August is on the board at our Med Spa, and my team built three specials this month, Renew, Restore, Revive, running at both our Eastside office on George Dieter and our Westside office on Silver Springs, all month long.

Here is the thing I noticed putting this board together. Two of the three specials go after the exact same problem, the tired, puffy, worn-out look August gives your eyes by this point in the summer, and they go after it from two completely different directions. The third one is about getting ahead of your own hair growth cycle before the season is over. Let me walk you through all three the way I would across my desk.

Renew. Laser Hair Removal, 15% Off a Bikini and Underarms Package.

I say this every August. It is the smart month to start laser hair removal, and almost nobody thinks of it that way.

Here is the mechanism in plain English. The laser is tuned to a wavelength that melanin, the pigment inside your hair, soaks up efficiently. That heats the follicle from the inside, and the heat damages it enough that what grows back is finer, sparser, and eventually stops showing up in a meaningful number of those follicles for good.

What catches people off guard is the timing. Your hair does not all grow on the same schedule. Every follicle cycles through its own active growth phase and its own resting phase, and the laser only does its job on a follicle that happens to be actively growing right then. That is the entire reason this comes as a series instead of a single visit. You need several sessions, spread a few weeks apart, to catch every follicle somewhere in its growing phase.

Bikini and underarms is a smart starting package for exactly that reason. Both areas cycle fast, both respond well, and bundling them beats booking each one separately.

One thing I tell every laser hair removal patient, no exceptions. Skin tone changes the settings. More melanin in the skin itself, not just the hair, changes the risk of burns or pigment changes and changes what settings are safe to use. That call belongs to trained staff working under real physician oversight, not a one-size setting for whoever walks in the door.

Restore. Morpheus8 Under Eye, $800 for a Package of Three.

Morpheus8 has been part of my Med Spa for a while now, mostly for tightening skin on the body. The under-eye version is a more precise use of the same device, and it is the first thing I reach for when the problem is the skin itself, not lost volume.

Here is the distinction I spend the most time explaining, because the two problems look almost the same in a mirror and need completely different fixes. Tired under-eyes can come from volume loss, fat that has thinned or shifted with age, which shows up as a hollow or a shadow. Or they can come from the skin, crepey texture, mild sag, fine lines that have nothing to do with volume and everything to do with the collagen underneath thinning out. Morpheus8 does not put volume back. If your problem is a real hollow, I will tell you Morpheus8 is the wrong tool for it. What it does very well is the second problem, the skin itself.

Mechanically, the device sends radiofrequency energy through a grid of very fine, insulated needles placed just under the skin surface. The needling on its own kicks off a healing response. The RF energy adds precise, controlled heat at that depth, which remodels collagen and tightens the tissue from underneath, no incision, no touching the surface. Around the eye specifically, that means treating crepiness and mild laxity in a spot too delicate for most other energy devices.

Package of three, and there is a real reason for that structure. Collagen remodeling is not instant. On the body, where I have used this device for years, patients see part of the result right away and then watch it keep improving for about two months as new collagen forms, and under the eye the timeline runs about the same. We numb the area first with a topical anesthetic, downtime is minimal, and most patients see some mild redness or sensitivity for a few days rather than anything that keeps them off work. One session softens things a little. Three sessions is what actually changes what you see in the mirror.

Revive. EZ Gel, 20% Off Per Session.

If you have read my writing before, you know I have covered PRP and PRF, platelet-rich plasma and platelet-rich fibrin, both made from a patient’s own blood, in the context of microneedling and the vampire facial. EZ Gel is the next step down that same road, and it happens to go after the same tired-eye problem as the Morpheus8 special above, just from the opposite direction.

It starts the way PRF always starts. A blood draw, spun down to isolate the platelet-rich fibrin and, for EZ Gel specifically, albumin from that same sample. What comes out is a gel, entirely your own material, loaded with growth factors and proteins that tell your body to lay down new collagen wherever it goes. The most common spots for it are exactly where volume and skin quality both fade first: under the eyes, around the mouth, and the temples.

That is what makes it a pair with Morpheus8 instead of a competitor to it. Morpheus8 remodels the collagen scaffold that is already there. EZ Gel adds a small amount of your own material to build new tissue where it has thinned. One is about quality, the other edges toward volume, and both come from your own biology instead of a syringe of something synthetic.

Same patience rule applies here as with any biostimulator. The result builds gradually over the weeks after each session as your own collagen response develops, and a maintenance session once or twice a year keeps it going. Nobody walks out looking different that same afternoon, and if a med spa tells you otherwise, ask what is actually in the syringe.

A Clean Side-by-Side

Where to Come, East or West

The Med Spa at Southwest Plastic Surgery runs out of two El Paso locations and the August specials are valid at both.

The Eastside office is at 1387 George Dieter Drive, Building C, El Paso, Texas 79936.

The Westside office is at 5925 Silver Springs Drive, Suite C, El Paso, Texas 79912.

My Med Spa team works across both sites. Same protocols, same products, same supervising physician. Pick whichever side of town fits your week. If you want to see the full menu before you book, our Med Spa page is the place to start.

Who Is Supervising the Work

I am Frank Agullo, MD, FACS, double board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a Mayo Clinic plastic surgery fellowship alum. I serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Affiliate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. I have been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for thirteen consecutive years. The Med Spa runs under my license and on protocols I have written. That is the bar.

For two more reads on the same three specials, both written by me.

The editorial take is on my personal blog, drworldwide.com: The Last Stretch of Summer: The August Med Spa Specials I’d Actually Book.

The longer clinical version is on my medical-grade blog, agulloplasticsurgery.com: A Plastic Surgeon’s Read on the August Med Spa Specials.

Schedule a Med Spa Appointment at Southwest Plastic Surgery

To book any of the August specials at our Eastside (1387 George Dieter Building C) or Westside (5925 Silver Springs Suite C) Med Spa, call (915) 590-7907 or text 1-866-814-0038. For surgical or combined consults with me, call my main practice line at (915) 590-7900, or book online at agulloplasticsurgery.com/appointments. Follow me at @RealDrWorldWide on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, @Agullo on X, or @AgulloPlasticSurgery on Facebook. #StayBeautiful