PRP for under-eye circles in Laval

There are two moments. The draw, which is an ordinary blood test. Then the injections, on a sensitive area: a local anaesthetic is applied beforehand, and the quantities are very small. The sensation most often described is a brief pressure at each point. What bothers people most is generally not the pain but the idea of a needle near the eye, and on that point the physician will explain exactly what he is doing before he does it.

No, and it is the most important thing on this page. There are four kinds, and PRP addresses only one: the kind where thinned skin lets the vessels show through, so the bluish or purple tint. It does not fill a hollow, it does not drain fluid puffiness and it does not remove a fat pad. The four tests are on the dark circles page, they are done alone in front of a mirror and they take ten seconds. Plenty of people pay for this procedure for a circle it does not address, and the disappointment then comes from a wrong indication, not a bad result.

Yes, and it is better planned for than discovered the next morning. The vascular network there is dense and very superficial, so a small bruise at an injection point is common, including when everything went well. Allow a few days to a week, sometimes a little more, and know that it covers well with concealer once the skin has closed. What increases the risk: anti-inflammatories, certain supplements such as fish oil or ginkgo, and alcohol the night before. The physician will tell you what to pause and from when.

Yes, markedly, and it is one of the few places where that difference justifies choosing the person before the price. The skin under the eye is about four times thinner than elsewhere on the face, which leaves very little margin on depth: a few fractions of a millimetre separate well-placed product from product that shows, and placed too superficially it forms a bump that can stay visible for months. It is a known and documented difficulty, and nothing exceptional in experienced hands.

The catalogue offers this procedure as a package of three, which gives the order of magnitude. The reason lies in the mechanism: PRP does not deposit a result, it triggers a response from your skin, and that response builds from one session to the next. An isolated session generally shows little, which is one more reason to know before starting that this procedure calls for patience.

Not straight away, and that is what separates PRP from a filler. The first weeks go to the biological response, and the change is often noticed first in photographs rather than in the mirror, because it is gradual. Take a photo at rest, in front lighting, before you start: it is the only reliable point of comparison you will have, and visual memory is notoriously poor about one's own face.

They are two answers to two different problems, and the physician will decide after looking at you rather than from a description. If what you see is a shadow cast by a hollow, meaning missing volume, a dermal filler is the indicated approach, with particular caution in this area where excess shows immediately. If it is the quality of the skin that lets the vessels through, it is PRP.