Winter is the best time to apply effective, enhanced anti-aging treatments. Let us not forget that Crete has increased sunshine most months of the year and during the summer if we apply some treatments there is a risk that our skin will fill with freckles and varicose veins!
Now winter is the best time to rejuvenate your skin, to see it brighter, healthier, firmer and with fewer wrinkles!
The professional beautician is the one who will diagnose the needs of your skin and will apply the treatment that suits you, always aiming for a good and safe result.
The anti-aging treatments that we apply in winter are:
- Skin abrasion with crystals: ideal treatment even at young ages 30 +. Exfoliates without irritating much, gives freshness and brightness. Can be done in 1 application for a flash effect (eg before a social event) or become 4- 6 applications for a more intensive treatment. Combined with hyaluronic acid and vitamins or with needleroller for superficial wrinkles and starting relaxation.
- Fruit acids: The latest generation of fruit acids are cocktails of many acids in combination with retinol, which aim not only to exfoliate, but activate the production of collagen and elastin. It is a basic anti-aging treatment that is completed in 4-6 applications and can be combined with other anti-aging methods, such as microcurrents, radiofrequency and mesotherapy.
- Peels: deep peeling with TCA, salicylate, azelaic, mandelic in various contents and combinations with which we deal with acne, scars, freckles, wrinkles and relaxation. They are performed exclusively in winter and a special protocol of home treatment is followed.
- Bleaching treatments for discoloration of spots and freckles: it is done exclusively in winter, with a combination of bleaching and antioxidants. The skin peels lightly and becomes slightly sensitive. In general, whitening treatments should not be too aggressive, because in this case the freckles come back more severe !!! Hyperpigmentation generally requires long-term treatment both at the institute and at home.
- Mesotherapy: mesotherapy is either injected point by point, or done with a roller or dermapen clearly and can be done all year round. But because it can be ideally combined with acids, which work safely only in winter, I prefer and recommend it as an anti-aging method in the period from October to May. In mesotherapy we put elements on the skin such as collagen, elastin, hyaluronic acid, vitamins, firming agents and at the same time we stimulate it with multiple nodules to regenerate from within. Usually 4-6 applications are made every 15 days.
So we activate our skin in winter and renew it with the treatments that suit it. Let's not look for "magic" solutions. Beautiful skin is not the "stretched", "stuffed" and ultimately unnatural skin. Beautiful skin means above all healthy skin and this requires long-term and systematic care.
Writes Evi Markaki, Aesthetician, B.Sc. Technological Educational Institute of Athens