May is on the board at our Med Spa, and my team built three specials around the same idea. Renew. Restore. Revive. One per word. All three running at our Eastside office on George Dieter and our Westside office on Silver Springs, all month.

I want to spend a few minutes telling you who each one is for, because they are not interchangeable, and the most useful thing I can do for somebody scrolling our practice site this week is help her figure out which of the three is actually meant for her.

Renew. Laser tattoo removal at 20 percent off per session.

Of the three on the May board, this one is the longest commitment, and I want patients to hear that part of it before they hear the discount.

Tattoo removal is never one appointment. It is a course. Six to ten sessions on most tattoos, six to eight weeks between each one. Most patients hate hearing that, and I do not blame them. The reason for the spacing is not a sales tactic. It is the physiology. The laser fragments the ink. Your own immune system carries the broken pigment away. Stack the sessions too tight and the skin pays for it. Space them right and the tattoo lifts cleanly.

The 20 percent applies per session. So a patient who locks in the full course in May rides the discount for the whole run. On a sleeve that adds up to hundreds of dollars. On a back piece, more. If you have been postponing tattoo removal because of the price, this is the month.

A few honest notes on candidacy. Black ink and dark blue ink are easy. Reds and warm yellows take more sessions. Cosmetic eyebrow tattoos and amateur ink are usually quick. Old, multi-layered professional work is the long road. We will tell every patient at the consult what a realistic course looks like for the specific tattoo on the specific skin in front of us. If a clinic anywhere is promising you three-and-done on a real tattoo, walk out.

Two things I am rigid on. One. Sun avoidance between sessions. Sunscreen every day on the treated area for the entire course. The patient who hits the laser, then goes to the pool, then comes back six weeks later asking why her skin looks unhappy is a story I have watched more times than I want to admit. Two. Respect the spacing schedule. Compressing the timeline does not get the tattoo off faster. It gets the skin angry.

Restore. The Mother’s Day Radiance Facial, $125.

I am picky about facials. Most facials are not medical. They are pleasant. Skin looks slightly better for forty-eight hours and then nothing has actually changed.

The Mother’s Day Radiance Facial my team built for May is structured differently. It is medical-grade exfoliation, deep cleansing, and active serums chosen by our aesthetician based on what your skin is doing the day of the appointment. It is not a fixed protocol. It is a treatment facial that adjusts to the patient.

At $125, this is one of the easier yes’s I can give a patient.

I am seeing three different people book this one.

A daughter buying for her mom. The card prints cleanly. The mother walks out with skin care she would not have bought for herself. Best $125 you can put on a Mother’s Day card and we both know it.

A patient buying for herself, no apology, no permission. A forty-something or fifty-something woman who decides on a quiet Tuesday to drop $125 on her own face. I see this more every year and I approve of every one of those bookings.

A pre-event patient. Wedding next month. Reunion. A photographed thing on the calendar somewhere. The window is twelve to fourteen days before the event. Far enough that any treatment redness has settled. Close enough that the glow is still on the skin in the photographs. I am rigid about that timing.

What this facial is not. Not a chemical peel. Not a laser. It will not undo a decade of sun damage in a single afternoon, and any clinic that pretends otherwise is selling you a story. It is the maintenance layer of a real skin program. Used as such, it earns its $125.

Revive. The Mother’s Day Refresh, $3,650.

This is the special on the May board worth reading carefully, because the structure of the package is the part that makes it interesting.

A standard injectable package is sold by the syringe. One syringe of this. Twenty units of that. Same numbers on every face that walks in the door. Convenient for billing. Not great for outcomes. Faces are not standardized.

The Refresh is built the other way around.

The package combines dermal filler with an upper-face neuromodulator, the wrinkle relaxer used in the forehead, between the brows, and around the crow’s feet. The phrase the flyer uses is “nurses’ discretion.” That phrase is the whole point.

What it means is this. My injecting nurse has the budget, in the room, to spend product where the face actually needs it. If the upper face is dominant, the toxin moves there. If the cheekbones are flat, the filler concentrates in the malar area. If the lower face is intact and your real complaint is fine perioral lines, the package goes there. The nurse is looking at the whole face and allocating accordingly. Not counting units off a price list.

This is how I want injectables done.

I should also make my standard speech about filler.

Filler is a tax. A facelift is an investment. I keep saying that line because it keeps being true. The patient who has been getting filler every six months for ten years is the patient who often cannot tell where her face ended and where the filler began. The Refresh, used correctly, is the right kind of filler appointment, balanced, not run on a quota. But it does not replace a face that has structurally changed. If your face has dropped, the conversation needs to be a surgical one with me, not another injectable package. My team will route you to that consult before they will sell you the Refresh under the wrong premise. That is not bad for business. That is how a real practice operates.

Two cautions I want every Refresh patient to walk in with.

A first-time injectable patient should know that the result is a quieter, more rested version of the same face. Not a different face. Patients who confuse those two outcomes are the patients who are unhappy at follow-up regardless of how technically clean the work was.

A patient with a face that has changed materially in the last decade should book a surgical consult with me before booking the Refresh. We can use the package after surgery, not in place of it.

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 May 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 the side of town that fits your week and your commute.

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.

The editorial take is on my personal blog, drworldwide.com: Renew, Restore, Revive: The May Med Spa Specials I’d Actually Book.

The longer clinical version is on my medical-grade blog, agulloplasticsurgery.com: Mother’s Day at the Med Spa: A Plastic Surgeon’s Read on Three May Specials Worth Booking.

Schedule a Med Spa appointment at Southwest Plastic Surgery

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