Cosmetic Acupuncture is an ancient practice that aims to balance the physiological conditions that influence your appearance by using both facial and body acupuncture points. It is also a natural alternative to more invasive beauty treatments like chemical peels, injectables, or surgeries. By inserting needles into different points on the face, you are stimulating the production of collagen and elastin to smooth lines and wrinkles in the area. This also increases blood circulation and stimulates the immune system to reduce inflammation. Additional benefits are improved facial muscle tone, reduced jaw tension, reduced acne, brightened complexion, minimized pores, reduced skin sagging, increased relaxation, and an increased feeling of well-being.

Cosmetic acupuncture treatment sessions last approximately an hour. Please arrive wearing minimal make-up or facial creams. The needles will be placed in acupuncture points in your body and face. They will stay in place for about thirty minutes while you relax on the treatment table and listen to music, sleep, or meditate. There is no downtime after the session, and you can resume your normal activities immediately after the session. There are few if any side effects, but occasionally, there can be mild bruising.

For the most benefit, we recommend a treatment course of 10 – 12 treatments with one treatment per week.

To enhance our treatments, we offer celluma, microneedling, and nanoneedling.

Micro-needling (aka collagen-induction therapy) is a nonsurgical treatment that penetrates your skin’s surface with fine needles to improve its appearance. This popular procedure can help smooth lines and wrinkles, even skin tone (including stubborn melasma), minimize large pores, firm skin, and fade stretch marks and scars, including acne scars.

The procedure will take about an hour. First, your skin will be prepped with a skin numbing cream to reduce any pain you might feel. The cream will remain on your skin for about 30 minutes. After your skin is numb, the micro-needling procedure begins. Serum is applied to your face to allow the micro-needling pen to glide evenly across your skin. Micro-needling the entire face only takes 20-30 minutes. After the procedure is complete, you can expect that it will feel like you have a sunburn. You will need to avoid sun exposure for several days. We will provide you with several days of after care skin products.

Micro-needling is most effective with 4-6 treatments spaced one month apart. In between treatments, most of our clients have cosmetic acupuncture, nano-needling, and celluma treatments for maximum effectiveness.

Nano needling is a gentle and noninvasive cosmetic facial treatment that reduces the appearance of fine lines, minimizes pigmentation, and improves skin tone.

Nano-needling is most effective when done weekly for 4 weeks with 1 follow-up session every 3 months.

Nano-needling uses microscopic tips that are thinner than a strand of hair to deliver a serum of rejuvenating ingredients through tips containing thousands of microscopic channels. By injecting the serum into the top layers of the dermis, the skin is better able to absorb the infusion.

• Improved collagen production

• Nano-needling boosts the skin’s absorption of the active ingredients by delivering it directly into the top layers of the epidermis. This results in increased collagen and elastin production, which leaves skin rejuvenated by reducing fine lines, lifting and toning skin, and decreasing dark spots.

• Comfortable and noninvasive.

• Nano needling doesn’t even require the use of numbing cream. The treatment takes about 20-30 to complete and because it is noninvasive, there is no need for any recovery or downtime. This means you can come in for a treatment and carry on with your day with no interruptions.

Nano-needling is most effective when done weekly for 4 weeks with 1 follow-up session every 3 months.

Celluma light therapy is an FDA approved anti-aging device. The light penetrates your skin to restore damaged cells and boost collagen production. The benefits of celluma are reduction of acne breakouts, improved skin elasticity, reduction of fine lines and wrinkles, improved circulation, increased collagen production, and reduced inflammation.

The treatment is painless and very relaxing. The device is placed over your face for approximately thirty minutes. You can see some results almost immediately after the treatment is over.

A few words from a recent client..

“I have been receiving Microneedling treatments from Balance Houston and the experience has been amazing! They are very thorough in their explanations of what they are doing and honest about what to expect from the treatments. They initially took pictures of my face and other affected areas so that we could measure my results. The Microneedling process was much easier than I expected - and I have a low tolerance for pain/discomfort. The results were pretty quick to see just days after the procedure. I am excited to continue through the full course of treatments! I highly recommend Balance Houston for Cosmetic Acupuncture and Microneedling.”

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