Well, hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute Friday. We're going to talk all about peels and why you need to be

doing a chemical peel at the end of summer and basically at the end of every season. I love chemical

peels and I think that when you hear the word chemical peel, you think

in your head about a burn victim, someone whose skin is melting off and peeling off their

face and that is completely opposite to how chemical peels work. Modern day peels are so

gentle, comfortable to put on, not painful, and the healing process is quite simple.

So I want to encourage all of you guys to think about chemical peels, especially if you suffer

from pigmentation, fine lines, if you suffer from wrinkles, freckles, age spots, dyschromia, photo damage, sun damage,

all of these things will improve with light peals. I'm a big fan of doing regular light peels.

I feel that peals that are very, very deep and very invasive can sometimes be more irritating to the skin.

So if you suffer from malasma, doing light peals frequently is the way to go.

Remember your epidermis or the outer portion of your skin is composed of multiple layers of epidermal cells,

and they maintain your skin barrier, they provide this layer of protection from outside damage.

These are the layers that we are going to exfoliate away with a chemical peel.

And a peel is basically a very controlled mechanism for removing the top layers of damaged dull skin,

loosening the glue between these skin cells so that they can flake away

and reveal healthy, beautiful, youthful skin underneath. So superficial peels usually treat just

the top layers of the epidermis, and they take usually one to seven days to heal. So for example,

that would be something like my pretty peel the first two days

you're lighter brighter tighter the third and fourth day you have the eraser shaving

peleys and the fifth and sixth day the peeling is done and you get this bright beautiful

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