THE METHOD
A Full Facial Approach
Faces are read whole. What looks like a problem in one place often begins somewhere else — a temple, a jawline, the way volume has shifted — and correcting the place you notice rarely corrects the reason you noticed it. We plan across the whole face, and in sequence.
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Structure, restored where time has softened it.
Fillers and biostimulators replace volume and rebuild the support the face loses over time. Where a filler restores in the moment, a biostimulator prompts your own collagen to rebuild gradually. Both are used here conservatively, to bring a face back into proportion, never to inflate it.
(Radiesse®, Restylane®, Sculptra®, Versa®)
What it addresses: loss of structure and proportion — the cheek, jaw, temple, décolleté, and the shadows that come with volume loss.
The visit: a planning conversation, then precise placement. Most people return to their day, with some settling over the following days.
After: swelling or bruising is common, settling within two weeks. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those looking to restore, not to change the face they have.
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Softened, never stilled.
Small, precise doses relax the specific muscles that etch expression lines over time. Used with restraint, they soften those lines while leaving your expression intact — you still look like you, unmistakably.
(Botox®, Dysport®, Letybo®)
What it addresses: the forehead, between the brows, around the eyes, and the neck.
The visit: quick and precise. The effect appears over the following days and settles within about two weeks.
After: slight redness or swelling at the injection sites, usually settling within a few hours to several days. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those who want the tension eased, not the face frozen.
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The old surface, let go.
A chemical peel lifts away the outermost layer of skin in a controlled way, prompting fresher, more even skin to surface. Strength is matched to you — a lighter peel for tone and clarity, a deeper one for texture, pigment, and fine lines.
What it addresses: dullness, uneven tone, pigmentation, texture, fine lines.
The visit: a single sitting, often in a short series.
After: tightness, redness, and flaking or peeling for several days, depending on depth. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those wanting renewal at the surface, willing to let the skin shed and settle.
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The skin, encouraged to renew itself.
Fine channels, made at a controlled depth, prompt the skin's own repair — refining texture, tone, and fine lines over a series of sessions rather than all at once. It is renewal by the skin's own means.
What it addresses: texture, pore appearance, tone (pigmentation, spotting), fine lines, and some scarring.
The visit: a single sitting, typically in a course spaced several weeks apart.
After: redness like a mild sunburn for a day or two. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those willing to let results arrive gradually.
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PRP
The body's own materials, put back to work.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP): growth factors concentrated from a small draw of your own blood, applied with microneedling to support healing and the quality of the skin from within.
What it addresses: overall skin quality, tone, and resilience.
The visit: a small blood draw, preparation, then application.
After: similar to microneedling when paired. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those drawn to regenerative approaches, using their own biology.
PDGF
One growth factor, in pure form.
Where PRP returns many of the body's own growth factors at whatever concentration a draw yields, Ariessence® delivers a single one — platelet-derived growth factor, consistently dosed. Applied after treatment, to support repair at the surface.
(Ariessence®)
What it addresses: skin quality and recovery following microneedling or a Filter Facial.
The visit: applied at the end of your appointment. No draw.
After: similar to microneedling.
Who it suits: those who want consistency and precision over variability.
NE QUID NIMIS
— "Nothing in excess."
The Domus Method
Each treatment above may be given on its own. The protocols are procedures developed at Domus Vitae: each is performed the same way every time, and each is given as a course rather than a single sitting.
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The ease of a good filter, made real.
The Filter Facial combines microneedling with our MicroToxin™ technique — a neuromodulator worked into the surface of the skin rather than into the muscle. In one sitting it refines texture and softens the fine surface of expression, for a smooth, even finish. The name is the intent.
What it addresses: surface texture, fine lines, pore appearance, and overall evenness.
The visit: one sitting; best in a course.
After: redness for several hours. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those who want the surface of the skin to look smooth and even.
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Renewal, built from beneath.
Microneedling paired with MicroFactor™, our growth-factor protocol, to encourage the skin to rebuild its own structure over a course of treatments. Where the Filter Facial refines the surface, this rebuilds from below.
What it addresses: skin thickness, firmness, texture, and resilience over time.
The visit: one sitting, typically in a course of treatments.
After: redness for several hours. See The Days After.
Who it suits: those willing to build results over a course of treatments.
Still uncertain?Which of these is right — and in what order — is what the consultation is for.