today I'm going to share my 15 year journey using prescription vitamin A I'm
going to show you what I use the mistakes I've made and how I stopped the
peeling and if you've been using for scription vitamin A for a long long time
I'm going to introduce you to a new way of using it from a fellow Aussie YouTube
doctor Davin Lim so if you'd like to know more please keep watching hi I'm
Schellea this is fabulous fifties a lifestyle channel that explores fashion
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video and they'll all relate to you I started using prescription vitamin A
about 15 years ago when I was introduced to it by a dermatologist and pretty much
she said here you go here's some cream it's called zorak it's 1% vitamin A put
it on your face every second night and it will work miracles and I thought
great this is amazing I'm all of 35 and you know I didn't have any wrinkles but
I thought this is a great idea for me I had lots of sun damage on my skin and
pigmentation so yeah I thought great but once I started putting it on my face my
face literally peeled off it was a disaster it was very strong it was 1% my
skin wasn't prepared for that intensity and my skin got so irritated and so red
and so itchy and so purely I didn't have enough knowledge to know what I was
doing to do it properly the doctor did tell me it would work miracles and I do
believe that retin-a does work miracles so that's why I wanted to make this
video for you over the next few years I was dabbling in and out of trying my
vitamin A cream I had the 1% sore at by then I had realised that if I use it too
often I'll peel too much so I started working out what was right for my skin
and now I've found a fail proof method of
using prescription vitamin A where I get great results without all the pain and
suffering so the first thing to know is why do we use a prescription vitamin A
what benefit does it have on women over 50 it works by purging all of your old
skin cells and producing new ones to form it does all skin pigmentation it
stimulates the cells to produce collagen it increases blood flow to your skin
reverses all the sun damage reduces the size of your pores it's just an all-over
wonder creme four mature aged skin so does it work on women over 50 does it
work if we start at 50 and the answer to that is yes absolutely
Dr. Davin talks about the four piece of a retinoic acid vitamin A cream hi there
Dr. Davin Lim board-certified laser mythologist Rick no workhouses does four
main things and we call it four p's okay number one it reduces pimples number two
reduces pore sizing number three can reduce pigmentation in them before
powerful anti-aging and how that works is not only by exfoliation of your skin
but by stimulating collagen so I would agree with that
in my own experience using written aid that all of those things happen and a
little later in the video I'm going to share with you what dr. Devin suggest
you do with vitamin A if you've been using it for a while and I'm gonna link
all of these information below so you can go and watch his video and get a
scientific approach to all things vitamin A okay first thing to do is to
wash your face make sure it's super clean and dry it
has to be very very dry okay this is the written a that I use it's point oh five
percent it's called stiva a and this I believe
is a first generation retinol as dr. Devin will explain a little bit later on
you take your cream and you just get a pea-sized amount that's all that you
need for your whole face okay you dab it on your face
and rub it around you've got to be super super careful with this area and this
area because that's where you're going to go the reddest and that's what's
going to peel the most so around your nose here and this area here it kind of
looks like you've got a rash when the rest of you is okay so be super careful
of that and put it up here on your eyebrows and dab it in okay once it's
all pat in it will go dry and you can either leave it there but what I use now
to save all that irritation is two products the first product I use is the
Epionce medical barrier cream so this cream I put on over the top and I press
it in over the top of my vitamin A and it's really rich and really beautiful
and your skin will feel beautiful and I find that since I've started doing this
the peeling has reduced so much and I don't have a problem with it anymore
keep in mind that my skin is used to vitamin A so if you're just starting
definitely try these two together to reduce all that irritation and hopefully
you'll have a really easy run with it it still works the same way though I
thought when I started to do this so that might dilute the vitamin A but it
didn't it still works I can still tell that my skin's being regenerated but it
just takes away the irritation and the redness and the itchiness I treat my
face with this one so it goes all over my face but if I put it on my neck or my
chest I get burning and irritation from this and peeling and I can't tolerate it
at all when I first started trying this I was trying to tolerate it because I
thought it would be doing a great job but actually the irritation was just not
worth all of the fuss and all of the heartache so I found this product called
Cacay oil and I was introduced to this by Natalie the Beauty Diva she has a
YouTube channel she's amazing so it's well worth checking out
because if you love makeup you're gonna love everything she's got to say and she
told me to use this so I use the cacay oil on my neck and on my chest it's a
natural form of vitamin A it's sourced in the Amazon
it's cold-pressed it's easy to put on your skin it doesn't irritate but your
skin still benefits because I can notice the difference in consistency in my skin
and I love this and I can't use this and this is perfect you can also add a
little bit of this to your moisturizer and rub it in for daytime so yeah thanks
Natalie this was great the last two steps are really important
so when you wake up in the morning it's essential that you wash it all off
because you can't go out into the Sun with the retin-a on your face so make
sure you cleanse really well double cleanse to get it all off and including
if you've got it here and here so that's very important and then the next step is
to put sunscreen on if you haven't used prescription vitamin A before what
you'll notice is when you start using it and go out into the Sun your skin gets
all tingly and really light sensitive so a really good sunscreen is vital and you
can't go outside without sunscreen okay the next question is how often should
you use prescription vitamin A well I was using it as I said every second day
at 1% and my face fell off so I don't suggest you do that what I have found
out since from my doctor is you start very slow so you'd start at 0.25%
this one's 0.5% and the other one that I used is 1% so started at 0.25 and use it
once a week and see how your skin goes if your skin is going great and it
should be if you're using this with it start using it twice a week and it's in
your skin still great three times a week and when you've run out of that 0.25 go
up to 0.5 and then trial the same way and then if you'd like you can go up to
1% but you must get your skin ready for this otherwise it will go crazy and
you'll just be irritated and frustrated so do it the right way and it's never
too late to start so if you want to start now go out get it and give it a
try I started noticing results kind of quickly because I was using a lot of it
and in a high dose so my skin was peeling off and then all the new skin
was regenerating underneath so that's what happened to me if you're going
slower and less aggressively which I recommend you're peeling will be a lot
more minimal and your results will take longer to achieve but anywhere from 6
weeks to 3 months you'll start noticing a difference all of this on top has to
come off and then all the new cells underneath have to regrow what are you
going to notice ok for me I noticed my skin just glows more it's more it's more
radiant my skin is more tight and refreshed I won't say that using
prescription vitamin A gets rid of wrinkles because clearly I have a lot of
wrinkles around my mouth and up here these are very deep wrinkles but what it
does is it kind of smoothes out the skin around your wrinkles so that that skins
more tight and plump and then the wrinkles sit on top so it gets rid of
the tiny wrinkles and the tiny fine lines not the deep wrinkles it's not
going to get rid of those but the skin around the deep wrinkles it smooths out
and plumps up and makes that more tight so that's where I think it's beneficial
it doesn't get rid of these wrinkles I don't think that's going to happen for
you it'd be great if it does but I don't think it will didn't for me but my
overall skin is a lot better I love the results that I get from using a
prescription vitamin A I've worked out how to use it properly without
irritation and I'm going to try something brand
new that I've just learned from dr. davin and he explains how you add a
first generation vitamin A to a third generation vitamin A and get a different
result and I'm going to just show you here what he has to say you can see
Stieva a or retrieve is the most famous one and these are first
generation so the first generations one were invented in the 1990s do they still
work absolutely second generation include different so
different is actually marketed as a anti acne retinoid doesn't work for
anti-aging yes it does what's the advantage of first generation complete
the second generation basically less irritation so in theory different causes
less irritation now here's the paradox once you've got the third generation
which is basically your subs or equities are a team this gives you the best
exfoliation but conversely it gives you the most amount of irritation that you
can start mixing their retinoids i do this the reason behind it's logical if
you guys want to know the real science of it retinoids bind on different
receptors they're called are RAR or retinoid activating receptors in the
different types as a gamma beta alpha and all these different types of
receptors and they create DNA transcription and as a result provide
collagen so in the long covered short basically that's how it works
and by using different written lots of different generations you're welcome
different RAR's... i'm really excited to try this new method please get the thumbs up
if this was of any use to you at all or share it with any of your girlfriends
who are thinking of using vitamin A or experiencing all the irritation and
flaking that comes from vitamin A thank you so much for watching and have a
beautiful week