Today I am sharing about the best treatment I have found to help your body naturally regenerate your skin. This is THE treatment to naturally induce anti-aging of the skin and stimulate natural skin rejuvenation. It is called Morpheus8. What it is is a unique combination of radiofrequency and microneedling. It has been proven effective to help the skin build more collagen and elastin, which are structural proteins that keep skin healthy and supple.

The Backstory

Anyone who has followed me for a while knows how I feel about needles, neuromodulators (Botox) and fillers. Short story: I was over-injected once in my early 40’s in my forehead causing my eyelids and brows to droop dramatically changing my face. Not good. I am also pretty dedicated to anti-aging as naturally as possible. You can read all about my approach to anti-aging here. At the same time, at 46, I am having some pretty significant concerns. Mostly that I am starting to not look like myself– a common complaint heard from women in their mid to late forties. Let’s face it, our face changes! My main skin concerns are fine lines and wrinkles on my forehead and undereyes (crow’s feet). Then there’s the under eye circles (I am notoriously a bad sleeper so that doesn’t help)! But something else started happening in the last year- I started to see skin laxity in my lower face or jowls area. It was like my face was drooping before my eyes!

The Research

I started researching treatments to improve skin laxity. There was the Venus Viva or Venus Freeze machine that used radiofrequency and magnetic fields but that required many treatments. There’s Ulthera (or Ultherapy) but that was between $3,000-5,000 and I had heard it was very painful (yikes!). I had started researching Vivace, a radiofrequency microneedling device to tighten and tone. This was a much more advanced version of microneedling adding in radiofrequency for deeper penetration. There’s a few machines like this on the market like Potenza, the Secret and Vivace, but in all my research one kept coming up as the absolute best – Morpheus8.

What’s the difference between regular microneedling and microneedling with radiofrequency?

Microneedling works by using extremely small needles to pierce the very top layers of the skin. In turn, this spurs skin growth and collagen production. As your skin reacts to the penetration of the needles, the appearance of unwanted skin issues is reduced. Radiofrequency microneedling adds the element of radiofrequency energy to the traditional microneedling procedure. In addition to the benefits seen with the micro-injury provided by the microneedles, radio frequency microneedling also delivers radiofrequency energy deep into the dermis further enhancing skin tightening and scar reduction. After talking to a few experts they suggested Morpheus8 as the superior RF micronedling device as it is a newer device and technology.

Skin Remodeling for Anti-Aging

Remodeling was a new term for me. It basically means that you can revive aging skin by stimulating the formation of new collagen to improve elasticity. Morpheus8 is a deep fractional remodeling device. Ideal areas of treatment are the lower face, that may have jowling. Many places offer the choice of a full-face treatment or just the neck.

The Morpheus 8 RF Microneedling combines two technologies, Fractionated Radio Frequency and Microneedling. During the treatment, microscopic needles puncture the skin and stimulate natural skin rejuvenation. In response, the body begins creating more collagen and elastin, which are structural proteins that keep skin healthy and supple.

In addition to microneedles, Morpheus 8 uses Fractionated RF energy to heat tissue. This causes the tissue to contract or tighten, further increasing collagen production. Unlike other RF Microneedling treatments that merely penetrate the skin on a superficial level, Morpheus 8 targets the deepest layers of skin tissue. The device is FDA cleared to rejuvenate skin by subdermal adipose remodeling—remodeling fat below the skin’s surface.

Remodeling fatty tissue is especially effective at shaping and contouring the lower face and neck. This treatment improves the appearance of jowls, wrinkles, skin laxity, and submental fullness.

I was excited to find Josie Holmes, of SKINNEY Medspa performed the treatment. Josie was so welcoming and put me at ease during my consult. She explained how the treatment would feel, the treatment series and the expected results.

My treatment

The day of my treatment I numbed for 45 minutes with a topical numbing cream. The Morpheus treatment was then performed- it felt like deep needling all over my face. This treatment was very quick- 20 minutes or so. It felt like a deep stamping, as shown here. Then Josie would apply a cold compresses to cool down the skin. She followed the whole treatment with cryospheres and a hylaronic was applied to help the”wounded” tissue and accelerate healing.

Results

The results were immediate- my skin had an absolute glow. The tightening and lifting affect on my jowls and lower face is still yet to be seen as it takes some time. For Morpheus8 the ideal treatment plan is 3 sessions spaced 4 weeks apart with final results showing at 8-12 weeks. I certainly feel like my skin is tighter and clearer already and I look forward to revisiting my results in another couple months. I encourage you to visit the SKINNEY page to read all the details.

Watch some additional videos of the treatment(s) here: