aesthetics
The Treatment: Beauty’s latest skin resurfacing tool delivers fuss-free brighter, fresher skin
The Venus Viva MD skin resurfacing treatment promises little or no downtime thanks to new technology that avoids traditional lasers, but does it work?
If you’ve had any kind of skin resurfacing treatment, it has probably been using carbon-dioxide lasers, which have historically been the most commonly used. Carbon-dioxide lasers have historically been the most effective too, delivering the highest-power continuous wave and can treat anything from signs of sun damage, wrinkles, enlarged pores, scars, and rosacea, to uneven skin texture and pigmentation. The downside is that they can be painful and come with hefty downtime, anything up to ...