What to do afterwards.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions the doctor gave you at your appointment.

• Stay upright for four hours. Avoid bending, lying flat, or putting pressure on treated areas, so the product stays where it was placed.
• Do not rub or massage for four hours. Skip hats, goggles, facials, or anything that presses on the forehead or eye area.
• Avoid heat and exercise for twenty-four hours. No workouts, saunas, hot yoga, or tanning beds.
• Makeup after four to six hours, applied lightly and without rubbing.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions the doctor gave you at your appointment.

• Avoid straws, smoking, kissing, and puckering for twenty-four hours.
• Skip lip plumping devices entirely.
• Use cool compresses on the first day, wrapped in a cloth, ten minutes on and ten minutes off.
• Avoid heat and exercise for forty-eight hours. No strenuous workouts, saunas, hot yoga, or tanning beds — heat increases swelling and bruising.
• Light lip makeup after twenty-four hours, if the skin is intact and not tender.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions the doctor gave you at your appointment.

• Do not touch, massage, or press on the area for six hours.
• Skip dental work and facials for two weeks.
• Use cool compresses for the first twenty-four hours, ten minutes on and ten minutes off.
• Avoid heat and exercise for forty-eight hours. No strenuous workouts, saunas, hot yoga, or tanning beds — heat increases swelling and bruising.
• Makeup after twenty-four hours, if the skin is intact and not tender.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions the doctor gave you at your appointment.

• After Sculptra, massage the treated areas. Five minutes, five times a day, for five days, so the collagen stimulation stays even.
• Avoid heat and exercise for twenty-four to forty-eight hours. No strenuous workouts, saunas, hot yoga, or tanning beds.
• Use cool compresses for the first twenty-four hours.
• Avoid facials, peels, lasers, and dental work in treated areas for two weeks.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions the doctor gave you at your appointment.

• Do not rub, massage, or press on the treated areas for twenty-four hours, so the microdroplets settle evenly.
• Skip makeup for twelve hours. Resume gentle skincare the next day, and avoid active ingredients such as retinoids and acids for forty-eight hours.
• Avoid heat and exercise for twenty-four hours. No strenuous workouts, saunas, hot yoga, or tanning beds.
• Avoid facials, microneedling, lasers, and dental work in treated areas for one week.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions you were given at your appointment.

• Leave your skin alone for the rest of the day. No scrubs, no exfoliating acids, no retinoids for twenty-four hours.
• Wear sunscreen. Exfoliation leaves fresh skin at the surface, which burns more easily for a day or two.
• Makeup is fine straight away, though skin usually looks better without it for a few hours.
• Drink water. The lymphatic step works better when you are well hydrated, and so does the skin afterwards.

These are general guidelines. Follow the specific instructions you were given at your appointment.

• Leave your hair unwashed overnight so the solution stays where it was placed.
• Skip heat styling for the rest of the day — no straighteners, tongs, or a hot dryer directly on the scalp.
• Avoid color or chemical treatments for a few days.
• Come with clean, dry hair, and without product in it.