Overwhelmed by the options in skincare devices? Wonder if there are any pro-grade devices that are safe, effective, and easy enough to use at home? Investing in a device allows you to extend the results of your professional skincare treatments and take an active approach to your skin conditions. My role as a Master Esthetician of over 25 years isn’t to do it all for you, but to empower you to make informed decisions regarding your skincare journey. This includes helping you determine which homecare products and tools are right for you.
Below are the best at-home skin care devices on the market today. My picks aren’t just for home use, they’re staples on my treatment bar!
WHAT MAKES SKIN CARE TOOLS SAFE FOR AT-HOME USE?
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Gentle: Some of the tools I use are advanced technologies that can only be administered by a trained and licensed professional. The tools I suggest for homecare are gentle when used as directed.
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Effective: Not only are the devices below effective, but they deliver results after just one treatment! For maximum smoothing, hydrating, brightening, and lifting, use consistently and as directed.
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Easy to use: I understand that you may be apprehensive about administering your skincare treatments at home. The devices below are super easy to use, and I provide instructional videos on my YouTube channel for every device I stock.
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Time-optimizing: I know you have a lot on your plate. Even I don’t have time to complete a full facial on myself as often as I would like. The tools below deliver results without investing too much time.
HOW TO SELECT THE PERFECT SKINCARE DEVICE
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Ask your esthetician: Your esthetician will advise on which device addresses your individual skincare needs and what products to use with it. Or join my CBE Rewards Club and ask me!
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Use as directed: There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, so use all devices as directed. This includes applying the correct serum, conductive gel, and post-treatment products. Overuse or misuse can inflame skin and damage the skin barrier.
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No knock-offs: Knock-offs cost less, but just like investing in premium topicals, they may not deliver the same results. In some cases, knock-offs can damage or irritate the skin.
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Buy direct: Purchase your at-home skincare tools directly from the brand name retailer or a certified supplier. Otherwise, you may unintentionally end up with a knock-off. In addition to my signature line of skincare devices, I’m a certified supplier of premium imported devices.
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Multitasking: The devices on this list are either multi-modality or multitasking. This helps you get more bang for your buck and take both a proactive and reactive approach to rejuvenating your skin.
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Continue professional treatments: Yes, the right device minimizes your trips to the esthetician, but it doesn’t eliminate the need for tailored treatments. Book at least a few customized facials a year to keep your skin healthy and beautiful.
PRO-GRADE AT-HOME NANO CHANNELING DEVICE #1: SKIN WAND PRO
All the benefits of microneedling with zero irritation or downtime!
The Skin Wand Pro is a nano channeling (aka. nano needling) device. It’s the only device on the list that isn’t multi-modality, but it’s multitasking. Although you can purchase pro-grade microneedling devices for home use, if you don’t use the correct angle and pressure, you can damage your skin. There’s also redness, sensitivity, and downtime after microneedling. With the Skin Wand Pro, these concerns are eliminated!
This pro-grade device utilizes a silicone microtip to create tiny channels in your skin. The tip measures 0.15 millimeters, compared to .5 millimeters of cosmetic microneedling. Depth and angle are controlled, ensuring you abrade skin precisely where dead tissue meets live tissue. The treatment is pain-free and has zero downtime, but just like microneedling, it activates the body’s wound-healing response. Not only is there no downtime, but your pre-treatment serum infuses deeper into your pores, giving you a luminous and hydrated post-treatment glow.
BENEFITS
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Juicy hydrated skin: If you want instantly glowing and hydrated skin, complete a nano channeling session. It pushes brightening serums into the deep layers, delivering a rejuvenating “lit from within” glow.
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Plumps out fine lines and wrinkles: Pushing serum deep into the skin achieves instant plumping. Concentrated actives combined with nano channeling promote continuous collagen production for further wrinkle reduction.
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Smooths skin texture: Plumping has the added benefit of smoothing uneven skin texture. Combined with the reparative benefits of this treatment, and skin texture gradually improves.
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Plump lips and underneath the eyes: This revolutionary method of nano channeling is so gentle, you can use it on the thin skin on the lips and underneath the eyes!
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Gentle exfoliating: Nano channeling pushes past dead skin cells, providing a gentle but deep exfoliation, revealing the healthy skin underneath.
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Fades hyperpigmentation: Actives are pushed right to the skin layer where melanin forms. Use with a brightening serum to break up sun spots and hyperpigmentation.
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Fade stretchmarks: It’s designed for the face, but one of my clients decided to use it to fade her stretch marks with positive results!
HOW TO USE
One of the things I love about using this pro-grade at-home skincare device is that it’s very exacting. This makes it extremely easy to use.
1. Cleanse and gently exfoliate and prep skin with Hevatox pads.
2. Apply a generous layer of a high-performance water-based facial serum.
3. Nano channel in gentle circles on the entire face, including the lips and under eyes.
PRO TIPS
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Use with Brighten The Day serum to fade hyperpigmentation.
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Use with any hyaluronic acid serum for maximum post-treatment plumping.
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Use with Neogenesis stem cell-infused Skin Serum or CaviPLLA +O2 Volumizing Serum for maximum lifting, smoothing, and wrinkle reduction.
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Do not use with retinols.
REAL-LIFE RESULTS
Me: Like everyone in their 50s, the already-thin skin around my eyes continues to thin, intensifying fine lines. After just one application, the skin underneath my eyes began gradually thickening and smoothing over the next few weeks.
Client eye smoothing and plumping: I use this treatment on clients with dry skin, dull skin, sun spots, fine lines, and wrinkles. This video demonstrates how just one treatment smoothed my client’s fine lines underneath and around their eyes while producing plump, dewy, and hydrated skin.
Lip plumping and smoothing: This client Before and After speaks for itself! By plumping the lips, lip lines are diminished.
PRO-GRADE AT HOME MULTI-MODALITY SKIN CARE DEVICE #2: TIME MASTER PRO
The multi-modality device I’d been waiting for as an esthetician, and you can use it too!
I test a lot of devices, including multi-modality devices. So, believe me when I say, nothing compares to the Time Master Pro. With regular use, this all-in-one at-home skincare device continually prompts collagen, elastin, and cellular regeneration. It plumps out wrinkles, tightens skin laxity, smooths skin, and evens skin tone. The treatment only takes 10 minutes twice a week, 5 minutes on each side of your face. I use two devices at a time to accelerate treatment, but one device is all you need at home.
THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
LED light therapy
LED therapy increases circulation, targets pigmentation, and boosts adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production to optimize cellular performance. Tailor your skin rejuvenation by choosing your LED modality.
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Blue LED is 470nm and penetrates to 1mm: Ideal for acne, acne scars, and other hyperpigmentation.
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Green LED is 520nm and penetrates to 2mm: Ideal for undereye circles, undereye bags, and dilated capillaries.
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Red LED is 650nm and penetrates to 3mm: Ideal for inflammation, repairing sun damage, and promoting collagen.
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Infrared LED is 940nm and penetrates to 5-10mm: Ideal for soothing pain, calming inflammation, and promoting healing.
Ultrasound therapy
Ultrasound detoxifies your skin, breaks up pigmentation, and promotes collagen production. At 90,000 pain-free waves per second, this device is the strongest on the market.
Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS)
EMS provides gentle muscle stimulation. It’s like crunches for your facial muscles, but you don’t break a sweat and don’t feel sore the next day! This modality tightens and tones skin for a smoothing lift.
Choose from 4 modes, with your choice of LED:
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Ultrasound without EMS
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Ultrasound and 25V / 70uA MES
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Ultrasound and 30V / 80uA EMS
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Ultrasound and 40V / 90uA EMS
HOW TO USE
1. Cleanse your face.
2. Add a conductive gel such as Hydrate + Conduct or HOP+ Promotor Collagen Gel. Or lie down for your treatment and use over the 24K Gold Sheet Mask.
3. Glide over each side of the face for 5 minutes.
PRO TIP
Set aside enough time during each treatment to pass across the 11 facial vectors on each side of your face. Vectors are areas of common facial sag, facial tension, and lymphatic fluid buildup. This blog post takes a deeper dive into facial vectors.
REAL-LIFE RESULTS
I’ve seen a single red light therapy session decrease dark undereye circles by at least 70% just 2 weeks after a 15 minute treatment. Time Master Pro delivers comparable results, and more! I’ll let the Before and After images of 1 treatment speak for themselves!
PRO-GRADE AT-HOME EYE AND LIP DEVICE #3: EYE AND LIP PRO+
This superpowered device from my signature line covers all the bases for aging eyes and lips!
I’m SO excited to share my new device, the Eye and Lip Pro+! It’s pro-grade but super gentle, so you can’t go wrong. This innovative device is small enough that it’s comfortable to grip and maneuver, but large enough for targeted treatment. It truly is the best at-home skin care device for the eyes and lips.
Use for just 3 minutes per day on each treatment area. I use it in the morning to refresh my tired and puffy eyes and for natural lip plumping that smooths my vertical lip lines. You can use it on the skin above, below, and around the lips, and directly on the lips. When time is tight in the morning, use it in the evening when you have more time.
TREATMENT MODALITIES: LED, EMS, RF, AND VIBRATION
HOW TO USE:
If you’re going to take a few minutes to complete a treatment, you may as well get more bang for your buck and time. Since the eyes and lips are prone to fine lines and volume loss, it treats both areas beautifully.
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Mode 1: LED and RF
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Mode 2: LED and EMS
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Mode 3: LED, RF, EMS, and Vibration
Choose your mode to address the issues that age your eyes and lips:
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LED red light therapy reduces dark undereye circles and brightens the entire eye area.
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EMS lifts, firms, and smooths sagging eye and lip muscles and provides mild lip plumping.
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Gentle vibration de-puffs undereye bags by increasing circulation for lymphatic drainage.
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RF boosts collagen production to minimize fine lines on the eyes and lips.
1. Cleanse your face.
2. Apply a thin layer of eye serum. You can use eye serum on your lips.
3. Glide over each treatment area for 3 minutes.
PRO TIP
If you wake with puffy eyes, apply the Tony Moly Gold Snail Eye Mask and use the Eye and Lip Pro+ directly over the patches. Together, the concentrated actives and treatment diminish your bags while nourishing and hydrating the eye area.
REAL-LIFE RESULTS
These client Before and After photos demonstrate how one treatment smooths undereye bags, plumps and refines lips to diminish vertical lip lines, and plumps out sunken temples.
LET’S DISCUSS SKINCARE BEYOND WHAT DEVICES TO USE AT HOME!
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