Qi Glow Facials and Cosmetic Acupuncture
Want to have a facial that leaves your face glowing and your nervous system deeply relaxed?
Want to reduce and prevent wrinkles?
Want to tone and brighten the skin?
Worried about fillers, injections, or surgery?
Try a Qi Glow Facial, cosmetic acupuncture and/or microneedling!
Why Qi Glow Facials & Cosmetic Acupuncture?
If you’re feeling like you need a glow up without the injections, fillers, or even surgery, let’s talk about cosmetic acupuncture and Qi Glow Facial.
Cosmetic acupuncture targets wrinkles and tones facial muscles. Using specific vectors, the acupuncture needle causes micro-trauma which stimulates collagen growth in a specific direction. By placing needles strategically, lines of collagen with tighten and lift saggy areas.
Additionally acupuncture needles tone your facial muscles by relaxing tight muscles and toning lax muscles. Tight facial muscles cause those dreaded 11’s. Facial muscles get longer and less toned as we age. The muscles around our ears help keep the face taught. In fact, these muscles are shortened during a face lift. Why not just stimulate these muscles with tiny needles?
While cosmetic acupuncture involves needles in the face, each treatment is a head to toe experience. You also get a full body acupuncture treatment to optimize your qi flow and blood circulation, important factors in optimizing health and in glowing skin.
Each session starts with a facial massage, includeds a gua sha session to leave your face snatched, and ends with facial teishin. Plus deeply nourishing skincare products will help restore your skin. This treatment is SO RELAXING and will leave you GLOWING.
One treatment is gives you a nice glow up. To reverse wrinkles and get long term results, Ten initial treatments in 3 months is recommended. Look at The Qi Glow Empress Beauty package to commit to your skin. After the initial intensive, monthly treatments are recommended to tune up your glow and prevent wrinkles. The Empress plus packages are available to those who have completed the initial ten treatments.
Cosmetic Acupuncture vs Microneedling
NUMBER OF TREATMENTS
Microneedling: Typically 4 to 6 treatments.
Cosmetic acupuncture: Usually 10 to 12 treatments initially, with maintenance sessions
Microneedling: 30 – 45 minutes
Cosmetic acupuncture: 60 minutes
Microneedling: 24 to 72 hours of redness and mild swelling.
Cosmetic acupuncture: Minimal to no downtime, possible slight redness or bruising
Microneedling: Ideal for addressing superficial skin concerns like scars, hyperpigmentation, and pronounced signs of aging; nanoneedling can treat red part of lips and inside orbital rim.
Cosmetic acupuncture: Best for overall facial tone, sagging, facial fat and muscle, and incorporating stress-relief benefits.
RISKS:
Microneedling: Includes some pain, redness, swelling, infection risk, and rare scarring.
Cosmetic acupuncture: Minimal pain; minor risks such as bruising, redness.
SIMILARITIES
- Both treatments stimulate collagen production.
- Both are minimally invasive and nonsurgical.
- Both require multiple sessions for optimal results.
- Both can be tailored to individual skin concerns.
DIFFERENCES
- Microneedling involves creating micro- injuries to prompt healing, whereas cosmetic acupuncture uses strategic needle placement to balance qi and enhance skin health.
- Microneedling has more noticeable immediate downtime, whereas cosmetic acupuncture allows for immediate return to daily activities.
- Microneedling is more aggressive and may be more effective for deeper scars and significant skin issues, whereas cosmetic acupuncture offers a holistic approach with additional benefits like stress reduction.
Beauty Tools
Curious about gua sha, jade rollers, facial teishins, and/or facial cupping? Book a private session to learn self care treatments. We will go through the treatments together to optimize your skin care routine.
Beauty is not just about using the optimal moisturizer and skin care products. Getting the glow is also internal – really looking beautiful from the inside, radiating out. Beauty is a holistic process.
If your skin looking dull, lackluster, or tired, let’s change that together.
To optimize your skin care, your digestion, detox patterns, emotional patterns, nervous system, and hormonal systems need to be addressed. A Naturopathic treatment plan is going to be way more in depth than you get from an esthetician or even a dermatologist. This is about optimizing your health.
While it might sound like a lot, Dr. Ellerie is there every step of the way offering you guidance to enhance your health.