Thank you for your question!
You’re asking how you can revive your skin and help you look less tired.
You also asked about getting rid of wrinkles in your eyes.
Well, I can certainly give you some ideas based on the photos you submitted.
I’m a board certified cosmetic surgeon and a fellowship trained oculofacial plastic and
reconstructive surgeon.
I’ve practicing in Manhattan in Long Island for over 20 years and the treatment of ethnic
skin has been a significant part of my practice for over 20 years and in particular helping
people try to improve their skin with minimal downtime.
This is a challenge given the many technologies that we currently have they try to do that
but often miss the target.
So when you describe having a dull skin, I can tell you that as we get older the cell
turnover of top layers of skin decreases so there is a little bit loss of luster.
Now that is relatively common knowledge and people have become a little bit too aggressive
with exfoliation and trying to just get rid of dead skin but there is some value to that
and so in terms of working from the outside and then working from the inside.
From, the outside what would we do for a lot of our patients sometimes we do HydraFacial
MD®.
HydraFacial MD® is glycolic acid delivery system amongst other therapeutic treatments
that uses a water based microdermabrasion technology.
This is in contrast to the standard use of crystals which was very popular from many
years but once I started using HydraFacial MD® for our patients, I saw how their skin
not only exfoliated very well but they also have this very nice glow to their skin by
through the infusion of water and glycolic acid and other therapeutics.
Now of course challenge with skin treatment externally is it there need to be some system
of maintenance and what we do try to do is combine a treatment like HydraFacial MD®
with some of skincare products that I look at what people already use and then in our
practice, we have our own skin care product line which I designed based on trying to develop
a place of things that are not just quite in the market basically some actual proper
levels of therapeutic doses of materials that are often just minimally used in commercial
products.
So that’s one thing for the external, the use of an office based more clinical modality
as well as the use of an at home skin care plan.
Now from the perspective of also dullness in the skin as well as lines, what we are
talking basically is a collagen stimulation, a blood circulation stimulation technology.
Now a lot of people are trying to do this with thermal energy devices but in my opinion
particularly people with darker skin types, the thermal energy devices whether it is a
radio frequency technology or a laser hits a certain wall and I think that from my experience
use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been very effective in helping people with skin
quality, dark under eye circles as well as fine lines around the eyes.
Now where I ask you to maybe consider tempering your expectations is in the term get rid of
lines or in the phrase.
Basically can’t get rid of lines.
The lines that are under your eyes are there because of a natural pattern when you smile
and when you move but what we can do is improve lines.
We can improve the quality of skin.
One thing I point out to a lot of my patients is when you think of lines, often people think
that’s the sign of aging and that’s a negative but I would suggest you look at people
who are you, who are very athletic, who do outdoor sports very often they have a lot
of lines and their skin has been photoaged by the nature of their environmental exposures
but they still look young and they still look vibrant.
So there is more also holistic thinking and that you could also consider by just a healthy
lifestyle in addition including proper diet, exercise and other things that are good for
your heart, your lungs, and your body but I think from my cosmetic medical intervention,
I think that working from the inside with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) which is something
that we use a lot for helping people with skin glow is we are basically using your own
blood and using the growth factors and the healing factors which stimulates collagen,
stimulate blood supply and there is this remarkable and unparalleled glow to the skin that we
see in a lot of our patients when we use platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
I think that combined with the technology such as HydraFacial MD® and the use of skin
products can improve the way you look, the way your skin looks.
We have to always work with the canvas that we are given and we want to make the most
of it.
So if you look at your lifestyle in addition to these other modalities you might be able
to finding something to help you with your concerns.
So I hope that was helpful.
I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question.