- Are you seeing red?
Is your red face a code red?
Roses are red, faces are too,
if you're looking for answers,
I've got some for you.
Hi, I'm dermal therapist, James Vivian,
and I'm here to talk to you about facial redness,
and how to treat it using active skincare,
and professional treatments.
So let's start with why your skin could be looking red,
and it's really important
that you distinguish whether or not
you have acute redness, or chronic redness.
Now, acute redness is going to be
because something has happened to your skin,
and ideally it's temporary.
So, let's think about maybe getting a sunburn,
or having a professional treatment,
using products that aren't appropriate for you.
And that can present, as you know,
visibly red skin.
It can also be hot,
it can be sensitive,
it can be really, really irritated.
Whereas, chronic facial redness is going to be due to
probably more internal issues.
And sometimes you can just have a genetic predisposition
to facial redness, and that's fine.
But quite often, it can be due to other issues
such as hormonal imbalances,
it can be due to incorrect dietary choices,
it can be due to other lifestyle factors, such as stress.
And when this occurs,
you're gonna need to take
a little bit more of a long-term approach.
Facial redness can manifest in a few different ways.
It can be as simple as
just a few visible, dilated capillaries
that quite often favour areas
like around the nose, the chin area,
but they can really pop up anywhere.
Or you can have what we call a diffuse redness,
which is more of a backdrop of facial redness,
and that can be exacerbated with things like diet choices,
when we get embarrassed, nervous,
and our skin flushes,
that can become much more evident.
Another form of facial redness can be what we call
post inflammatory erythema,
or PIE for short.
And that is when redness is left after a blemish,
or a wound heals.
There is a video by Dr. Michelle Rodrigues
talking about post inflammatory erythema,
and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation,
so check that out.
So once we've ascertained
if our facial redness is either acute or chronic,
we need to treat it accordingly.
So if it's acute,
and ideally it is,
what you need to do
is you need to take the protagonist down.
So if it was a sunburn,
don't go in the sun.
If it's because you were using Retinol,
or too high a concentration,
put it away for a while.
Ideally, once you've taken the protagonist away,
or you're feeling better,
that will minimise itself.
But you can give it a helping hand.
So, from a professional perspective,
you can just make sure that you're not doing anything
to further inflame the skin,
that you're working with treatments
that are going to be very, very calming,
and very, very soothing.
From an at-home care perspective,
make sure that you're just supplementing the skin
with really, really calming and soothing barrier,
or restorative Ceramide type ingredients
to help soothe.
Put your active ingredients away.
I say it's like exercising on an injury,
you need to let the injury heal itself,
and then you can go,
and you can start using your active ingredients once again.
So, for chronic redness,
we need to take a more long-term approach.
So from a professional perspective,
it's a great idea to go,
and put your skin in the hands of a dermal therapist,
or a skincare professional
that can take you on a facial redness journey.
Because potentially, you're gonna have this issue forever,
but it will ideally get better,
and you want to find someone
that's got the right tools and ability
to use those tools safely.
So, one of the best treatments around
for facial redness is laser.
With laser, there's a spectrum,
and it ranges from very, very mild
to quite invasive.
And when it comes to treating facial redness,
we tend to be on that more gentle end of the spectrum.
So treatments like laser vein therapy,
treatments like Laser Genesis,
they help to support the skin structure
by making new collagen,
because as we age, unfortunately,
our skins do get redder
because the collagen around the vessels
isn't as strong and supple as it once was,
which makes our skin look redder.
Other treatments for chronic facial redness include
collagen induction therapy through skin needling devices,
vitamin A peels in clinic strength,
lactic acid peels.
For best results with your facial redness,
you want to partner any in-clinic professional treatments
with appropriate home care.
A really good product for chronic facial redness
is the Aspect Extreme B 17.
Anyone with facial redness,
we encourage them to use this.
It's our go-to product.
And so, it's really, really, anti-inflammatory,
it's really, really hydrating,
it's really, really strengthening on those skins
that are showing signs of redness.
Another is the Rosaliac by Laroche Posay,
and this has three core ingredients
that help to actually reduce the size of the capillaries.
And then, for those of you with acute inflammation,
you want to use something
that is really, really soothing on the skin,
such as SkinCeutical's Phyto Corrective Serum.
This is just so anti-inflammatory, so hydrating,
so barrier restoring.
And ye old favourite,
Aspect Redless 21,
which is a suite of anti-inflammatory oils.
If you've stripped your skin's natural barrier,
if you've over exfoliated,
you can just put this on,
and whilst your skin is healing naturally underneath,
which is what it does,
this just helps to support that,
and reduce it from getting any more inflamed.
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So, in summary,
those of you with facial redness,
make sure that you are not aggravating your skin any more
than it already is,
and that if it is a more chronic issue,
know that skincare will take you so far,
and that there are lots of professional treatments
out there for you too.
Thanks for watching.
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