Why Your Skin Looks Dull (and How to Get Your Glow Back)
“You look exhausted! Everything ok?”
Is this a familiar reaction you get from your family and/or friends each week?
You probably think that you feel fine, you get plenty of sleep, eat nutritious food, and seem full of energy, but your skin tone seems to like to tell a different story with its uneven and dull tone.
But do not dismay! We are the skin clinic that can help point you in the correct direction to bring your skin back to life and glowing!
Let’s have a look at what may be causing your skin tone to appear uneven or dull.
External Factors
UV Damage from overexposure of the sun can stimulate an excess of melanin production, resulting in dark spots, freckles, and patches (hyperpigmentation). If you’re skin looks rough and less radiant, the collagen within your skin may be damaged from the overexposure of the sun.
Environmental Stressors such as pollution in the air or from surfaces (dirt, smoke, toxins, and free radicals) can accumulate on the skin, clogging pores and dulling your skin tone. They can also damage skin cells and speed up the ageing process.
Insufficient cleansing or inconsistent skincare routine can cause buildup of dead skin cells, oil, and dirt, leading to a dull complexion or some skincare products can strip your skin barrier, causing redness and blotchiness.
Dehydrated skin can also give a flat, rough, and tired complexion. (See more about this skin condition in a previous article. Click here.)
Internal Factors
Let’s now look at some internal factors that could be contributing to your exhausted look.
If you have poor blood circulation, your skin receives less oxygen and nutrients, leading to a dull and sallow complexion. The same results will occur with sleep deprivation. Increasing cortisol within the body from lack of sleep slows down skin renewal, also resulting in affecting your skin tone for the worse.
Diet and nutrition deficiency also plays a role in affecting your skin tone. A diet low in antioxidants such as Vitamins A, C, and E, as well as low in essential fatty acids, can contribute to uneven skin tone and dullness. Highly processed sugary foods promote glycation, which stiffens collagen, causes inflammation and reduces your natural glow.
Smoking and alcohol consumption are also major factors! Smoking decreases blood flow and oxygen to the skin, and alcohol dehydrates and inflames the skin.
And of course, hormonal fluctuations and changes from stress, birth control, pregnancy, or menopause can trigger melasma or other pigment disorders.
Let’s now look at some modalities that we offer to manage and reduce the symptoms of uneven and dull skin tone.
NOTE: As we always mention, prevention is the best way to manage skin conditions from becoming stubbornly inflamed.
In our thorough skin consultations, we go through everything in your life (your occupation and your work site environment, your fitness and exercise routine, your current diet and medications for mental or physical conditions etc.) and see if there are some things we can change to reduce flare ups.
We then move onto treatments we can provide that would best suit your skin and your lifestyle.
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Skin Treatments
Our OxyGeneo+ Facial with the OxyPod Illuminate, containing Koji Acid and Vitamin C, helps to even skin tone and improves pigmentation.
For more information on Oxygeneo+ Facial, click here!
We also provide LED Light Therapy. With its combination of different coloured LED lights, it effectively fades and reduces age spots, sunspots and discolouration to improve overall skin tone, balance and radiance.
For more information on LED Light Therapy, click here!
The Hollywood Carbon Peel has become a popular treatment to help reduce uneven skin tone and pigmentation. Because it promotes skin regeneration, the overall skin complexion becomes visibly clearer, evening the skin tone and provides a more uniform texture.
For more information on our Hollywood Carbon Peel treatment, click here!
Cosmetic Treatments
Rejuran consists of bio-active DNA molecules that stimulate regeneration and repair damaged skin cells while reducing unwanted inflammation. Because it works from the deeper layers of the skin, its able to stimulate production of new skin cells and remove the damaged cells that are causing discoloration. Resulting in seemingly bringing back to life dull appearing skin and improving fine lines, wrinkles, oil production, skin texture, elasticity, acne scars, and pore size.
For more information about our Rejuran treatment, click here!
Home skincare routine
It all starts with a gentle cleanser without the harsh chemicals that strip the skin’s barrier from protecting those sensitive skin layers underneath prone to pigmentation. This doesn’t mean to avoid cleansing all together! You still need to cleanse to remove dead skin cells, environmental debris, and air pollution, clogged within the pores that are creating the appearance of a dull skin tone.
Moving on to serums, it’s best to apply serums that contain Vitamin C, Niacinamides, and peptides during the day that brightens and evens the skin tone. And for a night serum before bed so that it works as you sleep, have one that includes retinol to support turnover and pigment control.
And of course, a moisturiser that has UV protection to minimise sun damage that causes hyperpigmentation, as we have mentioned before.
Conclusion
Before reading this article, you may have never thought there was anything that could be done about your dark spots and hyperpigmentation. But we hope we have instilled hope within you with the different modalities we’ve provided that could help manage your uneven or dull skin tone.
Call us today, or book online, for a thorough consultation so that we can create a skin program right away and assist in advising what lifestyle habits you may need to change to reduce the intensity of your skin’s condition.