With all the gift-giving and party-throwing you’re responsible for during the holiday season, it can sometimes be easy to forget about someone you should gift every day — yourself.
Treating yourself to a Vampire Facial® during the holiday rush serves double duty. First, it’s a break from your others-focused routine that allows you some much-needed self-care. Second, it gives you the holiday glow of youth and vigor that you need for your rounds of parties and get-togethers.
At Aesthetics, by Dr. Lee, our highly trained aesthetics team — led by Dr. Luis Lee — is licensed to perform Vampire Facials at our offices in Granite Bay, California. Only the copyrighted procedure licensed by its creator, Dracula (uh, Dr. Charles Runel) is a true Vampire Facial.
How can a Vampire Facial make you look ageless this holiday season? Here’s how it works.
The Vampire Facial is so-named because the potency of this treatment is derived from your own blood. We don’t take it by biting your neck, of course. A simple blood draw from your arm — just like when donating blood or having blood tests — is the first step.
We then process your blood in a specially designed and sterile centrifuge to spin away the liquid components from the solids. In other words, we separate the plasma from the platelets and other types of blood cells.
The end product is a powerful healing serum known as platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Doctors have used PRP to treat a wide variety of conditions in the past decade or so, from pro athletes’ injuries to aging skin.
The next part of a Vampire Facial also may sound vaguely blood-thirsty: We microneedle your face, neck, and decolletage. The single-use, sterile microneedling head contains dozens of acupuncture-like needles that create hair-thin, controlled, vertical channels that reach into the deep layers of your skin.
These microchannels allow any serum placed on the surface to seep into the inner layers of your skin. In the Vampire Facial, the serum is the PRP we created with your own blood, filled with natural and powerful healing ingredients.
Our last step when administering a Vampire Facial is to brush the PRP serum all over your skin, so it can drench your inner layers with its healing ingredients. The PRP contains:
The growth factors activate your multipotent stem cells. This triggers a rebuilding process that stimulates your skin to rebuild itself, creating brand new skin.
Proteins help your skin reconstitute itself. For instance, both collagen — the type of protein that gives your skin depth and strength — and elastin — the protein that allows your skin to snap back into place — increase with a Vampire Facial.
The real magic of a Vampire Facial takes place outside our office and inside your skin. Nourished with extra supplies of proteins and growth factors, your skin sets about repairing the microchannels and building fresh, new skin.
In the process, your skin also constructs new blood vessels, which helps your new skin become and stay plump, strong, and vibrant. It also builds new fat cells, which helps compensate for all of the youthful fat you lost to the aging process, particularly in the mid-face.
Your skin continues to repair and rebuild itself over the next 2-3 months. At the end of that period your face looks:
Your tighter, uplifted, more youthful face should last for about a year before you need a touch-up. In other words, just in time for another holiday gift to yourself.
Take a break from the holiday rush and enter the season looking better than ever with a Vampire Facial today. Call us at 916-888-8988 or send us a message. We serve the California communities of Granite Bay, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Folsom, Lincoln, and the greater Sacramento area.
