Skin Care

The winter months bring drier weather, even in warm climates such as Los Angeles. Unfortunately, this dry weather can wreak havoc on your skin. The following infographic provides you with some easy tips to help keep your skin healthy and hydrated.

Just as with hair, your skin can have good days and bad days. When your skin looks healthy and beautiful, it can boost your self-confidence and add a little extra pep to your step. Conversely, very few things can cause you to feel more self-conscious than your skin acting out. An unexpected acne breakout, itchy rash or splotchy skin can occur at any time. Fortunately, there are often some common reasons for these breakouts, and identifying the cause can often help you to reverse the problem as quickly as it developed.

Summer is almost here. If you’re planning on enjoying the long, sunny days we typically experience in the Beverly Hills area, you’ll need to take some steps to protect your skin from sun damage. The sun’s UV rays can result in the development of wrinkles, age spots and skin cancer. It’s crucial that you do your part to provide your skin with the protection it needs.

Before you really “got it” about sun protection, you were unknowingly inflicting some intense damage on your skin’s DNA – sort of guaranteeing that you’d be upping your odds for brown spots and potentially skin cancer  – But who thought of that!?

Lots goes on when sun hits skin. You don’t see the damage until there’s a lot of it.

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When should I see my derm and when can I just go to the drugstore?

I have patients in my office for all kinds of reasons. We all wear a lot of skin and there are thousands of problems with malfunctions and how skin looks. Spots, dots, wrinkles, rashes, zits… How do you decide what’s “dermatologist-visit-worthy” and what you can handle on your own?

Medical Exfoliation with the Kind Touch of SilkPeel

Microdermasion has been around a long time. And it’s stayed out front and center because exfoliating your skin has proven to provide a host of benefits.

Self  Assessment Can be Daunting

A quick look at our face in the mirror and we start wondering, “Where’d that frown line come from? And when did my lips disappear?”

I know sunscreens are the best way to protect my skin from aging. How can I make sure I’m getting the maximum benefits?

“I can’t tell you how often I hear patients say, ‘I’m never in the sun.’ Even if you don’t lay out by a pool or on the beach, if you live on the planet Earth, especially in the city of Los Angeles, you’re getting sun,” says Dr. Rebecca Fitzgerald.

Skin Temper Tantrums

Rosacea can be like a defiant teen at times. Just when you need your skin to behave, it decides to glow like Rudolph and break out. In some ways you can liken Rosacea to skin temper tantrums.

No cure, but you can control

So what do you do? Rosacea is chronic – meaning it’s a condition that really doesn’t have a sure cure, but it can be controlled in a way to make sure it doesn’t rule your life.

Managing Acne - Will getting a tan help?

Not in the long run. Many people think tanning “helps” acne, but really all you are accomplishing is activation of melanin cells, an early start on wrinkling and potential risk of DNA damage that can result in skin cancer.

Plus, if you are on acne medication or using acne control products, your skin is more sensitive to UV and you could end up with a painful – or damaging – sunburn.