Catherine is making amazing progress with her makeover. She has received a number of treatments at Advanced Rejuvenation Medical Spa, including peels on her hands and chest, Pixel laser, BOTOX® Cosmetic, Teosyal dermal filler, Accent radiofrequency and IPL.
I want to keep her behind the curtain from now on so you get the full impact of everything at the end. I can tell you she is making amazing progress, getting fitter, losing weight and looking great.
Today I’m just going to give you a little bit of a teaser.
I get a lot of questions about the IPL treatment and what you look like afterwards so I’m going to show you a series of pictures of Catherine that will help answer the questions.
Above is Catherine’s cheek before the IPL. Lots of redness and brown spots of sun damage, right?
The second image shows her cheek immediately after the IPL. On my monitor, the redness in her skin is reduced. The little broken capillary on the edge of her nostril is standing out a little more because the background is paler but some of the branches of the capillary are shut down. The capillaries on her cheek (in the midst of that brown pigment) are shut down also.
The pigment hasn’t started to darken yet. This process can take 24 hours after the IPL.
The third image was taken a week after the IPL. If you look at the patch of brown pigment in her cheek, you’ll see flecks of dark brown. This is the darkening of the pigment that I have mentioned previously. The flecks would have been larger a few days previously and are getting smaller day by day to finally disappear at the 10 – 14 day mark.
Her face is at a slightly different angle here but you can also see that the broken capillary on the edge of her nostril has shut down further.
One IPL doesn’t get rid of all of the sun spots or brown pigment. The pigment is located at various depths in the skin. The flash of intense pulsed light will travel down through the depths of the skin until it hits pigment and gets absorbed so the more superficial pigment gets treated first.
With each subsequent IPL treatment, we work down through the skin to get pigment located at deeper and deeper layers. It usually takes 5 – 8 IPLs to get rid of visible brown pigment.
