Posted by Sarah Auton
on May 26, 2026
If you've ever tried a single laser or skin treatment and felt like it only solved part of the problem, you're not imagining it.
Your skin isn't one-dimensional. Pigmentation lives in different layers than fine lines. Redness behaves differently to textural scarring. Collagen loss is a separate issue again. So when you treat the skin with a single technology, you can only ever address one layer of the picture at a time.
That's where everything changes with Skin Fusion, About Face's advanced approach to combining high-tech treatments in a single session to target colour, texture, and collagen simultaneously. The result? Faster progress, fewer sessions, and results that are simply impossible to achieve with one modality alone.
The Problem With Treating Skin One Layer at a Time
Most people approach skin treatments reactively: they book an IPL session to tackle pigmentation, then separately try Dermapen for scarring, then wonder why results feel slow or incomplete.
This is not a reflection of the treatments themselves. Each technology is clinically proven and effective. The issue is that skin concerns rarely exist in isolation. Sun damage brings pigmentation and textural roughness. Ageing brings loss of collagen and uneven tone and enlarged pores. Acne leaves behind scarring and redness and discolouration.
Treating these concerns sequentially means more sessions, longer timelines, and progress that stalls the moment a new concern appears. The smarter approach, and the one that now defines skin treatment best practice, is to combine technologies strategically, treating multiple layers in a single appointment.
What Is Skin Fusion?
Skin Fusion is About Face's signature approach to multi-technology treatment. It is the deliberate pairing of two powerful devices in one session to address the skin on every level at once.
Rather than booking individual treatments for individual concerns, Skin Fusion means your therapist selects a combination of technologies that work together to deliver a more comprehensive, accelerated result than either could achieve alone. Think IPL with Clear + Brilliant, or Dermapen with Clear + Brilliant, paired intentionally to treat the skin from multiple angles in a single appointment.
The logic is straightforward: when you treat colour, texture, and collagen in the same session, the effects are compounding. One technology prepares or amplifies the skin's response to the next. The overall outcome is stronger, faster, and more complete.
As we puts it: "This is where true skin transformation happens."
The High-Tech Toolkit: What Each Technology Does
Understanding the individual treatments helps explain why the right combinations are so powerful.
BBL (BroadBand Light) is one of the most advanced light-based technologies available. It corrects pigmentation, sun damage, redness, and vascular irregularities while simultaneously stimulating collagen production, restoring both tone and underlying skin quality for a visibly clearer, more youthful complexion.
Clear + Brilliant is a gentle resurfacing laser that works across the entire surface of the skin to refine pores, smooth texture, improve tone consistency, boost radiance, and create a long-term improvement in overall skin quality. It is often described as preventative ageing in a treatment, delivering a healthy glow with zero downtime.
IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) works across a broad spectrum of light to simultaneously target redness, broken capillaries, uneven skin tone, sun spots, and early signs of ageing, all while stimulating the skin's natural collagen response. It is one of the most versatile technologies available for whole-face skin rejuvenation and clarity.
Dermapen Microneedling creates controlled micro-channels in the skin to trigger the body's natural wound-healing response, dramatically boosting collagen and elastin production. The result is a visible improvement in acne scarring, fine lines, deep wrinkles, skin laxity, enlarged pores, stretch marks, and overall skin texture and firmness. It is a powerhouse treatment for structural skin correction.
Cutera Laser Genesis (available at Mt Eden) uses precise laser energy to treat vascular concerns, diffuse redness, rosacea, sun damage, and uneven texture while promoting a natural-looking, healthy glow. It is especially effective for those with sensitive or reactive skin who want the results of laser without aggressive downtime.
Ultraformer (HIFU) (available at Ponsonby) operates at the deepest level of all. It delivers focused ultrasound energy beneath the skin's surface to lift, firm, and redefine facial contours, stimulating deep collagen production for a visible tightening effect across the face, jowls, neck, and décolletage. It is a powerful non-surgical alternative to injectables or surgery, with results that continue improving over several months.
Each of these is exceptional on its own. Combined strategically, they create results on an entirely different level.
The Skin Fusion Packages: Three Levels of Transformation
About Face's Serious About Skin Tech packages are structured across three levels, so you can match your commitment to your skin goals. Every package operates on a buy-three-get-four model, meaning your fourth session is always complimentary.
Level 1: High-Tech Essentials
High-Tech Essentials is the starting point for those who want to commit to a single focused technology and experience the compounding benefit of repeat sessions with expert guidance.
You choose one technology from IPL, Clear + Brilliant, Dermapen, Cutera Laser Genesis (Mt Eden), BBL (Remuera), or Dermapen Exoskin, and complete three sessions with the fourth included free. Each session builds on the last, and your therapist tracks progress and adjusts the approach to keep results moving forward.
This level is ideal if you have a primary concern you want to focus on, or if you're new to high-tech treatments and want to start with one modality before advancing. The skin changes that come from committing to three or four sessions of the same treatment are meaningfully greater than what a single appointment can deliver.
Package of 3 sessions: from $1,197. Save $399.
Level 2: Skin Fusion Advanced
This is where the real transformation begins. Skin Fusion Advanced pairs two powerful technologies in a single session, treating multiple layers of the skin simultaneously for a result that is genuinely greater than the sum of its parts.
IPL + Clear + Brilliant addresses uneven tone, sun damage, redness, and broken capillaries at the surface while simultaneously resurfacing texture, refining pores, and boosting radiance. The combination treats both what you see and what's underneath it in one appointment.
IPL + Dermapen pairs the tone-correcting and vascular-targeting power of IPL with the deep collagen stimulation of Dermapen microneedling, making it an exceptional choice for those dealing with redness, discolouration, scarring, and skin laxity together.
Dermapen + Clear + Brilliant brings together deep structural collagen renewal with surface-level resurfacing and glow, ideal for those focused on texture, scarring, fine lines, and overall skin quality improvement.
Cutera + Dermapen or Cutera + Clear + Brilliant (Mt Eden only) combines Cutera's precision laser rejuvenation with either deep collagen induction or surface refinement, offering a highly targeted combination for those with more complex or reactive skin concerns.
Package of 2 combinations with 3 sessions: $1,950. Save $650.
This is the most efficient and comprehensive way to address multiple skin concerns within a structured timeframe, and the most popular choice for those who are serious about results.
Level 3: Skin Fusion Elite
Available exclusively at the Remuera clinic, Skin Fusion Elite is About Face's most advanced treatment pathway, pairing BroadBand Light (BBL) with corrective technologies to deliver maximum skin transformation at every level.
BBL + Clear + Brilliant combines BBL's powerful correction of pigmentation, vascular irregularities, and sun damage with Clear + Brilliant's surface refinement and radiance-boosting capabilities. Together they treat tone, clarity, texture, and skin quality in a single session, delivering a comprehensive rejuvenation that covers the full spectrum of visible ageing and damage.
BBL + Dermapen is a premium combination for those seeking both surface correction and deep structural renewal. BBL addresses tone, redness, and sun damage while Dermapen drives collagen induction at a cellular level. The result is clearer, firmer, and more refined skin with compounding improvement across every session.
Package of 2 combinations with 3 sessions: $2,550. Save $850.
This is the highest-intensity pathway available at About Face, designed for those ready to commit to a deep and visible transformation using the most powerful technologies in our toolkit.
Why Winter Is the Best Time for High-Tech Skin Treatments in Auckland
There's a reason About Face positions its Skin Fusion packages around the cooler months, and it's not just marketing.
Advanced skin technologies like IPL, Clear + Brilliant, Dermapen, and BBL work best when UV exposure is reduced. Post-treatment skin is temporarily more sensitive to the sun, which means winter provides the ideal window to undergo treatment safely, recover effectively, and build results without the risk of sun-induced complications.
Starting your Skin Fusion programme in winter also means you're heading into summer with your best skin yet: refined, corrected, and radiating the kind of glow that only comes from genuine structural improvement.
Winter is not the time to pause on your skin. It's the time to accelerate.
Your Free Post-Treatment Essentials Kit
Every high-tech treatment package at About Face includes a complimentary Post-Treatment Essentials Kit, a curated set of IMAGE MD products valued at $149 and designed to support your skin through recovery and maximise your results.
The kit includes the IMAGE MD Gentle Cleansing Balm, IMAGE MD Barrier Repair Balm, and Daily Prevention Pure Mineral Hydrating SPF 30. Together they calm, restore, and protect the skin barrier in the critical window following treatment.
Think of it as the at-home extension of your in-clinic transformation.
How to Get Started
Every Skin Fusion journey begins with an Advanced Skin Consultation, a results-focused assessment using OBSERV® or VISIA® skin analysis technology to identify what's happening beneath the surface. Your therapist assesses your skin in depth, considers your history, lifestyle, and goals, and recommends the most suitable technology combination and package level for your specific needs.
This is not a generic consultation. It is a genuine diagnostic session designed to give you clarity, confidence, and a plan built specifically for your skin.
Book your Advanced Skin Consultation → Explore the Serious About Skin Tech packages →
The Bottom Line: More Technologies, More Results
Combining high-tech skin treatments isn't a trend. It's the logical evolution of how expert clinicians have always thought about skin. Skin is multi-layered, and meaningful results require treatment across those layers simultaneously.
Skin Fusion is About Face's answer to that reality: a structured, clinically guided approach to combining the right technologies, in the right sequence, at the right frequency, so that every session builds on the last and the results compound over time.
If you're serious about your skin, single treatments are just the beginning. Skin Fusion is where transformation actually happens.
About Face operates five skin clinics across Auckland: Ponsonby, Mt Eden, Remuera, Mairangi Bay, and Te Atatū. We offer bespoke facials, advanced high-tech skin treatments, cosmetic injectables, and expert-curated skincare. Serious about skin for over 40 years.
