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The Modern Approach to Skin Rejuvenation

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Advanced Treatments and Medical-Grade Skincare for Healthy Aging

Confidence has always been one of the most powerful qualities a woman can carry. It shapes how she leads, how she connects with others, and how she moves through each chapter of life. Today, modern aesthetic medicine is playing a meaningful role in supporting that confidence, not by changing who women are, but by helping their outer appearance reflect the vitality they feel within.

Across Tucson and beyond, many women are embracing treatments and skincare solutions that focus on skin health, subtle rejuvenation, and long-term results. Advanced technologies like the DEKA Tetra PRO CO2 Laser paired with medical-grade skincare lines such as SkinMedica and Mikel Kristi are helping women care for their skin in ways that align with modern values: natural beauty, informed choices, and empowered self-care.

These innovations are not about chasing perfection. They are about supporting women who inspire others through confidence, resilience, and authenticity.

A New Era of Skin Rejuvenation

One treatment gaining significant attention in the aesthetics world is the DEKA Peel, performed with the DEKA Tetra PRO CO2 Laser system. This advanced laser technology is designed to refresh and renew the skin by gently removing damaged outer layers while stimulating collagen production underneath.

The result is smoother texture, improved tone, and healthier-looking skin over time.

What makes this technology particularly appealing to modern women is its customizable nature. Treatments can be tailored to address concerns such as sun damage, fine lines, uneven texture, and overall skin dullness while respecting each individual’s natural features.

In a desert environment like Tucson, where sun exposure can accelerate skin aging, treatments that support skin renewal and collagen stimulation can be especially valuable. Rather than dramatic changes, the goal is often restoration. Women want their skin to look refreshed, vibrant, and consistent with the energy they bring to their lives and careers.

This approach reflects a broader shift in aesthetics. The focus has moved away from altering appearance and toward enhancing skin health.

The Power of Combination Treatments

While advanced laser resurfacing can create impressive improvements, the most transformative results often come from combining treatments strategically.

At Skin Appeal, we specialize in combination therapies that support the skin from multiple angles. By layering complementary technologies and regenerative treatments, we can dramatically enhance both the quality of the skin and the longevity of results.

For example, many patients combine a DEKA Peel using the DEKA Tetra PRO CO2 Laser with regenerative treatments such as Ariessence PDGF, a powerful platelet-derived growth factor that supports skin healing and regeneration after resurfacing procedures.

In addition, light-based treatments like BroadBand Light (BBL) can be incorporated to address pigmentation, redness, and sun damage, helping create a clearer and more even skin tone.

For women seeking additional tightening or structural support, treatments such as Sofwave Ultrasound Skin Tightening can stimulate collagen deeper within the skin to improve firmness and elasticity.

Another excellent complement to resurfacing treatments is Skinvive by Juvéderm. Unlike traditional fillers that add volume, Skinvive is designed to improve skin hydration and smoothness by delivering hyaluronic acid just beneath the skin’s surface. This helps the skin retain moisture, creating a healthy glow and refined texture. When combined with treatments like the DEKA Peel, Skinvive can enhance overall skin quality and provide a refreshed, hydrated appearance.

In some cases, carefully placed Dermal Fillers may also be recommended to restore subtle volume and facial balance. When used conservatively, fillers can enhance facial harmony while maintaining a completely natural appearance.

By combining these treatments in a thoughtful, personalized plan, patients can achieve more comprehensive rejuvenation than any single treatment alone could provide.

This layered approach allows us to address multiple concerns at once, including texture, tone, elasticity, hydration, and facial structure.

The Foundation: Medical-Grade Skincare

While in-office treatments can create powerful improvements, lasting skin health depends on what happens every day at home. That is where medical-grade skincare plays a critical role.

Professional skincare lines such as SkinMedica and Mikel Kristi are formulated with higher concentrations of active ingredients and are designed to penetrate deeper into the skin compared with many over-the-counter products.

These formulations often include ingredients that support collagen production, improve hydration, and help protect the skin from environmental stressors.

In Arizona’s dry climate, maintaining hydration and strengthening the skin barrier are essential. Medical-grade skincare routines can help women maintain smoother texture, brighter tone, and stronger skin resilience throughout the year.

For many women, skincare becomes more than a daily routine. It becomes a form of intentional self-care.

Taking a few minutes each morning and evening to care for the skin can create a small but meaningful pause in a busy day. Over time, those consistent habits contribute to healthier skin and renewed confidence.

Why Personalized Treatment Plans Matter

One of the most important aspects of modern aesthetics is personalization. No two women have the same skin history, lifestyle, or goals.

Some may want to address years of sun exposure. Others may be focused on prevention or maintaining youthful skin as they age. By combining technologies like laser resurfacing, regenerative growth factors, light-based therapy, skin hydration treatments, and targeted skincare, practitioners can design treatment plans that evolve with each patient.

This personalized strategy helps ensure that treatments remain subtle, balanced, and aligned with each woman’s natural beauty.

Supporting Women Who Inspire

The most meaningful aesthetic trend today is not a device, product, or treatment. It is the growing recognition that confidence and self-care are deeply connected.

Women who inspire others often carry immense responsibility. They lead businesses, raise families, mentor colleagues, and support their communities. Taking time to invest in personal wellbeing, including skin health, can help sustain the energy needed to continue making an impact.

Treatments like the DEKA Peel, regenerative therapies, skin hydration treatments like Skinvive by Juvéderm, and thoughtfully selected medical-grade skincare are simply tools that support that journey.

They help women feel refreshed, confident, and aligned with how they see themselves.

Confidence That Reflects Who You Are

At Skin Appeal, supporting women through this modern approach to aesthetics is at the heart of what we do. Every woman’s skin tells a unique story shaped by life experiences, environment, and personal goals.

Our focus is always on education, personalized care, and natural results that enhance rather than change.

Through combination treatments that may include the DEKA Tetra PRO CO2 Laser, regenerative therapies like Ariessence PDGF, light-based technologies such as BroadBand Light (BBL), skin hydration treatments like Skinvive by Juvéderm, and supportive procedures like Sofwave Ultrasound Skin Tightening or Dermal Fillers, we help women achieve results that look refreshed, balanced, and completely natural.

Paired with carefully selected skincare from brands like SkinMedica and Mikel Kristi, these treatments support long-term skin health and confidence.

Because the women who inspire us most are not striving for perfection. They are embracing growth, strength, and authenticity.

Healthy, radiant skin simply becomes another reflection of the confidence they already carry within.

Reclaim Your Vitality & Glow Through Menopause: A Midlife Transformation Guide

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Menopause isn’t a decline, it’s a powerful transition. At Skin Appeal, we help women embrace this chapter with confidence and grace. From skin laxity to shifting muscle tone, the changes that come with hormonal shifts are an opportunity to feel like yourself again, energize your midlife, and glow through menopause.

As estrogen declines, you may notice uneven skin tone, texture, or age spots. Our BBL photofacial combined with the Deka Peel gently reverses these signs of aging, revealing smoother, more radiant skin with minimal downtime. This duo proves that mature skin can still dazzle.

For those experiencing sagging around the jawline or neck, SofwaveTM offers a non-invasive lift. Using focused ultrasound to stimulate collagen production, it naturally redefines your contours and helps you reclaim your vitality. Volume loss in the face is another common concern during menopause. Our dermal fillers are expertly placed to restore youthful volume in the cheeks and lips, enhancing your natural beauty and helping you regain confidence after 40.


To support and extend the results of in-office treatments, we recommend medical-grade skincare lines like Mikel Kristi and SkinMedica. These hormone-supportive, science-backed
products address dryness, dullness, and fine lines, nourishing your skin from the inside out and helping you balance hormones naturally.

If you’re struggling with a slowing metabolism or decreased muscle tone, Emsculpt NEO offers a revolutionary way to sculpt your body, no gym required. One session equals the intensity of 20,000 crunches, helping you build strength and energize your midlife body. Hormonal changes can also affect the pelvic floor, impacting confidence and intimacy. Emsella uses high-intensity focused electromagnetic energy to strengthen these muscles, quickly, comfortably, and non-invasively, so you can feel more in control and boost libido after menopause. No two journeys are the same, and at Skin Appeal, we take the time to understand yours.

Through personalized consultations, we create tailored treatment plans that combine skin rejuvenation, body toning, expert skincare, and wellness guidance to help you transform your midlife with strength and intention. Menopause is not about losing vitality, it’s about redefining it. With Skin Appeal’s advanced, non-invasive treatments and hormone-friendly skincare, you can reclaim your glow, restore your confidence, and thrive through every stage of midlife.

Ready to glow through menopause? Schedule your complimentary consultation today.

The Art of Dermal Fillers

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Any gifted practitioner knows that facial beauty ideals are based on mathematical ratios. The Golden Ratio, or Phi (1:1.618 of any two parts of an object) was discovered by the Greeks to be ideal and very pleasing to the eye. This pattern occurs throughout nature and can been seen in the markings on penguins and moths, in the growth patterns of flower petals, the shapes of seeds, and the spiraling patterns of sea shells, to name a few. The same principles are applied to the features of our face and body.

As we age, these ratios change due to bone, fat, and muscle deterioration causing the loss of the facial contours. The shape of your face changes from the “triangle of youth” to the “pyramid of aging” as seen in the picture below.  The art of aesthetic volume replacement requires restoring these contours to bring balance, symmetry, and proportion back to the face for a more natural and refreshed look.

Using the Golden Ratio, we analyze the face in horizontal thirds, and vertical fifths.

  • Vertical fifths: Distance between eyes equals the width of nostrils which equals the width of eye which equals the width of lateral face to lateral eye.
  • Horizontal thirds: the length of nose equals the length of lower face (nose to chin) which equals the length of upper face (mid-brow to hairline)

We also use the phi ratio to determine other details like the size of the lips, the distance between the nose and the upper lip, the position of the eyebrows, the angle of the nose tip, the width of the mouth, the placement of the apple of the cheek and so forth.

We each have our own unique way we fill out this Phi equation, and an excellent practitioner with an artistic eye can restore and enhance your individual beauty with a natural look.

In addition to understanding the Golden Ratio to beauty, it is also important for your practitioner to know how to create the changes needed. This is where technique and experience become critical. To have the most natural, balanced result, the entire face needs to be addressed; otherwise, you may never achieve the look you want nor be completely satisfied. Knowing how much filler to place in each area and at what depth to place the filler are important factors to a favorable outcome. The amount of filler that you will need depends on your age and your desired outcome. If you are in your 20s or early 30s, you may only need a few syringes of filler. If you are starting later in life, you will likely need several syringes to achieve a refreshed, more youthful appearance.

Call us today for your complimentary consultation.  

The Skin Type Myth, Busted!

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Many companies in the business of “Big Beauty” have capitalized on the notion of a customized skincare plan based on your particular skin type. I think we have all taken the quiz, received the result, and went straight to the cash register confident that this custom regimen would be the answer to our skin woes. Cut to three months later, and we are back at a different register, listening to different set of promises … and lather, rinse, repeat.

It really doesn’t matter what “skin type” you have. The four basic daily needs for skin health and anti-aging do not change.
 

1. Cleansing

2. Protection

3. Exfoliation/cell turnover

4. Collagen stimulation restoration


Skin Function – The Epidermis

Everyone’s skin functions in the same way.  Skin cells in the outer layer of skin, or epidermis, form in the deepest layer of the epidermis and as they mature, they die and move to the most superficial layer.  The dead skin cells on the surface are then naturally exfoliated off.  In your youth, this cycle allows for the epidermis to create a protective barrier that not only prevents invaders like bacteria, chemicals and viruses from entering, but it also prevents moisture from escaping.  Your epidermis is responsible for moisture production and retention.  A healthy epidermis looks radiant and supple.  As we age, this natural exfoliation cycle slows tremendously from about 14 days in children to 100 days in your 60s. What we see with that slowing is dry, flaky skin and less natural moisture production.

 
The Dermis

The deeper layer of skin, the dermis, functions to keep your skin strong, firm and smooth.  In your youth, the dermis is thick and robust with collagen and elastin.  Somewhere in your mid 30s, natural collagen and elastin production cease revealing fine lines, larger pores, deeper wrinkles and sagging skin.

The Hypodermis

The deepest layer of skin, the hypodermis is your padding to keep you warm and protect your internal tissues and organs.  In children, this looks like round, plump cheeks.  In our early 20s, we lose this “baby fat” and gain our more mature adult face… which is the beginning of aging.  This process continues as we age and we lose more fat which is especially noticeable in the face with circles under the eyes, hollowing of the cheeks and sunken temples.  These changes make us look more tired. Unfortunately, at this time, there are no topical skin care products that can help maintain the fatty layer of skin.  However, the epidermis and dermis can easily be cared for with the right topical ingredients in your skincare routine.

 
Pro Tips

As you can see, everyone’s skin is the same.  Yes, some people naturally produce more oils or have thinner skin but caring for the basic needs first is how you are going to get your best skin. It does not matter if your skin is oily, acneic, aging, combo, dry, happy, sad, or anywhere in between. Knowing this makes skincare very simple. Use the best products that you can in these areas, and your skin will look great from the inside out. Once you cover these basics, you can add on more products and ingredients based on your needs.

First of all, cleanse your skin twice a day with a cleanser that does not over-dry the skin.  Try our Mikel Kristi Purifying or Refreshing Wash to gently cleanse without disturbing the skin’s natural hydration. Secondly, make sure you protect your skin every morning from the damaging rays of the sun and pollution.  Use an SPF with zinc oxide, to prevent the sun rays from causing collagen breakdown and unsightly discolorations.  Use the topical antioxidant Vitamin C, as in our Vital C serum or C Radiance Moisturizer for additional sun and pollution protection. Lastly, tend to your skin’s natural exfoliation and collagen layer with the topical Vitamin A retinaldehyde as in our Vital A Serum.  This is the most exciting product to help hydrate, brighten, tighten and smooth your skin.  Our Mikel Kristi Core Collection of products gives your skin everything it needs to not only cover your basic skin needs but also to enhance anti-aging.  More of a good thing is best here.

Follow these basic steps and watch your skin transform.  Call Skin Appeal today for your complimentary skin consultation. 520.261.SKIN (7546)

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Skin Rejuvenation Treatments

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We all want smooth, radiant and youthful skin, but there are so many choices in skin rejuvenation treatments that it can be confusing. All lasers, light treatments, radiofrequency (RF), and ultrasound (US) therapies help the skin to fight aging in a similar fashion. They all stimulate collagen production in the dermis. Many of these skin rejuvenation procedures create “controlled” trauma to the skin through heat. This activates the body’s repair mechanisms to heal and produce more collagen than before. Much like the way that working out at a gym causes a healthy dose of inflammation and microtears to the tissue to build stronger muscle, these therapies bulk up your dermis by stimulating it to repair at an accelerated rate.

Again, the best course of action to take largely depends on how deep your damage is currently. But generally, for skin that is well maintained with excellent skincare, you can expect to look at it like visiting the dentist. Your daily routine with amazing products is like brushing your teeth. Medical grade facials are like getting your routine dental cleaning at the dentist.
Then 3-4 times a year, you should really pull out the big guns (lasers, lights, RF, US, and other skin rejuvenation procedures) like you would when whitening or repairing your teeth for the ultimate anti-aging and healthy skin routine.


How to choose your treatment:

Choose based on the result you desire. Do you need only to even out skin discolorations? Do you need deep wrinkle reduction? Do you need pore reduction? Do you need skin tightening and lifting? Many times we can do combination treatments to treat multiple different issues at once.

Brown spots on the skin, also known as age spots or liver spots, are caused by photodamage from the sun. Once the discolorations have occurred, it is difficult to remove or lighten them completely with skin lightening creams or serums. Laser and Photofacial Light treatments are the easiest and most effective treatments to even and brighten the skin. My favorite treatments are the Sciton Forever Young BBL and Halo Laser .

BBL (broad band light) is a photofacial light treatment that reduces and erases redness, broken blood vessels and brown spots from the skin with no down time. This treatment is referred to as “Forever Young” based on a Stanford University study that showed consistent treatment with photofacials keeps “the genes of youth” turned on to stimulate collagen and elastin growth.

Halo laser treatment not only erases brown spots from the skin but also smooths fine lines and wrinkles with mild to moderate healing time.

For wrinkle reduction, deep collagen stimulation is needed to rejuvenate the skin. My favorite treatment for wrinkle reduction is our Neogen Plasma Resurfacing. This is the newest technology in skin resurfacing. It offers the results of the old school CO2 or Erbium laser resurfacing treatments with significantly less healing time, less pain and more safety. The plasma energy safely stimulates collagen production to smooth fine lines and deeper wrinkles. Your skin will look significantly smoother 2-3 weeks after treatment, but, even better 12 months after treatment. That’s right, these results continue to improve for 12 months.

For crepey and saggy skin, our Lift Package Treatment with Vivace radiofrequency (RF) microneedling and Exilis Ultra RF and ultrasound (US) skin tightening is the best. This combination of energies provides more lift than other modalities on the market and there’s no healing time. We recommend a series of 3-4 treatments at 4-6 week intervals. Vivace RF microneedling is very different than traditional microneedling. Vivace uses microneedles to deliver RF or electromagnetic energy deep into the skin to stimulate collagen production while protecting the outer layer of skin. This helps firm and lift the skin in addition to minimizing pores and fine lines. Exilis Ultra is the only device of its kind using RF and US energy simultaneously to deliver these highly effective energies deep into the skin to lift and tighten. These treatments can be used anywhere on the body for crepey skin and skin tightening.

A combination of any of these treatments can enhance the results of any one of these by 5 fold. For the ultimate skin rejuvenation, a combination of BBL, the Lift Package and Neogen Plasma Resurfacing is ideal. With Halo or Neogen treatments, we offer BBL at no additional cost to you to optimize your results.

For your best skin, doing a more aggressive treatment like Halo, Neogen or the Lift Package once a year is ideal. Then doing something less aggressive every 3-4 months in between will keep your skin from aging. I love Aerolase or BBL for the in-between maintenance for the no downtime. Aerolase and BBL not only stimulate collagen production but they minimize the discolorations of red and brown from our intense sun in AZ.

After any treatment, it’s important to maintain the results with a proper skin care regimen. Make sure you wear SPF 30+ sun protection with zinc oxide daily. I recommend Elta MD, Skinceuticals or ColoreScience. You will also need at least basic skincare to exfoliate, protect and stimulate collagen production. This can be achieved with only our Mikel Kristi Vital A Rejuvenating Serum or even better our Core Collection. We offer our 90 Day Challenge Packages at significant discounts to afford you all your skincare needs in addition to your skin rejuvenation treatment of choice.

For our best recommendations for your skin and desired results, call us today for a complimentary consultation.

My Lips Are Filled

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By now you’ve most likely heard about lip filler, and if you haven’t, let me warn you that you’re about to put down your lip liner and discover a whole world of cosmetic procedures that allow people to look and feel their best. You may be considering getting your lips done, or it’s even possible that you’re not new to the procedure and you’re interested in knowing more on the topic. Regardless of what brought you here, this procedure has become so popular and so mastered by providers such as Christy Hall, PA-C, that you can even leave work for your lunch break and return with new lips. Yes, we can make it that easy.

So what is lip filler? Are you worried that you’ll be unhappy with it or that it will hurt? What should you expect if you decide to do it? These are fair and common questions that we hear at Skin Appeal, where we specialize in skin rejuvenation and making you feel more confident. Filler is a combination of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine. Hyaluronic acid is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally throughout our bodies. Think about it like moisturizer for your cells, because it loves water and can in fact hold 1,000 times its weight in water. In other words, your lips already have hyaluronic acid to hydrate and plump them. Dermal fillers, such as Juvederm and Restylane Kysse, will assist in plumping your lips further to achieve your desired look. It doesn’t stop at the lips though, filler can make you look younger, more refreshed, and enhance features all over your face. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic that will numb your lips for a few hours after your treatment to reduce discomfort.

Now that I’ve mentioned discomfort, you want to know if it’s going to hurt. Truthfully, we will tell you that everyone’s pain tolerance is different but we will make it as comfortable for you as possible. We see patients that look like they didn’t feel a thing, and we see patients that need to curse at us the whole time (yes, you’re allowed to, and no, we won’t take it personally,) but most patients fall somewhere in between. Again, our goal is to make it easy and comfortable for you so we offer topical numbing cream and dental nerve blocks to reduce pain. If you’re afraid of needles we will guide you into seeing them as your friends in this journey of giving you the lips you’ve always wanted, and you don’t even have to look at the needles.

Another common fear isn’t about the pain but the “what will I look like?” Lip filler is not permanent. We have an enzyme that can be injected to dissolve the filler if needed. Otherwise, it lasts anywhere from about 6 months to a year because our lips are a muscle we use so much. It does vary per person. Having said that, you’re in good hands because Christy is an artist. Skin Appeal is different from other practices because we want to see results. Often there are certain looks that people are afraid of getting but we will ask what it is you’re looking for and will follow up with you until we can get you there. It then becomes a matter of maintenance.

Now how much filler should you do? Can we start with half a syringe? To put it into perspective, one syringe of product is equal to a fifth of a teaspoon. When patients come in and get a half syringe to start, 99% of the time they will come in for the other half. One syringe is a great starting point. For example, my natural lips were a nice size to begin with but I wanted pretty volume and more pout. I love the result after one syringe and I’d still be happy adding more. Ultimately, the amount is your decision but we are happy to guide you towards deciding what you are comfortable with.

Risks of lip injections include bruising, swelling, infections (although very uncommon,) and compliments (common.) Usually your lips will continue to feel numb for a few hours following the procedure and they will be swollen for a few days. Swelling and bruising are common but we are equipped to help you through that as well and we are available for questions and concerns as long as you may need us.

We treat lips for adults of all age ranges starting with younger patients looking for big luscious lips like they see on the media, to older patients that are looking to restore volume in their lips that has been lost due to the process of aging. Wherever you fall, we would love to see if you’re a good candidate so that we can treat you. Come meet Christy, and our wonderful team that have all experienced lip enhancements and is happy to share their experiences and answer additional questions.

Call (520) 261-7546 for your complimentary consultation or to book your lip filler.

Hope to see you soon,

Andi, Patient Care Coordinator

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Common Intervention Fears

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COMMON INTERVENTION FEARS

There is a lot of inaccurate information out there about aesthetic medicine and skincare. And I have to say, I am surprised by some of the things people believe. Here are some of the most common fears that I hear when doing consultations in my office.

Fear #1: Someone will know I had “work done.”

Why is getting this kind of work done any different than getting your hair done? It’s time to change this thinking. And seriously, no one memorizes your face. We look at each other to read expressions and moods, but rarely do people commit to memory every curve and contour. What people will notice is that you look refreshed, rested, and radiant… and not know why.

Fear #2: I will look different.

Don’t you want to look like a different, better, a more refreshed version of yourself? A truly skilled practitioner should be able to deliver a result that gives you the change you’re looking for without making you look like a stranger in the mirror. Remember that to make you look like a different human altogether would take significant intervention.

Fear #3: I will look weird and unnatural.

This is why it’s important to choose the right practitioner. Don’t just go to the cheapest place. This is where the art of dermal fillers and aesthetics become important. 

Fear #4: I don’t want to live with results I don’t like!

Not to worry … Botox only lasts three months, and Hyaluronic acid Fillers like Restylane, Juvederm and Voluma are reversible! Don’t choose treatments that are not reversible, if this is your fear.

Fear #5: Botox is a neurotoxin. This means it is dangerous.

Botulinum toxin has been used medically for over 40 years. It was first used in children for strabismus (wandering eyes). The medical field relies on its therapeutic use, and this makes up a majority of the Botox industry.

Fear #6: If I stop, I will look worse.

First of all, you won’t want to stop because you will love the way you look and feel! But even if you do a procedure only once, you have just slowed aging during the duration of the effects of your treatment. Products like dermal fillers build collagen, and give long-term anti-aging improvements.

Fear #7: My spouse (or family and friends) love me the way I am.

If your spouse (or well-meaning family and friends) encourage you not to have anything “done” because they love you the way you are, the truth could be that they are just afraid you will look different. This leads to many secret office visits with the close-minded family members being none the wiser and who simply believe their loved one looks great naturally!

The irony with aesthetics is THE BEST RESULTS ARE THE LEAST NOTICEABLE!

Call today for your complimentary consultation!  Look more refreshed, more rested, youthful, or vibrant, quickly and easily. 

Here’s to your best skin ever!

Christy

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Skin Concerns by Age

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Aging is an interesting journey of trials, tribulations, jubilations and growth; and, with all that wisdom, comes wrinkles.  What if you could age as you wish and enjoy the wisdom without all the wrinkles and saggy skin? The secret here is to start when you’re young.  But don’t worry if you are starting later in life, there’s still hope.

WHAT SKIN CHANGES HAPPEN AS WE AGE?

Understanding what is happening during the aging process, gives you the knowledge of how to prevent and reverse the signs of aging. 

  • The epidermis, outer layer of skin, thickens as natural cell turnover or exfoliation slows. In children, this process happens every 10-20 days; however, by the time you are in your 60s+, this process can be as slow as every 100 days. The epidermis is made of dead skin cells and when it’s thickened you experience clogged pores, dry skin and dull appearance.
  • The dermis becomes structurally disorganized due to less collagen and elastin production. Think of it like a worn-out elastic waistband, and thus the skin becomes more fragile, wrinkled and saggy.
  • Excess UV exposure causes an increase in melanocyte activity leading to more hyperpigmentation or brown spots, also known as age spots. Chronic redness and increased collagen breakdown also comes from excessive UV damage.
  • A decrease in subcutaneous and deeper fat pads in the face, cause sinking and sagging of the facial skin leading to jowls and tired looking eyes.

THE 20’S

Aging skin starts in your teenage years but starts to become noticeable in your 20’s mostly with fine lines. In my practice, I find that most 20 somethings are not overly concerned with their skin health unless they have some significant condition like cystic acne. However, this should be the decade where anti-aging rituals become set. Instead of piling on the makeup to cover imperfections, let’s start correcting, protecting and preventing them. The best things you can do for your skin in this decade is stop the tanning and start using UVA and UVB sun protection and antioxidants to protect your skin from premature aging. Look for ingredients like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide in your SPF.  Great antioxidants for skin protection and anti-aging are topical vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B3 and essential oils. All of our products contain potent antioxidants but check out our Vital C Repair Serum and C Radiance Moisturizer for a great start.  

THE 30’S

When 30 comes around, we start noticing fine lines, large pores and blotchy skin discolorations, usually from the lack of care we did earlier in life. For me, it was not for a lack of trying, it was a lack of education and misleading information by big beauty marketing. I thought I was doing great things for my skin in my 20’s by using multiple over-the-counter moisturizers and SPF. But I was so wrong, because when I turned 30, all those years of sun and crappy skin care showed up on my face as thinning skin, fine lines and way too many brown blotchy spots… ugh. But, I really do have to thank life for this lesson because that is what lead me into becoming an expert in medical aesthetics and skin care.

THE 40’S, 50’S & BEYOND

The changes in the skin that show up in your 30’s are the same changes that you will not like in your 40’s, 50’s or every decade after that.  These changes just get worse every year with deepening of the wrinkles, dull looking skin, dry skin, increasing redness and sagginess, unless you take action. In come Retinaldehyde vitamin A, Niacinamide vitamin B3 and peptides to the rescue.  The goals: firm the skin with collagen stimulation, brighten the skin with cellular turnover, even out the tone and protect from environmental damage. Skin care at any age has these same basic needs and does not need to be complicated.  Check out our Mikel Kristi Vital A Rejuvenating Serum, our Bio Peptide Revitalizing Serum and our C Radiance Moisturizer for great powerhouse ingredients. 

If you are starting your skin revitalization journey later in life, you may need more aggressive treatments to achieve your goals.  Depending on the amount of change you want to see, consider Aerolase, BBL, Halo Laser or Neogen Plasma Resurfacing.  Aerolase and Forever Young BBL is a great anti-aging treatment for photodamage and skin rejuvenation with no downtime. For fine lines, pores and photodamage, Halo is one of my favorites.  For the ultimate smoothing and tightening, Neogen provides amazing results.  Remember, your daily skin care routine is the most important part of having healthy, beautiful skin. It will also enhance and maintain the results of any treatment that you choose to do.

Learn when you’re young and start caring for your skin with the right ingredients and enjoy your ageless skin. Call (520) 261-7564 today for your complimentary consultation.

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