How To Get Your Skin To Glow

youtube beauty expert nurberxo in her recent may 2012 favorites video asked about dermaplaning and its effect on hair so today i want totake a deep dive into the technique! and as a quick aside, i love getting skincare questions in video form

How To Get Your Skin To Glow, like nurberxo’s. so if you have a question,please post them as video responses to dermtv episodes andi’ll answer as many of them as i can! hello

i'm dr. neal schultz [pause] and welcome to dermtv. to understand dermaplaning, let’s firststart with its history. superficial exfoliation as a cosmetic techniquefor facial rejuvenation became very popular in the early 1990’swith the development of therapeutic strengths of glycolic acid forin office, physician performed, superficial peels. and while chemical exfoliation is superiorto physical exfoliation

for many reasons i’ve discussed in priordermtv episodes, there are many forms of physical exfoliation,including shaving, that work. as a matter of fact, because mostguys have been shaving and thereby exfoliating2/3 of their face for many years, that’s the reasons by the30’s and 40’s that men’s skin often looks better thanwomen’s skin. so, once the benefits of regular glycolicexfoliation caught on in the dermatologic community, plastic surgeonswanted to be able to also offer their patients thebenefits of exfoliation.

but since they weren’t trained in the useof chemical peeling agents, but they certainly are skillful with theirscalpels, they invented dermaplaning, which is merelya fancy name for the procedure in which they used a scalpelblade to do exactly what a razor blade does whenyou shave… it takes off superficial layers of dead cells at the same time it removes hair. in the case of dermaplaning, the surgeon,or esthetician uses a scalpel blade…

…mounted on a regular scalpel handle… …and with the blade at a medium angle tothe skin, they scrape off the upper layer of skin likethis... and by the way, if you shave your legs, everytime you shave them... you’re dermaplaning the skin of yours legs. after you shave your legs... don’t you justlove how soft and smooth they feel? it’s notjust from removing the hair that they feel that way; it’s alsobecause the razor has exfoliated your skin, making the skinsurface smoother.

so if you'd like to try a very inexpensiveform of dermaplaning on your face at home, why not consider gentlyshaving the skin on your face. you can use the samerazor and cream you use for your legs in the shower, and in fact shaving in the shower is evenmore gentle. and if you have any facial hair, not to worry… shaving doesn’t make the hair thicker, coarser or grow any faster, and if you need some reassurance there are a bunch of dermtv episodes demonstrating

that as well.