Are You Getting the Best Benefits From Your Anti-Aging Products?

For many people over the age of 30, incorporating in anti-aging eye creams, serums, and moisturizers and masks is considered to be an important part of a skin care routine. Add in Botox, fillers, chemical peels, facials, and other age-erasing procedures and one would assume that they’ve got their skin’s anti-aging needs covered, right?

Well, not exactly. While these are all essential in the quest for smoother, younger looking skin, you must realize that the best anti-aging products and treatments are useless if you’re not protecting your skin from daily UV exposure. Without protecting your skin from sunlight’s damaging rays, all the benefits of your treatments and products you are using can be canceled out. Find a good moisturizer that contains a minimum of SPF 15 (I love our Daily Protection SPF 30) and apply it generously and wear it faithfully every day. So now your anti-aging products and treatments can work their magic.

Do you wear sun protection every day? Leave your comments below.

Read: Having a Laser Skin Procedure? Important Information You Need to Know

Read: A-Z Guide to Anti-Aging… Read more

Do You Have Dry, Dull, Aging Skin?

As most of you may know, I created a skin care line based on nine different skin types rather than the standard—dry, normal and oily. I’ve never understood how can skin care companies say their line is “suitable for all skin types” when all skins have different needs. If you’re truly looking for results, it’s imperative that you use products exclusively formulated for the unique needs of your skin and it all begins with my nine skin types.

Today, I’m featuring our skin type #7.

Do you have?

-Dry skin year round

-Loss of tone and elasticity

-Skin that looks tired, in need of a glow

-Hyperpigmentation and discoloration (brown spots)

-Large pores more so in t-zone

-Blackheads within the pores

-Concerns about anti-aging and wanting to keep your skin smooth and healthy… Read more

Having a Laser Skin Procedure? Important Information You Need to Know

As technology evolves and more skin care advancements are made, some people are seeking professional treatments such as laser skin procedures in an effort to improve skin concerns such as lightening brown spots and broken capillaries. While we don’t offer this treatment at my skin care spas in Dallas, I certainly know they can be beneficial, so I refer our clients to various doctors in our area when I feel their skin would benefit from such a procedure.

Recently I was having a conversation with a friend of my mother’s, a woman in her early 60′s, and she was telling me that she had gone through a series of laser procedures to help lighten her brown spots and had been very happy with the results.

So immediately going into esthetician mode I said, “Great! Are you using a skin lightener?” She replied, “A what? No, I don’t think so.”

I can’t tell you how many times that I have had this conversation with people. They go in for a laser “fix” only to not be given proper instructions on how to maintain the results they have achieved. Why does this happen? Unlike estheticians, many dermatologists don’t spend as much of their time on daily skin care, but rather they can be more focused on treating skin diseases, prescribing medicine and giving aggressive treatments, such as mole removal and laser skin procedures. So I’m not surprised when I hear this, it’s simply the way it is. I see it like a personal trainer versus a nutritionist. They both have expertise in getting a person healthy and well, but just different areas of expertise – and there is a need for both… Read more

How Do I Get Rid of Broken Capillaries?

What are broken capillaries?

Well for starters, the term “broken” is actually inaccurate. Broken capillaries are caused when you get a bruise from injury to the skin.

The little red blood vessels that are found in different areas of the face (most commonly the nose, cheeks and chin) are actually permanently dilated capillaries. These are common in lighter, fairer skin types of western European descent (Irish, Scottish). If you have visible capillaries around the corners of the nose (little red, squiggle marks) and nowhere else, these may not be the same – these can be caused simply from blowing your nose from colds and allergies that put pressure on the capillaries.

Where do they come from?

Capillary walls are very elastic, and through repeated dilating from hot showers, spicy foods, microdermabrasion, intense exercise, alcohol, or merely just genetics, they no longer have the ability to contract, remaining visibly enlarged… Read more

Are You Exfoliating Around Your Eyes? If Not, You Should Be

The reason for fine lines and wrinkles as we age is the weakening of collagen and elastin fibers in the skin, mainly caused from long-term sun exposure, but also facial movements that create actual folds and creases in the skin. I often use this example to my clients when I’m offering solutions for reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles.

If you were to take a piece of wood and hit it with a hammer, you would make an indentation in the wood. To smooth out the dent, a little sandpaper would make the dent less noticeable. The same rules apply with the skin. Wrinkles and lines are considered indentations in the skin, so by “sanding” down the skin with super exfoliators, the lines and wrinkles will appear less deep, and therefore, less noticeable. It’s truly that simple! Once the skin is exfoliated, you should then focus on giving the skin intensive hydration to fill the cells with moisture and collagen-protecting ingredients so the lines appear plumped up.

How do you safely exfoliate around the eyes?

For those of you who follow my skin care routine, you more than likely are using one of our glycolic acid serums on the face before moisturizing at night. People often avoid around the eye area thinking that it will cause irritation. While of course you want to be careful around the eye area, you want to make sure that you’re only applying the serum in the outer eye area where lines and wrinkles (crow’s feet) are visible. Eye cream (Firming Eye Therapy or Synergy) should always be applied over the glycolic serum to seal it into the skin and provide extra moisture… Read more

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