Freshen Your Skin With Microdermabrasion & Peels - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

The harsh winter winds, freezing rain and lack of sunshine can affect your skin condition, making your complexion look dull and lifeless. The end of winter is an ideal time to spring-clean your cosmetics and skin care products. There are a great number of creams, lotions and serums for the skin, and it's important to reassess your products and adapt your facial routines to suit the season we are in.

There are some things you can do to make your skin look it's best, and sorting out your facial products is a start. Firstly, you should decide which cosmetic items you no longer want or use and throw them away. Check out the expiry date on all of your creams and lotions, as any that are old or past their sell by date could actually be harbouring harmful bacteria, which can lead to clogged pores and dull skin. All skin care products have a certain shelf life, so if you don't use them, get rid of them. Accessories can also store unwanted germs and viruses, so you should ideally wash your make-up brushes weekly with hand soap, using a hair-dryer to dry them out.

Daily skin care products you wear in the winter months are thicker and heavier than you use in the warmer months, because in spring and summer you tend to use moisturisers and creams that are lighter in texture. You should also change the type of products you use, as what worked for your skin in your twenties, won't necessarily work as well for more mature skin as you get older.

To stimulate cell turnover, to get rid of dead skin cells and to make your skin smoother and healthier so it's ready to absorb your moisturiser and face creams, you should exfoliate your skin two to three times a week. A deep exfoliation treatment will strip away dull, tired skin, revealing the new fresh skin underneath. Removing the outer skin cells which are dead and damaged, will show the new skin, just in time for spring.

If you feel that your skin is looking dull and tired, a visit to a skin care professional for a deep cleansing facial treatment will revitalise your skin and brighten up your complexion. Chemical peels and microdermabrasion treatments will strip back the skin's dead layers, targeting sun-damaged skin, blocked pores and fine lines, getting your skin ready for creams and lotions to penetrate deeper, as well as giving your skin a revitalising treatment, and leaving you looking rejuvenated.

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Mags.
Clinic Manager.

Cosmetic Treatments Can Help Combat Ageing Skin - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

You might start to notice some changes on your skin as you get older; whether it's a wrinkle, fine lines on your forehead, crows feet at the eyes or smokers lines around the mouth, but there are some lifestyle changes that you can make that will work in your favour, helping to slow down more signs of ageing from appearing. We can't reverse ageing, but we can help ourselves to age well.

There are certain facial expressions that can accelerate ageing. Small expression lines usually start at the outer corners of the eyes and are known as laughter lines, and they happen when the effect of using muscles to smile show up in the delicate eye area. Over time, the fine lines will appear on the cheeks, and the forehead will start to get noticeable horizontal lines from frowning, which tend to become deeper as time goes by.

The skin doesn't shed and renew itself as quickly as we get older, and a decrease in collagen causes the skin to lose moisture and elasticity. We facial lose volume which causes sagging, and the skin grows loose and can give us bags under the eyes and jowls. Outside factors can also influence our skin: from the harshness of winter, with cold wind and rain causing redness and chapped, rough skin, to the damage caused by the summer sun, from years of tanning with sun screen and sun burn damage from all of those times when you didn't apply any sun protection.

Ageing skin:

• The rate of skin cell turnover slows down as we get older, resulting in thinner crepe like skin.
• There's less production of elastin and collagen, making the ageing skin vulnerable to the effects of gravity. This can result in jowls and bags under the eyes.
• Wrinkles occur as the ageing skin becomes thinner, as a result of reduced elastin and collagen.
• Age spots happen when pigment cells in the skin increase in certain areas and cluster together, resulting in sun spots or liver spots and freckles.
• The ageing skin has fewer sweat and oil glands, making it prone to dryness.
• The blood vessels in ageing thin skin are more likely to break, bruise or become permanently dilated, causing facial thread veins.

The facial muscles, like all the muscles throughout the body, will shrink and weaken over time. When the face muscles change, it can cause bags under the eyes, sunken or hollow eyelids, dark circles, and eyelid folds. Fat deposits give your face its contours. These contours are smooth when we are younger and have more volume, but as time goes by, the fat loses volume and changes positions, helping to give us an older appearance. The cheeks and under-eyes show these changes first, and as the cheeks lose their fat and slide down the face, it will make the cheeks look flat. Fat lost from the cheeks and jaw line might cause jowls or a double chin.

Chemical peel treatment

There are many cosmetic treatments which can help ageing skin to look fresher, healthier and younger. Dermal filers can replace the lost volume in the cheeks, the tear troughs beneath the eyes, nose to mouth lines, the jaw line and can plump up thin lips. Botox gives excellent results when treating forehead creases, frown lines and the crows feet around the eyes. Chemical peels and microdermabrasion are ideal treatments to exfoliate your skin, removing dead and dull cells to improve skin texture and tone, making your face look and feel fresh and youthful.

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Clinic Manager.

Microdermabrasion Treatment For Clearer Brighter Skin - Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & Chesterfield

We all want clean, healthy-looking skin and good facial cleansing is so important in achieving this. The face is continually covered throughout the day with dirt, oil, dead cells and pollutants, and removing the build up that's settled on the face, will benefit your skin enormously. Washing your face daily will remove these impurities, leaving your skin with a fresh look.

Regular cleansing of the face will help to keep the skin clean and hydrated. Dehydrated skin can look wrinkled and old and can sometimes feel rough to touch. Cleansing and moisturising will aid the skin to retain water and help your make-up sit better on the skin. Our skin produces natural oil which helps to protect the skin and it reaches the skin's surface through hair follicles. If these follicles get blocked by a build up of dirt, it can cause inflammation, resulting in acne.

Benefits of cleansing the skin:
Regular cleansing will keep your skin looking bright and healthy.
Cleansing will help maintain proper pore size.
Will help your skin cream to work properly.
Make-up will sit better on cleansed skin.
It will encourage proper skin hydration and prevent blocked pores.

A good way to keep your skin looking clean and healthy is microdermabrasion treatment. These facial treatments are a non-chemical, non-invasive procedure that uses a spray of microcrystals to remove the outermost layer of your skin. By removing the dry, dead skin cells, it'll not only reveal a younger, healthier-looking skin, but it will also encourage new skin cell production, which have higher levels of collagen and elastin, which will further improve your skin’s appearance.

Microdermabrasion stimulates the blood flow, improving cell production, which improves the skin’s elasticity and texture. There's no downtime, although after your treatment it's recommended that you wear sunscreen, as the skin will be more sensitive to sunlight.

Microdermabrasion can:
Treat blotchy, uneven skin tones
Brighten dull, lifeless, tired skin
Lessen your fine lines and wrinkles
Unclog pores and blemishes
Reduce acne scarring and the scars that acne causes
Improve sun damaged skin and age spots
Treat blackheads and white heads

Depending on the skin's condition, the area you're having treated and your desired result, an average microdermabrasion treatment will take less than an hour to complete. Straight after the first treatment, you will see improvements in the texture of the skin. You'll notice that skin care products will sink more easily into the skin and make-up will sit on the skin more smoothly, after the removal of the dead skin cells.

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Mags.
Clinic Manager.