Microneedling in Laval

The sensation is usually described as a sustained prickling rather than pain. Numbing cream is available and left on for as long as it needs to work: applied for too short a time, it does nothing. The feeling is not uniform across the face. Areas where the skin is thin and close to bone, the forehead, the temples, around the nose, are felt noticeably more than the cheeks. Nothing obliges you to put up with anything: you can ask for a pause or a shallower setting at any point.

It depends on what you are trying to improve, where your skin starts from and how it responds to the first session. Working on texture generally takes fewer than softening pitted acne scars. The result builds over several weeks, which forces the spacing: a plan is counted in months, not in closely spaced appointments. A number quoted before seeing your skin is an average, not an answer. We give you a realistic number for your case at the first appointment, and it is adjusted after the first session based on what we observe.

There is no starting age, there is a moment. The right marker is what you see on your skin at rest: lines visible without any expression, a grain that has thickened, firmness that has changed. Collagen production starts dropping far earlier than people think, from your twenties. Some notice it in their late twenties, others much later, and both are normal. Microneedling is also done for reasons that have nothing to do with age, such as acne scars at twenty-two. It does happen that we tell you it is not the right moment yet.

It varies from one person to the next, depending on how reactive your skin is and the depth used. Naturally reactive skin or a deeper session extend that period. What genuinely helps: leaving the skin alone, avoiding heat, exercise and makeup for the rest of the day, and protecting from the sun in the following days, because freshly perforated skin is more prone to marks. What does not help: an active, an acid or a retinol too soon. Your instructions are given to you at the end of the appointment, suited to your skin.

No. The treatment described on this page is an esthetic one, done with micro-needles and a serum applied at the surface. It involves no injection.

Microneedling can suit several phototypes. The protocol does have to be adapted to your skin, especially when it carries a higher risk of pigmentation after inflammation. That is what we determine at the first appointment. The situations described under contraindications are reasons to postpone, not to rule out: we go ahead once the skin has calmed.

Yes, and it is often a good combination, because the two work on neither the same layer nor the same problem. Microneedling works on structure at depth. A treatment like Hydrafacial works on the surface, with an effect visible the same day. The only rule is spacing. We do not do them in the same week, because freshly perforated skin does not need an exfoliation on top. Same logic for a peel or microdermabrasion. Tell us what you already do, including your home routine: that is what makes it possible to build a calendar rather than a string of isolated appointments.