channlluv
05-19-2011, 09:59 AM
I'm wondering about microdermabrasion. I have normal skin, I think, but I do have spidery capillaries across my nose and cheeks. It looks like early rosacea, but a dermatologist a couple of years ago told me I don't have that, just food sensitivities to tomatoes and chocolate or something (she did no food testing, just popped out the opinion). Rosacea does run in my family, though -- my grandfather had it, my mother and one aunt both have this "rosy glow" across their noses and cheeks, too.
That same dermatologist told me facials don't really do anything for your skin and that she thought of them as "foo-foo." Her word.
But I just got a great coupon deal for a facial and microdermabrasion, and I don't mind a little "foo-foo" now and then. I've only ever had a couple of steam + extraction + moisturizer facials. They were okay. Nothing I felt like I had to go do again. I HAVE had a series of four chemical peels, which worked well on me, but that medical spa closed down and I don't know where the aesthetician who worked on me went. I tried to find her. She was good and I trust her with my skin.
I also IPL laser treatment on my face for sun damage at that same medical spa, and that worked well, too, in that it significantly reduced the amount of apparent sun damage on my face and chest in a blacklight test. My 10-years-younger marathon-running, diving champion cousin was pretty disgusted that I had better skin than she. Ha!
I'm not afraid of microdermabrasion as a procedure, but I'm wondering if it would be detrimental with the spidery capillary thing already going on.
Anyone else dealing with this? Color me vain, but I'm aging well and I want to keep on aging well, you know?
Thanks!
Roxy
That same dermatologist told me facials don't really do anything for your skin and that she thought of them as "foo-foo." Her word.
But I just got a great coupon deal for a facial and microdermabrasion, and I don't mind a little "foo-foo" now and then. I've only ever had a couple of steam + extraction + moisturizer facials. They were okay. Nothing I felt like I had to go do again. I HAVE had a series of four chemical peels, which worked well on me, but that medical spa closed down and I don't know where the aesthetician who worked on me went. I tried to find her. She was good and I trust her with my skin.
I also IPL laser treatment on my face for sun damage at that same medical spa, and that worked well, too, in that it significantly reduced the amount of apparent sun damage on my face and chest in a blacklight test. My 10-years-younger marathon-running, diving champion cousin was pretty disgusted that I had better skin than she. Ha!
I'm not afraid of microdermabrasion as a procedure, but I'm wondering if it would be detrimental with the spidery capillary thing already going on.
Anyone else dealing with this? Color me vain, but I'm aging well and I want to keep on aging well, you know?
Thanks!
Roxy