What You Need to Know About Getting Microneedling in Atlanta

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What Is Microneedling?

Microneedling is a minimally invasive skin rejuvenation treatment that uses tiny, controlled micro-injuries to stimulate your body’s natural collagen and elastin production. As your skin heals, it becomes firmer, smoother, and more even in tone and texture.

Microneedling is a popular skin rejuvenation procedure that helps correct numerous skin concerns like loose skin, fine lines and wrinkles, and acne scars. An alternative to chemical peels, microneedling achieves similar results without causing skin to flake and peel. Microneedling works to improve overall skin health by stimulating collagen, which plumps up the skin, and is ideal for treating:

  • Large pores
  • Fine lines and wrinkles
  • Crepey, loose and lax skin
  • Skin texture
  • Acne scars
  • Stretch marks

Microneedling is safe and effective for all skin types and ethnicities. It’s also great for virtually all areas of the body: face, neck, chest, knees, and more. It can also greatly diminish the appearance of stretch marks and it pairs well with IPL.

 

How Does Microneedling Work?

  • Advanced microneedling technology: SkinPen is a handheld, powered device that resembles a large pen.
  • Controlled micro-injuries: A tip containing microscopic needles glides over the skin, creating thousands of tiny microchannels at a rate of up to 1,600 per second. While these micro-injuries are not visible, they are enough to trigger your body’s natural healing response.
  • Collagen and elastin stimulation: As your body produces new collagen and elastin, skin becomes plumper, smoother, and firmer while improving texture, tone, and the appearance of enlarged pores.
  • Growth factor serum: During treatment, we apply a serum containing a high concentration of natural growth factors that penetrate the microchannels to help support collagen and elastin production.
  • Visible results: Most patients notice firmer, healthier, more radiant skin within two weeks. Over the next two to three months, new collagen continues to develop, helping improve the appearance of acne scars, wrinkles, and thin, delicate skin.

Common Treatment Areas

Microneedling is especially effective for those looking to get ahead of signs of aging. It can be used on multiple areas, including:

 

Microneedling Risks & Side Effects

Microneedling carries minimal risk, but you should visit an experienced medical provider who will address your individual skin concerns.

Following your treatment, you may have some mild redness in the skin.

It is important to keep the skin clean and moisturized following your treatment until the little holes can heal to minimize any chance of infection. Allowing the skin to dry out can result in flaking or peeling and extend the healing process.

You should not have microneedling if you have any active acne or pustules. Having microneedling during a breakout would simply spread the bacteria on the skin which could result in additional inflammation and irritation.

Pregnant women should not have microneedling.

Preparing For Microneedling

Treatment cannot be performed if you have active acne, cold sores, or open lesions. If you are taking prescribed anticoagulants, please consult your prescribing physician prior to treatment.

Preparation steps for microneedling include:

What To Expect Before The Procedure

Once you’ve purchased your microneedling package, you’ll receive a complimentary at-home numbing kit. This can be picked up in-office before your first session or mailed directly to you for $7. We do this to help optimize your time, so instead of waiting in our office for up to an hour, you can apply the numbing cream at home and arrive ready for treatment. This kit includes:

  • 4 individually labeled jars of numbing cream (one for each treatment)
  • Alcohol pads
  • Gloves
  • Tongue depressors
  • Printed instructions and a link to step-by-step video instructions

You’ll apply the numbing cream 60 minutes before your appointment and leave it on until you arrive at our office (find the instructions here). Our team will remove the cream and prepare your skin for your treatment.

What To Expect During The Procedure

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During your Microneedling session, your practitioner will first remove your numbing cream and cleanse the skin to ensure a clean surface. Your microneedling settings will be customized based on the area being treated. A growth factor serum is applied throughout to help the SkinPen glide smoothly and to enhance absorption, stimulating new collagen and elastin production.

After your treatment, another layer of growth factor serum (or your selected upgrade, such as PRP or PureGF) will be applied.

We’ll provide detailed post-care instructions to help your skin heal. If you purchase a package, it includes four treatments spaced 4–6 weeks apart, along with an Alastin Post-Procedure Kit at your first session, complete with enough product to support your skin through the full series.

Each Microneedling session takes approximately 60 – 75 minutes, depending on the treatment area. We recommend a series of 4 treatments, spaced 4–6 weeks apart, for best results.

If you’re looking to boost your results, you can opt to upgrade from the standard serum to traditional PRP or PureGF for even more regenerative benefits.

Enhance Your Results with PRP or PureGF

For enhanced results, you can choose to upgrade your microneedling treatment with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) or PureGF (Pure Growth Factor)—both designed to amplify collagen production and accelerate skin rejuvenation.

  • Traditional PRP is drawn from your own blood and spun in a centrifuge to concentrate your body’s natural growth factors. Once applied during or after microneedling, it helps accelerate healing, reduce inflammation, and stimulate collagen production.
  • PureGF (Pure Growth Factor) is a next-generation alternative to PRP, containing over 450 active growth factors, with no blood draw required. Because it’s derived from a purified regenerative serum less than 24 hours old, its potency isn’t affected by factors like age, health conditions, lifestyle, or diet. It’s consistent, powerful, and designed to deliver enhanced results regardless of individual biology.

Whether you’re looking for a boost from your own PRP or the cutting-edge consistency of Pure GF both options offer advanced support for smoother, healthier skin.

Recovery & Aftercare

  • Redness and sensitivity: Immediately following treatment your skin will look pink or red, similar to that of a mild sunburn. The skin may also feel warm and tight. This will typically subside in a few hours but can last as long as 24-48 hours. This is normal.
  • Exercise: We recommend no strenuous exercise for the first 24 hours after your microneedling treatment. Sweat can further irritate the skin.
  • Hydration: The micro-channels close within 24 hours. It is super important to keep the skin extremely hydrated to speed the healing process. Microneedling Aftercare is imperative to achieving the best results.
  • Skincare and makeup: We advise not wearing make-up for 24-hours following your treatment. Use only gentle cleanser and tepid water to cleanse the skin for 72-hours or 3 days post treatment. Do not use a Clarisonic or powered cleansing brush for at least one week after treatment.
  • Post-treatment products: Serum antioxidants will help to soothe and lessen redness and aid in the healing process. These will be provided in your post care kit . Keep the skin well hydrated and wear sunscreen. You can resume wearing make-up 24 hours after treatment. After 3 days you can resume your normal skincare regimen.

Cost of Microneedling in Atlanta

Microderm and Microneedling

TreatmentPrice
Microderm - Single$250
SkinPen Microneedling Single
(face and neck)
$425
SkinPen Microneedling 4-Pack
(face and neck)
$1,625 (includes post procedure kit)
SkinPen Microneedling Single
(face, neck & chest)
$625
SkinPen Microneedling 4-Pack
(face, neck & chest)
$2,425 (includes post procedure kit)
SkinPen Microneedling + VI Peel 3 Pack
face and neck
$2,475
RF Microneedling -Single
(Face and Neck)
$875
RF Microneedling - 4 Pack
(Face and Neck)
$3,100 (includes post procedure kit)
RF Microneedling with Cool Peel Add On- 4 Pack
(Face and Neck)
$4,900 (includes post procedure kit)
PRP Add-On Single Treatment$350
PRP Add-On 3-Pack$975
PRP Add-On 4-Pack$1,300
PureGF Add-On Single$450
PureGF Add-On 3-Pack$1,275
PureGF Add-On 4-Pack$1,700

Get a Complimentary Consultation

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We believe consultations are very important when considering any skin treatment. Our consultations give us the opportunity to get to know you and understand exactly what you are looking to achieve with your skin.

At your consultation you will meet with one medical aestheticians who will put together a treatment plan along with product recommendations for you to consider.

They will also let you know the number of microneedling treatments they believe you will need to see the best results.

Atlanta Microneedling FAQs

What Does Microneedling Treat?

SkinPen is indicated to treat Fine lines & moderate wrinkles, Acne scarring, Stretch marks, Traumatic scars, Epidermal pigment, Burn wounds, Mild rosacea (vascular only), Hyperpigmentation.

Will Microneedling Affect My Botox or Fillers?

We do not perform microneedling within 2 weeks of a Botox treatment to avoid affecting the distribution beyond the injection site. In order to avoid an inflammatory reaction we will not perform microneedling until 2 weeks after having fillers injected.

Does Microneedling Hurt?

No, microneedling does not hurt! To make your treatment as easy and stress free as possible, we schedule you to arrive 1 hour before your actual treatment time. We will apply a prescription strength topical numbing cream to the treatment area/areas which will remain on your face for the next hour. Some of our patients use this time to work, read, watch videos, or even take a nap!

How Many Microneedling Treatments Are Needed to See Results?

The number of treatments you will need will depend on what your goal is and what area we’re treating (face or body). For wrinkles and facial rejuvenation 4-6 treatments are needed. Acne scars require 6-8 treatments, depending on depth and severity. Décolleté will need 4-8.

How Often Can You Get Microneedling?

The short answer is: you can schedule a microneedling treatment every 4 to 6 weeks.

After the microneedling procedure creates micro wounds to initiate the healing process, your skin needs time to do the healing that will give it that youthful glow.

A couple things are at play here:

  1. Facial cellular turnover takes about 4 to 6 weeks, depending on your age. With that said, it’s best to allow your cells to go through a cycle before you get another treatment. Otherwise, you would be re-wounding skin that is about to be replaced by the cellular turnover anyway.
  2. The healing response the microneedling procedure ignites within your body–the production of collagen and elastin fibers–takes approximately 3 months to complete. Thus, having treatments done closer together will do more harm than good.

Your body can only produce so much collagen at one time, so getting microneedling treatments closer together will not speed up the results. In fact, you may not even notice results from your microneedling treatments until you have completed 3 of them, which mirror the 3-month mark.

The main idea when considering time between treatments is that microneedling does not offer instant results. Instead, it is a transformative treatment that works from the inside out.

It takes time to see the results from microneedling treatments, but those results are absolutely worth it in the end.