Beyond our mid 20s, our skin begins to slow its rate of collagen and elastin production by 1 to 1.5% per year. These are the building blocks of our skin that keep it looking smooth and flexible.
This slow decline results in fine lines and drier skin, and by middle age, deeper lines and wrinkles have usually formed.
RF Skin Tightening uses sound wave energy (radio frequency) to help combat your skin's aging process.
It does so by heating the deep dermis layer of your skin, which hyper-stimulates new collagen and elastin production.
RF also forces existing collagen fibres to straighten instead of mimicking the wrinkles in your skin. Over the days and weeks that follow, the result is healthier and younger looking skin.
If you have any further questions or to make an appointment, please call me on 4926 7778 or 0422 276 202. You can also use the handy online form on the Bookings page.
Have a brilliant day.
Andrew Thompson.
Prices ★ RF Skin Tightening
- 🕒 Times indicated are wildly variable from one person to the next due to size and shape etc.
- 🔥 indicates popularity based on actual treatments performed.
- Highlighted prices in blue are current RF Skin Tightening specials.
- Highlighted prices in green are current specials combining RF Skin Tightening with other services e.g. IPL.
| RF Skin Tightening Prices ★ Upper Body | 🕒 | 💲 |
|---|---|---|
| Face (brow, cheeks, crow's feet, lip, chin) 🔥🔥🔥 | 10 | $70 |
| Face RF + IPL (Pigment OR Hair Reduction) 🔥🔥🔥 | 30 | $150 |
| Neck (incl 'Turkey Neck' & Platysma) 🔥 | 10 | $99 |
| Face & Neck COMBO 🔥🔥🔥 | 15 | $120 |
| Face & Neck RF + IPL (Pigment OR Hair Reduction) 🔥🔥 | 50 | $235 |
| Hands 🔥 | 5 | $59 |
| Forearms (incl hands) 🔥🔥 | 20 | $130 |
| Upper Arms (biceps and triceps) | 15 | $149 |
| Full Arms COMBO 🔥🔥 | 30 | $190 |
| Shoulders & Delts | 15 | $155 |
| Abs 🔥 | 10 | $75 |
| Love Handles & Lower Back | 20 | $195 |
| RF Skin Tightening Prices ★ Lower Body | 🕒 | 💲 |
|---|---|---|
| Buttocks | 30 | $275 |
| Butt Crease (incl Perineum) | 5 | $85 |
| Butt Crease RF + IPL (Pigment OR Hair Reduction) 🔥🔥🔥 | 15 | $145 |
| Butt Crease RF + IPL (Pigment AND Hair Reduction) 🔥🔥🔥 | 25 | $175 |
| Scrotum and Penis 🔥 | 10 | $80 |
| Scrotum and Penis RF + IPL Hair Removal 🔥🔥 | 25 | $160 |
| Inner Thighs (leg chaff area) | - | POA |
If you would like to explore other potential RF + IPL combinations, here are their pages:
FAQ ★ RF Skin Tightening
How long before I see results from RF Skin Tightening?
You will typically notice a tightening effect immediately after your RF session. This is great but it's only the beginning.
Assuming you follow my advice to moisturise and stay hydrated, the smoothing process will continue over coming weeks as those new layers of elastin and collagen reach the surface of your skin.
Absolutely remember to drink water and moisturise daily. This needs to become a new lifestyle habit if it's not already part of your routine.
How much does it hurt?
Treatments are quite warm but not painful. There's no need for topical creams or pain relief. In fact, you can't use pain relief as I need you to give me feedback during the session.
After treatment, you will feel some residual warmth and may have mild pinkness which generally fades within an hour or two.
What's the science behind RF Skin Tightening?
Radio Frequency penetrates the skin as diffuse energy, heating the collagen that support your skin.
This causes the collagen fibres to straighten, and also enhanced stimulation of fibroblast activity to accelerate production of collagen and elastin fibres in the treated area.
This is why you will see a partial response immediately after treatment, and a continuous response over the weeks that follow.
If you would like to research the science in more detail, here is a great article evaluating the effects of radio frequency treatments from the US National Library of Medicine.
Should I get Skin Tightening or Fat Cavitation?
RF Skin Tightening and Ultrasonic 40K Fat Cavitation both use sound waves, however RF primarily targets skin while cavitation specifically targets fat.
If you want to tighten your skin over an area where you also want fat reduction, it makes sense to have fat cavitation first, and do skin tightening last.
What contraindications will prevent me having an RF treatment?
- Hearing aids or auditory implants
- Pacemaker or other electronic device inside your body
- Metal implants or screws in or near the area to be treated, e.g. screws in your jaw or teeth will prevent a face treatment
- Any form of cancer
- Any disease or condition that compromises your immunity
- Lymphoedema or other advanced lymphatic conditions
- Infectious skin diseases, whether active or inactive, in the area to be treated
- Past negative response to an RF or ultrasound treatment
Do you recommend microdermabrasion before an RF treatment?
Diamond Microdermabrasion helps remove dead keratin and debris from your epidermis, the superficial layer of your skin.
With that in mind, if your skin in the area you want treated is deeply wrinkled, rough, or hard, then definitely yes.
This will allow your new skin cells more freedom to expand and contract without the constraints of your old skin damage.
If that's not the case, then no, Diamond Micro won't be necessary.
What skin issues can RF Skin Tightening treat??
RF is ideal for any body area where loose or uneven skin is evident. It can treat:
- Wrinkles and fine lines
- Periocular e.g. Crow's Feet, bags under eyes
- Thin crepey skin
- Smoker's lip
- Nasolabial folds
- Acne scarring
- Sagging skin from weight loss
- Cellulite and stretch marks
- Cracking or delicate scrotal skin
I have an acne outbreak in the same area. Is that OK?
No. Book in for an IPL Acne Treatment first, then have an RF Skin Tightening once your outbreak has cleared up.
How many treatments will I need?
As mentioned earlier, you'll definitely benefit from a single treatment, but if you elect to have three or four, say a week or fortnight apart, you'll see a huge difference over coming months as each treatment compounds the progress of the last.
When I treat a new area on myself, I aim for four sessions a fortnight apart, then 3 monthly top ups to maintain results.
I want to soften stretch marks. Should I get RF Skin Tightening or IPL Photo Rejuve?
Both. I'd do three sessions of each, a fortnight apart. Before each IPL treatment, I'd also have Diamond Microdermabrasion on the area.
Stretch marks need a fair bit of work as the shape of the dermis is pitted, mimicking the shape of the surface of the skin.
We need to flatten the dermis through repeat and varied treatments in order to impact the surface layer.