Do you ever wonder how Hollywood celebrities, like Emma Stone or Kate Hudson, keep their skin so lush and glowy? Korean skincare is one of their best-kept secrets! At Your Skin Prescription, we combine the most up-to-date Korean techniques with advanced medical-grade services to deliver the best facial treatments in the Pittsburgh area.
We are especially confident in our Korean Filler Infusion Facial, which can produce filler-like results without the use of needles. In Korean culture, skincare is a traditional element of hygiene and image, resulting in a highly competitive skincare market that has existed for centuries.
Korean skincare techniques focus on working with your skin rather than against it. While many western skin products use abrasive and drying ingredients to tackle imperfections, Korean skincare prioritizes nourishing and hydrating the skin. Join us as we delve into 3 of our top Korean-inspired facials offered at Your Skin Prescription.
Korean Filler Infusion Facial
The Korean Filler Infusion Facial uses a muscle toning device, a patented hydrogen mask, and poly-L-lactic acid to rejuvenate the skin. Each of these steps can reduce fine lines and restore natural volume to sunken areas. People know this facial for its ability to create filler-like results without relying on needles!
What Does the Muscle Toning Device Do?
The deterioration of muscles and fat pads in the face often causes skin laxity and wrinkles. By strengthening the appropriate muscles, we can lift the facial skin upwards. This can reduce the appearance of laxity and give a more awake, youthful look.
The muscle toning device used at the start of this treatment releases a low-level current to energize targeted facial muscles. Over time, this can create a subtle, yet noticeable improvement in your facial structure and skin texture.
How Does the Hydrogen Mask Work?
The patented hydrogen mask used in the Korean Filler Infusion Facial may look like a normal face mask, but it’s actually quite unique. Hydrogen molecules are very unstable and likely to vaporize, making them challenging to apply to the skin. This innovative technology stores the hydrogen molecules in microcapsules all along the mask to keep them stable.
Hydrogen is beneficial for the skin because of its antioxidant properties, which help prevent skin aging and damage. It can reduce inflammation, which leads to improved skin hydration, elasticity, and a brighter complexion. This soothing ingredient is a valuable component in facial treatments.
Once the mask is secure against your face, the microcapsules slowly release the hydrogen directly into your skin. For about 30 minutes, the hydrogen works at penetrating the skin. It also delivers a number of hydrating ingredients, antioxidants, and brightening agents, making it one of the best facial treatments out there.
What is Poly-L-Lactic Acid?
This facial contains a poly-L-lactic acid, which is commonly known as Sculptra®. Poly-L-lactic acid is a collagen-stimulating product. A scaffolding-like matrix of tissue called the dermis supports your outer layer of skin. Collagen makes up over 70% of the dermis’ structure.
As you get older, your collagen-producing cells become less and less efficient. Eventually, there isn’t enough collagen to keep the dermis strong and healthy. As a result, your outer layer of skin begins to sink in certain spots, leading to the formation of lines, wrinkles, and hollow areas.
Poly-L-lactic acid causes slight inflammation in the injection area. Because the body believes inflammation to be an injury, this triggers a healing response. Your body’s healing cells, namely macrophages, then spring into action and start producing more collagen.
That collagen fills in the dermis’ weak spots and gradually revives the outer layer of skin. Over time, this can reduce wrinkles and fill out any hollowness in the face, such as around your cheeks.
After some time, the poly-L-lactic acid breaks down into water and carbon dioxide and exits the body through natural processes, meanwhile the increased collagen levels continue to benefit the strength and health of your skin.
Skin Concerns Treated by the Korean Filler Infusion Facial
This triple-action facial has an array of benefits that continuous maintenance treatments can amplify. Here are the concerns that the Korean Filler Infusion Facial can treat:
- Loose, sagging skin
- Wrinkles
- Scarring
- Pigmentation
- Uneven skin tone
- Rosacea
- Dehydrated skin
- Puffy skin
After this facial, you can notice a subtle lift, improved skin elasticity, less-defined wrinkles, and fullness in previously sunken areas. With continued and consistent treatment, the resulting increase in collagen production can slow cellular damage and lead to more youthful skin on a cellular level.
The results of a Korean Filler Infusion Facial can last for 6 weeks, while a series of three treatments done 10 days apart can last for five months.
Glass Skin Oxygen Facial
As we mentioned, skincare is a key element of Korean culture and beauty standards. Their goal is to achieve skin that is so flawless, it appears like glass. Glass skin is smooth, dewy, and crystal-clear. It’s also very difficult to attain, but our Glass Skin Oxygen Facial is one of the best facial options to help you get this sensational look.
Glass Skin Oxygen Facial Ingredients
During this facial, an esthetician will use a wand-like device to spray oxygen over your skin. The oxygen penetrates the skin and helps to speed up cell regeneration. New collagen and elastin cells will support your skin health, helping it appear more even and clear.
This facial will also include hyaluronic acid, peptides, botanicals, and skin brighteners. We have carefully selected each of these ingredients to work towards achieving skin as smooth as glass.
Hyaluronic Acid
Hyaluronic acid is naturally occurring in your skin, but like collagen, it diminishes as you age. Adding it back in can hydrate and smooth the skin.
Peptides
Peptides are small proteins that can penetrate the skin barrier and reinvigorate it, resulting in stronger, more hydrated skin.
Botanicals
A variety of plants can yield botanical extracts. Popular examples are rosehip and grapeseed oil. These organic ingredients have many antioxidant benefits and protect against free radicals.
Skin Brighteners
Skin brighteners are an important element of glass skin. When skin appears dull and cloudy, it is working against that well sought-after translucent look. All together, these nourishing components create our Glass Skin Oxygen Facial.
Benefits of Glass Skin Oxygen Facial
- Deep hydration
- Improved skin texture
- Glowy skin tone
- Anti-aging cell production
- Reduced redness
- No downtime
- Relaxing experience
Omega Green Facial
The Omega Green Facial is great for treating oily or acne-prone skin. This Korean facial works to detoxify and soothe your skin with beneficial ingredients and photodynamic therapy.
Science Behind the Omega Green Facial
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses specific wavelengths of light to target skin concerns. When the light penetrates the skin, it destroys the targeted cells. This facial also delivers a chlorophyllin-copper complex and chlorella extracted from seaweed.
These elements can inhibit the secretion of oil and kill the acne bacteria while also repairing your skin, making it one of the best facial treatments in the Pittsburgh area for acne-prone skin.
Benefits of Omega Green Facial
- Deep hydration
- Improved skin texture
- Glowy skin tone
- Anti-aging cell production
- Reduced redness
- No downtime
- Relaxing experience
Advice for Long-Lasting Facial Results
There are a variety of ways that you can help or hurt the results of your facial. The following advice can apply to any of the facials we perform at Your Skin Prescription. To reach maximum results and sustain them, follow this advice:
Prepping for Your Facial
Avoid sunbathing or tanning beds
Facials can irritate sunburned skin. To make the most of your facial and its results, do your best to avoid any sun damage in the week leading up to your appointment. SPF is a great way to prevent this!
Don’t over-exfoliate
Many of the facials offered at Your Skin Prescription include an exfoliating element. Exfoliating can be harsh on your skin, especially when performed at home, so we recommend holding off on exfoliation prior to your facial.
Don’t have another facial
We have many facial options, so it’s understandable that you’d want to try them all. However, we ask that you opt out of any other facials for 2 weeks before your scheduled appointment.
Facial Aftercare
Avoid using heavy makeup
Most facials use steam to open your pores and help the products absorb more effectively. Makeup and makeup brushes tend to carry a lot of bacteria, so it’s best to leave makeup out of your routine for a night to not clog your freshly cleared pores.
Avoid excessive sweating
In the same way that makeup and bacteria are not great for sensitive skin, excessive sweat is a bad idea too. Sweating opens your pores, so they could end up clogged if you take a trip to the gym or sauna right after a facial.
Don’t pick at your skin
Picking at your skin is always a big no-no, but after you’ve spent time getting one of the best facial services available, it’s especially damaging. If you want your luminous results to last, keep your fingers away from your skin.
Achieving Anti-Aging With Facials
All the best facials have short-term and long-term benefits. Immediately after one of our facials, you’ll feel more relaxed and refreshed. All of our Korean-inspired facials leave you hydrated and nourished, so you’ll notice a brand new glow right away.
These facials also stimulate collagen production, which is not an overnight process. Over time, you’ll see increasing benefits from this boost to your skin’s cellular health.
For those hoping to achieve long-term anti-aging benefits, we highly recommend getting maintenance treatments to continue adding these useful ingredients to your skin.
Turn Back Time With a Facial at Your Skin Prescription
If you’re interested in giving Korean skincare a try, book your appointment at our practice near Pittsburgh today. If you’re not sure which treatment you’re interested in, check out our treatment planning tool. Simply add your skin concerns, and you’ll receive a customized treatment plan from us.
Keep in mind, we offer a wide selection of treatments, from laser resurfacing to targeted acne treatments. Don’t hesitate to reach out to our team if you have questions about our services. We look forward to hearing from you!
