What Actually Happens During a Medi 2.0 Facial (And Why There's No Downtime)

There's a particular kind of hesitation that comes with booking an 'advanced' facial for the first time. The word suggests results which is exactly what you want, but it can also suggest recovery time, redness, or that you'll need to clear your schedule for a few days afterwards. With Medi 2.0, none of that applies. Here's a transparent look at what actually happens from the moment you arrive.

What Medi 2.0 is designed to do

Medi 2.0 is GLOW's advanced, results-driven facial; a 90-minute treatment targeting the skin concerns that matter most to our clients: congestion, dullness, uneven texture, and a complexion that's lost its clarity. It's not a relaxation facial, though it absolutely is relaxing. It's designed to deliver visible, meaningful change, the kind you notice in the mirror the next morning.

It's suitable for all skin types. There's no downtime. And this July, everyone pays our member price — $280 instead of the regular $350, no membership required.

Step by step: what to expect

• Your consultation. Every Medi 2.0 begins with a brief consultation. We use advanced skin imaging to assess your skin in real time — looking at hydration, congestion, tone, and texture beneath the surface. This is how we personalize the treatment rather than applying the same protocol to every client.

• Deep cleanse and preparation. The skin is thoroughly cleansed to remove every trace of SPF, makeup, and daily buildup. This isn't a cursory rinse — it's a full preparation stage that allows every subsequent step to perform at its best.

• Exfoliation and extractions. We work through the surface of the skin — gently but effectively — to clear congestion and refine texture. This is the stage that makes the most visible difference for clients dealing with blackheads, enlarged pores, or skin that feels rough to the touch.

• Lymphatic drainage massage. A gentle, rhythmic facial massage encourages lymphatic flow — helping to reduce puffiness, support circulation, and leave the skin looking sculpted and refreshed. It's also one of the most relaxing parts of the treatment, a moment to simply switch off.

• Active treatment. A customized chemical peel is applied to address brightness, texture, and tone at a deeper level. The formulation is selected based on your consultation — what your skin needs, not a standard protocol. (For expecting clients, we swap this step for a pregnancy-safe glow boost. Just let us know at booking.)

• LED light therapy. Targeted LED light is used to calm the skin and support recovery after the active stage — helping to soothe the look of redness and encourage a clear, even finish. It's completely comfortable, with nothing to feel but warmth and light.

• Brightening and recovery. Active ingredients are followed by recovery-focused serums and a nourishing mask designed to calm, replenish, and prepare the skin barrier for the work it's just done.

• Finishing and protection. We complete the treatment with SPF and a brief review of what we observed and recommend for your home care going forward. You leave with a clear plan, not just a glowing face.

Why there's no downtime

The chemical peel used in Medi 2.0 is calibrated specifically to deliver results without the recovery period associated with stronger clinical peels. You may notice that your skin looks slightly flushed immediately after, this settles within a few hours. Some clients experience mild dryness over the day or two following, which is the surface of the skin gently renewing itself. You can return to your day immediately after your appointment.

What you should avoid for 24–48 hours: additional exfoliants, active ingredients, and intense heat (saunas, very hot showers). Keep it simple, keep it protected with SPF, and let the treatment do its work.

Who it's right for

Medi 2.0 is for any client ready to move beyond a maintenance facial and into results-driven territory, without committing to downtime. It's a guest favourite for clients dealing with post-summer pigmentation, ongoing congestion, or skin that's been through a lot and needs a thoughtful reset.

If you're pregnant, we can absolutely tailor the treatment for you. We swap the chemical peel step for a pregnancy-safe glow boost, the rest of the experience remains the same. Suitability is always confirmed during your complimentary consultation.

Ready to experience Medi 2.0? This July, everyone pays our member price — $280 (regularly $350), no membership required. Book your appointment or book a complimentary consultation to find out if Medi 2.0 is the right treatment for where your skin is right now. 🧡

Results may vary. Individual outcomes depend on skin type and treatment plan. Medi 2.0 offer valid July 1–31, 2026. Pregnancy-safe version available — suitability confirmed at consultation.

How GLP-1 Medications Affect Your Skin — Treatments & Skincare

Your weight loss journey is worth celebrating. Your skin deserves support along the way.

If you're taking a GLP-1 medication like Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro, you've likely experienced incredible changes — more energy, better health markers, a body that finally feels like yours. That transformation is something to be proud of.

But you may have also noticed something shifting in the mirror. Your face looks a little thinner than expected. Your cheeks feel less full. There's a laxity or texture that wasn't there before.

You're not imagining it — and you're far from alone. Approximately 3 million Canadians are currently taking GLP-1 medications, and the skin-related side effects of rapid weight loss are one of the most common concerns we hear at GLOW Beauty Bar. The good news? These changes are well understood, and with the right professional support, your skin can look and feel just as transformed as the rest of you.

What "Ozempic Face" Actually Means

"Ozempic face" is the term used to describe the facial changes — hollowed cheeks, skin laxity, deeper lines — that can accompany significant weight loss on a GLP-1 medication. But here's what's important to understand: it isn't a side effect of the drug itself. It's a natural response to rapid fat loss.

When your body loses weight quickly, the skin doesn't always have time to adapt. Facial fat pads shrink, structural support decreases, and the collagen that keeps skin firm can't remodel fast enough to keep up. Research shows that rapid weight loss can contribute to up to 25% collagen loss in the skin — and approximately 25% of total weight lost on GLP-1 medications can be lean muscle mass, which directly impacts facial definition and skin quality.

Layer this on top of the natural collagen decline that begins in your mid-twenties, and it becomes clear: your skin needs its own plan during this journey.

The Changes You Might Be Noticing

Every client's experience is different, but these are the most common GLP-1 skin concerns we see at GLOW:

Loss of facial volume — a hollowed appearance around the cheeks, temples, and under-eye area as facial fat pads shrink.

Skin laxity and sagging — looser skin along the jawline, neck, and around the mouth, where structural support has decreased.

More visible fine lines and wrinkles — lines that were once softened by facial fullness becoming more prominent.

Weakened skin barrier — increased sensitivity, dryness, and reactivity as the metabolic stress of rapid weight loss disrupts the skin's protective function.

Uneven texture and dullness — often linked to the micronutrient shifts (particularly iron and zinc) that are common with GLP-1 use.

These changes can be disheartening — especially when you're feeling healthier and more confident in so many other ways. But they're not something you have to accept or simply wait out.

The 3 Treatments We Recommend for GLP-1 Skin

At GLOW, we take a layered approach to treating GLP-1-related skin changes, combining technologies that work at different depths to rebuild collagen, restore texture, and strengthen skin from the inside out. These are the three treatments we recommend most.

1. Microneedling 3.0 — Collagen Induction + Deep Hydration

Regular: $460 | GLOW+ Members: $368

For GLP-1 clients, Microneedling 3.0 is our most comprehensive collagen-rebuilding treatment — and it addresses two of the biggest concerns at once: collagen loss and barrier dehydration.

This 2.5-hour treatment combines DP4 microneedling with a full Jet Peel facial and LED light therapy. The microneedling creates controlled micro-channels in the skin that trigger your body's natural repair response, stimulating the production of new collagen and elastin. The Jet Peel follows immediately, using a pressurized stream of saline and oxygen to deliver intense hydration and skin-specific serums directly into the treatment area — soothing, plumping, and amplifying the collagen-building benefits of the session. LED light therapy completes the treatment by calming inflammation and accelerating healing.

For GLP-1 clients, we typically recommend a series of three to six sessions spaced six weeks apart, followed by maintenance every three to four months to keep results active and consistent. Safe for all skin types, with minimal downtime.

Learn More About Microneedling 3.0 Here!

2. Advanced Laser Facial — Maximum Laser Renewal

Regular: $790 | GLOW+ Members: $632

For GLP-1 clients experiencing more significant skin laxity, texture changes, and collagen loss, the Advanced Laser Facial is GLOW's most powerful laser treatment — and our most comprehensive option for meaningful, lasting skin renewal.

In a single one-hour session, this treatment delivers advanced laser technology at its highest level, targeting texture, pigmentation, scarring, and anti-aging concerns simultaneously. The depth and intensity of the treatment triggers a significant collagen remodeling response — exactly what skin needs after the structural disruption that rapid weight loss causes.

Expect up to seven days of downtime (redness, dryness, and light flaking) as your skin moves through its renewal process. The results that follow — noticeably firmer, smoother, more youthful skin — reflect the depth of the work happening beneath the surface. For GLP-1 clients who are serious about reversing the effects of collagen loss, this is the treatment that delivers.

Learn More About Advanced Laser Facial Here!

3. Jet Infusion — Barrier Repair & Intense Hydration

Regular: $300 | GLOW+ Members: $240

For clients in the earlier stages of their GLP-1 journey, or for anyone whose skin has become sensitive, reactive, or depleted, the Jet Infusion is our most accessible — and often most immediately gratifying — starting point.

Using a pressurized stream of HOCL, oxygen, and targeted serums, it delivers deep hydration and nourishment directly into the skin without needles, heat, or downtime. There's no recovery required, it's safe for all skin types and during pregnancy, and clients leave visibly refreshed. For skin that's under internal stress from rapid weight loss, this is foundational care — strengthening the barrier and restoring hydration so your skin is better equipped to respond to more advanced treatments over time.

Learn More About Jet Infusion Here!

*GLOW+ Members save 20% on all facial treatments. Learn more about the GLOW+ Membership or ask us at your consultation*

Why Treatment Stacking Works

One of the most important principles in treating GLP-1-related skin changes is that combination treatments consistently outperform single sessions. When we layer technologies that address different depths and concerns — the Jet Peel for barrier and hydration, Microneedling 3.0 for collagen induction, the Advanced Laser Facial for deep surface renewal— the results compound in ways that no single treatment can replicate.

At GLOW, we don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every new client receives a complimentary consultation with skin imaging, so we can see exactly what's happening beneath the surface and build a treatment journey that's as individual as you are. Whether you're just starting your GLP-1 journey or you're months in and noticing changes you want to address, we're here to help you feel confident in your skin at every stage.

Ready to build your plan? Book your complimentary consultation at GLOW Beauty Bar and let us know you're on a GLP-1. We'll take it from there.

Book Your Consultation Here!

Ashley Cammisuli is the Founder & CEO of GLOW Beauty Bar Inc. With over a decade of experience and 20+ professional certifications in medical aesthetics, Ashley and her team specialize in personalized, results-driven treatments that help clients feel confident in their skin. GLOW Beauty Bar is located at 1128 The Queensway in Etobicoke and has been recognized as BlogTO's Top Spa in Toronto to Get a Facial and Top Choice Award's Best Medi Spa in Etobicoke.

The First Step Most Routines Get Wrong And What to Do About It

Most evening routines start in the wrong place and most of us never notice.

We exfoliate, we serum, we layer treatments that promise to repair, regenerate, brighten. But before any of those products can reach the skin, they have to make their way through whatever's still there from the day. SPF. Makeup. Sebum. Pollution. The fine film of everything the skin has held up against in the previous twelve hours.

A water-based cleanser cannot remove all of it. The chemistry doesn't work that way. To dissolve oil-based residue, you need oil and the cleanser you choose to do that work matters more than almost any other step in the routine.

When that first cleanser is wrong, everything after it is compromised.

When it's right, everything after it can finally do its job.

WHY WE REBUILT OUR CLEANSING OIL

The Glowtox Cleansing Oil has been part of our shelf and our treatment rooms, for years. When we revisited the formula in 2026, we approached it the way we approach every product: through the lens of the most reactive skin in the room. Sensitive skin. Treatment skin. Post-procedure skin. Pregnancy. Acne in flux. The skin that doesn't have margin for error.

What followed wasn't a tweak — it was a rebuild. We rewrote the oil base, changed the emulsifier, and stripped the formula of fragrance, essential oils, preservatives, and dyes. Bergamot and rosemary, common in oil cleansers and increasingly understood to be sensitizing for compromised barriers, came out alongside everything else that didn't belong in a cleanser meant for the most reactive skin in the room.

What's left is the formula at its most distilled: six cold-pressed botanical oils, one plant-derived emulsifier. That's it.

THE SIX OILS, AND WHY EACH ONE EARNED ITS PLACE

Grape Seed Oil  ·  

Lightweight, rich in linoleic acid and antioxidants. Dissolves sebum and oil-based impurities without leaving residue. Adds Vitamin E and polyphenol protection.

Organic Sunflower Seed Oil  ·  

High in linoleic acid and Vitamin E. Reinforces the skin barrier, calms inflammation, and is exceptionally well tolerated by sensitive and acne-prone skin.

Rice Bran Oil  ·  

Rich in ferulic acid, tocotrienols, and squalane-like lipids. Brightens, softens, and protects against environmental oxidative stress. Quietly the most underrated oil in the formula.

Pumpkin Seed Oil  ·  

Loaded with zinc, Vitamin A, and essential fatty acids. Supports cell turnover and balances sebum. Nutrient-rich without being heavy.

Avocado Oil  ·  

Vitamins A, D, and E, plus oleic acid. Softens, conditions, and helps gently dissolve long-wear makeup and physical SPF.

Di-PPG-2 Myreth-10 Adipate  ·  

The single plant-derived emulsifier. This is the ingredient that allows the oil to bind with water and rinse clean — without the surfactant strip you'd get from a foaming or gel cleanser.

HOW TO USE IT IN YOUR ROUTINE

Glowtox Cleansing Oil works best as the first step in your evening routine — before any other cleanser, serum, or treatment. Two pumps onto dry skin. Massage gently for thirty seconds. Add water with your fingertips and you'll feel the oil turn milky as it emulsifies. Rinse with warm water.

Follow with a water-based cleanser if you've worn full coverage makeup or layered SPF, or stop there on a lighter day. Both are correct. Listen to your skin.

It can also be used as an occasional AM cleanse if your skin feels congested or you've layered overnight masks. Most days, evening is enough.

WON'T OIL BREAK ME OUT?

It's the most common hesitation we hear at the front desk, and the answer is the opposite of what most of us were taught.

Acne-prone and oily skin tends to be low in linoleic acid and high in oleic acid. To compensate, the skin overproduces sebum — which is what we then over-cleanse, restarting the cycle. The right oils, particularly those rich in linoleic acid, help rebalance that pattern instead of feeding it.

The Glowtox Cleansing Oil leads with grape seed, sunflower, and rice bran for exactly this reason. Pumpkin and avocado complete the nutrient profile. Nothing in the formula is comedogenic. Nothing strips.

THE VALUES BEHIND THE FORMULA

Glowtox is GLOW's house brand. Every formula in the line is developed alongside our aestheticians and used in treatment before it ever reaches the shelf. When you bring the Cleansing Oil home, you're bringing home the same first step we use on you in the treatment room.

It's vegan. It's cruelty-free. It's pregnancy-safe. It's made in USA. None of those facts are decorative — each one reflects a decision we made about how this product should exist in the world.

THE FIRST STEP, MADE GENTLER

There's no urgency to this. The Glowtox Cleansing Oil is here, in spa and online, whenever you're ready to rethink the start of your routine. If you've ever finished cleansing and felt that quiet tightness — the one that means your barrier is asking for something different — this is what we'd hand you across the front desk.

Cleansing without compromise. The first step. Made gentler.

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The Glowtox Cleansing Oil is available in spa and online at glowbeautybar.ca.

Not sure where to start? Book a complimentary consultation with one of our aestheticians — we'll build a PM routine that works with your barrier, not against it.