What is the relationship between beauty and skin health

Essentially, it is the relationship between "roots" and "flowers" - healthy skin is the soil for taking root, and beauty is the icing on the cake to bloom. The two support each other but must not put the cart before the horse. Talking about beauty without skin health is all castles in the air.

A junior girl who came to my studio a while ago, in order to take graduation photos, she applied a "7-day whitening" mask every day for three weeks, and applied 30% fruit acid at home every two days. Originally, she only had a few light red new acne marks on her forehead. Her cheeks were red and bloodshot, and the spring breeze made her feel hot and itchy. On the day of her graduation photo, she applied three layers of concealer and it was all stuck together. Even the photographer asked her if she had been allergic recently. She sat across from me and said with a sad face that if she had known better, she would have stabilized her skin first, and it would not have been self-defeating.

Of course, this does not mean that skin health and beauty should be completely opposed. In order to maintain stability, we should not dare to do any effective care. I met a girl with combination oily skin who was born with thick cuticles before. Two years ago, she heard the saying "nourishing the barrier is everything" and she didn't dare to use any whitening or oil-control products. Her face was always dull and dull, and her mouth closed every now and then. Later, I tried to use low-concentration salicylic acid pads to rub the T-zone once a week, every day. She put on a mild prototype vitamin C and added sunscreen in the morning. In less than two months, not only did she lose most of her mouth shut, but her skin tone was also two shades brighter, and her overall complexion looked more than a little better. This moderate cosmetic intervention helped her solve the problem of accumulation of old dead skin cells, which has a positive effect on skin health.

In fact, there have always been two completely different voices in the skin care circle. One group believes that beauty is about pursuing immediate results, and uses whatever concentration is high and has quick effects. The other group thinks that as long as the skin barrier is healthy, it is enough, and there is no need to do additional beauty care. In the daily life of ordinary people, there is actually no need to take any side. Just like when you plant a pot of roses, the soil is fertile and the root system is strong enough. If you add some nutrient solution and prune off the dead branches and leaves, the flowers will bloom brighter and longer. If the soil is hardened and the roots are rotten, it will be useless no matter how much expensive nutrient solution you pour. On the other hand, no matter how fertile the soil is, you will allow weeds to grow randomly, dead branches to pile up, and the flowers to bloom sparsely and unattractively.

To put it bluntly, we ordinary people's skin care is for our own comfort and happiness. If we make the skin red and itchy for the so-called "white, tender, and young", and even go out to have a hair dry, it will violate the original intention of beauty, don't you think?