Skin-Care Trends: Age The Way You Want To

On Health with Houston Methodist

There’s no shortage of advice on the internet about how you should approach skin care. Whether it’s celebrity GRWM (Get Ready With Me) videos, influencers promoting their skin-care companies or Big Beauty targeting you with social media ads, we’re inundated with messaging about how to care for our skin — especially if antiaging is a concern. In this episode, we speak with a medical aesthetician who shares what works and what doesn’t when it comes to all things skin care: antiaging, devices, procedures and more.
Expert: Annie Christenson, Licensed Medical Aesthetician
Interviewer: Kim Rivera Huston-Weber
Notable topics covered:

• The surprising steps of a bare-bones healthy skin-care routine
• Why skin care is like exercise
• Tretinoin vs. over-the-counter retinols: Is one better than the other?
• You’ve seen the ads — are teledermatology startups a good option?
• How to know when products work for your skin type
• What it’s like working with a medical aesthetician
• The at-home skin-care devices worth buying
• How long you should wait to see results from your skin-care routine
• Microneedling, dermaplaning and other skin-care treatments
• Do collagen supplements work?
• The red and green flags for finding a skin-care professional to work with
• Aging gracefully with little intervention is a valid choice

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