By Hummingbird Medi Spa

Feed, Reconstruct, Tighten

Nov 7, 2019 | 2:49 AM

Why do laser treatments sometimes work, and sometimes not? Why do some methods of skin tightening work, and others not? Why do some facials make you look like a luminous siren, and others just leave you meh?

These are very good questions and this inconsistency in the beauty industry is the cause of frustration for many women and men, who are looking into options to improve their appearance.

What will work, what is a scam, what is useless, and what is the solution?

I have molded and shaped different methods for over more than a decade, and can give clients (and my Technicians) a predictable, consistent end result by following this specific method and not deviating from it. I find once it is explained to a client, they all understand the process, because it is logical.

We as humans cannot efficiently perform long-term in our daily lives; we cannot work optimally, be productive, be physically active, and be happy and fulfilled if we do not: eat properly (healthy, clean foods), sleep properly (in a bed, correct pillows, proper lightning, no noise) and feed our souls; whether by reading, playing a musical instrument, meditating, doing yoga, whatever it is we each need to recharge our batteries.

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I tell my clinic patients every day, it is “Going Back To Basics Time”.

Eat right, sleep right, work out, do something for your soul. Stop smoking, cut the carbs, hug your family, and do something for yourself. Then magically the weight corrects, the mood is better, the relationships improve and life can be turned into a more positive experience.

Our skin is the largest organ of the human body. In order to get the most from it and look our best, it needs the same recipe of “Going Back To Basics Time”.

And yes, we can speed up the process so we can regain some of the lustre and youthful skin we previously had, or sometimes never had, but deserve.

Nr 1: Feed The Skin.

I only use one skincare line, because it has the Swiss Skin Institute standard stamp – this means the Swiss as an independent third party analysed the product and forced the manufacturer to declare ALL the ingredients (to multiple decimals) to the consumer in order to obtain their stamp of declaration. As a consumer this is your warranty that what is in the product is declared to you, up front. In North America (Asia is worse) any ingredients under 2.5% do not have to be declared to the consumer. That should upset all of us. It means on a North American product we read the label and think it looks good, but we don’t know about the junk that comprises 2.4% of the product. I have my staff research ingredients, and to find those undeclared ingredients through research is hair raising and very hard to track down – if is good for us, then why would they hide it?

In-house we can infuse 4 – 6 weeks of medical grade vitamins into your skin, with zero downtime. This speeds up the healing and feeding process so we can progress to step 2.

Ask us about Enivron product, Facials, Vitamin Infusions and Roll-CIT.

Nr 2: Reconstruct the skin

Humans can only build collagen by stimulating fibroblasts in the deepest layers of the skin. This means a laser that penetrates the skin, or micro-needling that penetrates the skin (you don’t feel anything, we numb your skin). Collagen cannot live in a bottle and cannot be put into our skin from the outside; the same as a seed has to germinate and grow its own root system, stalks, leaves and only then flower. We have to nurture the seed to make it grow, we cannot give it roots from a bottle – but we can create an optimal environment from a bottle….see Nr 1.

Ask us about Pixel, Fraxel, and Micro-needling.

Nr 3: Tighten the skin.

In order to tighten skin, we have to have enough live fibres in the skin to tighten. Collagen would be the vertical slats, and elastin the horizontal slats, of the scaffolding that comprises our skin.

We feed the skin (Nr 1), then build collagen (Nr 2), and once there is collagen, elastin automatically follows. Only then can any skin be tightened. We tighten skin buy using Radio-Frequency waves that heat up the skin, and the heat lets the elastin bands tighten. The same as holding a flame under a stretched-out rubber band.

Ask us about Accent.

And Violå! Skin is Nourished, Reconstructed, and Tight. The person looks 5 – 7 years younger. That is the number of years (as per Industry Standards) that can be shaved off your looks by taking care of the skin the correct way. To take even more “time” off from your look, you will need Botox and Injectable Fillers, and I can help with that too.

Shortcuts don’t work: Lasering skin without first feeding it can lead to injuries, and the skin will not produce positive results, as it is malnourished.

Tightening skin when it is malnourished and has no fibres will fail, because there is nothing to tighten. This is very logical; we all get that you cannot get something from nothing, but very few spas actually implement these principles when they treat skin or promise clients magical results.

For a tailor-made, “Back to Basics”, individualized plan for your skin, call us at Hummingbird MediSpa: 403-529-2006, or visit medhatspa.com so we can work with you to devise the optimal plan for your unique skincare concerns.