How to choose the right treatment or product for your aesthetic goals
Earlier this month, we introduced “trick or treatment,” a series exploring popular concerns and the product “tricks” and treatment options available to treat them. As we’ve said before, a product regimen can be incredibly transforming; offering lasting change or a solution that truly restores your skin. But sometimes concerns are persistent or require a surgical intervention or non-invasive treatment solution to get to the source of the problem.
Choosing between product, treatment, or surgical procedure is best done with a practitioner you trust in an environment where they can examine your concerns, discuss treatment options, and offer you education and support to weigh your options.
Your goals and concerns are as unique as you are; so we’re passionate about combination treatments and personalized plans that combine product regimens with life-changing treatments in a way that’s unique to you.
This series is a starting place for you to explore your options before you come to see us for a consultation.
Let’s dive back in!
Aging Skin
Our skin naturally loses volume, elasticity, and density as we age. You might notice lines, wrinkles, sagging skin, or age spots as you get older. Treatments and products can help trigger collagen production, smooth skin, and rejuvenate your complexion. More dramatic treatments can dramatically brighten skin, smooth wrinkles, and accelerate cell turnover and collagen for a more youthful look.
The Trick
Vivier Grenzcine Serum is a concentrated serum specialized to smooth lines, wrinkles, and other signs of aging. It’s designed to make skin more luminous and to improve skin texture, tone, and elasticity. Even if you’re already noticing signs of aging, sunscreen is always important to prevent future damage and to protect the outcomes of any treatments you’ve already had. Choose a science-backed, broad spectrum sunscreen with UVA/UVB protection and proven results!
The Treatment
Lines and wrinkles benefit from a disciplined product regimen or medical-grade products. But especially with deeper folds or lines, solutions like neuromodulators can help smooth and prevent future wrinkles from deepening. These injections relax the muscles causing the folds to smooth the skin; neuromodulators can prevent future signs of aging or address folds from repeated gestures like frowning, squinting, furrowing your brow, or smiling.
If you’re experiencing a loss of volume, dermal fillers are another injectable solution to enhance fullness for a more youthful look. Our Beauty Nurse® team understands the nuances of your facial symmetry, and skilled injectors use a nuanced approach for natural, subtle results. If you’re noticing sagging skin, loose tissue, or excess fat as a sign of aging, you may also benefit from treatment solutions like BELKYRA™, FaceTite or BodyTite.
Tired-Looking Eyes
The skin around the eyes is especially delicate and is often one of the first places to show signs of aging. Your eyes tell a story about who you are. If you notice wrinkles, lines, or dark spots around the eyes, you might look more tired or older than you actually are.
The Trick
Skinmedica® TNS Eye Repair® helps target wrinkles, lines, and dark shadows around the eyes when used regularly. It also helps hydrate the delicate eye area and smooths away wrinkles, lines, and creases. You’ll want to be especially gentle when touching the eye area during makeup application or face washing. Repeated gestures are part of what cause creases and wrinkles in the eye area.
The Treatment
If you have more serious concerns about the appearance of your eyes, or have heavy, wrinkled, eyelids or sagging tissue that affects your vision, you might be a candidate for surgery. Blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery corrects concerns on your upper or lower eyelids to smooth, lift, or reduce excess tissue. Book a consultation to discuss options with a surgeon in an initial consultation.
Redness or Rosacea
Seeing red? You’re not alone. Rosacea can be hard to diagnose because so many people experience redness or flushing. Learning your triggers is an important part of a rosacea treatment strategy, and an important step in tandem with the trick or treatment you choose. Once you know that red wine, exercise, heat, or other triggers exacerbate your symptoms, you can combine that knowledge with a treatment strategy to keep your complexion calm and collected.
This blog explores a successful treatment example involving a TCSC patient who came to us with rosacea and visible veins. Take a look and see how a combination of treatments with medical grade skin care helped rejuvenate their complexion.
The Trick
Vivier’s Redness Solution Complex calms, soothes, and reduces the appearance of redness in sensitive skin. If you need to exfoliate reactive skin, ZO® Skin Health Rozatrol® is optimized for red, sensitive skin. Antioxidant protection helps reduce oxidative stress and hydration reinforces your skin’s protective barrier.
Sunscreen is especially important for those suffering from rosacea or concerned about redness. Choose a science-backed product with broadband UVA/UVB protection and an SPF of 30 or more. There’s also fascinating research about the effect of Vitamin C for rosacea patients, so a Vitamin C E Ferulic serum could be a great place to start.
The Treatment
If you have regular concerns about redness, or visible veins associated with rosacea symptoms, laser treatments could be an effective solution for you. Laser solutions can target red blood vessels, eliminate pigmentation, and help regenerate skin cells for a renewed complexion. Book a consultation and we’ll examine your skin, discuss your concerns, and help create a treatment strategy that gets to the source of your redness.
Read more about laser treatments here before your consultation to explore the possibilities.
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