LumiNola / Getty Images By India Espy-Jones ·Updated April 3, 2024
Piercing your skin a hundred times over with tiny, sterile needles may sound like a painful nightmare– but it isn’t as scary as it seems. “Microneedling is a process in which small needles varying from 0.25 mm to 3 mm are manually applied onto the skin to create controlled injury,” double board-certified pediatric and cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Karan Lal tells ESSENCE.
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