How to Diminish Brown Spots on Your Face The Cheap Way

Series Summary

Makeup and fashionable cosmetics have been used by women for centuries and are primarily used to enhance the beauty of the human body. Makeup can also be used to hide blemishes and add a dramatic effect to the face. Properly applying the right type and amount of makeup is imperative to the look that is achieved with makeup. The key to makeup is to put on just enough eye shadow, blush, eye liner, etc., to beautify a woman without looking too made up or clownish. In this free video series on cosmetics, a licensed aesthetician demonstrates makeup application techniques. Find out the best ways to apply foundation, eye shadow and eye liner, and get information about lightening scars and blemishes. Learn to use an blemish extractor, and discover the benefits of exfoliation. Use makeup to enhance facial features in a natural way.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli. I'm an aesthetician and makeup artist at Ulta Salon and Cosmetics and I'm going to tell you about some economical ways you can treat and diminish brown spots on the face. One of the easiest things that you can do is to use a glycolic acid based product. You can find these really in any drug store. They come in a lot of varieties from serum form, which is this to an actual lotion form, and you can find 'em really at any drug store for under ten dollars. Basically what your alpha-hydroxies are going to do is they're going to penetrate deeper into the skin, bring your damaged, hyper-pigmented cells to the surface, exfoliate, get rid of them and help your cells reproduce healthy cells that are going to create a more even tone. Another thing that you can do, and this is actually a skin brightening gel. This is not a very expensive product either, but this actually has an ingredient in it called hydro quinone which you can get at many dermatologist offices. And basically what this is, it's a pigment inhibitor, so it actually helps you prevent pigment from producing within the skin cells, so basically, when you have a darker spot, it's formed from a skin overproducing melanin. This helps to slow down that production of melanin and helps to lighten the dark spot. So those are some really economical ways that you can help to treat and diminish dark spots on the skin."