hours at the earliest and only once the skin has fully recovered.
• Use SPF 50+ every day. Avoid direct sun and sunbeds for at least 1–2 weeks, longer if your skin tends to pigment.
• Retinol and acids usually after 5–7 days; after an intensive treatment or on sensitive skin, after 7–14 days. Go back to them only when redness, burning, marked dryness and flaking have gone.

When to postpone

• Pregnancy.
• Cold sores, a skin infection or a damaged skin barrier.
• Acne medication (for example isotretinoin) now or less than 6 months ago.
• A fresh tan: we wait until the skin has fully recovered.
• Botox or fillers within 2–3 weeks before or after the treatment.
• Diabetes: the treatment is not recommended.
• Blood-thinning medication: talk to your doctor first.
• Areas with pustules or deep inflammation, such as active spots, are not treated.

Discuss beforehand

• Medication and recent treatments
• Pregnancy, chronic conditions and known allergies
• Keloid tendency or impaired healing
• Medicines affecting clotting; isotretinoin treatment