Dermapen Microneedling
- Sessions
- 3, about 6 weeks apart
- Downtime
- A few days of redness
- Results from
- Up to six weeks
At a glance
Fine, controlled micro-channels are created in the skin to encourage its natural renewal process. Over time this can help refine texture, soften the look of acne scars and fine lines, and improve overall skin quality. Your practitioner adjusts the depth to your skin’s needs, and a short recovery period of mild redness is normal.
- Consultation
- Complimentary
- Available at
- Legian Ubud Canggu
Before your visit
Ideal for
- Acne scars or uneven texture
- Fine lines you want to soften
- Pores that look enlarged
- Uneven tone or pigmentation
- Some scars and stretch marks
Please note
Before you book, please tell your practitioner about skin cancer, keloid scarring, poor wound healing, a weakened immune system, an allergy to local anaesthetic, or chemotherapy, radiotherapy or high-dose steroids.
To prepare
- Tell your practitioner about medication, allergies, active skin conditions and any recent facial procedure.
- Do not come with sunburnt or irritated skin.
- Arrive with clean skin where you can.
- Pause retinoids and exfoliating acids before and after, as your practitioner advises.
- If you have an active skin infection or deep, painful, inflamed acne, please postpone your visit.
- Let us know about recurring cold sores and any prescription skincare, including isotretinoin now or recently.
- Avoid tanning beforehand, and afterwards protect your skin with a broad-spectrum SPF 30 or higher.
Each area treated at its own depth
The Dermapen is a microneedling pen with a sterile, single-use cartridge of fine needles. They move rapidly in and out of your skin, leaving thousands of tiny channels that often close within the day.
Each channel is a controlled wound. As it heals, your skin lays down new collagen in the upper dermis, the layer just beneath the surface.
After assessing your skin, your practitioner chooses the depth for each area, keeping it shallow over delicate areas and adjusting it for acne scarring.
While the channels are open, your skin takes in more of whatever is put on it.
On the day
After a topical anaesthetic, as our current Dermapen protocol asks, your practitioner moves the pen across the area in steady passes. You will feel a buzz and a prickle, with some pressure.
You leave pink and warm, perhaps a little tight or swollen, much like sunburn. That settles within days.
Where it can be used
- Full face
- Forehead
- Cheeks
- Around the mouth
- Chin
- Jawline
Aftercare
DowntimeA few days of redness
Until it settles
- Keep the skin clean and hydrated while it settles, and do not pick at dry patches.
- No makeup for the first 24 hours.
- No hard exercise, saunas, hot tubs or steam rooms for at least 24 hours.
- Keep out of direct sun and wear sunscreen every day.
- Contact us if anything unexpected develops afterwards.
For at least 7 days, keep out of direct sun and tanning beds, saunas, steam rooms and hot yoga. Makeup can wait 24 hours, and after that, choose mineral makeup applied without brushes. Sleep on a clean pillowcase.
Day by day
- A few hours after
Rinse with lukewarm water and a mild face wash with no beads, to clear away any residual blood.
- Day 0 to 1
Your skin feels pink, warm and tight, much like sunburn, with perhaps a little pinpoint bleeding or redness. A hyaluronic acid product eases the dryness, and a cool compress helps if it feels uncomfortable.
- First 24 hours
Please skip hard exercise and smoking, and drink plenty of water.
- First 48 hours
Avoid alcohol-based toners, retinoids, AHAs, BHAs and low-pH vitamin C, and stay out of pools, the sea and hot tubs.
- Days 1 to 3
As healing begins, your skin can feel tight and itchy, or dry and rough like sandpaper.
- Days 3 to 5
Light flaking may start. Let it shed on its own, and please do not pick or exfoliate.
- Days 5 to 7
Your skin feels smoother as the pinkness fades.
- Every day after
Wear a mineral sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher, even indoors. Treated skin is more sensitive to the sun, which can leave brown spots.
Results
Results fromUp to six weeks
The first change can take up to six weeks to show, and new collagen goes on remodelling your skin for months. It is a slow change, and it can last.
Your skin keeps ageing, so your practitioner may suggest maintenance. Results vary with your skin and the number of sessions.
Possible complications include infection, scarring and changes in pigmentation, which is why the depth and your aftercare matter.
Questions people ask
Dermapen is the microneedling device itself, and Collagen Induction Therapy is the name for the process it starts in your skin.
For certain acne scars, yes. Microneedling is an established treatment for them, because new collagen can make depressed scars less noticeable.
Three is usual, though acne scars and older scarring can need up to five. Your practitioner plans the number with you.
Yes. The American Academy of Dermatology notes that adding PRP may raise collagen production, and it can be particularly useful for acne scars.
It can, with a glycolic or Jessner peel, as well as with PRP. Your practitioner will decide which is right for your skin, and in what order.
