“Lunch Break” cosmetic treatments are procedures that give your skin a boost in a jiffy. These treatments are performed quickly, and they require little to no downtime.
Essentially, you can get them completed within the duration of your lunch break, returning to school or work right after without worrying about flaking, swelling, or numbness. They’re minimally invasive and time-efficient treatments.
Quick Cosmetic Treatments With Little to No Downtime
The “lunchtime facial special” involves non-invasive treatments that don’t break the skin, don’t cause any superficial reactions, and don’t take very long to complete. Broader categories of these procedures include facials, skin tightening, injectables, and hair removal.
Facial Treatments You Can Book Over Lunch
Most facial treatments offered at the MD Beauty Clinic require no downtime. Our Essential, Oxygen, and JetPeel facials are a great pick-me-up for your midday hour off work.
The Essential Facial is the gentlest of the bunch. With a 20-minute massage to start, this facial primes your skin for the absorption of top-of-the-line skincare. It promotes blood flow, helps reduce puffiness, and soothes the muscles. For the remaining 40 minutes of your session, your skin is cleansed, exfoliated, and hydrated for a plump and radiant result.
The focus of the Essential Facial is hydration and purification, so no heavy-duty actives (like retinols) are used during the treatment. This means that you can carry on with your day without worrying about increased photosensitivity or significant redness and swelling.
The Oxygen Facial cranks things up a notch but remains mild overall. Instead of skincare ingredients, this facial actually uses pressurized oxygen to ‘deep clean’ your skin’s surface. The force of the air unclogs pores, clears superficial debris, and eliminates bacteria. The exfoliation treatment is followed by 10-15 minutes of LED light therapy. This reinforces your results and can stimulate cellular activity.
Since the Oxygen Facial doesn’t break the skin, you can return to your regularly scheduled programming right after. There’s no risk of any redness and swelling that would arise from micro-injuries or increased precaution around infection.
Our JetPeel Facial goes one level higher in intensity than the Oxygen Facial. The two treatments function similarly, though. JetPeel uses pressurized air to create micro-channels in the skin beyond the surface. This facial is used to exfoliate and deliver active serums. Your one-hour session begins with lymphatic drainage and concludes with serum infusion.
Since Jetpeel functions topically, it doesn’t require social downtime. You won’t experience any flaking of the skin or substantial redness and swelling like you would with treatments that penetrate to the depth of the dermis (lower layer of skin).
An important caveat with recovery is that every patient is different. Some patients will experience a little redness due to their skin’s reactivity, but this generally subsides just as quickly as it appears.
Skin Tightening Treatments With No Recovery Time
Skin tightening is a lot more intensive than a facial, and because a lot of these treatments require numbing to optimize patient comfort, they’re not the best candidates for your lunch break. Many of our skin tightening procedures also use microneedling or laser technology, which causes redness, swelling, and, sometimes, flaking of the skin as it regenerates.
However, one skin firming treatment that bypasses all of these recovery considerations is the Forma Facial.
Our Forma Facial skin tightening treatment uses radiofrequency to heat the underlying layers of skin, causing a plumping effect. Although Forma uses heat, it’s a tolerable temperature that doesn’t require numbing. The handpiece detects the temperature of the skin and modulates accordingly to ensure patient comfort.
The Forma Facial can actually be done in less than 30 minutes, leaving you with enough time to actually have some lunch during your break. Treatment begins with the application of a conductive gel to guide the device across areas of concern. It might leave your skin looking flushed but this generally clears within an hour.
Low-Downtime Treatments for Glowing Skin
The lunchtime cosmetic treatments don’t stop at the facials. Some other classic cosmetic procedures that require no downtime and are quick to complete include injectables and laser hair removal.
These treatments also take a maximum of one hour to complete, but generally hover around 15-30 minutes in total. However, if you’re new to these treatments and are unsure if you’re prone to bruising or swelling afterwards, you may wish to try them outside of office hours first to see how your body responds. That being said, many patients find post-injection swelling or redness to be pretty minimal and have no issue heading back to work after a Botox touch up.
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Botox treatments can often be completed in as little as 10 to 15 minutes. You may experience minor redness or bruising at the injection sites, which can often be easily concealed. Dermal fillers take a bit longer to perform, ranging from 30 minutes to an hour, and can cause a little temporary redness, swelling, or bruising around the injection sites.
Laser hair removal targets melanin in the hair follicle. Any resulting redness from the procedure is also easy to cover up with clothing, unlike with facial treatments. Laser hair removal is the most efficient of the lunchtime specials, covering wide surface areas in up to 30 minutes. It’s as easy as the leftover shepherd’s pie you can eat right after your appointment is done.
Which No-Downtime Treatment Is Right for You?
Your choice of lunch break cosmetic treatment is entirely based on what you’re in the mood for that day…
If you’re looking for a comprehensive starter, then perhaps a facial. For something with a little more zest, consider Forma. If you are looking for specific outcomes like volume or hair removal, look no further than our injectables and laser offerings.
Whatever you’re craving, we’ve got it! Book an appointment for your lunch break today and hear your colleagues saying “I’ll have what she’s having.”
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