Laser Season Is Here: Your Guide to Fall Laser Treatments at About Face Skin Care
Summer is for making memories.
Fall is for addressing what summer may have left behind.
Sun exposure, uneven pigmentation, redness, rough texture, fine lines, and changes in skin quality can become more noticeable after months spent outside. And as the days get shorter and schedules settle back into a routine, fall is often the perfect time to start thinking about treatments designed to refresh, resurface, and rejuvenate the skin.
Around here, we call it laser season.
At About Face Skin Care, we offer a variety of advanced laser and energy-based treatments at our locations in Snellville, Hamilton Mill/Dacula, and Athens/Bogart, Georgia. The key isn’t choosing the treatment you’ve seen the most on social media—it’s choosing the technology that makes sense for your skin, concerns, goals, and lifestyle.
Here’s your guide to laser season at About Face.
What Is “Laser Season?”
Laser treatments can be performed throughout the year when appropriate, but fall and winter can be especially convenient times to incorporate certain laser and resurfacing treatments into your skincare plan.
Why?
Many treatments require you to be especially mindful about sun exposure before and after your appointment. With fewer pool days, beach trips, and long summer afternoons outside, it can be easier to plan a series of treatments and follow your provider’s post-treatment recommendations.
Fall also happens to be when many of us start noticing the evidence of summer on our skin.
Think:
- Brown spots and visible sun damage
- Uneven skin tone
- Redness
- Rough or uneven texture
- Fine lines and wrinkles
- Enlarged-looking pores
- Dullness
- Loss of firmness
- Overall changes in skin quality
But here’s where personalized treatment planning matters: there isn’t one “best laser” for everyone.
Different technologies target different concerns.
At About Face Skin Care, we use multiple laser and energy-based platforms so your provider can recommend a treatment based on what your skin actually needs.
CoolPeel®: Resurface Without Putting Life on Pause
Want smoother, brighter-looking skin without the downtime traditionally associated with more aggressive CO2 resurfacing?
CoolPeel is an advanced fractional CO2 laser treatment designed to resurface the skin while precisely controlling how energy is delivered. It can be used to improve the appearance of concerns such as:
- Fine lines and wrinkles
- Uneven skin texture
- Enlarged-looking pores
- Sun damage
- Overall skin quality
- Signs of aging
Think of it as a strategic skin reset.
By creating controlled micro-injuries in the skin, resurfacing treatments support the skin’s natural renewal process and stimulate collagen remodeling over time.
One of the reasons we love CoolPeel? It gives us the ability to customize treatment intensity based on your individual skin and goals.
CoolPeel® CO2 laser before and after: visible improvement in cheek scarring and overall skin texture after a series of three CoolPeel treatments at About Face Skin Care.
CoolPeel Fusion: When Your Skin Is Ready for More
For patients who need a more comprehensive approach to resurfacing, CoolPeel Fusion allows us to take treatment a step further.
Fusion combines different CO2 resurfacing capabilities to address both the skin’s surface and deeper signs of aging.
This can make it an excellent option for patients concerned about a combination of:
Texture + wrinkles + pigmentation + overall skin quality.
Rather than simply treating what you see on the surface, your provider can customize your treatment based on the depth and type of correction your skin needs.
Translation?
We’re not treating everyone’s skin with the exact same settings—or the exact same plan.
CoolPeel Fusion with PRP before and after results following one treatment at About Face Skin Care, showing visible improvement in overall skin texture and skin quality.
DEKA Fusion: Advanced CO2 Laser Resurfacing
For patients looking for more significant skin resurfacing, DEKA Fusion by Cartessa gives our providers another highly customizable option.
CO2 laser resurfacing has long been used to address visible signs of skin aging and damage. Modern technology allows us to customize how that energy is delivered based on the patient’s skin, concerns, and desired level of treatment.
DEKA Fusion may be considered for concerns including:
- Deeper lines and wrinkles
- Significant texture concerns
- Visible sun damage
- Uneven pigmentation
- Acne scarring
- Signs of aging
- Overall skin resurfacing and rejuvenation
More aggressive isn’t automatically better.
Helix laser before and after results at About Face Skin Care, showing visible improvement in overall skin tone, texture, and skin quality following laser resurfacing.
The goal is to find the appropriate treatment intensity for the result you’re trying to achieve—while taking your skin type, downtime tolerance, medical history, and lifestyle into consideration.
That’s exactly why consultation and treatment planning matter.
Excel V+ by Cutera: More Than One Laser Treatment
Not every laser treatment is about resurfacing.
Sometimes the concern is redness.
Sometimes it’s pigmentation.
Sometimes you want healthier-looking skin without significant downtime.
That’s where Excel V+ by Cutera comes in.
This versatile laser platform gives our providers multiple treatment modalities, allowing us to address different concerns with the technology best suited for them.
Laser Genesis: The “No Big Downtime” Skin Refresh
If you’re looking for a treatment that can easily fit into your routine, Laser Genesis is one of our favorites.
Laser Genesis gently heats the skin to support collagen production and improve the appearance of overall skin quality.
It may be used to address:
- Redness
- Uneven-looking skin tone
- Fine lines
- Texture
- Enlarged-looking pores
- Dullness
- Overall skin rejuvenation
It’s a great example of why laser season doesn’t necessarily mean hiding at home for a week.
Not every laser requires significant downtime.
Laser Genesis before and after results following a series of six face and neck treatments at About Face Skin Care, showing visible improvement in redness, skin tone, and overall skin quality.
For many patients, Laser Genesis can become part of an ongoing skin-maintenance plan rather than a once-a-year corrective treatment.
Excel V+ Global: Targeting Redness and Vascular Concerns
If persistent redness is your concern, resurfacing isn’t necessarily the answer.
Excel V+ Global allows our providers to address vascular concerns more specifically.
Depending on your individual skin and treatment plan, Excel V+ may be used for concerns such as visible redness, facial vessels, rosacea-related redness, and other vascular irregularities.
Excel V+ Global before and after results following three targeted treatments at About Face Skin Care, showing visible improvement in facial redness and overall skin tone.
Excel V+ Global before and after results following four treatments at About Face Skin Care, showing visible improvement in diffuse facial redness and overall skin tone.
This is why identifying what is actually causing the color you’re seeing matters.
Brown pigmentation and red vascular concerns aren’t the same thing—and they shouldn’t automatically be treated the same way.
Dermastat: Precision Matters
Sometimes the concern isn’t widespread.
It’s one tiny spot that catches your eye every time you look in the mirror.
Dermastat, available through our Excel V+ platform, allows for highly precise treatment of select small vascular and pigmented concerns.
Rather than treating an entire area unnecessarily, your provider can focus treatment where it’s actually needed.
Because sometimes the best aesthetic treatment isn’t more treatment.
It’s more precise treatment.
Radiant Lift Exo: Tighten + Resurface + Support Skin Quality
What if your concern isn’t just the surface of your skin?
That’s where combination treatments become especially exciting.
Radiant Lift Exo combines Everesse® RF technology + CoolPeel® resurfacing + exosomes into one comprehensive rejuvenation approach.
Each component has a different job.
Everesse uses radiofrequency energy to address skin firmness and laxity.
CoolPeel addresses the surface, helping improve texture, fine lines, pores, and overall skin quality.
Exosomes are incorporated into the treatment protocol to complement the skin-rejuvenation process.
Together, the goal is to address multiple layers of visible aging rather than expecting one technology to do everything.
Think:
Tighten. Resurface. Rejuvenate.
Radiant Lift Exo may be an option for patients noticing concerns such as skin laxity, crepey texture, fine lines, uneven skin quality, or multiple signs of aging at the same time.
Don’t Forget Chemical Peel Season!
Lasers aren’t the only treatments we love when temperatures start dropping.
Chemical peels can also be an excellent addition to a fall or winter skincare plan.
Professional chemical peels work by creating controlled exfoliation of the skin. Depending on the peel selected, they can help improve the appearance of:
- Uneven pigmentation
- Sun damage
- Acne and congestion
- Post-acne discoloration
- Rough texture
- Dullness
- Fine lines
- Overall skin tone
The best part?
Chemical peels can often be incorporated into a larger treatment plan alongside facials, microneedling, laser treatments, injectables, and medical-grade skincare.
The goal isn’t to do everything at once.
It’s to determine what should be done, in what order, and how those treatments can work together.
Which Laser Treatment Is Right for Me?
This might be the most important question—and the answer isn’t something Google, TikTok, or your best friend can decide for you.
Your ideal treatment depends on factors including:
Your primary concern. Are we treating redness? Brown spots? Texture? Wrinkles? Scarring? Laxity?
Your skin type and medical history. Not every technology or setting is appropriate for every patient.
Your downtime tolerance. Some patients want minimal interruption to their routine. Others are comfortable planning for more recovery in exchange for a more intensive treatment.
Your timeline. Preparing for a wedding or major event is very different from building a long-term skin rejuvenation plan.
What else you’re doing. Skincare, injectables, facials, peels, microneedling, and other treatments all need to be considered when creating your plan.
That’s why we don’t believe in choosing treatments simply because they’re trending.
The best technology is the one that makes sense for your skin.
Fall Is for Building Your Skin Plan
Laser season isn’t about trying to erase every line, spot, or sign that you’ve lived your life.
It’s about understanding what’s happening within your skin and choosing treatments intentionally.
Maybe that means CoolPeel resurfacing.
Maybe it’s Laser Genesis for redness and overall skin quality.
Maybe your concerns require the precision of Excel V+.
Maybe you’re ready for a combination approach like Radiant Lift Exo.
Or maybe your provider looks at your skin and recommends a chemical peel, microneedling, medical-grade skincare—or doing nothing aggressive at all right now.
That’s the difference between getting a treatment and having a treatment plan.
At About Face Skin Care, our experienced aesthetic providers create individualized plans based on your skin, your goals, and the results you’re hoping to achieve.
Ready to find out what your skin needs this laser season?
