- Wrinkle creams in your 20s?
- Should I get Botox?
- What is collagen, and why do we need to boost it?
- May the gods of skincare helps us
because this shit is hard.
- Luckily enough, Dr. Rivkin in Beverly Hills
owns a VISIA machine.
What is a VISIA machine?
I don't know.
- Well, we're gonna find out.
- It's LadyLike, and today we're answering the question.
How healthy is my skin?
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- I actually think I have pretty good skin, thanks mom.
- Right now my relationship with my skin is pretty neutral.
- Big pores is like a beautiful gift
passed down from generation to generation,
and I'm stuck with the big pores gift.
- I haven't had a lot of acne or pimples in my lifetime.
I think part of it has to do with the fact
that my skin's so dry and it doesn't hold on to oils.
- Obviously, like I had some acne when I was growing up,
and obviously I have some flare-ups now and then,
but usually I feel pretty secure with my skin.
- I have rosacea, I have hormonal acne because I have PCOS.
Some people just don't win the skin lottery.
- You know, as a woman in Hollywood,
I think aging is always kind of a scary concept.
- I think that like people are used to seeing women
who have these beautiful faces,
and so when they don't have those faces,
they they think that they are abnormal or strange.
- When I think of aging and my anxiety around aging,
it doesn't necessarily surround my looks
and how my appearance will change.
It's just more so where I am in my life
and if I feel like I've accomplished enough.
- I'm pretty happy with the way I look.
At the same time, like I give myself room for,
like in 10 years, I might feel different.
- It requires a lot of effort, right?
You gotta do your research, you gotta spend the money.
I don't put that much effort into my appearance right now,
so I imagine when I'm older, it's like,
I'm just gonna be too lazy.
- If you're gonna do something because you feel
like you have to in order to fit in,
then that's where it can get a little dicey,
but if you're gonna do something
that'll just make you feel more like you,
then I don't see anything wrong with that.
- So today we're gonna get our face analyzed
by a VISIA machine.
This machine is used by dermatologists to kind of
give you a picture of like where you're at with your skin.
- It can tell you kind of what percentage you're in
based on other people who have used the machine.
- Can a dermatologist even tell me these things
with the quickness that the VISIA machine does?
Like, it's kind of scary.
- We're also going to the doctor on my birthday.
- I live in southern California, I'm always in the sun,
so I wanna know if could be doing a better job
protecting my skin.
- So we're gonna meet the good Dr. Rivkin.
It's gon' be real fun.
- Let's go!
- Hi guys.
- [Group] Hi.
- So what the VISIA does, it takes the picture
of the surface of your skin, but it also takes a picture
using a UV filter of what's going on
just underneath the skin.
All the nasty, awful, horrible stuff,
it counts it all up,
and then it compares you to, like, everybody else.
It's not peer reviewed science.
It's like a kind of popularity contest
that you don't wanna have.
(laughing)
The sun emits UVA and UVB radiation.
It's important actually to have the right sunblock,
and a physical, titanium or zinc,
those are the sunblocks that really do a good job
with blocking both UVA and UVB.
I'm kind of guilty of this as well
cause I'm like, you know, I'm indoors,
I don't need it, it's okay,
but it does come through the windows to some degree.
- We stand by the window. (group mumbles agreement)
- There's also some motivation as to
kind of do something and maintain your skin
and take care of your skin cause you only have one.
Let's do it.
- [Group] Let's do it, all right.
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- [Dr. Rivkin] Tuck your chin here, forehead here.
One, two, three.
- We just met, Dr. Rivkin.
- [Dr. Rivkin] (laughs) Yeah, right.
- You're gonna know all my secrets.
- Dr. Rivkin was really chill, he was really, really nice,
and he was just like, hey ladies, we're gonna take pictures
of your skin, and it's gonna be aghast.
- [Dr. Rivkin] This is just kind of the spots.
Look how many spots you have, and that's not very many.
So you're in the 87th percentile.
Pretty good, 63rd percentile, so above average.
50th percentile, so you're average.
86 of them. - Oh, really?
- Pretty good. - Oh shit.
- [Dr. Rivkin] 95th percentile.
- Really?
- [Dr. Rivkin] Yeah, you're like the skin merit scholar.
- Oh my gosh!
- [Dr. Rivkin] Light green is superficial,
Dark green are deeper, you have barely any dark green,
but you do have some light green.
And a lot of times the wrinkles around the eyes
are because of smiling, so you just have to, you know,
kind of correct that if you don't mind.
Just stop, okay. - Sure, yeah, I can do, yeah.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Yeah, no more.
Yeah, like that, good.
- My least favorite part was seeing where I stood
in regards to wrinkles.
- [Dr. Rivkin] You're 42nd percentile,
just a little bit below average.
- He was like, do you smile a lot or laugh a lot,
and I was like, yes I do,
and he was like, there you go.
- Does that mean I'm more wrinkly.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Well, just in this area,
it means that you're, you know, you're smiling.
This is the area where most people have,
even when you're young you have a little bit of wrinkles.
Because you're happy, this is your punishment, because
so you have a little bit of wrinkles around your eyes.
- I'm a very expressive person.
I went to theater school, okay?
- [Dr. Rivkin] Little bit of superficial ones,
a little bit of deeper ones.
Hey, better than average, 62 percent.
- Oh, so higher's better?
- [Dr. Rivkin] Higher's better.
- Okay, 'cause I looked at 62 and I was like, oh,
- Right. (hissing)
For you, your texture is a little, kind of,
little more up and down.
26th percentile for that. - Okay.
Well, can't win 'em all. - But, ya know.
- Nothing that I learned from the machine really made
me feel bad because he wasn't really telling
me anything that I didn't really know.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Your skin is more textured than some.
You're in the 20th percentile.
Close to average.
Compared to, you know, what it thinks is good and
compared to most people your texture is
in the, you know, so 77th percentile.
- Okay. - So it's very good.
- You have problem areas, you have areas that
you need to improve on and work on and
then there are areas that are less problematic and
kind of just are, you know, floating along and
doing their thing.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Looks like you're in the 21st percentile.
So that means that out of 100 people 80, 79 have
little bit smoother skin than you do.
No big deal. - Yeah it's always
been like that.
- [Dr. Rivkin] How big are your pores versus how small
your pores are you're in the 14th percentile.
(laughing)
- 80th percentile.
- Strong pore game.
- Strong pore game indeed. - Gotcha.
It was really awesome to kind of just see
that reflected on the computer screen 'cause I could be
like, yeah you know what I do always get
breakouts in this area.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Pores are small I mean look
at that there's barely any.
(laughing) You're a big winner man.
I mean, so 85th percentile there.
You've got some pores.
- I know, I have massive pores we've talked
about this in videos before.
- [Dr. Rivkin] And again, doing all these things that
we talk about will help with pores and
controlling acne controlling kind of acne scaring.
You're like elite like SAT person.
95th percentile for UV spots. - Wow.
- [Dr. Rivkin] So you don't have a lot of those
which is good because of your background you have
some sun protection naturally, so that's good.
Compared to everyone else with your skin tone and
at your age, you're in the 78th percentile so
you're good. - Yeah.
I wear sunscreen every day and I very very much protect
my face that was really really gratifying to see
because it feels like something that
I very much take into account.
- This is a cool picture it's like art.
- [Dr. Rivkin] You really don't have any
because you have a good cover.
- He still explained the fact that there are
certain types of sunscreens that should be used over others
and I'm gonna definitely take that into consideration and
put that more into my every day routine
because you know, you get caught up when you get cocky.
- Oh! - This may seem bad but it's
actually the 81st percentile. - Wow.
- So you don't have a heck of a lot of sun damage.
- We got to look at all of the UV damage happening
on our skin, it was brutal, it was like a waste land.
- [Dr. Rivkin] 8th percentile.
- 8th?
(laughing)
What?
(laughing)
- [Dr. Rivkin] You're light skinned, you're genetically
also predisposition-- (laughing)
you live in LA you know.
- That's how bad it is?
- [Dr. Rivkin] It is something to pay attention to.
So, definitely sunblock.
- There's so much about your skin and like
so many things that you can like do to make sure that it's
healthy and whatever that like it was kind of overwhelming.
- [Dr. Rivkin] How much brown spots do you have?
Not too much, 81st percentile.
- I think it's really easy to see pictures of your skin
and get weirded out or scared.
- [Dr. Rivkin] This is what's on the surface
versus the UV is what's underneath, right.
- Geeze.
- [Dr. Rivkin] You know, you've got some
red areas little bit here and there.
- [Kristin] Yeah.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Brown spots, yeah, average.
- What is the redness?
- It's the capillaries on the surface of the skin and
a lot of people have some enlarged capillaries in this area.
- I call this being Irish.
- [Dr. Rivkin] 99th percentile, dude.
(laughing)
- For brown spots? - For brown spots.
You have no brown spots.
Poriferans measures bacteria on your skin and it looks like
with everybody else that we're doing.
Concentrated around the nose area and that's just, you know
acne, you know, acne bacteria and stuff like that.
Not too much, it's actually it's 80th percentile
it's not bad, but it's always nice to keep our skin clean.
So, around your nose and around the edges here.
- My least favorite part when he did
the bacteria graph on my face.
- Just making sure that, you know, you're doing
exfoliation keeping that area clean it's a good idea.
- It did say like, you know you have a little bacteria here,
here but that immediately made me want to go scrub my face.
- He found a good amount of bacteria and
suggested that I exfoliate more.
- [Dr. Rivkin] There's a little bit of bacteria.
- In my nose. - A little bacteria
on your nose.
- I like to think that I keep decent care of my skin but
just learning like deep within the depths
of the pores of my nose like, I need to really go hard
with like exfoliating and making sure that I get that out.
- [Dr. Rivkin] And so it shows you what the contour
of your skin is in a 3D view. - Wow.
- Different spots on my face that I thought were
smooth acne scars turned out to be
actual like, indentations.
- Oh, gross.
- [Dr. Rivkin] There they are.
- I love popping pimples.
- I've never been able to get so close up
to my skin before so that was really, really cool.
- This whole experience was really validating
because he was like, yeah you just gotta make sure
you're exfoliating and I was like cool I do it
every other day and he was like that's perfect.
So, it was really nice to get a confirmation
that I'm doing the right things.
- This is cool because it gives me intel
as to like where I need to be like
focusing my attention-- - Right.
- and my skin routine.
- [Dr. Rivkin] Right, 'cause it's not everything,
you can't do everything, you know,
all the time. - Right.
- [Dr. Rivkin] But then it gives you feedback when you come
back you know, like okay two months I've been really good.
Let's see with the improvement and
you see the improvement and you're like
okay, so this is and it gives you reinforcement
to keep up those practices.
- No matter what information you get from this machine
it's literally just looking at pictures of your skin
it's a snapshot in time, right?
What ever you find out, it's like, that doesn't mean
that your skin is bad, that doesn't mean that you can't
start taking better care of your skin.
- It was definitely nice to hear, nice to learn.
But, there were different--
- Yeah it must have been nice wasn't it.
Must have been real nice.
(laughing)
- I wasn't saying it like that!
(laughing) - It's just so nice!
- [Fred] I gotta exfoliate my nose is a little stank but
also this makes me feel better about my anxiety
about being in my late 20s now so--
- [Dr. Rivkin] No, you're doing great.
- Looking at like what could be makes me think like, oh,
you know I complain a lot about how my skin is annoying but
like actually, you know, I'm a young lady.
I still got pretty nice skin.
- My ex needs to stop calling, that's what
this is right here.
Thank you so much Dr. Rivkin.
- [Dr. Rivkin] You never know what this machine will reveal.
(laughing)
- It is just like really cool and informative
to know what is going on with your face.
- That information is gonna give me tools
to start taking, like, better care of it.
At the same time, I don't think we need
to know how we compare to other people.
- I think a lot of it has to do with it's user base and
I would love to see sort of how the demographics break down
because how accurate really could an assessment like that be
if it doesn't really represent everyone.
- So, it's important to go in with, like,
a good healthy sense that like you are still okay even if
a machine tells you that maybe your skin's
a little bumpier than other people's skin.
- We depend on computers so much already and
it's nice to kind of like bring the computer
into the fold of your skincare routine, but
it's ultimately not necessary.
- Getting your face analyzed by a computer Lady tested,
Lady
maybe
Look deep within.
- We're all gonna die. It's gonna be fine.
(laughing)
- [Dr. Rivkin] And, that's the lesson.
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