Sorry, I looked at all of the pictures. Meh.
The cost-benefit ratio doesn’t look good to me.
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Bicep
#715
She doesn’t look bad in any of the pictures. Not worth it.
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She’s too young for it have any effect. It’s for skin laxity and wrinkles.
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Do you have any links to photos of older people using the procedure?
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LaraPo
#718
If it doesn’t work on young ppl, it most likely won’t work on older population.
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medaura
#719
Ellacor sounds like a scam to me, given the cost, especially since Tixel works so well.
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Haha. It works because I had it done and it made a difference. It’s literally taking skin off your face. My issue with it isn’t the efficacy. It’s the cost. It’s prohibitively expensive. Like most of these treatments you need a series to see a significant effect and that adds up. if you’re young and already have tight skin you won’t see an effect. It’s for moderate to severe skin sagging. The lady in the article didn’t have that. A completely pointless exercise.
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It really isn’t. It works really well.
LaraPo
#723
Paul, what do you mean by “it’s literally taking skin off your face”? Does it promote skin peeling?
eli
#724
Would Tixel work better than Indiba
for wrinkles in face in your opinion ?
I think so. Indiba is essentially RF — isn’t it popular in Spain actually? Tixel is thermomechanical ablation and in the before and after results I’ve seen it looks next level.
Ellacor actually takes small hole-punches of skin out, then it heals and you have tighter skin because there is less skin.
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It literally punches out holes in the skin and sucks out their surface area’s worth of tissue. Like a bunch of mini punch out biopsies.
LaraPo
#728
Yes, I know that, but is any skin peeling involved?
eli
#729
Yes it is indeed popular here; never tried in face though (under impression it may cause fat loss ) but was wonder if I should save for this new tixel or buy the RF / Indiba you recommended elsewhere 
Orders of magnitude price difference! I bought Indiba for a semi chronic ankle sprain / tendonitis and if it shortens my PT by 4 sessions it has already paid for itself (well that’s what I told myself when I bought it but I’ve been too chicken to use it beyond a few times at the lowest possible settings due to the blanket counterindication in pregnancy — then again if I weren’t pregnant the problem wouldn’t be so bad to begin with nor would I need so much PT to clear the hurdle, so I really begged the question there). But I doubt I’ll ever even use it on the face as the negative return plate has to be… what, velcroed to my back while I do it? Seems like a hassle.
Tixel is for skin rejuvenation alone. I’m so happy with my RF microneedling that I won’t pull the trigger on it anytime soon but it does look tempting. About $1300 is the best price I could find on Ali. One great thing about it is it has zero consumables cost so it’s a one and done purchase. Maybe in the next 2-5 years….
This Ellacor I can’t find anywhere in China and honestly I wouldn’t even want to touch it. Maybe someone older with laxer skin could benefit but I hardly have anything left to improve on my face. Even for older folks, the before and after pics on google look way more impressive for Tixel than Ellacor.
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No, there’s no peeling. It’s a little bruised and red for a few days. The healing takes about 5 seven days to clear up. I had my neck done at the same time and that took a little longer, I had some marks for about 7 says. It’s not a scam at all. It does what it says it does. My issue is the price. The clinic I went to initially charged me $3500 for face and neck. Since then that price is now $4500 for the same area. I don’t really have any experience with these kind of clinics, but it seems like they just set their own prices, to me that feels like exploitation. Especially as the target market will need more than one treatment. So not a scam, but it’s still a bit of a rip off.
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LaraPo
#732
My concern is that my little punctures won’t heal as quickly as yours bc I’m on rapamycin for a long time. Wounds and even little scratches don’t heal on me quickly and usually leave red scars for a long time. Do you think that rapamycin made it longer to heal in your case? 12 days is a long time for a cosmetic non invasive procedure imo.
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I went back and had a look at my photos. It looks as if I overestimated the healing time, apologies. It took 7 days for everything to completely heal, including my neck. The holes closed really quickly, it was just a bit of bruising and some red marks. I was pre rapamycin at that point and would have come off it before the procedure anyway. I edited my previous response so as not to mislead anyone.
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