Microneedling

You should avoid retinal or active ingredients for 1 week before your appointment, and avoid wrinkle relaxers, dermal fillers or peels for at least 2 weeks before visiting us – this treatment involves small punctures to the surface of the skin, so we need it to be as free from active ingredients as possible to ensure the safest and most-effective results.

If your skin is impaired or irritated, we’d recommend trying our Yellow LED light therapy instead – the puncturing of the skin in this treatment could otherwise further irritate your skin.

If you have acne, we would also recommend combining your microneedling treatment with a skin peel and/or our LED light therapy – talk to one of our therapists about a skin plan that works for you.

If you’re breastfeeding or pregnant, we unfortunately won’t be able to perform this treatment – but talk to our therapists, and they’ll help you arrange a later date when you can join us, as well as suggesting other treatments for you.

Fake tan needs to be avoided for at least 1 week before your appointment. If there is any in the treatment area we will have to arrange a later date to do this.

For the first 24 hours after treatment, please avoid any exercise, and for the first 48 hours do not put cosmetics of any kind on the treated area. You should also avoid direct sun exposure to the treated area/s for up to 48 hours.

For up to 5 days after your treatment, you should avoid skin products with active ingredients or anything exfoliating. A gentle cleanser and moisturiser is fine, though.

For at least a week after your treatment you should also avoid laser hair removal or cosmetic injectables to the treated area/s.

Some redness and small pinprick-sized blood spotting is normal after Microneedling – to treat, apply a cool compress to the area or a soothing gel, like our After-Laser Heal.