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do this before your next facial

Raise your hand if you don’t brush or floss for months on end but still expect to have an amazing dental cleaning and amazing teeth???? SMH! Truth is both dental cleanings and facials rely on at home care. The more prepped your skin is walking into a facial the better the results you will get walking out of the facial. In addition to your at home daily skincare regimen here are 5 simple tips that will ensure you get the amazing facial results you paid for.

Take your Beauty Vitamins – When it comes to skin it really is an 80/20 rule. 80% internal nourishment via what you eat and 20% external nourishment via what you apply topically. Supplementing your diet with the necessary beauty vitamins will fortify and strengthen your skin leaving it ready to receive and support an amazing facial treatment. For great results start your beauty vitamins about a month or so before your next facial and keep taking them on a consistent basis after.
Beauty Vitamins Rock!
Don’t Over Exfoliate – Follow the directions of your exfoliant and don’t get creative or excessive. Over exfoliated skin can lead to sensitized skin. Sensitized skin limits what your facialist can or can’t do with your skin. Usage of prescription topicals can also limit your facialist. Also discuss your prescription topical usage with your facialist and physician prior to your facial. Specifically you want to know how far in advance of a facial should you refrain from using your prescription topical.
Don’t over exfoliate with this angelic beauty
Do over hydrate – Well-hydrated skin is a facialists dream! It gives us a truly open playground to advance your facial treatment. Hydrate skin is supple and moist and prepped for pretty much anything. Go overboard with hydration by applying hydrating masques, hydrating toners and moisturizers. Also limit the alcohol and caffeine please!
Hydrate Hydrate Hydrate!
Say no to a Full Face of Makeup – Although cleansing is a part of the facial routine, removal of your theatrical or cirque du soleil performance makeup takes more time than what a facialists allots for cleansing your skin. More time we spend removing your mounds of war proof makeup the less time we can spend on the more important parts of the facial like exfoliating, extractions etc.
“I’m ready for my facial!”
Take an Instragramventory of your At Home Skincare – I know it’s hard to remember your at home skincare routine. so take a pic and show it to your facialist. This will help your facialist in correcting skin issues and it also will guide if necessary future skincare purchases.
Instagramvetory

I attempted to be creative and make a pictionary-ish image relating to this blog post. I showed it to two of my coworkers and neither of them guessed the word correctly. So above you see the image along with correct answer below it. Yes this post is about Bacne!

Just my luck the launch of my new blog coincides with the launch of a fresh attack of acne on my back aka BACNE. “Ewww” said my boss when I told her of my recent medical emergency. LOL. Anyways when life gives you lemons you make lemonade and life gave me bacne and now you get a blog post.

As a knowledgeable skin therapist who enjoys strappy, backless, & sexy summer attire this bacne has got to go and it has to go FAST! Not to mention the “positive reinforcement” I received this past weekend from my father who is Jamaican and while staring at my back in my lululemon workout top he stated “luk how you back a bruck out so!” translation wow look at those nasty breakouts on your back. Thanks dad! Public Service announcement – Jamaicans have no filter. Consider yourself warned!

This is not my first stint with bacne. I’ve had bacne in highshool, thru college and a little after that. Recently I was impressed with how well I was able to keep it under control and even manage to significantly lighten residual scarring and dark marks. Before studying skin I treated my bacne with brushes/loofahs/body scrubs and of course all else fails good old fashioned picking. Knowing what I know now, my approach is more strategic. I can be more aggressive taking calculated risks to clear up this recent bacne breakout along with lightening the scarring and pigmentation. Whether you experience bacne or not you can benefit from witnessing my journey. Consider me your educated Skincare Guiney Pig.

My assessment of the cause of the flare up comes from probably an increase in hot yoga sessions and half-n-half in my coffee. Yoga and half-n-half are non-negotiables in my life – I’m not eliminating either rather I will alter my other habits to accommodate both.

A few disclaimers: Don’t judge me because of my bacne! My personal hands on experience with breakouts are one of the things that make me a dynamic skin therapist & skincare consultant.

On another note I am so over magazine/celeb/beauty bloggers preaching skincare advice sans credentials or before & after pics. As embarrassed, critical, and self-conscious I am about my skin and body I will make it a point to show you before and after pics good, bad or ugly. It’s the least I can do for you in an overcrowded industry of instragramming skincare pushers!

Quick multiple-choice question: How will Renee (my name is Renee) treat her recent Bacne Breakout?

A) Dermatologist Visit

B) Lactic Acid Body Scrub

C) Glycolic Peel

D) Extractions and a Jessner Peel

E) Fraxel

F) Retin A

G) All of the Above

Tune in tomorrow for the answer along with detailed pics! Thanks for reading 🙂

SkinByRenee

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