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Corrective Photo Facial in Ruidoso, NM
Corrective Photo Facial at Mountain Medical Spa, part of our Laser Treatments menu.
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Overview
About Corrective Photo Facial
Intense pulsed light aimed at the brown and red in your skin — sun spots, freckling you did not ask for, broken capillaries, the general background redness that a few decades at altitude leaves behind. It treats color. It does nothing for texture.
It feels like a rubber band snapped against the skin, and it’s quick. The important part is what happens next: brown spots get darker before they go, sometimes noticeably so, and then flake away over about a week. You look slightly worse for a few days and then better. Nobody warns people about this often enough.
Most people need one to three sessions for a visible change, sometimes more for heavy sun damage. Results hold for a long time if you wear sunscreen and are undone quickly if you don’t.
We won’t treat tanned skin, and we’ll ask about recent sun and any self-tanner. This is a fall and winter treatment in Ruidoso, and pushing it into June is how people get hurt.
How it works
We look before we treat. What you came in asking for and what your skin actually needs are often different, and sorting that out — under proper light, with your history and medications on the table — is the consultation.
The visit itself
You are in a room set up for that one treatment, with the provider who planned it. Nothing gets wheeled in from elsewhere, and nobody is being treated in the next chair.
What to expect
Before you book: how many sessions, what it costs, and how long you will look less than your best afterwards. After: written aftercare and a follow-up, usually at two weeks, to see the result and adjust.
Treatment candidacy, risks, benefits, recovery, and expected results vary by individual and are determined during consultation.
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Good to Know
Corrective Photo Facial — Questions
Facials and skin treatments including microneedling and dermaplaning, injectables (neurotoxins, dermal fillers, PRF and EZGel), laser treatments from hair reduction to Tetra CO2 CoolPeel resurfacing, hormone replacement pellet therapy, and vitamin and wellness therapies including IV infusions and NAD+. Each plan is built around what your skin and your labs actually show.
Yes, and it is not a formality. We need your health history and you need to know what you are agreeing to. The consultation runs about forty-five minutes and there is no obligation to book treatment at the end of it.
Every treatment is medically supervised. Nancy Walker is a board-certified nurse practitioner, and we use FDA-cleared devices and products. Safe does not mean risk-free, though, and part of the consultation is going through the actual risks for you specifically.
It depends entirely on the treatment. IV therapy, vitamin injections, and most injectables are lunch-hour appointments. Microneedling and laser resurfacing will leave you red and flaking for several days. We tell you which one you are signing up for in concrete terms before you book, not afterward.
October through March. Laser and light treatments work best on skin that is not tanned, and freshly treated skin is more sun-sensitive for a couple of weeks. At 6,920 feet, strong sun is most days of the year. If you ski, tell us and we will schedule between your trips.
A small bioidentical hormone pellet is placed under the skin and releases steadily over three to six months. We start with blood work, not with a pellet. If your labs and symptoms line up we will talk about it; if they point somewhere else we will tell you to see your physician.
Yes, through Cherry. Checking your options takes about a minute and uses a soft credit check, which does not affect your score. We make no lending decisions and never see your credit file.
1214 Mechem Dr Suite A, Ruidoso, NM 88345. Tuesday through Friday 8am to 4pm, Saturday 8am to noon, closed Sunday and Monday. Call 575-200-1915.
33.33° N · 105.67° WRuidoso, New Mexico
Not sure this is the one?
Start with a consultation. We will tell you whether this is the right treatment for you, and say so plainly if it is not.