Since first opening in 2009, our goal at Avie! Med Spa + Laser Center has always been to cultivate relationships with each patient, helping them feel more confident by enhancing their natural beauty.
As our med spa in Leesburg ages, so does our loyal customer base and our team. Aging is a beautiful, natural process, one that we hope to support you through as we, ourselves, enter into different life stages.
The passage of time can unexpectedly affect your appearance. Suddenly, you notice fine lines, sagging skin, and a less contoured appearance. While we can’t stop time from marching on, our team can help you age gradually and gracefully as we do the same.
We offer treatments to target your facial muscles and aging skin for a nonsurgical facelift. Our two facial contouring options, Emface and Ultherapy in Loudoun County, help you achieve a more lifted and toned appearance. To learn more, keep reading.
What causes facial aging?
From your grandmother to your mother, you’ve seen the most beautiful women slowly develop fine lines and wrinkles. As you see the lines form on your own face, you can rest assured that these are actually healthy signs of aging. You’re just not ready for these characteristics to show, and that’s okay. A few things cause the change in facial appearance, including the following.
Loss of Collagen and Elastin
Facial aging results from factors that we can’t quite control. As you age, your body produces less collagen and elastin—2 proteins that support the health of your skin. Collagen acts as your skin’s scaffolding, giving it structure, support, and strength. Skin’s flexibility comes from elastin; its ability to “snap back” after pinching is due to elastin’s shrinking power.
Without these vital proteins, your skin is more susceptible to fine lines, sagging, and wrinkles. You can’t stop the decline in collagen and elastin, but treatments like Emface and Ultherapy in Loudoun County can stimulate production for a youthful look.
Redistribution of Facial Fat
When you were younger, your natural facial fat worked in your favor. With more fullness and volume on your upper face, and a more contoured, slim appearance on the lower face. As you age, your skin loses volume and shifts downward, causing jowls—drooping, crepey skin along your lower jawline.
Loss of Muscle Tone
Your bone structure also changes, causing a loss of muscle tone affecting your cheekbones and jawline. For the rest of your body, you can maintain your strength with regular exercise, but what about your face? That’s something to ask your provider at Avie!
Facial Contouring: Restoring Harmony
You shouldn’t have to go under the knife to boost your confidence. At Avie! we offer 2 nonsurgical facelift options.
Both Ultherapy and Emface can give you a tighter, firmer appearance, regardless of skin type or tone. Although they use different technologies, both address deep muscle layers to boost collagen and elastin production to keep your skin smooth and youthful.
Ultherapy: A Lift From Within
Since receiving FDA approval for brow lifting in 2009, Ultherapy has taken the aesthetics world by storm. We are proud to say that our practice has been providing Ultherapy in Loudoun County longer than anyone else in the area. Starting in 2012, we’ve helped lift and tighten patients’ skin throughout the years with this non-invasive treatment.
How Ultherapy Works
Ultherapy offers you a deep-tissue lift, targeting more than the dermis, but also the Superficial Musculoaponeurotic System (SMAS), and platysmal fascia, the same layers plastic surgeons address during a facelift.
This device uses micro-focused ultrasound energy to send 150 degrees of heat deep into your facial tissues in a split second, creating thermal coagulation points (TCPs). This initiates your body’s natural healing response, boosting collagen and elastin production. We won’t lie to you, it can feel pretty uncomfortable. To make sure your procedure has maximum comfort, we provide you with powerful pain medications.
This advanced technology is also customizable. Your provider uses real-time imaging for precise energy delivery to your skin, improving both the effectiveness and safety of the device. With over a decade of experience with Ultherapy, you can put your trust in our Master Aestheticians and registered nurses.
Where Ultherapy Treats
- Cheekbones
- Décolleté (low neckline/chest)
- Brows
- Neck
Gradual, Graceful Skin Tightening
You may see immediate improvements after your treatment for Ultherapy in Loudoun County, but your full results will reveal gradually over 3 to 6 months. The same process that causes your wrinkles over time requires time to reduce them as your body continues to produce more collagen.
One & Done Sessions (With Maintenance)
A benefit that our staff and our patients love about Ultherapy is that it usually only requires 1 treatment. Depending on the treatment area, it can take 30 minutes to 2 hours. However, with any skin rejuvenation treatment, you’ll always need maintenance sessions to keep your skin strong and supple. Take the maintenance appointments as an opportunity to speak openly about what improvements you’ve noticed since your first session.
This device also requires no downtime, making it easy to fit into your schedule.
Long-Lasting Results
After just a single session, your body will continue producing more collagen, resulting in 1-2 years of stronger, tighter skin.
Ultherapy V-Lift: More Defined Jawline
We know we said Ultherapy is a one-and-done treatment, but at Avie! we offer the Ultherapy V-Lift, which requires 3 treatments spaced out 1 month apart. The V-Lift uses ultrasound technology to target your SMAS (superficial muscular aponeurotic system), the same tissues that plastic surgeons target during a facelift. Starting in your mid-face and extending to your lower face, you can achieve a V-shaped jawline contour with this option for Ultherapy in Loudoun County. To get an idea of how this could look, you can place your hands on your cheeks and push the skin up. You’ll notice a more pronounced jawline and fewer wrinkles. These results will gradually appear as you continue your Ultherapy V-Lift sessions.
Emface: Facial Workout
It seems that your facial muscles don’t always get the same love that your glutes, abs, or arms do when it comes to exercise. If the best way to maintain a strong, toned appearance is a workout, how are you supposed to achieve that on your face? Our answer: Emface.
How does Emface work?
Emface uses the same technology as Emsculpt NEO, the body contouring device, only it targets your facial muscles. Unlike Ultherapy, which uses ultrasound technology, Emface uses high-intensity facial electrical stimulation (HIFES) and radiofrequency (RF) energy.
The HIFES technology delivers a supercharged 20-minute facial “workout,” inducing 75,000 muscle contractions with minimal discomfort. With restored muscle volume, your skin naturally lifts, reducing wrinkles and skin laxity.
Simultaneously, the RF energy emits heat to your skin’s deeper layers, stimulating collagen and elastin production to create firmer skin.
With multiple applicators, this device can also be customized to your specific concerns. Many patients love the submentum (under chin) applicator as it can tighten the digastric muscle and destroy fat, reducing the appearance of a double chin. While the V-lift Ultherapy in Loudoun County simply lifts and tightens the skin of this area, Emface effectively melts fat and strengthens the muscles along with the skin.
Where Emface Treats
Emface has applicators for targeting all areas of the face, including:
- Forehead
- Eye
- Cheek
- Submentum (under chin)
- Upper face
- Lower face
Consistent Visits
Unlike Ultherapy, Emface requires 4 to 6 sessions to see results. If you think about it, you don’t get a toned physique from just 1 gym visit. Similar to toning your body, your face requires a consistent workout to effectively lift, tighten, and contour your facial structure.
While other providers may boast that you only need 3 sessions to see those Emface before and after results, we will tell you that’s just not true if you’re over 30. Three to four sessions will help you see subtle results, but your body needs more treatments to produce enough collagen to support your facial structure.
We cultivate relationships with our guests based on integrity and trust, so for most of our clients, we recommend a package of 6 Emface sessions. You may use all of them within 6 months or save them for maintenance throughout the year.
Emface also doesn’t require downtime, allowing you to continue your day as usual.
Natural and Gradual Results
Similar to Ultherapy in Loudoun County, Emface results develop over time. After you complete your 4 to 6 sessions, you’ll notice improvements in your skin’s tightness and facial contours for up to a year. You can support and prolong these results with maintenance sessions.
Let’s Break It Down: Emface vs. Ultherapy
We gave you a lot of information about the technology, results duration, and frequency of sessions between these 2 treatments. To further simplify it, here are the similarities and differences.
| Stimulates Collagen and Elastin? | # of Initial Sessions | Downtime | Results | Results Duration | Maintenance | |
| Emface | yes | 4 to 6 | No | Immediate improvements with gradual results | 1 year | yes |
| Ultherapy | Yes | 1 | NO | mmediate improvements with gradual results | 1 to 2 years | Yes |
Which treatment is right for you? Why not both?
Emface and Ultherapy both work effectively to help lift your skin, reducing wrinkles and improving firmness. For graceful aging, our staff relies on both devices because they target different concerns. When paired together, you can rejuvenate your undereyes with Emface and redefine your jawline with Ultherapy. The possibilities are endless at Avie! As time passes all of us by and leaves its mark on our appearances, we may adjust the treatments to target different areas of the face.
Age Gracefully With the Avie! Team
Aging at Avie! means more than supporting your bone structure and skin health throughout the years. It also means forming relationships and supporting each other because time changes many things, including our appearances. With Emface and Ultherapy in Loudoun County, you can see significant improvements in your facial contours.
At Avie!, you can build significant connections with women going through the same aging process as you are. It all starts with a consultation where we can establish a relationship based on integrity, empathy, honesty, and trust. To get started, click the button below to request a consultation.
Alternatively, you can try our treatment planning tool. Once we receive your submission, a member of our team will reach out with potential treatment options and available appointment times.
