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Stellar Body Reset · Buronga & Mildura

The Stretch Mark & Body Scar Program

The marks you keep covering can be softened. Properly.

Professional Dermapen 4 microneedling that remodels the scar tissue inside a stretch mark, so it sits smoother, flatter and less noticeable. Six sessions, photographed at every stage, by an INSKIN-trained therapist.

The goal is improvement, not removal. We assess every mark first and tell you plainly what's realistic.

Thirty minutes. Your marks graded, the area mapped and measured, a fixed program price agreed. Decide in your own time.

Dermapen 4

The professional-grade device. Precise depth, sterile single-use cartridges, no heat — suited to a wide range of skin tones.

INSKIN-trained therapist

Sarah plans and delivers every program herself, from consultation through to your three-month review.

Photographed progress

Same camera, lighting and body-map position at baseline, session three and your three-month review.

Honest assessment

Your marks are graded before anything is booked. Some clients we advise to wait — or not to treat.

Is this you

You've stopped noticing them. Until you do.

Most people who book this program have lived with their marks for years. They aren't after a miracle — they want the texture smoothed, the lines blended, and to stop thinking about it at the beach, in the change room, in the mirror.

A healed caesarean, surgical or injury scar that sits dipped, tight or uneven

You want a fixed plan and a fixed price, not an open-ended "let's see"

Newer red or purple marks you'd like to act on while there's the most to work with

Creams and oils have done what they can — which is not much below the surface

You'd rather be treated locally by someone accountable than drive to Melbourne

Deferred or not treated: active infection or a skin flare in the area, a history of keloids or poor healing, bleeding disorders or blood-thinning medication, immune suppression, oral isotretinoin within six months, and during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Darker skin tones are treated with an individual pigment-risk assessment. All confirmed at consultation.

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The treatment

A stretch mark is a scar. We treat it like one.

Stretch marks form when skin stretches faster than it can adapt. Collagen and elastin fibres in the deeper skin tear and are repaired with scar tissue. New marks are red or purple; over months they fade to white and sink slightly. Nothing rubbed onto the surface reaches that layer.

Stellar Body Reset uses the Dermapen 4 to create thousands of controlled micro-channels through the mark and its edges. The skin's repair response lays down fresh collagen and elastin, thickens the thinned skin inside the mark and blends its borders. Healed surgical, caesarean and injury scars share the same structure and are treated the same way.

Clinical comparisons have found microneedling holds its own against fractional laser for stretch marks, with less downtime, and outperforms microdermabrasion. Because it works mechanically rather than with heat, it carries a lower pigmentation risk on olive and darker skin. It does not reduce fat or change body shape.

ONE

Micro-channels

Sterile needles pass across the zone at a depth set for your skin and the age of the marks — typically 1.5 to 2.5 mm on the body.

TWO

Repair response

Over the following days, growth factors bring collagen-building cells into the mark and new, organised fibres begin to form.

THREE

Remodelling

Across four to six weeks the new tissue matures and tightens. Each session builds on the last — a course does what a single visit can't.

Treatment is deferred or avoided with active infection or a skin flare in the area, a history of keloids or poor healing, bleeding disorders or blood-thinning medication, immune suppression, oral isotretinoin within six months, and during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Darker skin tones are treated with individual pigment-risk assessment. Confirmed at consultation.

Who it suits

Your starting point shapes the result.

At consultation we assess colour, age, depth, skin tone and healing history — colour alone doesn't decide it. These are the realistic goals for each type.

Newer marks

Red, pink or purple

Tissue is still actively remodelling and tends to respond best.

Goal: less noticeable width and texture, with likely improvement in colour.

Goal: less noticeable width and texture, with likely improvement in colour.

Mature marks

White or silver

Settled scars with lost elastin. They respond — with the full course and patience.

Goal: smoother texture, flatter surface, softer edges so marks blend. Colour contrast improves less — white marks won't return to skin tone.

Deciding that's not enough for you is a fair choice. We'll say so if we think it.

Surgical, caesarean, injury

Healed body scars

Assessed once fully healed and stable, usually six months or more.

Goal: improved texture and a less noticeable appearance.

Raised, thickened or keloid scars need a different approach — we'll tell you.

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Your program

Six sessions. One honest timeline.

Sessions run 45 to 90 minutes depending on the area, with numbing cream applied first; most clients describe a warm, vibrating pressure. Skin is pink to red for one to three days, like moderate sunburn. Allow eight to ten months overall — judging stretch marks early is the most common reason people think treatment hasn't worked.

Consultation & mapping

Thirty minutes. Marks graded, suitability confirmed, zone mapped and measured, baseline photographs taken, program price agreed. Decide in your own time.

3 months after

The result you keep. Collagen has matured, and this is the side-by-side against baseline. If change is limited, we review your options rather than automatically adding sessions.

Sessions 1–3

Four to six weeks apart. Skin often feels smoother after the first visit; the mark itself changes little yet. Photographs before session three usually show the first measurable shift, and we reassess the plan together.

Maintenance

Remodelled tissue doesn't revert. One session a year maintains the result, and new marks from later life events can be treated early.

Sessions 4–6

Cumulative remodelling. Depth reduces, edges blend, red marks fade noticeably, white marks look flatter. Between visits: gentle cleansing, the products we send you home with, no sun on the area, no swimming, heat or heavy exercise for 48 hours.

Planning for an occasion?

Skin changes develop over months, not weeks. A wedding, a holiday or summer ahead is the reason to book the consultation now, not later.

Results in Sunraysia

Photographed the same way, every time.

Standard lighting, same angle, same body-map position, no filters. Stellar Beauty clients who have consented to share their progress.

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Investment

Priced by area. Delivered as a program.

Stretch marks respond to a completed course, so Body Reset is offered only as six-session programs, priced by the mapped area — the marks plus the surrounding skin, both sides of the body counted together. As a guide, an open hand is roughly 100 cm². Your area is measured at your complimentary consultation, and the price you're quoted is the price you pay.

Focused

Up to 100 cm². A single scar, one hip, inner arms or knees.

$1,200

Six-session program

Targeted

100 to 400 cm². Most abdomens, both hips and flanks, front of both thighs, or breasts.

$1,650

Six-session program

Extended

400 to 600 cm². Abdomen with hips, full thighs, or full back. Larger areas quoted individually.

$2,100

Six-session program

Every program includes

Mapping, baseline and progress photography, six Dermapen 4 sessions with numbing and Meso-Glide serum, first-week aftercare, a complimentary OBSERV Skin Discovery for your face, and pharmacist support throughout.

Annual maintenance session

$250 focused · $320 targeted · $390 extended

Paying

Three instalments across the course, interest-free. Terms provided in writing before payment.

Our commitment

We stand behind the process.

What we guarantee

Individual results vary and no clinic can honestly guarantee a specific outcome. What we guarantee is how we work: a candid assessment before you commit, the full course delivered as agreed, and photographs that show you the change. If your three-month comparison shows no visible improvement on the treated area, your review and a further session are complimentary.

If you choose not to treat

Most stretch marks are harmless. Red marks fade on their own over six to eighteen months, though a paler line and texture usually remain. Choosing no treatment is a reasonable option, and we'll tell you if we think it's the right one for your marks. A painful, growing or changing scar, or sudden widespread new marks, deserve medical assessment first.

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Common questions

Asked at most consultations.

Will my stretch marks disappear completely?

No. Stretch marks are scars, and the goal is smoother, flatter and considerably less noticeable. Red marks respond most; white marks improve in texture more than colour. You'll see the realistic range for your own marks at consultation.

Does it hurt, and what's the downtime?

Numbing cream goes on for 20 to 30 minutes first. Expect a warm, vibrating pressure, sharper over bony areas. Afterwards: redness for one to three days, sometimes pinpoint bruising or mild swelling, occasionally dryness or flaking for up to a week. Most clients treat on a Friday and are unremarkable by Monday.

What are the risks?

Microneedling breaks the skin, so infection, pigment change and scarring are possible, though uncommon with sterile single-use cartridges, trained technique and good aftercare. Contact us promptly for worsening redness, pain, pus or blistering, and seek urgent medical care for fever or spreading redness.

Is it suitable for darker or olive skin?

Generally yes — the Dermapen works without heat, which is why it's a preferred stretch-mark option where lasers risk pigmentation. We assess pigment risk individually, and sun protection on the area afterwards is essential.

Why not a home roller?

Home devices reach around 0.25 to 0.5 mm — the surface, not the dermis where a stretch mark sits — and can't be reliably sterilised. The result comes from professional depth, a sterile cartridge and consistent technique. Please don't roll between sessions.

Who performs the treatment?

Our trained skin technicians perform every session on the Dermapen 4, with pharmacist oversight from Stellar Pharmacy on site. Infection-control procedures follow skin-penetration requirements. Consent for clinical photographs is separate from any permission to use images in marketing.

Begin

Start with the consultation. Decide after.

Thirty minutes: assessment, honest expectations, baseline photographs and a clear program price. If it isn't right for your marks, we'll tell you.