by Mia Valleskey | Jan 15, 2026 | Tips & Tricks
Collagen plays a major role in how your skin looks, feels, and ages. It’s the structural protein that keeps your skin firm and smooth. When collagen levels are high, skin looks lifted and youthful. When collagen breaks down naturally over time, fine lines, wrinkles appear, and skin starts to sag.
Understanding how collagen works and how to support it can help you take a more proactive approach to preserving your skin’s appearance.
Why Collagen Declines Over Time
Your body produces plenty of collagen when you’re young. But starting in your mid-20s, collagen production slows down. Each year, you lose a small percentage of what you once had. Environmental factors like sun exposure, pollution, smoking, and chronic stress accelerate this process.
As collagen diminishes, your skin loses its underlying support. This leads to thinning, reduced elasticity, and wrinkles, especially in areas like around your eyes and mouth.
Signs of Collagen Loss in the Skin
Collagen loss doesn’t happen overnight, but there are clear signs when it begins. You may notice your skin doesn’t bounce back the way it used to, or that fine lines stick around longer after facial expressions. Over time, skin can appear looser and more textured.
These changes reflect structural shifts beneath the skin, which is why effective treatments need to address collagen at a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms.
Supporting Collagen Production
While you can’t completely stop collagen loss, you can slow it down and stimulate new production. Daily sun protection is one of the most important steps you can take. UV exposure is one of the leading causes of premature collagen breakdown.
Medical-grade skincare like retinoids and antioxidants can also help support collagen reduction and protect against environmental damage. However, topical products have a big limitation: they work primarily at the surface.
Treatments like microneedling, collagen-stimulating injectables, and energy-based skin tightening encourage your body to rebuild collagen from within. These help improve firmness, texture, and overall skin quality over time.
Invest in Your Skin’s Future
Addressing collagen loss early and with the right treatments can help you maintain smoother, firmer skin and delay the need for more invasive procedures down the road.
At Beauty & Body by Mia, we take a results-focused approach to skin rejuvenation. We’ll help you understand where collagen loss is occurring and recommend treatments designed to support lasting improvement. Ready to take control of your skin’s aging process? Contact us today to schedule a consultation.
by Mia Valleskey | Oct 14, 2022 | Microneedling
Are you looking for a way to look your best as we move into autumn? If you have concerns about the appearance of your skin, one of the best options is microneedling. It’s a simple technique that gives you youthful-looking radiant skin that is sure to make you enjoy looking in the mirror.
What Are the Benefits of Microneedling?
While microneedling is capable of making your skin glow, there are additional benefits to be aware of. Some of the things that microneedling can do for you include:
- Removes the need to have peels, laser treatments, or fillers
- Provides radiant skin that takes off the years
- Diminishes the presence of fine lines and wrinkles
- Evens out the tone of your skin
- Soothes constantly itchy and dry skin
- Provides a stunning and lasting glow
- Heals acne and scars from it
- Removes age spots, sun spots, and blemishes
How Does Microneedling Work?
The idea behind microneedling is to cause your skin to heal itself. A special device is used to create small holes in the skin. This causes the skin to create more collagen, which is essential to rebuilding the skin.
When the skin has lots of collagen, it can close your pores, resolve acne, fight against wrinkles, and create a youthful texture for your skin. Microneedling is so useful for these things that it’s also known as collagen induction therapy. Several clinical studies show that it makes your skin look great.
What Is the Treatment Like?
Before your treatment, the professional will put a topical anesthetic on the skin. The procedure is quick and lasts only a few minutes. A cooling ointment is then applied to the skin. After the treatment, your skin might experience mild swelling or redness which can last two or three days.
How Many Treatments Are Needed?
There will be some improvement after a single session. However, the full results tend to be best after half a dozen sessions. It’s important to wait a few weeks between each procedure. After six treatments, maintenance can be done through occasional microneedling sessions.
If it sounds like microneedling is a great way to prepare for an amazing fall, it could be time to set an appointment to have the procedure done. Beauty & Body by Mia offers this treatment to transform your skin. Look for experienced staff who can make your dream skin a reality.
by Mia Valleskey | Sep 1, 2022 | VeloVita
Are you looking for a way to look and feel better on a regular basis? You may have heard of VeloVita, which offers a variety of smart supplements, including those known as nootropics. Each product contains unique ingredients made to help you perform better, feel better, sleep better, and even look better.
All supplements are created to offer help with your health and wellness goals. This article will look at the various options available to you.
Brān
Brān is a nootropic that is designed to offer a boost to the most important part of your body – the brain. It offers 16 total nutrients that can help you get an energy boost while enhancing your mood. In addition, your body will do better at burning glucose and storing body fat.
This nootropic is available in several flavors, including caramel macchiato, chocolate mint, chocolate sea salt, and lemon drop. Seasonal flavors are also available.
Zlēm
Zlēm is another natural supplement that offers a distinct benefit. This particular formulation is made to ensure you get a great night’s sleep. In addition to optimizing your time resting, it also supports a holistic and renewed state of health. It includes over 20 ingredients to help you burn fat, sleep soundly, and fall asleep faster.
This supplement comes in two flavors, chocolate strawberry and red velvet.
Uüth
Uüth is known as a time reverser and for a very good reason. This supplement offers both external and internal benefits so you look, feel, and live in a more youthful way. A rich blend of active ingredients with excellent nutrients helps you look and feel your best.
At this time, only one formulation of this supplement is available. It comes in superberry form.
Plôs
Plôs offers an answer to the question: what would it be like to enjoy health and beauty benefits from my morning coffee? It’s made as a non-dairy creamer that helps support appetite control, healthy weight management, and a strong metabolism. It can help turn fat into energy and contribute to healthy lipid synthesis.
As far as flavors go, this one is available in a delicious unsweetened French vanilla.
Try VeloVita Today
When you visit Beauty and Body by Mia, I can offer you 25% off your first order of VeloVita projects. You also receive a 60-day money-back guarantee. These supplements are ideal for increased energy, extra collagen, and superior fat burning throughout the day. Try one today and see how it changes your daily routine.
by Mia Valleskey | Dec 15, 2021 | Skin
The Differences Between Ultherapy vs Thermage Treatments
As you consider Thermage or Ultherapy, it’s important to know the similarities and differences between the two. Ultherapy treatments are used to lift the skin at deeper layers than Thermage treatments do, which is why it takes more sessions with Ultherapy to see results than with Thermage.
How Does Ultherapy Work?
Ultherapy is a non-invasive FDA-cleared procedure. This treatment uses ultrasound energy beneath the surface of the skin to stimulate collagen production. Ultherapy treatments are more suitable for tightening areas around the jaw line, lifting eyelids, tightening neck skin, and diminishing wrinkles. Menopausal women will benefit from Ultherapy more than Thermage because of hormonal changes that cause laxity in skin tissue
How Does Thermage Work?
Thermage uses radiofrequency (RF) technology to deliver heat deep into tissues, stimulating new collagen production. When performed on the face, the procedure tightens glandular tissues which is why it’s primarily used to improve facial contours such as smoothing out lines across the forehead or between the eyes. Thermage is also used to tighten the abdominal area, that is the advantage of doing Thermage on larger areas. A single treatment takes about 30 to 90 minutes depending on the treatment area, and there is little to no downtime.
How many treatments do I need?
Thermage treatments take about an hour while Ultherapy takes 30 minutes. These procedures can be performed on any part of the body including your face, neck, arms, hands, chest, or abdomen.
In terms of downtime, both treatments require only minimal recovery with no invasive incisions or stitches necessary for either procedure. Both procedures have similar results when performed on men with great results achieved after 3-4 sessions with 2-3 treatments within a year. Most individuals only need one treatment. For severe skin laxity, two treatments may be more beneficial.
These procedures can be performed on the same day as other non-invasive procedures that you use for self-care, including chemical peels and microdermabrasion, and both Ultherapy and Thermage enhance other skin rejuvenation treatments such as laser resurfacing and injectables like Botox.
Call Beauty & Body by Mia to Find Out More
If you want to find out more, then reach out to me. I am more than happy to explain the differences, or even set an appointment for you to come in talk about which treatment is the best one for you and your results.
