Hydrafacials are an ideal choice for most teens and adults due to their noninvasiveness and effectiveness. It has become the preferred facial spa care routine because it is non-invasive yet effective and can be helpful for almost any skin condition. Some traditional facials, such as chemical peels or laser resurfacing, may leave your skin red and irritated for hours to days after treatment, but Hydrafacial doesn’t.
What Is a Hydrafacial?
A Hydrafacial is a treatment used by aestheticians as a patented device to exfoliate, cleanse, extract, and hydrate the face. This system delivers hydration and removes dead skin, dirt, debris, and impurities while cleaning and soothing your skin with a vortex swirling action.
A Hydrafacial combines four facial treatments into one treatment: cleansing and exfoliation, a gentle chemical peel, vacuum suction extraction, and hydrating serum. These steps can be successful with the help of a patented Hydrafacial device (which looks like a giant rolling cart with hoses and a wand with detachable heads). The Hydrafacial delivers consistent results and is appropriate for all skin types, unlike traditional facial treatments, which can have variable results depending on your skin type and aesthetician.
Hydrafacial cleansing, exfoliation, chemical peel, collagen building, and facial muscle relaxing treatments help treat many of today’s beauty issues, such as large pores, wrinkles, breakouts, and thinning skin. Aestheticians conduct Hydrafacial treatments frequently with LED light therapy. Blue light can help with acne treatment, while red light can help with wrinkle visibility.
How Does a Hydrafacial Treatment Work?
A 30-minute Hydrafacial treatment is typical. If this is your first Hydrafacial appointment, here is what to expect:
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Exfoliation and Cleansing
Cleansing and exfoliation are the first steps in your Hydrafacial. Your aesthetician will gently cleanse and exfoliate the skin with a vortex cleansing and hydra peel tip. It gently opens your pores while removing dead skin cells and sebum. Â
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Chemical PeelÂ
Unlike other chemical peels, which can be irritating or painful and leave your skin red for hours or days, Hydrafacials use a non-irritating combination of salicylic and glycolic acids to provide a gentle yet effective peel. This step’s goal is to loosen deep pore debris.Â
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ExtractionÂ
The third step is extraction. The aestheticians gather the toxins in a cup and throw them away. At this point, the device will remove blackheads and other impurities from your pores using powerful and painless vortex vacuum suction.
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Hydrating SerumÂ
Finally, your aesthetician will apply a soothing proprietary antioxidative and hydrating serum containing peptides. They are a type of other beneficial nutrients with the Hydrafacial. It helps to detoxify, rejuvenate, and hydrate the skin. After completing your treatment, your aesthetician may supplement the service with additional procedures such as light therapy or fills. Hydrafacials are gentle enough that you can have other treatments done while you’re here.
What Are the Benefits of Hydrafacials?
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All Skin Types Can Use It
A Hydrafacial treatment will benefit your skin, whether it is oily and acne-prone, dry and flaky, or a combination. Even sensitive or oily skin can benefit from multiple sessions without danger!
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Skin Protection
Even though it includes both exfoliation and extraction, hydrafacial is painless and non-irritating to the skin. Because it delivers hydrating serums, patients have a smooth, radiant, and healthy glow. Some patients compare Hydrafacial with a light face massage.
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There Is No Downtime
There is no downtime with a Hydrafacial treatment, which only takes about 30 minutes from beginning to end. Due to the immediate improvement in skin texture and tone, patients do not need to wait for recovery or for the redness to disappear. After treatment, you can immediately apply makeup and continue regular activities.
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You Can Also Use It With Other Treatments
As Hydrafacial is non-invasive, patients can receive other skincare treatments in addition to a Hydrafacial. Besides, suppose you are looking for injectables or non-ablative laser treatment. In that case, you can ask your esthetician about combining a Hydrafacial with another beautifying procedure to achieve your ideal aesthetic goals.
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Completely Customizable
Your esthetician can customize your Hydrafacial treatment to meet your specific skincare and aesthetic goals. You can also add other skin boosters to brighten the skin and remove fine lines and wrinkles and the Growth Factor Boost. Furthermore, you can add the vacuum’s suction power to be gentler in sensitive areas, such as the eye area.
How Frequently Should I Have a Hydrafacial?
Starting with 2-4 Hydrafacials per month for roughly three months can be beneficial if you’ve never had a facial or hydra-care regimen. Once monthly appointments can be helpful once you’ve established a better baseline for the health of your facial skin.
What Distinguishes a Hydrafacial From a Regular Facial?
Traditional facials can benefit many people but aren’t always the best option. If you’ve ever had a classic facial, you’ve probably had extractions to remove blackheads and debris from your pores. When performed by a trained professional, these should not cause skin damage, but they can be uncomfortable. One of the primary advantages of Hydrafacial is that it can perform these extractions in a less invasive and awkward manner that is just as effective, if not more so, than traditional extractions.
The treatment quickly removes the impurities that clog our skin’s pores due to rising pollution levels. Regular facials typically help dry your skin for a brief period, but Hydrafacial replenishes hydration through proprietary serums.
What Are the Side Effects of Hydrafacial?
Hydrafacial is ideal for most skin types, including those with susceptible skin. Those with active rashes, sunburns, or rosacea should avoid Hydrafacials because they can cause further damage or flare-ups. Furthermore, some Hydrafacial ingredients, such as salicylic acid, have not been tested or proven safe during pregnancy. The device suctions gunk from pores without squeezing or pressing by combining vortex pressure with a clog-purging solution of salicylic acid, willow bark extract, and anti-inflammatory Tasmanian pepper. This treatment is never painful; patients compare it to a light massage.
How Long Do Hydrafacial’s Effects Last?
One of the best aspects of a Hydrafacial is that the results are immediate and can last for up to seven days, depending on how well you care for your skin after your appointment. Even though you’ll notice a difference in your skin after just one treatment, Aestheticians recommend getting a Hydrafacial every four weeks for optimal results.
Do you want to try a Hydrafacial treatment? Make an appointment with Crystal’s Skin and Beauty today!