As amazing as a spa facial can be, we don’t always have the time or budget to make it a regular part of our skin care routine. But if you’ve ever gotten a facial before, you’ll know that it consists of several steps that are actually quite easy to recreate at home. Amy Peterson joins other skincare experts to weigh in on how to best give yourself an at home facial.
The beloved skincare ingredient is popping up in more and more products for below the neck. Here’s what experts think.
With TikTok trends and DIY hacks on the rise, people are getting carried away with their at-home skin-care practices, and not all of it is for the best. While certain trends are fun, beneficial and worth a try, like skin cycling, other trends can be more nefarious. We chatted with skin experts to get their take on some of the worst skin-care trends of 2022 that shouldn’t be brought into 2023.
Promising to reduce lines and wrinkles, minimize age spots, and tighten and tone skin, radio-frequency microneedling is a popular procedure that addresses multiple signs of aging at once. Different treatment options exist, but the basic function is the same: an applicator with tiny needles penetrates the skin at various depths to deliver radio-frequency energy waves and create microinjuries. This prompts the body’s response to generate more collagen resulting in smoother skin with a fresh glow.
Read an article by an aesthetic editor who gets to research the latest cosmetic treatments. In this article you will find the commentary by Amy Peterson on some of her preferred treatments. The writer is in the unique position to be able to try today’s most effective technologies for tightening, toning and treating the body as soon as they hit the market.
“Skin cycling is a trend that became popular on TikTok, but the concept has been practiced by skin care professionals for many years,” says Amy Peterson, medical aesthetician and founder of Miami medspa Skincare by Amy Peterson.
Long-term stress can have an even greater impact on skin, says Dr Bowes. “Chronic stress affects the skin over long periods of time and can lead to disturbances of the gut microbiome. This ultimately affects the health of the skin, which can then lead to blemishes, acne, dryness, redness, inflammation, eczema and psoriasis.”
For medical aesthetician Amy Peterson, the NOTOX technology (short for “non-toxin-based wrinkle reducing serum”) in Dr. Paul Sharad’s elixirs work great to keep lines and wrinkles at bay. “Fundamentally, it is an ‘inside out’ approach that comes out of Dr. Sharad’s philosophy that, ‘one cannot have bad health and good skin,’” explains Peterson.
Amy Peterson is featured in the Skin Anarchy podcast episode where they interview the Medical Aesthetics Guru herself. Amy shares her immense knowledge in the area of laser treatments and what we all should be considering when approaching the realm of medical vs non medical aestheticians.
