Evening Out a Ruddy Complexion

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli, I'm an aesthetician and makeup artist at Ultra Salon and Cosmetics, and I'm going to talk to you today about evening out a ruddy complexion. First thing that you want to do if you do experience a lot of discoloration and unevenness or a ruddy complexion, is, you want to make sure that you're using appropriate skin care products, making sure- first of all diagnosing the cause of the ruddiness, is it from a sensitivity or is it from discoloration from the sun, and then using appropriate products to diagnose the reason for the ruddiness. Either if you're sensitive, getting on a good gentle cleanser and a calming moisturizer, or if it's ruddy from discoloration from the sun, making sure that you're using a product that's going to help to lighten up that discoloration. So a couple examples of some products are, if you're just experiencing a lot of discoloration you can use like a brightening serum. Basically this is a pearlized that when you apply it it's going to help to even any discolorations and it's going to smooth overall look of the complexion, so this is one example of a product that you can use, this would be more if you're suffering from a ruddy complexion from UV damage. Another example from a product would be a redness relief product, this would be more if you're having a problem with either sensitivity or you have rosacea or something to that nature. You can see that it's green based, anything that's green is going to help to neutralize redness. This is also calming, it's a gel formula, aloe based, anything with aloe, chamomile, is going to be very calming. So you can see it kind of helps to even out a lot of the discoloration. And once you start to get on track with a good skin care routine, you can incorporate a green foundation primer in there, and that's going to really help to even your discolorations and your ruddy complexion too. So those are some tips for evening a ruddy complexion."