Why clear up uneven color?
The more colors, reds and browns, you have on your skin, the more your skin absorbs light. The more light your skin aborbs the older and duller it looks. If you take a picture of an adult, you have to open the windows, turn on all the lights and take the picture with a flash because their skin is soaking up so much of the light. If you take a picture of a baby or a child there never needs to be a flash because their skin is so clear and reflective. So the goal is to get your skin to be one color so you are more reflective. The more reflective you are, the more the skin will look younger and healthier.
How IPL will work on the skin
IPL is not a laser, it is a flash of light, like a camera, but with incredible amounts of energy and a selected wavelengths behind it. IPL uses visible light wavelengths to destroys the "browns" and "reds". Most common wavelengths used are the Green 540nm for superficial vascular and pigmented areas and the Yellow 570nm for deeper vascular and pigmented lesions. When the selected wavelength penetrates the skin, the light is absorbed by the dark pigment and blood vessels and the heat destroys the colors. How often can you receive a Photo Facial
A typical series is 3-6 treatments a month apart. I find that you will see the most improvement with your first treatment because there are so many targets the first time. Each time there are less and less targets because you have destroyed so many over previous treatments. There is no downtime with this procedure, there is no specific home care you have to use after it, just SUN BLOCK! After the treatment, you skin will just look like you've had some sun.
What areas of the body can you treat with IPL
You can treat any part of the body with the IPL. I would recommend starting with your face, then moving to the neck and chest. It's not ok just to treat the face. It will look totally bizarre if you have a porcelain face and a splotchy neck and chest. Ultimately, you will want to treat the hands and arms as well so that when someone is looking at you you will look all uniform and in the same decade! You don't want your face to look 30 and your hands to look 70.The Pixel Laser is an epidermal ablative skin treatment that treats fine lines, wrinkles, scars, and stretch marks. Because it is ablating the skin, it will also remove 20% to 30% of hyperpigmentation.
How the Pixel will work on your skin
The target for the Pixel Laser is water, and so being well hydrated plays a role in the outcome. The Pixel has a 7x7 handpiece that will blow 49 holes into the skin. Your skin receive two passes vertically and horizontally, with "stacking" four to five times on your concerned areas, so that those 49 holes go deeper and deeper into the skin.
How the Pixel will also tighten your skin
At the age of 35 your skin stops producing collagen. Depending on how much sun exposure you get, you will lose 1% to 3% of your collagen a year. Each year your dermis will shrink getting smaller and thiner and all of the sins of your youth will be pushed up to the surface. So in one year you it can look like you've aged five years, because you are losing your collagen so quickly.
The only way to make your skin produce collagen again is HEAT. As I've learned the saying from another laser expert, "heat is your friend and whoever has the most collagen wins!" As the Pixel laser is putting holes into your skin the holes are doing tow things: ablating the skin and creating heat, the kind of heat that will grow collagen again. The unfortuate part is that it takes five to six months for collagen to grow, so tightening will be the last thing to show up.
How often can you receive a Pixel treatment
A typical series would be 3 to 4 treatments a month apart. The Pixel Laser is much stronger than a chemical peel. It will take about a week for the skin to heal itself. A healing and recovery post home care products are a must. The days you will look the worst are day three and four, the skin is very red and flaky.
What areas of the body can you treat with a Pixel Laser
Pixel can be used anywhere on the body. The face, chest, neck, and hands are the most common areas. I have also seen big improvements in surgery scars, like a C-Section scar. If you have stretch marks on the hips, breasts, upper arms or stomach that look like ripples in a pond, they can greatly appear smoother and more blended into the skin. If the stretch marks are more like tears, you may need the CO2 laser to treat them.
