Facial Care Centre’s newly-launched Ultraformer MPT treatment can lift, tighten and contour the face in weeks. After trying it on my face and neck, I saw a difference much sooner than expected.

For certain grooming treatments, I go in having absolutely no idea what to expect. Ultraformer MPT wasn’t one of them, since I had done a similar ultrasound treatment years ago. So when I arrived at <a href="https://facialcarecentre.com.ph/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facial Care Centre</a> in BGC, I thought I already knew how this would go. Some numbing cream would be applied and a machine wand would pass over my face with a few uncomfortable moments. After, there would be several weeks of wondering whether the treatment had actually done anything. I was right about the experience for the most part. However, I was wrong about how quickly I would see a difference.
Ultraformer MPT is Facial Care Centre’s newly-launched facial contouring treatment for concerns like sagging skin, jowls, fuller cheeks and a double chin. It uses ultrasound energy at different depths of the face, which differs from the very simple idea of HIFU I had in my head.
According to Facial Care Centre, macro energy works deeper to lift areas such as the cheeks and jowls, while micro energy stays closer to the skin to address things like fine lines, pores and skin laxity around the eyes and mouth. There is also an MP mode that can specifically target facial fat while tightening the surrounding skin.
I went for the full face and neck, and during the consultation, the skin specialist explained that there is no standard schedule that everyone needs to follow. Someone more concerned about facial fat could potentially return after around two months, while people who don't need as much correction can wait four to six months between sessions.
In my case, she said that if I wanted to continue with Ultraformer MPT, around six months would probably be enough, which is great because I don’t have to think about turning another grooming treatment into something I need to do once every few weeks.

Firstly, I was brought into the treatment room where my face was cleansed, which was genuinely relaxing and temporarily made me forget that the next hour involved ultrasound being fired under my skin. Then came the numbing cream. After waiting for it to take effect, the doctor came in and started working through the different areas of my face.
If you are trying to work out whether Ultraformer MPT hurts, unfortunately I cannot give you a neat rating out of 10. The sensation kept changing depending on the part of my face, the setting the skin specialist was using, and apparently, even which side she happened to be working on.
One of the modes makes a rapid mechanical noise that the doctor compared to a printer, which is such a specific description until you hear it and realize that it is exactly what it sounds like. The pulses come quickly and feel more repetitive. The other mode reminded me more of the treatment I had done before, with deeper and more concentrated bursts that you feel underneath the skin.
My right side was much more sensitive during the faster mode, while my left side became more sensitive when she switched to the other setting. There were parts of my cheeks where I barely reacted and then another area, only a few centimeters away, where I suddenly understood why they had bothered with the numbing cream. The areas closer to the bone were more noticeable for me, and every so often, a pulse made me tense up. Despite all that, it was manageable throughout.
The variation is also why having a doctor adjust the treatment as it goes matters. Facial Care Centre says Ultraformer MPT is not used at one fixed intensity for everyone; doctors assess skin thickness, fat distribution and facial structure before deciding which settings and depths make sense.

One obvious advantage of this category of treatment: there’s very little physical downtime.

When we were finished, there was very little evidence on the outside that anything intense had happened. I looked like myself and could have gone straight to lunch, a meeting or anywhere else without anyone asking what I had done to my face. There was already a slight tightness and definition, but no dramatic redness or swelling in my case. One obvious advantage of this category of treatment: there’s very little physical downtime.
The doctor did warn me that my face could be tender over the next few days. There was a strange heaviness under the skin the next morning, almost like my face had been through a workout, while everything simultaneously felt tighter. It wasn’t painful to disrupt anything I was doing, but touching certain areas quickly reminded me that I had spent the previous day having a device work through several layers of my face.
The change was mostly in my lower face: my jawline and cheeks were more defined and the general puffiness was reduced. The best comparison I can make is the way your face looks after a cold plunge or gua sha. Usually, however, that effect disappears once you get on with your day. Well, mine did not.
Facial Care Centre says Ultraformer MPT continues working over the following weeks as new collagen forms, with lifting and tightening developing gradually. Changes associated with fat reduction can appear sooner and continue improving afterward.
If the result continues developing from here, six months feels like a perfectly reasonable amount of time before I start thinking about doing it again.

I Tried Ultraformer MPT at Facial Care Centre—Here's What It Actually Felt Like

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