February 10th, 2023

Caring for your Skin throughout the Year
Healthy Skin Ages More Slowly!

        Not only will a therapeutic facial revitalize your skin, it feels wonderful and leaves you with a warm feeling of well-being. Giving yourself the gift of a relaxing, properly performed skincare treatment will allow your skin to fight against premature aging.

How often should you have your skin professionally renewed? 

• Every 5 to 6 weeks allows performance of a very therapeutic treatment. Just as the skin is deciding how to remodel itself, we introduce a different therapy causing greater change. This is important if you have issues you would like to improve such as hyperpigmentation, clogged pores (which are actually tiny hair follicles), dryness or dullness, and fine lines. (Active acne improves faster with 3 week intervals until healed.)
• Every 8 weeks, still allows for therapeutic changes, and helps your esthetician review your skin's needs to make changes in your daily regimen if necessary. Improvement and maintenance sometimes requires surprising your skin with a different ingredient.
• Coming in as the seasons change (4x per year) allows us to re-evaluate, and do a refreshing skin care treatment.

Fall-(schedule at the end of Summer): Your skin has thickened and is not absorbing nutrients as well as it should. You might have additional pigmentation if you enjoyed some time in the sun, this can lead to blotchy looking skin and darkened age spots. You will benefit from a deep exfoliation treatment to renew your skin's ability to heal, calm down your pigment producing cells, and look bright and refreshed again. This prepares your skin for winter-preventing excessively dry skin because your skin is able to absorb moisture well.
Winter (schedule at the end of Fall): Winter is a time of low humidity due to the cold air. Also, we often turn up the heat in our showers and baths! Dry, tight feeling skin and increased redness will not allow us to look our best for holiday gatherings. Facials that promote hydration are the key here. Also, winter is an ideal time to have skin peels after the holidays are over and we are semi-hibernating anyway! Peels will allow bright new skin cells to appear. These healthy cells hold moisture better as well.
Spring (schedule at the end of Winter): The renewal of life all around us! Spring marks the time your skin cells (and hair cells) begin their new cycles of growth. Your cells will renew faster at this time. To ensure they are healthy, robust, thriving cells; schedule peels, or deep exfoliation treatment. Your skin can  become more radiant and healthy during this season.
Summer (schedule at the end of Spring): Protect, protect, protect! This is the time to have deep antioxidant treatments to help reduce the damage UV produces in these upcoming longer days. Skin calming, nutrient rich treatments will keep the skin healthy and strong to resist damage. Keeping the skin well hydrated-plump and healthy allows the skin to renew itself with fresh, well-functioning cells.

Properly customized professional treatments, along with a simple, highly therapeutic home care routine will make your skin shine! 

Linda Carmichael, L.E., L.E.
California Licensed Esthetician
“Skin Care that Works!”