Prinsesa Aesthetics Studio

Adult acne is not a teenager problem you failed to grow out of.

It is hormonal, it is stress, and it shows up at exactly the age when you thought you were done with it. I see women in their forties who are more embarrassed about a breakout than they were at sixteen. I understand it. It feels like your face is not keeping the deal.

I am not going to promise you a cure. What I can do is calm the skin down, fade the marks old breakouts left behind, and get you to a place where you are not thinking about your face all day. That is a real thing and it is worth doing.

Come in and let me look. No pressure, no product pitch.

Call 919-308-0809 or book at https://book.squareup.com/appointments/cr827y8jprt0jn/location/6T7DTRM214FGK/services

Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

Five things I get asked at the consultation, in the order people ask them.

Does it hurt? Not much. It goes deeper than a facial but there are no needles going in and out.
How long until I see something? Usually by the second treatment.
Is it safe for my skin tone? Yes. It is the one I trust on deeper skin because there is no heat and no acid, which is what usually leaves a mark.
What about sensitive skin? Same answer.
Why not just do a facial? A facial works on the surface. This works underneath, where the collagen is made.

If you have a sixth one, bring it in. That is what the consultation is for.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

People ask me what microchanneling actually does, so here is the short version.

The device makes thousands of tiny channels in the top layer of skin, too small to see, too shallow to bleed. Then the growth factor serum goes in through those channels instead of sitting on top. That is the whole trick. Your skin thinks it has been injured and does what skin does, which is rebuild with fresh collagen.

About an hour in the chair. A little pink for a day. No downtime you have to plan your week around.

It is one half of my Cellular Transformation membership. Microchanneling one month, RF the next, because they do different jobs and they do them better together. Founding rate is $199 a month, six month commitment because that is how long collagen takes, and there are still a few founding spots. Text me and I will send you the link.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

Most people hear microchanneling and think face.

It is the same treatment for the stretch marks on your stomach and hips, the dark patches on your neck and chest, and the fine lines everybody asks me about. Different part of the body, same job. Make the skin rebuild.

So if you have been hiding something under a shirt, that is a conversation worth having. Bring it to a consultation. I will tell you honestly whether this is the right tool for it, and if it is not, I will tell you that too.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

People use hyperpigmentation and melasma like they are the same thing. They are not, and it changes what I do.

Hyperpigmentation is the general word. Sun, an old breakout, a scratch that healed dark. Melasma is the hormonal kind. It shows up in pregnancy or on birth control, sits in patches on the cheeks and upper lip, and it comes back the minute you let the sun at it. With melasma, sunscreen is not a suggestion. It is the foundation everything else sits on.

Microchanneling does not bleach anything. It gets the skin rebuilding from underneath, so the patches fade over a series of treatments instead of one harsh peel. Slower. Lasts.

If you have been fighting dark patches for years, let me look at it before you buy one more product.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

This came through the night after her appointment.

I have been doing this twenty seven years and a message like this still makes my whole day. Not because of the compliment. Because of what is underneath it.

Most people who sit in my chair have been penciling their brows in every single morning for years, and half of them do not like how it looks. Getting that hour of your morning back, and looking in the mirror and just being happy, is the whole point of the work.

That is what you are actually booking.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

She texted me this after her appointment.

Nobody comes in asking to look like they are wearing makeup. They come in wanting to look like themselves on a good day, and then have somebody notice without being able to say why.

That is what the treatments are actually for. Not a dramatic before and after you can point at. Skin that behaves, on an ordinary Tuesday, when nobody is looking for it.

That is also why I push the monthly memberships instead of one big appointment twice a year. Skin responds to consistency and to almost nothing else.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

Getting the colour right is most of the job.

Brows are not one pigment out of one bottle. Your undertone, how warm or cool your skin is, how your skin has healed pigment before, whether you have had work done that faded orange or grey on you. All of that changes what I mix.

Twenty seven years in this industry and I have seen a lot of brows that were the right shape in the wrong colour. It ages the whole face and there is no hiding it.

If you have been told before that your skin does not hold pigment well, come see me. That is usually not your skin. That is a colour that was never matched to you.

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Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.

This is what is waiting on the bed before you get here.

A robe, a headband, and a note. I set it out before every single client, and I have done it that way for twenty seven years.

You are not squeezing into a chair between two other people. You are not being rushed so I can flip the room. It is one person at a time in here, and the hour is yours.

People tell me they fall asleep. I take that as the compliment it is.

Call 919-308-0809 or book at https://book.squareup.com/appointments/cr827y8jprt0jn/location/6T7DTRM214FGK/services

Look for the green door.
Tue to Fri 10 to 6, Sat 8 to 1. Durham, NC.
3811 North Roxboro St.