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This week on Macro Beauty, we follow talent Triana Garcia who will be getting the Moxi Laser and BBL (Broadband Light) treatments for the first time. Triana will go see Dr. Michelle Lee at Perk Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills. Watch this episode to learn how this process works.

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Transcript
00:00I've never tried the BBL Moxie combo.
00:02I'm most excited about the possibility of clearing up my acne, not having to worry about
00:08the insecurities of covering it up with makeup day to day, and just having overall clear,
00:13glowing skin.
00:16Hi, I'm Triana, and today I'm going to do the Moxie BBL and laser treatment.
00:21Will it be worth time, money, and will I recommend it to a friend?
00:25Let's go find out.
00:31My skin journey has been quite the struggle.
00:34It's just something that I've always kind of dealt with and never have been able to get
00:38fully clear.
00:39I've tried all the things I've done, Accutane, all the internet trends that you try that
00:45are viral for a minute, but it's always been something that I've struggled with as an insecurity.
00:51I'm just very excited to try the treatment today to see if I can get it a little bit
00:56more clear.
00:57Through this treatment, I'm hoping to address the acne I've developed, the hyperpigmentation,
01:04the scarring, all of the above that I've just developed over the years from struggling with
01:09skin.
01:09Hi, I'm Dr. Michelle Lee.
01:10I'm a board-certified plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills.
01:13I specialize in facial rejuvenation and everything face aesthetics related.
01:17I was on E Entertainment's reboot of Dr. 90210.
01:20It's the first all-female medical show.
01:23I went to the University of Pennsylvania for medical school and finished my fellowship
01:27at Harvard.
01:27When I first graduated from fellowship, I joined a large medical practice and I felt that medicine
01:33was super corporate and I wanted to provide a boutique customized aesthetic experience to
01:37my patients.
01:38And that's how PERC was born.
01:40We are open to all clients.
01:42I think they all share the goal that they want to look very natural and they want to look
01:46the best version of themselves.
01:48I'm really proud to have an all-female team.
01:50Especially in the sciences, we don't see that very often.
01:53We support women.
01:54My former MA is now in physician assistant school.
01:57We want to see young women succeed, especially in the sciences.
02:00Hi, I'm Courtney.
02:01I'm a board-certified nurse practitioner at Park Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills.
02:05Both Dr. Michelle Lee and I work very closely.
02:07I primarily do the non-invasive procedures and things that are practiced.
02:11BBL Moxie combo is actually a combo from the Cytan Laser Company.
02:15The reason why they are kind of up and trending is the combination is really great.
02:19When you put them together, they're kind of hitting all aspects of regeneration, stimulating
02:24collagen.
02:25One is working through light therapy.
02:27One is a laser.
02:28So together they make for a really good treatment.
02:30Typically the Moxie BBL combo would cost around $1,900.
02:33I think what's really exciting is that we have really entered the undetectable era of aesthetic
02:39enhancements.
02:40I think coming from a multi-angle approach and working synergistically together, that's
02:44what makes aesthetic improvements right now so good.
02:47Hi, I'm Dr. Michelle Lee.
02:49Hi, I'm Triana.
02:50How can I help you?
02:51I've kind of always had acne struggles.
02:54I think just like overall, I would love to improve the texture and quality of my skin.
02:59I see depressed acne scars and I see a little bit of pigmentation changes, so I think by
03:04evening out the pigmentation and then the texture of the skin will help improve the quality of
03:10your skin significantly.
03:12First, we start with BBL, which is broadband light, and it will kill all of the bacteria
03:17and reduces inflammation.
03:18It will kind of help control your acne breakouts at the root of the cause.
03:23To address the texture, I would recommend a Moxie laser.
03:26What the Moxie laser does is it resurfaces the skin in a very gentle way.
03:31Following that, it will draw some of your own blood and harness your body's regenerative
03:34properties.
03:35We'll make a little filler from that.
03:37And then some of the depressed scars, we want to inject plasma filler into those depressed
03:41scars so it can release growth factors to help your skin heal and boost that collagen
03:45synthesis so it can be more even.
03:47And then we're going to drive that into the skin with microneedling.
03:50Okay, are you excited?
03:52I'm very excited.
03:53Well, let's start with the BBL.
03:55First, I'm going to prep her skin.
03:56We're going to cleanse her skin free of any makeup.
03:59We're going to wipe it down to make sure it's perfectly sterile.
04:03We're first going to start with the BBL portion.
04:05This is the blue light to kill off any bacteria, reduce inflammation, and target the source of
04:12the acne breakout.
04:13While she's numbing for her Moxie laser, we're going to draw her blood to make the regenerative
04:19portion of this biofacial.
04:21We're going to spin the blood and centrifuge the blood to separate out the plasma from
04:25the red blood cells.
04:27Then we're going to heat the PRP to make a filler from her own blood.
04:31Then we're going to use PRF.
04:34It's filled with growth factors and platelets and healing goodies and mix it with the gel that
04:40she made.
04:41Here we are mixing the platelet-rich plasma with the biofiller and we're getting ready
04:47for injection.
04:48Now we're ready for the Moxie laser.
04:49We're wiping off her numbing medication and prepping her skin again.
04:52Here we're doing the Moxie laser to resurface the top layer of her skin.
04:57You can see that her skin is a little bit red with multiple passes of the Moxie laser.
05:01She is done with the Moxie laser and we are ready for the regenerative portion of the facial.
05:06First, we're going to inject the filler that was made from her own blood into the craters
05:11of her acne scar to help produce collagen.
05:14Then we're going to microneedle the rest of her platelet-rich plasma into her face for
05:19a regenerative effect.
05:20Lastly, to top it off, we're applying a cooling mask.
05:23This is going to feel really good.
05:24We're also adding a little bit of silver spray to help pull down the sunburn sensation.
05:29We basically targeted her acne scar from multiple directions.
05:33So going from all layers hopefully will give her a very nice skin transformation.
05:38How was that?
05:39It was great.
05:41Honestly, I think the numbing cream helped quite a bit but it wasn't as painful as I was expecting
05:48it to be.
05:48I don't know if like rough to the surface is the right word but it definitely it just
05:52feels a little bit tight.
05:53Yes, for sure.
05:54So no washing your face for 24 hours.
05:56You want all the goodness from your blood to really work.
06:00You can wash your face tomorrow with a very gentle cleanser.
06:03No actives, nothing harsh on your skin.
06:07You will start seeing the men's.
06:08These are little dots.
06:10At conversational distance, you won't really be able to see it but it's more the texture
06:14feels like sandpaper for the next five to six days.
06:18You just don't want to use anything really heavy in terms of a moisturizer, no aquaphor
06:22or anything like that.
06:23Yeah.
06:23And you should just be able to start seeing a difference in about a week.
06:27Thank you so much.
06:28My pleasure.
06:29With the BBL, I didn't really feel much but with the Moxie, it was definitely a little
06:34bit more spicy.
06:35Overall I feel great.
06:36The only painful parts really were just when they were injecting me, it just kind of felt
06:40like rubber band snaps a little bit but it wasn't something that I couldn't tolerate
06:45the pain of.
06:46Dr. Lee was great.
06:46I just felt very like she had my back with everything and having her walk me through
06:52everything.
06:52I felt like I knew what I was getting into.
06:55All in all was a great experience.
06:57Over the next week, I'm just going to be taking photos of my face, documenting the progress
07:01and see the results over time.
07:04This is about a week and a half after post-Moxie BBL treatment.
07:09And I'm really starting to notice the texture of my skin become a little smoother, which I
07:15love and I'm so excited about.
07:17If I were to keep doing it a few times, I can only imagine how the results would keep improving.
07:23But I'm overall very happy and excited about simplifying and smoothing out the texture of
07:32my skin.
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