The best things about the festive season? Glamorous late night parties, sinful food and endless rounds of champagne. Unfortunately, the price of all that indulgence usually results in dull, tired-looking skin, or even an acne breakout. And with Chinese New Year just around the corner, your skin needs to be in tip-top shape for another round of festivities—fast. To stay ahead of the curve, we tried the AcneClear Face Therapy treatment at Centre For Cosmetic. Here's how it went:
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Different from traditional skin resurfacing treatments

The AcneClear Face Therapy treatment utilizes a fractional carbon dioxide laser (also known as a CO2 laser) to help penetrate the skin's dermal layer to stimulate collagen growth and renewal naturally. While its effect is similar to those of chemical peels and dermabrasion, the laser aims to remove damaged skin layers through vaporization rather than chemicals or a sanding device.

While this might seem complicated, it's actually a virtually painless way of removing older layers of skin on your face in order for your skin to regenerate newer, younger-looking skin.

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It will help shave years off your face

Because of the regeneration of skin and natural collagen production, this treatment doesn’t just reduce acne scars but helps to solve other skin ailments at the same time such as wrinkles, discolouration, open pores, pigmentation and skin tightening.  

What happens is that small columns of fractionated energy are applied to your skin to ablate areas of damage. Tiny wounds are then made into the skin and the surrounding healthy skin helps with healing, producing new collagen and elastin which in turn makes your skin appear youthful.

So while I was there to just attempt to clear an acne problem, after three sessions in, I could see an improvement in my overall skin quality. The tiny beginnings of what seemed like baby wrinkles on my forehead and around my eyes were quickly ablated, and I had started to receive comments on how great my skin looked—with or without makeup on. 

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The perfect treatment for busy and time-scarce individuals.

As busy individuals, sometimes we just can't afford to spend two hours on a treatment. But Centre For Cosmetic's resident doctor Dr Irenaeus Liu doesn't believe in that. His strength lies in treatments that are fast, effective and tailored in such a manner that patients can pop in and out during a quick lunch break to get a procedure done and continue about the rest of their day.

In fact, while we were there, the entire process which consisted of cleansing our skin, an application of topical anaesthesia to minimize discomfort and the laser treatment took less than 45 minutes.

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Effects can be seen immediately

While some downtime of about three to seven days is required—the treatment can be considered invasive as it removes the top layer of your skin—you'll be able to notice an immediate overall improvement in skin condition, with even better results after a week when the redness has subsided.

While I wouldn't recommend scheduling any major events till at least a week after (I took the risk of scheduling my appointment five days before a major party!) personally I did see results on day three, even amidst the scabbing on my face. When the scabs finally all fell off about seven days in, the new skin looked smoother and much clearer. It's like having a traditional facelift but at a fraction of the cost and close to no pain at all!

Book your appointment today by visiting the Centre For Cosmetic website. You can also get in touch at +65 6235 9911 or email info@centreforcosmetics.com. Centre For Cosmetic - 1 Scotts Road, #02-03 Shaw Centre Singapore 228208

 

 

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