Gorgeous skin is always in style. When your skin’s tone and texture are even and vibrant, get ready for the star treatment—because every eye will be on you. Shine a spotlight on beautiful skin with IPL treatment in West Palm Beach.
This gentle, noninvasive treatment uses intense pulsed light light in multiple wavelengths to erase pigment, smooth skin, and provide a glow that shows off your youthful side! Book a consultation to find out if IPL is right for you, and read on to understand the outstanding technology behind, and benefits of, IPL at Anushka.
What is IPL?
We use intense pulsed light to treat skin conditions including pigmentation, sun spots, acne, and even unwanted hair. IPL exposes your treatment area to light wavelengths tuned specifically to address your concerns.
It’s different from laser treatments, because lasers only use a single wavelength of light. IPL treatments apply a broad spectrum of light with less intensity than a laser. This allows IPL to treat a variety of concerns without ablation—or downtime.
How IPL works
Our Cutera Limelight IPL system exposes the skin to light wavelengths in the 520 to 1100 nm range. This specific range targets low-to-high-contrast pigmentation, including hemoglobin and melanin.
LimeLight’s three pre-set modes allow our expert team to adjust the wavelength spectrum to enhance treatment effectiveness for your needs. As the applicator glides across your skin, flashes of IPL light energy reach a specific depth and heat the cells containing the unwanted pigmentation. Healthy surrounding cells remain untouched.
Though you may feel warmth, it won’t be painful. Limelight’s pulse durations and cooling mechanisms offer both precision and comfort throughout every session.
More Even Skin Tone
In the days or weeks following your session, the age spots, rosacea, and even spider veins treated by intense pulsed light fade as your body naturally flushes away the damaged cells. You’ll see a more even skin tone, less discoloration, and a more youthful glow!
Less Hair Anywhere
If you desire hair removal, our IPL treatment in West Palm Beach heats the melanin in the unwanted hair. This heating damages the hair follicle. Once the follicle goes into the exogen phase, it sheds the unwanted hair—which takes longer to grow back, if it does at all.
Now you’ve got smoother, hair-free skin and a more even skin tone!
What IPL Treats
Limelight IPL addresses most of the common skin issues we see here in beautiful Palm Beach, thanks to nearly year-round sun exposure.
Sun Damage and Age Spots
Our beaches, verandas, and patios offer stunning views and terrific social scenes. They also expose us to more sun for longer periods of time! The sun’s ultraviolet rays cause the most sun damage, though not all UV rays are the same.
When you buy sunscreen, the phrase “broad spectrum” refers to UVA rays, while the Sun Protection Factor (SPF) is connected to UVB rays.
UVA Rays
This energy is much more prevalent than UVB rays, but also less intense. UVA rays damage the skin’s collagen, which can contribute to the formation of wrinkles and age spots, along with a loss of elasticity.
It’s unfortunate, but UVA rays form the primary light source in tanning beds. As an anti-aging authority, we always admonish clients about the harmful long-term effects of tanning beds.
UVB Rays
This form of light energy makes up about 5% of the sun’s rays that reach the skin. When you get a sunburn, that’s primarily due to overexposure to UVB rays. They accelerate the skin’s aging, and they can also cause actinic keratosis, which can lead to certain types of skin cancer.
Both UVA and UVB energies cause skin issues. After experiencing prolonged exposure, the appearance of dark spots, known as hyperpigmentation, often occurs. The transformative wavelengths of IPL can effectively target and reduce these discolorations to undo what the sun has done.
Freckles and Sunspots
Sun-induced freckles and brown spots are common in Florida due to the intensity of our area’s UV exposure. At Anushka, treatments of I in West Palm Beach help to lighten and diminish these pigment irregularities, making your skin look healthier, brighter, and more youthful.
Rosacea and Redness
Florida’s heat and sun can aggravate rosacea and other similar skin conditions. IPL effectively reduces this redness and flushing.
Broken Capillaries
Sun exposure can cause broken blood vessels to become visible, especially around the nose and cheeks. Because of IPL’s ability to target hemoglobin and disrupt the cells containing it, these vessels diminish in number and visibility.
Uneven Skin Tone and Texture
Florida’s humid environment can lead to uneven skin tone and texture. When heat and humidity come together, skin can increase oil production—which can contribute to the development of:
- Acne
- Sebaceous hyperplasia (benign skin bumps)
- Sebaceous cysts (subdermal lumps filled with sebum)
The heat and humidity combination can also cause excessive sweating, which can lead to dehydration.
IPL treatments can help smooth and improve overall complexion, reducing the size of sebaceous glands for less chance of cyst formation, and to reduce inflammation.
Where can a client have IPL?
IPL treatment in West Palm Beach addresses pigmentation issues and more across most of a client’s body.
- Face: Age spots, freckles, acne, sun damage, rosacea, spider veins, and fine lines.
- Neck and Chest/Décolletage: Sun damage, pigmentation issues, and visible blood vessels.
- Arms and Hands: Age spots and sun damage.
- Legs: Spider veins and visible capillaries.
The IPL Process at Anushka
When you come to Anushka for IPL, raise your expectations for how you’re treated, and how good your results will be.
It Starts With Your Heart
You have goals you want. They could involve your skin’s health, how you want to feel about your appearance, and even addressing the signs of aging so you can look on the outside how you feel on the inside!
That’s why we begin with a personal consultation. Our team will discuss the issues concerning you, the results you want, and we’ll examine your treatment areas.
The team will also ask about your health history, because feeling healthy empowers all the rest of your activities. Once we have all the details, we can create a customized treatment plan, letting you choose curated services that will best accomplish your goals.
If IPL treatment in West Palm Beach Beach provides the ultimate solution, we can schedule your treatments and help you prepare for success..
Your IPL Treatments
IPL provides a comfortable and surprisingly relaxing, rejuvenative experience. You’ll relax on a specialized treatment table and wear protective eyewear as your provider cleans the skin around the treatment area.
Next, we apply a cooling gel to ensure you stay comfortable during the treatment. Using a hand-held applicator, your provider directs the intense pulsed light onto the target zone. You should feel warmth and a gentle pressure where the applicator goes against your skin.
Your Results
Optimal results from IPL treatment in West Palm Beach rely on the body’s natural healing processes, including eliminating the damaged hyperpigmented cells and spider vein blood cells, along with the body’s natural hair phases.
Most of our patients see positive results beginning within 7 to 10 days. Improvements continue over the course of the next 4 to 8 weeks.
Depending on your lifestyle choices and personal skincare efforts, your IPL results can last up to a year or more.
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Aftercare Instructions for Intense Pulsed Light
In West Palm Beach, we recommend the following these guidelines to ensure optimal results and minimize potential side effects.
- No Makeup for 24 Hours. If possible, don’t apply makeup for 24 hours post-treatment.
Gentle Skincare. Use non-irritating skincare products and apply them gently. - Moisturize Your Skin. Apply a soothing, fragrance-free moisturizer. Your Anushka provider can help you find excellent moisturizers in our boutique.
- No Hot Showers or Saunas. Avoid hot showers, saunas, or intense exercise for 24 to 48 hours after your treatment.
- Avoid Sun Exposure. Avoid direct sunlight for 7 to 10 days and wear SPF 30 or higher sunscreen at all times.
- Schedule Maintenance. Your provider will talk with you about a recommended schedule for follow-up IPL sessions to optimize your results.
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Is IPL the same as laser treatments?
Sometimes people confuse laser treatments with IPL treatment in West Palm Beach. Though both therapies utilize wavelengths of light, IPL works more gently than lasers, and uses a broader spectrum of wavelengths rather than a very specific wavelength.
Why choose IPL over laser resurfacing?
When it comes to issues that happen closer to the skin’s surface, IPL frequently receives preference because it doesn’t remove surface skin cells, the heating is much gentler, and IPL can address a broader range of concerns in a single treatment.
IPL treatments generally have minimal to no downtime, while laser treatments may have slightly more downtime.
Intense pulsed light also provides a safer and more flexible treatment option for multiple skin types as opposed to laser treatment.
If you’re looking for deeper or more intense skin resurfacing, laser treatments may be a better choice to achieve those results.
Our Cutera Limelight IPL Technology
Anushka chose the Cutera Limelight system for IPL treatment in West Palm Beach because of its amazing flexibility. Cutera allows us to customize an effective IPL approach based on the client’s specific skin color and skin concerns.
Limelight IPL allows us to treat a variety of conditions and skin ethnicities for beautiful results. Limelight can specifically treat:
- Redness
- Irregularities in tone and texture
- Pigmentation left from acne/skin picking
- Sun spots
- Solar keratosis
- Telangiectasias and hormonal vascularities
- Sebaceous hyperplasia
- And more
Show Up to Glow Up With a Personal Consultation
Book your consultation for IPL treatment in West Palm Beach to achieve gorgeous, even skin tone and texture that shows off a healthy, youthful glow!
About Anushka Spa, Salon & Cosmedical Centre
Our team provides personalized beauty experiences which create exquisite looks that are uniquely your own. From treatments and services to products and fashion, we have curated a head-to-total experience to meet your self-care desires.
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