Seventeen recently caught up with two experts to get the low down on what micro-needling is, who should avoid it, and if you should micro-needle beauty products into the skin.

At-home micro-needling has a bad rap—mostly because of derma-rollers (popular skin tools that have a rolling head covered in micro-needles). Maxfield says they can do more harm than good.

THE ELECTRONIC-PEN TREATMENT For one notch up in intensity, there's the newly launched micro-needling service at Kate Somerville's Skin Health Experts clinic in L.A. ($400).

A micro-needling procedure involves using a device with fine needles to create controlled micro-injuries on the skin's surface. Picture: BTI Joburg South.

The device is gently rolled or stamped over the skin, creating controlled micro-injuries that stimulate the skin's natural healing process. The micro-needling pen contains multiple tiny needles.

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A procedure called micro-needling, when used with platelet-rich plasma, could help restore hair growth. A Newton plastic surgeon offers the procedure.

The micro needling pen is run over the skin of the face and your own platelets are therefore injected into those micro holes created by the needles on the micro needling pen.

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