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

and today on the podcast, it's time for a five minute

Friday and spring is in the air it's time to talk about brightening the skin and

getting rid of winter dullness so I love the months of March April and May for

doing chemical peals and people always get shocked and horrified by the idea of

putting a chemical on the

skin and having the skin get essentially a very controlled burn. But I want to remind you that

chemical peels are some of the best things that you can do for your skin. The modern peels are

nothing like older peels. So you don't get red, raw, irritated. You definitely

have the ability to modulate and improve your skin with low-grade chemical peels. And for those

of us that have hyperpigmentation, that's actually the best way to treat it is medium-to-mile-depth

peels that are done more frequently to give you great results.

Remember that pigment is tattooed into the dermal layer of the skin.

The melanocytes that do grow melanin in your skin are triggered by certain factors,

including abrasion, friction, repeated things like repeated waxings, acne eruptions, inflammatory lesions that cause

pigment to grow. Also by sun, of course, ultraviolet light, heat is another factor, just

temperature change itself and exposure to the elements.

So the reasons that we do chemical peals are to get rid of these layers of pigmentation

that are tattooed into various levels and depths of the skin.

I would recommend if you've never done a chemical peel to start with a low-grade glycolic, lactic, and

salicylic acid peel. Those are very mild, and those will just brighten your skin,

improve your pore size, and reduce sebum production. Then step it up with a little bit stronger

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