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How to understand that the skin requires attention? What signals does it give about its illness?
The first and perhaps most noticeable signal is the color change. Normally, the skin is colored fairly evenly over its entire surface. But as soon as we notice:

- Dull color

- Pallor or Blueness

- Resistant pink color

- Spots: red, white, brown

It means that something went wrong. And it makes sense to pay attention to this.

It is important that all the above changes in skin color are located on a level with the skin and do not rise above it: if you hold your hand, for example, on the spot, then there will be no difference in the level of the spot and healthy skin.

I think we've done a great job already:

- learned self-diagnosis of the skin;

- determined your skin type.

And now we can easily compose a basic care. Have a look...

The basic care should contain at least 3 products:

Cleanser

Serum

Day cream.

We select the cleanser and serum according to skin sensitivity type and the cream according to skin type.

That's it! Simple, isn’t it?

Is my skin dry or oily?

To answer this question, let's remember how the skin behaves under stress.
For example if we feel tightness of the skin and / or its peeling after a flight in an airplane then this skin is dry, which means that it has a low level of sebum secretion.

If under stress the skin glistens and rashes appear on it, then this skin is oily, which means that it has an excessive sebum secretion.

It happens that signs of dryness, tightness, unevenness, appear on oily skin. In this case we say that the skin is oily, but dehydrated.

Isn’t it something to think about?

As always, we are waiting for your questions in the comments or in private messages.

Before choosing cosmetics, doing cosmetic procedures or daily skin care we have to answer Two Important questions.

The first Important question: How sensitive is my skin?

To answer this question, there is a special scale which describes 10 feelings. We just need to evaluate how strong the manifestations of each of these feelings are and rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 points. If any of these feelings does not appear at all, then put "0".

Let's go!

1. Irritability of the skin

2. Tingling feeling

3. Burning

4. A feeling of warmth

5. The feeling of tightening

6. Itching

7. Pain

8. General discomfort

9. Feeling a rush of blood

10. Redness

Now let's sum up all the points and get the total amount of them.

If the result is less than 40 points - the skin has normal s

If the result is from 40 to 60 points - the skin is sensitive;

If the amount is higher than 60 points - then the skin is very sensitive and may already have signs of impairment.

For the curious - this is called the Misery scale.

How is skin color formed? Who plays what role?


Skin color is formed by pigment and blood vessels.

In the upper layer of the skin, the epidermis, there are cells called melanocytes and they produce a pigment - melanin.

In the middle layer of the skin, the dermis, there are vessels. Blood flows through the vessels and blood, as you know, is a liquid. According to the law of physics when light falls on the skin it is refracted in a liquid medium. And vessels from the lower lying middle layer of the skin illuminate the upper layer lying above like light bulbs.

All this together forms the skin color.

If the skin, for example, turns pale or red, it is most likely because of the blood vessels reaction. If there are spots (darker or lighter than the usual color), then we are talking about pigment violation.

Did you know that the skin structure is very similar to an orthopedic mattress?😊

Yes, let's look at it from the top down:

Here is the top layer - Epidermis, which is similar to the "protective layer of the mattress".

Next, the middle layer - Dermis, which is similar to the "frame /base of the mattress".

And the bottom layer - Hypodermis or "soft support / cushion of shock absorption".

All together, these three layers work as smoothly as in the structure of the mattress.

And just like a mattress the skin needs care, proper and daily, to maintain a healthy condition. And it's a small matter: to choose a minimum of cosmetics that will solve daily tasks. After all, incorrectly selected care can worsen the skin condition.

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Quite often we have a lot of questions for the cosmetologist; whether it concerns proper skin care, the causes of skin problems, cosmetic procedures, or the choice of cosmetics. Questions, questions, questions...

Unfortunately due to lack of time or for some other reasons we are sometimes not able to ask those questions during a face-to-face meetings with a cosmetologist. And sometimes it happens that even if we ask, we do not have enough time to listen to the proper answers...

Here on the page of Aesthevi I am ready to answer your questions, talk about the skin in simple language and share professional secrets. For more than 20 years of practice in cosmetology and dermatology I fortunately accumulate a lot of them.

So everything you wanted to ask but haven't asked yet.

Yours sincerely,
Rina Ruis.