I’m about to embark on another beauty gadget test, not least because one of my most trusted beauty friends who is also a noted expert, raves about it. Trust me, I really put these through their paces but I think Dermalux Flex MD from CurrentBody is my biggest challenge to date. What I prefer in any gadget is speed – Dermalux Flex MD requires half an hour of my time five times a week for any results to show. It may not sound like a lot but it does feel like quite a challenge to find that time. Nonetheless, Dermalux Flex MD has reportedly had some stellar results and is the most powerful at-home LED Device for use on the face and body.
It’s the body aspect that has made me the most interested in this product actually – relieving muscular and joint pain sounds very useful indeed and I speak as someone with a continually dodgy, shoulder, an achy hip, RSI in one forearm and a dodgy toe. I’ll be spending hours under it! When I say ‘under it’ that’s really the case – this machine is big and requires some self-assembly so you need both room and, as you might imagine, a healthy budget for this one. It’s not cheap by any means. Away from hopefully helping my aches (I need to pick a body part to target because I can’t do all of them when they’re not remotely near each other!) Flex MD is about cell rejuvenation, skin enhancing (particularly good for acne sufferers) and calming inflammation which may take the form of redness, breakouts or even psoriasis, just as a few examples. I’m showing a couple of before and afters below which I think are impressive.
Yet again, it’s all about wavelengths – if you’ve seen my past beauty gadget reviews for Current Body HERE and HERE you’ll know that it’s an intricate level of technology that takes a bit of getting your head around. I much prefer to test these for myself to see, if anything, what beauty tech has to offer in reality so I’ll be using it for about 6 weeks (yikes) and will report back in November how well the Dermalux Flex MD has performed. I’m expecting a lot from this because of the price. The area I will deal with is my chest because I definitely have sun damage there (which I don’t mind about but it’s a good test area to see skin benefits) and I guess my shoulder as it’s in the same area and I suppose if I hold my arm in the right position I might get that in too! There’s a whole menu of options that comes with the device and it will tell you what lights you need to use and for how long. It looks like I’ll be using the red light and the near infra-red, but if you wanted to try say, itchy skin or inflammation, you’d use the blue light and the near infra-red.
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The Dermalux Flex MD has a total of 360 LED bulbs – 120 blue, 120 red, 121 near-infrared*). Blue light helps to calm the acne causing bacteria that gives breakouts with clinical results finding 76% improvement after 4 weeks on acne prone skin. Red light promotes cell repair (if you’re looking for anti-ageing benefits, this is where you may see faded lines and reduced pigmentation) and increases hydration, collagen and elastin, while combining red and near-infra red gives smoothness and skin texture improvement. I would suggest that you need to be clear about your goals from this gadget – you might perhaps have rosacea, noticeable skin pigmentation, acne or breakout scarring and all of these seem to have performed well with red light treatment.
In terms of convenience, the face and neck are probably the least convenient to treat because you need to be under the device for half an hour. I’m thinking I may just use my yoga mat and put a podcast on (which suddenly sounds like quite a lovely thing to do – the stillness!). If you’ve got a sore knee or psoriasis on your legs or arm for example, you can lie on the sofa and it’s not going to interrupt your day too much. You need to be sure, before buying it, that you can give the consistency in time that’s needed for results. It’s much quicker than heading off to a clinic, that’s for sure, but results will really depend upon commitment. It’s for you if you don’t like going to clinics, like to pay detailed attention to the health and condition of your skin and if you have specific areas you would like to treat. I would suggest it’s not for you if you can’t stick with the program or have no skin concerns. My picture above shows the sun marks on my chest so that’s our benchmark for the test.
Finally, there are contraindications, which you should read before you consider buying. The Dermalux Flex MD is a considered purchase at £1895 but impressive in results and performance and if you don’t want to wait til November, you can find it HERE. I do think this is very ‘shareable’ so if you have a friend or two who are interested you can take turns.
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