It is that time of the year when you want to look your best to impress that special person in your life.
As people get more creative with Valentines’ Day ideas, beauty and grooming are scoring high on their charts this year too. Couple treatments that are doing the rounds are the vampire facials for rejuvenation or brightening and glow.
As a person ages, it’s typical for his or her face to change shape. Cheeks can lose their fullness, and deep grooves may appear on either side of the nose. The face may take on a haggard or weathered look. The Vampire Facelift provides a solution for these age-related changes. Wondering how this aesthetic treatment got this name? It’s because your own blood is used as part of this enhancement procedure.
The vampire facelift involves combining PRP therapy with another cosmetic treatment to treat a variety of age-related skin concerns, including fine lines and wrinkles, tired-looking skin, scars, and more.
The Vampire Facelift is a procedure developed to enhance volume in the face using a combination of hyaluronic acid (such as Restylane) and platelet-rich fibrin matrix (PRFM), which is a thicker form of platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
The key ingredient of this facelift is platelet-rich fibrin matrix, which is derived from the patient’s own blood before being mixed with other factors. Platelet-rich fibrin matrix starts with a blood draw, just like any normal blood test.
The platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is then separated by spinning the patient’s blood through a centrifuge. Platelet-rich plasma appears as a clear yellow serum after it is separated from the darker components made mostly of red blood cells.
Calcium chloride or another activator is added to the PRP to turn it into the thicker and longer lasting platelet-rich fibrin matrix. Platelet-rich plasma is used in the medical field for its wound and injury healing properties. It also stimulates the production of collagen and for tissue regeneration.
These properties make platelet-rich fibrin matrix an ideal natural serum for rejuvenating facial skin quality and volume with increased collagen production, blood supply, and new skin and fatty tissue generation, creating that youthful appearance that comes with healthier skin.
This treatment may not be suitable for everyone. People with more advanced signs of aging may benefit more from surgical treatment or Botox applications.
Area for Vampire Facelift
Forehead wrinkles
Lines at corners of the mouth
Bunny lines or bunny nose
Frown lines
Crow’s feet (lines in corners of the eyes)
Smile lines
Plumping of the cheeks
With inputs from Satish Bhatia, a Board Certified Dermatologist at the Indian Cancer Society Mumbai
