Downtime diary: Profhilo in my neck

I love Profhilo  – and all the other skin-boosting, hyaluronic-acid-based injectable-moisturiser treatments that I’ve tried  – because of the way they improve the state of my skin. I particularly love having my neck treated because, like most people, by the time I realised my neck needed as much TLC, moisturiser and sunscreen as I was lavishing on my face, it was already showing its age, so there was some catching up to do.

Here’s my experience of having Profhilo in my neck…

What can injectable moisturisers do for the neck?

Neck skin is thinner and drier than the skin on your face. It has precious few oil glands and little cushioning fat beneath it, so it gets crepey and wrinkly more quickly. Plus, the way we all drop our chins to our chests to commune with our devices reinforces any of those ‘necklace line’ wrinkles that are starting to show – aka ‘tech neck’. Having a layer of runny hyaluronic-acid gel injected beneath the skin kick-starts it into regenerating itself, leaving you with smoother, stronger, more resilient skin (which, for me, this takes three rounds of treatment).

The treatment involves…

Multiple injections across the neck area – many more than the 10 jabs that Profhilo requires in the face. I’ve never found this particularly uncomfortable, but so many people tell me that it really stings when it goes into the skin that I feel it’s my duty to share that with you.

What did I look like afterwards?

My neck looked…. well, I’d call it fascinating, but most people recoil in horror when I show them the pictures. Why? Because there’s a small, raised bump where each injection went in, like the mass sprouting of some alien pox. Looking at my neck in the picture, I’d say there are about 45-50 of these showing. The good news? The bumps don’t hurt, or itch, or anything. But, unless you are leaving the clinic under the cover of darkness and getting straight into your own car, you absolutely need to have a soft scarf or high polo neck to wear afterwards, just so you don’t scare people.

How long do these bumps last?

By the next morning, the bumps have mostly flattened out, though as you can see in the video, they’re still visible (they take a couple more days to vanish) and I’ve got a few small bruises in places where the injections nicked a blood vessel, which fade over the next 10 days. So, I hang onto my scarf.

What about the decolletage?

In case you’re wondering, the skin on the decolletage behaves much the same way if you have multiple jabs of injectable moisturiser placed across it, though that is an easier area to cover up.

The pictures in this video were taken after a Profhilo treatment with Dr Maryam Zamani. 

If there’s a particular recovery journey you’d like to know about, drop me a DM on Instagram or email [email protected] and if it’s a procedure I’ve tried (and I’ve tried most of them), I’ll do my best to give you the lowdown.