A Facelift at Fibroplasma by Samantha in Beverly Hills offers an alternative way to tighten your skin without using plastic surgery, botox, or fillers.

The purpose is to use plasma, a hot, gas-like substance, to stimulate fibroblast cells in order to repair the outer skin layers.

Your skin covers the tiny hole with a carbon crust (scab) that looks like a tiny dot.

In about a week, all the dots fall off. And depending on your genes and the environment, you can see a “tightening” of your skin over eight to twelve weeks.

Though it looks like your skin is tightening, it’s actually new collagen in the dermis that’s pushing the creases in your skin (wrinkles) outward.

Samantha is dedicated to using holistic methods whenever possible.

The aftercare products she recommends are also holistic and wonderful for your skin even after you’ve healed from your plasma treatment.

Collagen is the stuff inside and outside of your cells that give your face its shape. (It’s also found in tendons, bones, and ligaments.) Collagen makes your skin look and feel firm because it’s rigid and resists stretching.

When we’re young, the collagen inside and outside our cells regenerates quickly and keeps our skin plump and smooth, without lines and wrinkles.

As we age, it starts to take a little longer and a little longer for the fibroblasts in our skin to make as much collagen as when we were young. The quality of the collagen that’s made as we age is less elastic, not as firm, and not as plentiful.

In other words, we get wrinkles.

Our skin becomes thinner and starts to look uneven and less firm.

When there’s nothing underneath our skin to prop it up, it starts sagging and wrinkling, kind of like a linen suit that you forgot to starch; it loses its crispness. Collagen is the starch, and linen is your skin.

Everyone doesn’t age at the same rate. Two 60-year-olds can appear ten or fifteen years different in age.

Some of this is due to the genes we inherited, and some is due to our lifestyle choices. Smoking, UV rays, and poor eating habits affect your body’s ability to produce collagen.

Sunscreen, vitamin C, and aloe vera are the best ways to keep fibroblasts making a lot of strong collagen. (Medical News Today, May 20, 2022, “Ways to Smooth the Skin by Boosting Collagen Levels”)

Fibroblasts (cells in your skin) make collagen, and collagen makes your skin appear plump and smooth.

Less collagen that’s poor quality equals thin, wrinkled skin.

Make more collagen that’s better quality.

You can change your environment and stimulate the fibroblasts to make collagen.

There are some things that you have no control over, like your genes, so you need to help them out as much as you can.

• Use sunscreen (free radicals from UV rays break down collagen)
• Steer clear of chemicals like nicotine
• Eat foods high in antioxidants, like fruit and vegetables

Aging can feel like a loss of control over your body, but you do have control over aging gracefully. You can choose injections, lasers, or plastic surgery; there’s nothing wrong with that.

Or, you can choose fibroplasma. A fibroplasma facelift in Beverly Hills is another tool to add to your toolbelt when you choose how you want to age.