The difference and connection between beauty and skin health

Beauty is a means of modification and improvement with the core of visual effects, and skin health is the basic physiological state of the skin. The two are by no means an either/or relationship - the long-term effect of beauty must be based on skin health. Stable and healthy skin can also be further strengthened through compliant beauty intervention. Wrong beauty operations will directly destroy the healthy foundation.

Not long ago, I met a 22-year-old director girl at a dermatology clinic. In order to look good on camera, she went for an in-store skin rejuvenation every three days for three months. At first, her face was as bright as a light bulb, but then the season changed and she suddenly turned red. Even applying physical sunscreen felt stinging. When she came to see a doctor, her face was swollen like a peach. Even the fair complexion she had previously pursued became yellow and white due to inflammation. This is a typical example of putting beauty needs ahead of health and stepping on a thunderbolt.

Interestingly, if you ask the same question to a beautician who has been working in a hospital for 5 years, and a dermatologist in a tertiary hospital, you will get completely different judgment standards. In the eyes of beauticians, effective beauty must first meet visual needs: whether the skin tone is even enough, whether there are visible fine lines, whether makeup and clothing are not comfortable, even for sensitive skin, as long as you apply an instant redness-reducing soft mask and apply a brightening essence. If you can achieve the desired state at the moment, it is up to standard. After all, many beauty needs are scene-based: intensive care before the wedding of the bride, emergency brightening before the red carpet of celebrities, are not originally for long-term physical health services, but more like a "customized makeup" for the skin. Dermatologists say that the standards for healthy skin are much more "invisible": the cuticle barrier is intact, the skin flora is stable, and the water and oil secretion regulation function is normal. Simply put, it means that it will not be red and itchy at all times, it will not break out during the seasons, and ordinary skin care products and sun exposure will not cause excessive irritation. Even if you are naturally wheat-colored and have a few scattered freckles on your face, as long as you meet these standards, you have completely healthy skin. To use an inappropriate analogy, beauty is like decorating a house. What color to choose for wall paint, what decorative paintings to hang, and what carpets to put out all depends on the style you want. ； Healthy skin is the foundation and load-bearing walls of a house. Whether it has cracks, leaks, whether it can withstand strong winds of level 7 or 8, and whether it looks good or not are completely different things.

Nowadays, two factions are quarreling on the Internet: one faction says that "all beauty treatments are IQ taxes, and maintaining healthy skin is the ultimate answer." The other faction says that "nurturing healthy skin is just a pretense. In the end, you don't have to rely on medical beauty and expensive skin care products to make you look good." In fact, what both sides say is reasonable, but their stances are different. If you have rosacea, severely sensitive skin, and your face is red and hot every day. At this time, you have to follow the bloggers to use high-concentration 377 and do high-concentration peels in pursuit of cold white skin. This is purely against yourself. I have seen too many people who are only mildly sensitive in the first place. In the end, they have to rely on hormone ointments to suppress the inflammation, which is not worth the gain. But if you have a very stable skin, you want to use two photons to brighten your skin after getting tanned in the summer, or you want to do a basic moisturizing treatment if you have dry lines at the corners of your eyes. As long as it is done by a compliance agency, not only will it not hurt the skin, but the thermal stimulation of low-energy photons can promote the regeneration of collagen in the dermis and strengthen the skin's tolerance. There is a 32-year-old nurse sister next to me who undergoes low-energy photon therapy once a month. She usually uses dozens of yuan of basic moisturizer. She has never seen redness or acne breakouts during the seasons. Her skin tone is evener than that of a girl who applies seven or eight layers of effective essence every day. This is how the relationship between the two is smoothed out.

In fact, when most people fall into this trap, they confuse the boundary between the two and regard the immediate effect of beauty as a standard of health, or they regard "healthy skin" as an excuse to refuse normal beauty needs. If you take a closer look at the current compliant functional skin care products, you will see that many actually take into account both: a suitable concentration of nicotinamide can not only inhibit the transport of melanin to achieve a whitening beauty effect, but also strengthen the lipid barrier of the stratum corneum to help maintain stability. ； Low concentration of salicylic acid can not only unclog pores and reduce closure, but also regulate keratin metabolism and improve the problem of excessive oil production. On the other hand, people with healthy skin have a stable metabolism, less melanin deposition, and a balanced water-oil balance, making it less likely to cause acne. Even if you don’t use any expensive beauty treatments, your skin will still appear to be in good condition, which is equivalent to saving half the effort in beauty. A friend of mine used a folk remedy to wash her face with vinegar in order to get rid of acne. As a result, the acne did not go away but burned out the barrier. The inflammation caused repeated cysts and acne for more than a year. Later, she took anti-inflammatory drugs and applied barrier-repairing cream. After the inflammation subsided, she then performed a low-concentration salicylic acid peel. In three months, the acne disappeared, and not even many acne marks were left. This is to lay a healthy foundation first, and then finish it off with beauty treatments, which is twice the result with half the effort.

To be honest, I have been doing skin-related work for so many years. When I give advice to others, I never say "no beauty treatments" or "must maintain healthy skin." I always let them touch their own face first: if it turns red at the slightest breeze, stings when applying toner, or itches to the point of scratching, no matter how strong the whitening and anti-aging trend is at the moment, it is not too late to put repairs on the agenda first, and then wait until the skin is stable. If you don’t have any skin problems, try whatever items you want to try. Just find a regular institution and don’t use Sanwu products blindly. Happiness is more important than anything else. After all, isn’t it the reason why we mess with our skin to be comfortable and look good? The two are supposed to be on the same side, so it is unnecessary to turn them into opposites and quarrel.