Profoundly Happy With Profound and Dr. Mark Beaty Part I, II, & III - Atlanta, GA

Busy at work, but took this pic driving to the grocery store yesterday and thought I would share.
NO MAKEUP, NO FILTER, NO BEAUTY EDITS, REAL LIGHTING! I am at the TWELVE WEEK MARK tomorrow!
I couldn't tell you the last time I went out without make up!
Also, for those of you that might remember, I had the IPL CO2RE on my chin also, so shout out to that treatment as well!

Part IV is more of the same! I am definitely on my merry way to the final result stage and still could not be happier with the staff at Dr. Beaty's office and the Profound treatment.

If you are anywhere near Atlanta and are considering any sort of facial procedure, I can save you some time and trouble: I have done the obnoxious research and I have now had two procedures with Dr. Beaty. He really is the best out there!

After the initial swelling went down in my face, there was a period of time in which I looked basically the same as I had prior to the treatment with the exception of my skin texture. It didn't last very long and the brightness and the smoothness made up for the lack of immediate change in lift. What was exciting about that time was that I was paying close attention to my face in real time and comparing it to when I was younger, how I looked at immediately prior to the treatment, the treatment itself, and then what was happening as I was watching at that moment.  And while I definitely have a bit of vanity attached to my being, I am certainly not a girly girl and I am certainly not obsessed with my appearance. But it was interesting to start to see results as if they were happening almost in front of my eyes.  Almost at the exact one-month mark, I woke up and as I normally do, stretched and rubbed my neck and face. I wear contacts and I am forever putting drops in my eyes when I wake up in the morning. So as I rubbed my face and reached for my contact solution, I had a strange feeling.  I felt as if I was not rubbing my own face. The structure and the shape suddenly felt a little bit different. And as the video that I made that day described it, it is as if you have had your haircut and you reach to shampoo your hair and it's shorter than it was and it feels like someone else's head. Or that first feeling when you are pregnant and you start to have this belly that you didn't have before. Or even when you lose weight, start working out, and suddenly you have abs that you never had before. It is exciting and it is different but again it feels as if it's not your body.  And that is exactly how I felt! I could feel that the lines of my cheekbones were taking up less space in the air. I felt as if my face was somehow reaching upward and the area where my cheekbones had been before was now in a higher spot. It was certainly a slight change and I would assume that not many people would notice aside from myself. However, I had an appointment for a follow-up check with Dr. Beatty. As usual the staff was excited to see me (or so they always seem with everyone). They commented that I looked great and I said that I felt great but as we all know, sometimes those are just the words that you say and the things that you do. Dr Beaty doesn’t dance to that song however. He is one of those people who will politely tell you exactly what it is that he thinks and what it is that he sees. Which is one of the reasons why I completely respect him and feel as if he is always genuine in his assessment. He greeted me, talk to me for a few minutes, and while I was getting comfortable in the exam room, walked into his office to look at pictures that had just been taken compared to pictures that had been taken over the last month.  I won't say that he bounced in the exam room, but he certainly did have a pep in his step and was smiling a little bit more than he normally smiles. He said to me, “Wow, you look great. You're not supposed to look this great yet. You have really had a good reaction to this treatment.” And at that point I described what had happened to me when I had felt as if I were touching another person’s face. He he said that was exactly what he was seeing in the pictures as well. I haven't seen the pictures yet that they have taken in their office. However I have seen my own pictures and have done my own compare and contrast assessments many times over a glass of wine and Netflix. And each time, I am getting more and more excited about the results. I feel as if it s a neater and fresher look and feeling. At the very beginning of this series of writing, I described my older face as looking sloppy. And while that is a strange choice of words, it was the word that kept popping into my head when I searched through more recent pictures. My face just did not look as together or as neat as it normally did. And now I am seeing what it was that I wanted so badly. We have five more months to go before I should see radical differences! And that is incredibly exciting. One of the things that I think could be a deterrent with the Profound procedure decision is the time gap between results and procedure. However, it hasn't been six months for me, it has been four weeks and while I do not know if I am the rare exception, I never am so I can't imagine that this would be any different! I am pretty much the norm when it comes to all sorts of medical procedures.  On that note, I am looking forward to the next few weeks and to these upcoming exciting changes. I will continue to do the one week updates and quick videos. I think that my next writing will be somewhere down the road either at the three month mark, the six month mark, or whenever it is that I see some sort of new and radical change! This has certainly been something that I would already recommend to friends and family. And just like Dr. Beaty said when he spoke to me about it: “if it were me, I would definitely have it done.” And since it is me and I have had it done, I can tell you that I am profoundly happy with my choice. Stay Tuned for More Updates!