Microneedling

Microneedling with SkinPen®

Microneedling with SkinPen® is a collagen-stimulating treatment designed to improve skin texture, tone, fine lines, acne scarring, and overall skin quality with minimal downtime. By creating controlled micro-injuries within the skin, the body’s natural healing response is activated, stimulating collagen and elastin production for smoother, healthier-looking skin over time.

To maximize comfort, patients are thoroughly numbed prior to treatment, making the experience very tolerable for most individuals.

At Boon Aesthetic Wellness, microneedling treatments can be enhanced with regenerative add-ons such as PRFM (Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix) or PDGF-based growth factor therapy to further support healing, collagen stimulation, and skin rejuvenation. These advanced regenerative treatments work synergistically with microneedling to improve skin quality, accelerate recovery, and support long-term skin health.

What Microneedling Can Treat

Because microneedling works by prompting your skin to rebuild its own collagen, it tends to improve several concerns at once rather than targeting a single problem. Most patients come to us for one issue and are pleasantly surprised by the overall improvement in clarity and glow. Microneedling is commonly used to soften acne scarring and other textural irregularities, refine the look of enlarged pores, smooth fine lines around the eyes and mouth, even out stubborn tone and discoloration, and improve crepey or dull skin that no longer reflects light the way it once did.

One reason we reach for microneedling so often at Boon is that it is generally considered appropriate for all skin tones. Many resurfacing lasers carry a meaningful risk of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation in deeper skin types, which makes them a difficult recommendation for much of our Inland Valley patient base. Microneedling creates its micro-channels mechanically rather than with heat, so it offers a gentler path to resurfacing for patients who have been told they are not candidates for laser.

Microneedling with PRF and PDGF Growth Factors

Microneedling on its own is effective, but the freshly created micro-channels also open a brief window to deliver regenerative products deeper than they could otherwise travel. That is where PRF and PDGF come in.

PRF, or platelet-rich fibrin, is drawn from your own blood and spun down in the office to concentrate the platelets and fibrin that drive tissue repair. Applied during microneedling, it can support a calmer recovery and add to the collagen response. PDGF-based growth factor therapy works along similar lines, and it is the same regenerative approach behind our under-eye PDGF treatment and our hair restoration options.

Whether an add-on makes sense depends on your goals, your budget, and how much downtime you can accommodate. Jessica will walk you through the options honestly, including the times when standard microneedling is the smarter value.

What to Expect at Your Microneedling Appointment

Before you come in

Stop retinoids, exfoliating acids, and scrubs about five days before your treatment, and let us know if you are prone to cold sores so we can plan ahead. Avoid significant sun exposure in the week beforehand, since treating recently tanned or burned skin is not safe. If you are adding PRF, drink plenty of water the day before to make the blood draw easier.

During your appointment

We cleanse the skin and apply a topical numbing cream, then let it sit for roughly twenty to thirty minutes. The treatment itself usually takes another twenty to thirty minutes depending on how many areas are covered. Most patients describe the sensation as a light vibration, and the large majority find it very manageable once numbed. Plan on about an hour and a half in the office from start to finish.

The days afterward

Expect to look flushed, similar to a moderate sunburn, for the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Some patients notice mild tightness or light flaking around days two through four as the surface turns over. Skip makeup for the first day, cleanse gently, keep the skin well moisturized, and be diligent with sunscreen. Hold off on retinoids, acids, saunas, hot yoga, and heavy workouts for roughly three to five days.

How Many Microneedling Sessions Will I Need?

Microneedling is a series treatment rather than a one-time fix. Most patients reach the results they came for after three to six sessions spaced four to six weeks apart, with acne scarring generally requiring more sessions than tone and texture. You will often notice a glow within the first week, but the meaningful change comes from collagen remodeling, which continues quietly for three to six months after each session. Many patients then return once or twice a year for maintenance.

Microneedling Compared With Other Treatments

Microneedling or a chemical peel?

Peels work at the surface, lifting away dead and damaged cells to address dullness, tone, and superficial discoloration. Microneedling works deeper, in the layer where collagen lives, which makes it the better tool for texture and scarring. The two are complementary, and we often alternate them across a treatment plan. You can read more about our chemical peels.

Microneedling or a collagen stimulator?

Both build collagen, but they operate on different scales. Microneedling improves the quality and texture of the skin itself. Injectable collagen stimulators rebuild deeper structural volume that has been lost over time. Patients with both textural concerns and volume loss often do best combining the two, which we cover on our collagen restoration page.

Microneedling or injectables?

Microneedling does not soften expression lines caused by muscle movement, and it does not restore lost volume. Those are the jobs of wrinkle relaxers and hyaluronic acid fillers. It helps to think of microneedling as the treatment that improves the canvas, and injectables as the treatments that adjust the architecture.

Is Microneedling Right for You?

Good candidates are generally healthy adults with realistic expectations who are willing to commit to a short series. Microneedling is usually not appropriate during pregnancy, during an active breakout or skin infection, over an active cold sore, for patients with a history of keloid scarring, or for anyone who has recently taken isotretinoin. Certain autoimmune and clotting conditions also warrant caution. All of this is reviewed at your consultation, and if microneedling is not the right fit we will say so and point you toward something that is.

Microneedling in Claremont, CA

Every microneedling treatment at Boon is performed by Jessica Barron Skelly, RN, an aesthetic nurse injector and national trainer with more than a decade of experience. You are not handed off to rotating staff, and the person who plans your treatment is the person who performs it. Our studio is on North Indian Hill Boulevard in Claremont with free on-site parking, and we regularly welcome patients from La Verne, Upland, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, San Dimas, and Glendora.

To find out whether microneedling is the right starting point for your skin, get in touch or text (909) 675-1520. You can also learn more about our Claremont medspa.