Mesotherapy

What does mesotherapy do?

Mesotherapy is used as an entry-level tweakment to smooth and rejuvenate the skin. The treatment adds hydration, smooths the surface of the skin, and helps the skin to regenerate itself from within.

Does mesotherapy work?

Yes – but. Mesotherapy appears to be effective, but not much scientific research has been conducted on how well it works. Anecdotally, the evidence seems pretty good.

Rejuvenating mesotherapy gives a visible result that lasts for a couple of weeks – longer if you complete a course of treatment.

What is it like to have mesotherapy?

Your experience will vary depending on which type of mesotherapy treatment you have. But as an example, here is my experience of a rejuvenating mesotherapy treatment on the face.

I’m braced for a painful impact as the aesthetic nurse doing my treatment hefts the meso gun, which starts knocking a 3mm needle repeatedly into my skin, but to my great surprise (and relief) I can feel only minute pinpricks as it does its work. Phew. She works steadily around my face injecting the serum cocktail, then turns up the speed of the needles to create more miniature wounds in the skin. But even that doesn’t hurt. For the final 20 minutes, I lie peacefully under a canopy of soothing red LED lights to calm down the redness and inflammation in my traumatised skin.

I was warned that I would look as if I had been stung all over, but I only look a bit freckly and sunburned after the treatment, and even that redness has subsided by the end of the day. What I do notice, particularly the next day, is how amazingly plumped up my skin is – which isn’t really surprising as there is a whole 5ml teaspoonful of the magic meso cocktail now trapped between the upper and lower layers of my skin. On the third day, it looks particularly good.

I can see why this glowy smoothness is addictive, and why it is so popular before big events. The glow and the plumpness dwindles over the next week; if you do more sessions, the results are meant to last for longer.