Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K's secrets of of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time to talk about

pigmentation.

Hyperpigmentation.

This is one of my pet peeves and personal projects because as a woman of color, I have Indian

skin.

I get pigmentation so easily.

And I think this is one of those problems that if I

could solve and cure hyperpigmentation and malasma, boy, would I have a lot of happy clients

and probably make a billion bucks too. But there's always new things you can try for melasma.

Hyperpigmentation and melasma are a long-term chronic problem.

So when patients come to me and they say they want a treatment, a cure, a one-time thing that's

going to fix their melasma, guess what? It's like having diabetes or high blood pressure. You can't really get rid of it, but you can

manage it, you can optimize it, you can control it, and you, my friend, have to personally

learn the tools of treating pigmentation. You have to become your own sort of master of the plan

so you know when to titrate, when to use certain

ingredients, when to cool things off, when to treat aggressively, how to manage your melasma, basically.

But one of the newest and best things in our armamentarium is topical cystiamine. And I just recently learned about this for myself for my own

malasma I went to Cancun and I gave this amazing lecture and the sun was so intense and so

hot like the kind of heat where you feel like you can only sit for five minutes if you're

not in the water that kind of sun and heat and that really flared up all of my

melasma. Remember, melasma gets worse as you age, hormonal changes if you're on the pill.

Pigmentation can flare for so many reasons, but one of the biggest culprits is actual temperature

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