By Kendall Farr, Licensed Esthetician, SPADA Skincare
Ah, plump skin. Picture a baby’s cheeks or recall the way in your teens and twenties your skin seemed to instantly snap back from stressors like sun, air pollution or managed to look bouncy and bright even after an all-nighter. What you are picturing is the deeply hydrating and ‘plumping’ effect of hyaluronic acid in the skin.
What Is Hyaluronic Acid Exactly?
The skin has a variety of naturally occurring substances like collagen, elastin, ceramides, and the super humectant – hyaluronic acid. Humectants attract and hold moisture in the skin – drawing moisture from the air and holding up to 1000 times their weight in water to keep the skin moist. We make a lot of it when we are young but decreasingly less with each decade. At 50 + our production has dropped by 50 percent leaving the skin with less ability to retain the water our cells need to stay hydrated and to plump up our skin. And dehydration is a depressing equation of less water resulting in skin that can look lined, dull, and slack. Progressive lack of water is a key factor in premature skin aging.
The Changing Look of Fillers
In the past decade a few notable shifts have occurred in skincare. First, an aesthetic shift away from the often puffed up (overfilled) look of needle injected hyaluronic acid fillers. Women asked for something effective but more subtle. This reflected a growing consumer desire for at-home skin care that could deliver real plumping results without needles. Innovative cosmetic chemistry has developed a way for topical, at-home treatments that provide delivery of active ingredients into the skin’s deepest layers to be as targeted as injections. Enter cosmetic drones and state of the art skin plumping. ‘Plumping” is now an official category (and real time result) in over-the-counter skin care.
But What Is A Cosmetic Drone, Anyway?
Cosmetic drones act like satellite navigation in your skin. Here’s how: Polypeptide spheres tiny enough to easily penetrate deep into the skin hold active ingredients. The sphere prevents the actives from being released until they target specific areas in the facial skin where they’re most needed. Just like a GPS for skin, the drone provides a powerful and precise delivery of the spheres and their active ingredients. The encapsulate finds its’ target, dissolves, and then releases ingredients into the skin where they go to work fast. In the case of G.M. Collin’s plumping products – HA Filler Serum, HA Filler Cream, and HA Filler Eye Contour – the spheres hold multiple weights of hyaluronic acid and other powerful active ingredients that target, fill, smooth, and plump the skin. As the actives expand the effect is not unlike a sponge as it expands with water to saturation. In less than an hour you can see lines visibly filled. And it’s progressive. The more consistently you use HA Filler the more consistently ‘plumped’ the skin appears.
G.M. Collin was one of the first dermaceutical lines in the world to leverage X50 Hyalufiller drone technology in their HA Filler Serum, an international best seller since its’ launch five years ago. Utilizing the same cutting-edge plumping, two new products have recently launched. All three formulas are enriched with a potent blend of hyaluronic acid and advanced anti- aging ingredients.
Here’s the HA Filler lineup:
HA FILLER SERUM
An innovative first-of-it’s-kind formulation, this is a ‘foundation’ serum designed to be applied as the first thing in your routine after cleansing. The X50 Hyalufiller drone launches a cluster of poly- peptide encapsulates that hold multiple weights of hyaluronic acid molecules. They target and then deposit HA deep into the skin acting on where you need line filling. Along with hyaluronic acid, Linefill™ deploys sesame seed extract to minimize the look of wrinkles while Poretect™ minimizes the look of enlarged pores with extracts derived from celery and linseed.
HYALURONIC FILLER CREAM
Here the X50 Hyalufiller drone deploys 4 weights of hyaluronic acid molecules for wrinkle filling in the mid-level to the surface of the skin. This velvety-finish cream provides intense hydration while Intensyl™boosts with an immediate, visibly lifted effect. Hyaluronic Acid Filler Cream acts like a blur tool thanks to secret weapon ingredients like Wakame extract that visibly improves skin elasticity and texture and Baobab fruit pulp that instantly reduces the look of enlarged pores.
HYALURONIC FILLER EYE CONTOUR
Four advanced forms of hyaluronic acid plus multi-peptides -delivered by the X50 drone –smooth fine lines around the eyes. Plant GF-1 an oliopeptide penetrates deep into this very delicate skin for wrinkle filling around the eyes. The multi-peptide Eyeseryl® minimizes the appearance of under eye puffiness and the peptide formula Haloxyl™ with an assist from added caffeine reduces under eye puffiness along with dark circles.
The precision of needles without needles? Yes, please. And if injectable HA filler treatments like Juviderm™ or Restylane™ are a part of your routine, the G.M. Collin HA Filler system is an ideal way to prolong your results by months. Ask your esthetician for more information about state-of-the-art plumping in the treatment room and for your home care. Book here now.