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. Today we're going to talk about skin flooding. What the heck is skin flooding? This is

flooding all over TikTok. It's the newest in skincare trends, and I'm going to teach you all about it.

So are you familiar with seramides, peptides,

and glycerin and hyluronic acid? These are some of the things that are going to make you so

glowy and beautiful. Dewey and plump and hydrated. Isn't that what we all want for our skin these

days? So skin flooding is the latest skin care trend.

You may have seen it on TikTok.

It targets specifically dry winter skin.

And right now, leaving the dry winter, heading into the hot summer, it's time to flood

your skin with moisturizer.

Not just creams, potions, and usual lotions like the moisturizers

you find at the drugstore. This is so much more than that. This technique involves applying

hyluronic acid before you put moisturizer on in order to lock in levels of hydration that are so good for your skin.

Now remember, hyluronic acid is a sugar molecule.

This is a molecule that draws in a thousand times its water weight.

This is a molecule that is the same ingredient that our filler is made out of.

When we put hyluronic acid molecules in chains and

cross-link it, it forms a gel, and that is what filler's made of. I use hyluronic acid every day.

I love my deep blue hydration serum. It has three types of hylronic acid. It's fractionated into

small molecules that penetrate the surface of the skin,

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