What to Tell an Aesthetician

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"What you have to tell every aesthetician that touches your face, before they even begin, is what medications your on and if you have certain medical illnesses. Now, if you have herpes or warts, you should let them know. Not because they're in your business, but some products that have different ingredients, like glycholic acid. if you have herpes and you put a strong enough glycholic on your skin it will cause an outbreak. So, they need to know so they know what products to give you and not to give you. OKay, let's talk about this. "OKay, great! We're first going to go through any health issues that you have. If you have diabetes, or if you have a heart problem, or high or low blood pressure." "OKay." "And, you've already marked that off." "OKay." "So that gives me a good idea. Also, how much water you're drinking." "Water's important because, well, it moves everything and clears everything out, correct?" "It does." "Alright! Water's good for everybody. OKay." "I also want to know just how you're feeling about your skin. If you're feeling like it's a little congested, if you're feeling like you're getting a little oily during the day, feeling like it's a little day." "OKay." "I just like to know that so I can know what sort of a program we're going to be putting you on and how we're going to be dealing with your skin issues." "OKay. And things like medications is important for him to know. Because, say like, you're on a drug like accubutane. Again, accubutane is someone who has acne prone skin, they take that. It's an internal pill, but it might mess with something that you're doing to the skin, so you need to know, correct?" "That is correct." "OKay, so tell me a little bit more about that." "Well, things like accutane are going to really dry the skin out." "OKay." "That's if you have severe acne and there's certain peels that we can't do when you're on accutane. And it's always good to know what sort of medication you're taking because if we're going to do a peel, we have to know, because otherwise you may have a reaction." "OKay." "Some other things I want to know are what products you're using on your skin at home. Are you using a cleanser? Are you using a toner? Moisturizer?" "I'm using whatever's on sale at the time or what comes with a free gift. Yeah." (laugh) "That's how most people are. I think it's always good, though, to work synergistically with a product line. Find what line that works for you and use that line. Because there's a lot of different ingredients that you're combining when you're using a hodgepodge of products." "OKay." "And, so it's good to streamline that." "And, may I ask, is there a difference between drugstore brands versus the big department store brands?" "I would have to say yes, because, coming from the skin care world and having a product line myself, I really think that there is a big difference. Although a lot of people seem to think that there's not. But there's things like polyurethanes..." "OKay" "that you'll find in drugstore products and a lot of chemicals that are unnecessary for the skin that might clog the skin." "OKay." "You want to find a product line that is as natural as you can find, because you want it to penetrate." "OKay." "And you want something that's going to work well with your skin." "OKay. Alright. We'll be back in just a second to show you what else your skin needs before it goes to the spa.""