Graceful. Timeless. Elegant.
These are all words that describe how we would like to age. That usually means keeping fine lines, wrinkles, and skin laxity at bay, and preserving smooth, tight skin.
At Avie! Med Spa + Laser Center, we make sure that your journey through every decade is as beautiful as you are with skin tightening treatments in Loudoun County.
All of these treatments keep your skin firm, youthful, and glowing because they stimulate the production of the protein that maintains age-defying beauty: collagen.
What is collagen, and how do these treatments work? Let’s find out.
Collagen: Your Skin’s Building Block
Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and acts as the primary building block for your skin. This simply means that it keeps your skin looking plump and youthful because it provides structure, strength, and support to your skin and throughout your body.
It’s also important for wound healing, as it stimulates cellular regeneration (replacing old, dead cells with new, healthy ones)
But Let’s Not Forget About Elastin
Along with collagen, your skin relies on another protein to maintain its youthful form and shape: elastin. This protein gives your skin flexibility and allows it to stretch, recoil, and shrink back into place.
“If collagen and elastin are so abundant, why isn’t my skin tight?”
As you age, your body produces fewer structural proteins, and it shows on your skin. When collagen and elastin decrease, the skin’s structure weakens, causing skin laxity (sagging).
You can’t stop the aging process from happening, but you can delay and even reverse it with the right skin-tightening treatment in Loudoun County. We offer a range of options that stimulate collagen and elastin production—only the technologies and techniques work differently to produce youthful and radiant skin.
Facial Contouring: Non-Surgical Facelift
The aesthetics world offers many alternatives to surgical procedures like facelifts and neck lifts that boast many benefits. Not only do they require no scalpel and no downtime, but you also don’t run the risk of looking “overdone.”
Forget “natural-looking” results; these results are natural because they revive your skin’s lifted, plump appearance.
We have 2 options for facial contouring and skin tightening.
Ultherapy for Lifting
Since 2009, Ultherapy has offered the gold-standard nonsurgical skin tightening and lifting. It targets the deep foundational layers of skin and muscle, like the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) and the platysma fascia, which are the same tissue layers that plastic surgeons address during a facelift.
Ultherapy is so effective that our staff, including Kim Marinetto, R.N., the owner of Avie, uses it to maintain a toned, lifted look.
→ Read Kim’s Ultherapy Experience and Learn About the “WOW” Factor Here!
Unlike a facelift, this is a completely noninvasive treatment. Using ultrasound energy, Ultherapy safely sends 150 degrees of heat deep into your facial tissue in just a split second, triggering your body’s natural healing process. This stimulates collagen and elastin production for a gradual and graceful tightening and lifting effect.
What Ultherapy Treats
You only need 1 treatment to achieve strong and supple skin in the following areas:
- Cheekbones
- Décolleté (low neckline/chest)
- Brows
- Neck
Ultherapy is also a great skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County for slimming your jawline and achieving a V-lift contour. For the jawline, we usually require 3 sessions spaced 1 month apart.
For best results, we recommend annual maintenance sessions to keep your skin lifted and youthful.
Emface: Facial Muscle Stimulation
A loss of collagen and elastin isn’t the only thing to blame for skin laxity. As you age, your bone structure changes, and you lose muscle tone which can cause skin and facial fat to lose volume and sag downwards.
The best way to maintain muscle tone is, of course, with strengthening exercises. But how do you exercise your facial muscles? You may have heard of at-home facial exercises, but those lack rigorous scientific studies to prove that they work. Not only that, but they also fail to actually improve muscle tone to your facial muscles.
Emface facial contouring sculpts your face the same way exercise sculpts your body! Only this time, you don’t have to put in the effort; you simply have to show up and let the device do the work for you.
Emface combines 2 powerful technologies to produce powerful results: radiofrequency (RF) and high-intensity facial electrical stimulation (HIFES) energy.
The HIFES technology delivers intense facial muscle contractions in just 20 minutes, tightening and shaping your facial features. With added muscle volume, your skin naturally lifts to a more youthful position on your face. This skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County even works under the chin and targets the digastric muscle to decrease the appearance of a double chin and define your jawline.
At the same time, RF energy emits heat deep into your dermis (the middle layer of skin where collagen and elastin are stored).
Emface Treats
Emface utilizes specific applicators that are designed to address all areas of the face:
- Forehead
- Undereyes
- Cheek
- Under the chin (submentum)
- Upper face
- Lower face
After a series of 4 to 6 sessions, you can notice your own Emface before and after results which develop gracefully and gradually. With 1 to 2 maintenance sessions each year, you can exude confidence throughout all stages of the aging journey.
Lasers & Lights
From laser skin resurfacing to broadband light (BBL) treatment, our advanced lasers and light devices can provide benefits beyond skin tightening. At Avie! we only use Sciton products, the best of the best as far as laser technology is concerned.
Sciton’s innovations in technology keep raising the bar for patient care, delivering high-performance devices that offer visible, long-lasting results. We use these devices for your skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County because, with Sciton, results matter.
Broadband Light HEROic
Sciton continues to evolve and improve their technology. Their advancements—from broadband light (BBL) to BBL HERO and now BBL HEROic—have become the latest and greatest in BBL/photofacial, IPL technology.
H.E.R.O. stands for high energy rapid output, meaning this treatment delivers both broad-spectrum visible light and infrared light to trigger your body to renew its skin from the inside out. BBL HEROic enhances patient experience, with faster sessions due to a single filter targeting red and brown for more effective treatments and swift results.
BBL HEROic includes additional treatment modalities, like the SkinSmooth feature, which increases hyaluronic acid (HA) production for a plumping and skin-tightening effect. HA is a naturally occurring substance in your body that can hold up to 1,000 times its weight in water. Just like with collagen and elastin, as you age, your body naturally produces less of this substance.
You can also take advantage of the SkinTyte modality on any BBL device, which uses infrared light to trigger collagen production. This feature is safe on all skin types all year round.
In a study conducted by Stanford University, it was revealed that BBL technology could reverse aging genes in the skin by up to 10 years! This means that your skin doesn’t just look younger; it functions similarly to younger skin.
HALO Laser Skin Resurfacing
HALO laser skin resurfacing is a hybrid fractional laser that we offer for your skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County. This ablative technology works on the top and underlying layers of the skin, stimulating collagen production for skin revitalization and long-lasting improvements to your complexion.
Try Halo to not only tighten the skin but to get your halo-like glow back.
MOXI
MOXI, on the other hand, focuses primarily on the top layer of skin, improving texture, pore size, uneven complexion, and mild skin laxity. Thanks to this laser’s gentle nature, it’s an effective year-round device for all skin tones that stave off visible signs of aging.
Microneedling
We also offer 2 options for microneedling, both of which stimulate collagen and elastin production for younger, more radiant skin.
Skin Pen II
Skin Pen II is a special tool fitted with fine needles that create 0.25 mm- and 2.5 mm-deep “micro-channels” in your skin. These tiny wounds are too small for the human eye to see but big enough to trigger your body’s natural healing process. With a series of 1 to 3 sessions, you notice gradual results and improvements in your skin as collagen production builds up.
Skin Pen also enhances results when paired with PRP + exosomes, Hydrafacial, facial contouring, or laser treatments,
Virtue RF
Traditional microneedling is a great skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County. With the Virtue RF device, you can boost your results with radiofrequency energy. When we add heat from the RF energy, you can see a more dramatic and improved reduction in skin laxity.
Adding Injectables
When considering skin tightening treatments, we recommend collagen-inducing therapies. They work from the inside out to deliver gorgeous, age-defying results.
However, they take time and patience as your body builds up collagen and elastin production. This means gradual and graceful results that appear over time, but what if you want more immediate results?
If you’re eager to restore your youthful appearance, we recommend pairing your skin tightening treatments with injectables like Botox and fillers. To be clear, these are not options for your skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County. Instead, they are effective additions to help your skin appear smoother and more youthful.
Botox
Botox is one of the most popular cosmetic treatments for reducing and even preventing wrinkles. This FDA-approved injectable relaxes the underlying facial muscles that are responsible for creating dynamic wrinkles (the kind of wrinkles that appear with facial movement). Within days of your treatment, you’ll notice smoother, more youthful-looking skin.
Dermal Fillers
Fillers replenish lost volume to your face and lips. These injectables contain hyaluronic acid (HA), a naturally occurring substance in your body that holds powerful moisture retaining abilities. These not only target wrinkles by adding volume, but they can contour your face. With specific brands of lip filler they can also plump your pout.
Your Skin Tightening and Injectables Timeline
We recommend injectable treatments 2 weeks after your skin tightening treatment in Loudoun County. This gives your skin time to heal and allows for optimal results. With this combination, you receive instant results with long-term benefits.
Age Gracefully With Avie!
Aging is a beautiful, natural process that you should enjoy and cherish. Our treatments help you love your appearance as you age, so when you look in the mirror, you think:
Graceful. Timeless. Elegant.
Our team at Avie! is growing older alongside you, so we can enjoy the benefits of these powerful and effective treatments together. To meet an expert team of women and embark on the aging process with us, request a consultation or try our online treatment planning tool.
