Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 14:35     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
I wonder if microneedling might help
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 18:50     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:Three months from a big event think wedding or reunion. Mid 40s. Never done any cosmetic skin treatments — no Botox, no chemical peels, nada. Fair skin. Who can I go to/what should I ask to do? What’s the best bang for your buck with this timeline? Virginia-side, but willing to go DC/MD. I’m not really price sensitive for this event. I am lazy and skeptical I will keep it up but whatever? I also would love for someone experienced to give me some advice, a consult, but I don’t see that offered at the MedSpas I have seen? It’s more like: what service do you want and I dunno.


Sandra Oulmas is the best in the area for skin! She treats patients of all ages and skin tones and her speciality is laser. Her treatments really make a difference in a short time frame. She also offers free consultations and she's the sweetest thing! Never over sold products to me and has always gone above and beyond during my treatment sessions. I highly recommend her and her team.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 13:51     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Not eating sugar really helps me.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 08:35     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:My skin tone has evened out tremendously since quitting drinking alcohol and caffeine two months ago. I drink a ton of water.


Quit sugar and you will start experiencing amazing results.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 08:29     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Facial massage. Not a regular facial. Go to Thai Origins spa in Arlington or any Thai massage or Asian massage place and get a facial massage. You can see videos online and so it yourself too. Drink water, eat arugala and blueberries, no alcohol. Good moisturizer and skin oil.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 08:27     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Make an appointment with a cosmetic dermatologist. Dr. Thomas Adrian at the Center for Laser Surgery is awesome and will recommend treatments based on your concerns. Botox, PDL, and Fraxel have made the biggest impact for me.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 07:53     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
IPL
A few facials
Maybe a microneedling session
No alcohol
Lots of water
A little bit of Botox
Regular exercise and fresh air
Yoga
Sleep
Good moisturizer
Cryotherapy and steam showers
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 00:04     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Three months from a big event think wedding or reunion. Mid 40s. Never done any cosmetic skin treatments — no Botox, no chemical peels, nada. Fair skin. Who can I go to/what should I ask to do? What’s the best bang for your buck with this timeline? Virginia-side, but willing to go DC/MD. I’m not really price sensitive for this event. I am lazy and skeptical I will keep it up but whatever? I also would love for someone experienced to give me some advice, a consult, but I don’t see that offered at the MedSpas I have seen? It’s more like: what service do you want and I dunno.


I recommend taking a hydrolized collagen supplement with Type 1 collagen in it. Add it to your coffee or tea each morning. I would add one more scoop than the directions advise. So if the directions state add 2 scoops, you should add 3. Your skin will become more youthful looking in a couple of weeks.


Also, bovine collagen is best.


Which brand do you recommend? So many out there..


Sparkle Boost Plus is my favorite. Dose & Co. is also good. These were both recommended by dermatologists I follow. I also recommend taking a time release Vitamin C supplement, because vitamin C is needed for collagen production.

I just ordered Codeage Multi Collagen Peptides which contains collagen types 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10. I’m interested to see how I like it.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:34     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Three months from a big event think wedding or reunion. Mid 40s. Never done any cosmetic skin treatments — no Botox, no chemical peels, nada. Fair skin. Who can I go to/what should I ask to do? What’s the best bang for your buck with this timeline? Virginia-side, but willing to go DC/MD. I’m not really price sensitive for this event. I am lazy and skeptical I will keep it up but whatever? I also would love for someone experienced to give me some advice, a consult, but I don’t see that offered at the MedSpas I have seen? It’s more like: what service do you want and I dunno.


I recommend taking a hydrolized collagen supplement with Type 1 collagen in it. Add it to your coffee or tea each morning. I would add one more scoop than the directions advise. So if the directions state add 2 scoops, you should add 3. Your skin will become more youthful looking in a couple of weeks.


Also, bovine collagen is best.


Which brand do you recommend? So many out there..
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 14:49     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Three months from a big event think wedding or reunion. Mid 40s. Never done any cosmetic skin treatments — no Botox, no chemical peels, nada. Fair skin. Who can I go to/what should I ask to do? What’s the best bang for your buck with this timeline? Virginia-side, but willing to go DC/MD. I’m not really price sensitive for this event. I am lazy and skeptical I will keep it up but whatever? I also would love for someone experienced to give me some advice, a consult, but I don’t see that offered at the MedSpas I have seen? It’s more like: what service do you want and I dunno.


I recommend taking a hydrolized collagen supplement with Type 1 collagen in it. Add it to your coffee or tea each morning. I would add one more scoop than the directions advise. So if the directions state add 2 scoops, you should add 3. Your skin will become more youthful looking in a couple of weeks.


Also, bovine collagen is best.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 14:47     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:Three months from a big event think wedding or reunion. Mid 40s. Never done any cosmetic skin treatments — no Botox, no chemical peels, nada. Fair skin. Who can I go to/what should I ask to do? What’s the best bang for your buck with this timeline? Virginia-side, but willing to go DC/MD. I’m not really price sensitive for this event. I am lazy and skeptical I will keep it up but whatever? I also would love for someone experienced to give me some advice, a consult, but I don’t see that offered at the MedSpas I have seen? It’s more like: what service do you want and I dunno.


I recommend taking a hydrolized collagen supplement with Type 1 collagen in it. Add it to your coffee or tea each morning. I would add one more scoop than the directions advise. So if the directions state add 2 scoops, you should add 3. Your skin will become more youthful looking in a couple of weeks.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 12:43     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:My skin tone has evened out tremendously since quitting drinking alcohol and caffeine two months ago. I drink a ton of water.


NP. Can you say more about this? What was the source of unevenness? Acne, age spots, other? How soon did you see a difference?
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 12:30     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:OP here. I see a regular dermatologist who does an overall skin check. That’s it. I’m guessing that’s not the right kind of dermatologist. Seeing all these medspa links with sculpting and peels and lasers; it’s overwhelming. Any recs for a consult-type cosmetic dermatologist to do the things you all mention in, say, McLean/Arlington/upper NW?


You need to ask your clinical dermatologist about cosmetic stuff. Mine is the same.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 12:29     Subject: Best Short Term Skin Improvement?
Anonymous wrote:Botox, drinking lots of water, a great moisturizer

For the long term sunscreen and tret. But ease into tret, it can make your skin look worse before it gets better (at least that was my experience)


As someone who is in her first month of tretinoin, I agree. I'm still purging.