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. It is springtime. And today I want to talk about things you should do to brighten your

skin for spring. It's so important to have variety in your skincare routine. You may have your

favorite players that you're always using and constantly rely on

to have amazing skin. I definitely do. But I do like to mix things up. And when spring weather here,

you need lighter, brighter, tighter, ingredients that are going to make you glow. And you sometimes

need to swap things out. Your

skin gets tackyphylaxis. That's that phenomenon of becoming resistant and used to the dose of

the active ingredients that you're using. And we want to get a regimen that has a variety. Remember,

spring is going to be warmer, more humidity in the air

sometimes. Lighter weather requires different skin care. So number one on my list of top

simple spring care tips is exfoliate twice a week. It's great to exfoliate and wintertime has

developed a little thickened, dull, more dehydrated layer of

skin sitting on the surface of your skin. I recommend exfoliation with a micropeel type of a scrub,

so something with small ingredient beads of exfoliation. We don't want rough, jagged edges tearing at the skin surface. So for example,

apricot scrub with St. Ives used to be like my high school staple, but the jagged edges of the

fragments of apricot pits are not the most gentle on the surface of the skin. And sometimes

we get aggressive when we're in the

shower and we're just getting carried away. So switch to an exfoliant that is milder with smooth

uniform beads. For example, my perfecting polish is amazing. I also like our micropeel scrub.

And one has slightly bigger granules. Great for the body. The body

needs exfoliation. We want to unplug plugged hair follicles so we don't get ingrown hairs. It's

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