PureLift Face vs PureLift Pro, Which One Actually Suits You
Medically reviewed by
4 independent reviewers
Andrew Conrad Barile, PT, DPT
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) | Licensed Physical Therapist (PT) | CEO and Founder, Xtreem Pulse LLC
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Dr. Andrew Conrad Barile is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and the CEO and Founder of Xtreem Pulse LLC, the engineering company behind PureLift. He earned his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Daemen College and is a licensed physical therapist.
He brings over two decades of clinical and entrepreneurial experience across physical therapy, craniosacral therapy and medical device innovation, built on a working knowledge of human anatomy and muscle physiology.
For PureLift LAB he reviews how current is delivered across all ten levels, from sub-sensory nanocurrent and skin-level microcurrent to motor-level EMS, and how the Infuse pass fits into the same ten-minute routine.
Bertica M. Rubio, M.D.
Board-Certified Physician, Dartmouth Medical School | Medical Director, Antiaging Regenerative Medicine Clinic
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Dr. Bertica M. Rubio is a board-certified physician and Medical Director of the Antiaging Regenerative Medicine Clinic in Redlands, California. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her pediatrics residency at UC Irvine Medical Center.
With decades of clinical experience, she specialises in age management medicine, regenerative medicine, wound healing and growth factor therapies, and her practice integrates evidence-based medical science with advanced aesthetic treatment.
For PureLift LAB she reviews articles for medical accuracy across the whole dial, from the gentle nanocurrent and microcurrent settings through to muscle-level EMS and the Infuse pass.
Daniel Grinberg, MD, FACS
Board-Certified Otolaryngologist | Head and Neck Surgeon | Fellow, American College of Surgeons | Mount Sinai
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Daniel Grinberg, MD, FACS is a board-certified otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at ENT and Allergy Associates in West Nyack, New York. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He completed his otolaryngology residency at New York University Medical Center, serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
For PureLift LAB he brings a wider clinical lens, connecting at-home facial stimulation from microcurrent to EMS to the anatomy underneath, with the same rigour we apply to every device specification.
Prof. Dr. med. Ivo Buschmann
Chair of Angiology, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg | Clinic Director, University Clinic for Angiology
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Prof. Dr. med. Ivo Buschmann is Chair of Angiology at the Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane and Clinic Director of the University Clinic for Angiology at the Brandenburg University Hospital.
He trained at the University of Hamburg, was a Max Planck Society Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, and held senior consultant posts at the Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin before his appointment as Chair in 2016.
One of Europe's leading authorities on arteriogenesis, with over 150 peer-reviewed publications and US and EU patents, he reviews for PureLift LAB how the evidence on electrical stimulation is read and where its limits lie.
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PureLift Face at $499 and PureLift Pro at $699 run the same current at the same strength, so the choice is about the device in your hand rather than the power in it.
This page covers what actually separates them, such as:
- The compact handheld against the slim professional pen
- Why both reach 7 mA and what that number means
- The technologies both run on one dial
- Where Pro Edition and the 9 mA models fit
and many more!
Buy on the shape you want to hold and the headroom you think you will use.
Key Points:
Face is the compact handheld, the lightest device in the range, built for the bathroom shelf.
Pro is the slim professional pen, the build used in treatment rooms.
Both reach 7 mA at 500 ohms across 10 levels on one dial, with Lift and Infuse modes.
Both run nanocurrent and microcurrent at levels 1 and 2, EMS from level 3 to 10, then Infusion and iontophoresis in the Infuse pass.
Three minutes on each side, and the session times out at ten minutes on its own.
The real difference, the device in your hand
PureLift Face is a compact handheld and the lightest device in the range, shaped to be picked up quickly and put back down, which is what most people want from something they use four evenings a week.
PureLift Pro is the slim professional pen, the form and the build that treatment rooms use, and it handles like an instrument rather than like a gadget.
The pen gives you finer control around the jaw and the orbital rim, where the working angle is tight and a slimmer body is easier to steer.
People who have used a device professionally, or who simply prefer the feel of a pen, choose Pro for that reason, and it is a good reason.
What both of them run
Both devices reach a maximum of 7 mA at 500 ohms, across 10 levels on a single dial, with a frequency range of 1.37 to 1.73 kHz spread over 361 points through PDM, Pulsed Dynamic Modulation.
Levels 1 and 2 are nanocurrent and microcurrent, which is the territory devices such as NuFACE and FOREO BEAR 2 occupy for their entire range.
Levels 3 to 10 are EMS, where the current is strong enough to make a facial muscle contract, and that is the part of the dial a skin-level device never reaches.
Both also carry Infuse as a second mode, run after Lift with your serum already on, and that pass is two delivery technologies rather than one. Infusion is built on electroporation (10.1073/pnas.90.22.10504), opening temporary routes through the skin's outer barrier, and iontophoresis moves charged ingredients inward through those routes.
That whole set on one dial at $499 is unusual, and it is the reason Face is a serious device rather than an entry-level compromise.
The specifications side by side
PureLift Face, $499, 7 mA at 500 ohms, 4 microsecond pulse width, 10 levels, Lift and Infuse, FDA clearance K190269 granted 28 August 2019, Class II.
PureLift Pro, $699, 7 mA at 500 ohms, monophasic rectangular pulse with alternating polarity at 4 microseconds, 10 levels, Lift and Infuse, FDA clearance K230506 shared with Pro Edition, Class II, built on the Pro Plus platform as its predicate.
Both are manufactured in Japan in an ISO 13485 facility, and both work with any water-based serum rather than requiring a proprietary gel.
If you want more headroom
PureLift Pro Edition at $799 is the same professional pen with more room at the top of the dial, 7.7 mA rather than 7 mA, sharing clearance K230506.
Above that, Pro Plus at $899 and GLOW at $999 both reach 9 mA and both add the patented diamond-faceted probe and the PDM++ waveform, the bipolar evolution of PDM that makes the top of the dial usable rather than just available.
GLOW adds red light at 634 nm and blue at 465 nm on top of all of that, and it is the only model with light on board.
Worth knowing before you spend up, the right intensity is the lowest one that gives a clear, comfortable contraction, and discomfort is a signal to come back down a level rather than evidence of a better session.
What either device will do
Three minutes on each side and you will see a fresher, more lifted look in the mirror because the muscles have worked, and that first effect is temporary and returns with every session.
The lasting change builds over weeks, and Kavanagh 2012 measured an 18.6% increase in cheek muscle thickness in 108 women after twelve weeks of daily facial muscle stimulation, verified by ultrasound against an untreated group (10.1111/jocd.12007).
Chang 2020 tested facial muscle stimulation against an identical-looking dummy device over six weeks and found increased muscle thickness and strength, which is the strictest design in this field (10.3390/ijerph17113783).
Those studies used their own devices, so they show what facial muscle stimulation can do rather than what Face or Pro did for any particular person.
So which one
Choose Face if you want the compact, lightest handheld and the full technology set at the lowest price in the range.
Choose Pro if you want the professional pen in your hand, the build treatment rooms use, and the finer control that shape gives you around the jaw and the eyes.
Whichever you pick, three minutes a side, four times a week, for three months is what turns the specification into a result.