To have great products is wonderful, but if you are unclear on how or when to use them, you can actually do more harm than good. There is a system to how skincare products must be applied in order for them to be most effective. The first step is to know your skin type and your…
Rebuilding Rosacea Skin
Being in the treatment room for as long as I have, time and time again clients have confusion between rosacea and reactive skin. Redness does not always mean rosacea; however, rosacea is quite common. Rosacea is a chronic skin disease which is quite misunderstood and tricky to treat. There are four different types, so proper diagnose is…
Melasma Is Not Sun Damage
I often get questions regarding melasma and sun damage. While they look similar, they are quite different. Sun damage, or hyperpigmentation, is older damage that comes out on the skin later; it may look patchy, like individual dark circles. On the other hand, melasma is usually a result of hormones, although it can be caused…
Retinols, Retinoids, Retin-as, oh my!
I receive a lot of questions regarding the differences between retinol, retinoid, and retin-a. It can be confusing, but they are all derivatives of vitamin A. It is important to incorporate vitamin A into your skincare regime because this vitamin is one of the most result driven ingredients for cellular turnover, so it’s good to…
Acne Scarring: Traditional vs. Hypertrophic
I often get questions regarding how to treat acne scarring. There are two different types of scarring, traditional and hypertrophic, and each needs to be handled differently. What’s the difference? Traditional scarring is a loss of tissue or damage to the pore and follicle, which results in scarring that is pitted or indented. Hypertrophic scarring,…
The Skinny On Exfoliation
We’ve all heard how important exfoliation is to maintain healthy, radiant skin, but why is it so important and how do we get there? There is a lot of confusion out there on how to choose the right exfoliant so let me first break down the process. Our outermost layer of skin is made up…