Caring for your skin is like going to the dentist—you make regular appointments to get a deep cleaning, and then you maintain your results with at-home care like brushing and flossing. Skin care operates on the same idea: You improve your skin with effective in-office treatments, and then maintain your results with personalized at-home skin care.
At Form & Function, we help you with both in-office and at-home skin care in East Meadow. On top of your treatment consultation, we also offer skincare-only consultations to help you build your custom at-home skincare routine.
Here, we’ll explain what you need to know about your skin, products, and your daily skincare routine, so you have the ultimate guide to understanding skin care.
First Things First: Your Skin
Understanding the basics of your skin is the first step to knowing how to properly care for it. Your skin has 3 layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and subcutaneous tissue (fat).
The epidermis is the first layer of your skin, which acts as a protective barrier to keep environmental toxins, pollutants, and debris from your body. The dermis is the largest layer of your skin, making up 90% of your skin’s thickness. It produces proteins like collagen and elastin, which help to keep your skin strong, flexible, and smooth.
Then the subcutaneous tissue, also known as the hypodermis, holds the fat cells that protect your bones and muscles from injuries and regulate your body temperature.
The Importance of Collagen and Elastin
Collagen and elastin are created in the dermis, and they help maintain your skin’s youthful appearance. Your skin creates these proteins, but your body’s natural production begins to decrease around the age of 20.
By the age of 40, you lose about 1% of collagen production each year, which causes the skin to become dry, less flexible, and more likely to form wrinkles and fine lines.
Elastin helps keep your skin stretchy and flexible, since it is 1,000 times more flexible than collagen. The production of elastin also decreases with age because it has a low turnover rate, and the fibroblasts that produce them can be damaged by many environmental factors over time, causing looser, sagging skin.
Preventing Collagen and Elastin Loss
Many factors affect your body’s production of collagen and elastin. While our in-office and at-home skin care in East Meadow can help maintain your levels of collagen and elastin, you can also make changes in your day-to-day life to maintain your youthful, smooth skin.
- Find healthy ways to manage stress.
- Use sunscreen daily, even when mostly indoors.
- Avoid regular or excessive tobacco and alcohol use.
- Drink plenty of water every day.
- Maintain a balanced diet.
- Exercise regularly.
- Do not tan indoors or outdoors.
- Get regular check-ups with a dermatologist to ensure your skin is healthy.
In-House Treatments
Most skincare products only target the epidermis, so while they can improve the appearance of your skin after about a month of consistent use, it could take many months for them to begin improving collagen and elastin production.
That is why our team prefers to start off your skin improvements with in-house skin care in East Meadow. Our state-of-the-art treatments target the dermis, where collagen and elastin are made. This produces more dramatic results much sooner, and once you have the results you are looking for, then we help you create a personalized skincare routine to continue reducing common issues like wrinkles, age spots, and scars.
Here are our favorite in-house treatments that can improve your body’s natural production of collagen and elastin.
Emface
Emface is a noninvasive treatment that combines RF (radiofrequency) energy and HIFES (high-intensity facial electro stimulation) to improve muscle tone and stimulate collagen and elastin production. This creates a “lifting” effect within your features, restoring volume and smoothing wrinkles and fine lines for a more youthful complexion.
Exion
Exion is a 4-in-1 treatment that has revolutionized skin rejuvenation. It combines radiofrequency with either ultrasound or microneedling to increase collagen and elastin production and melt subcutaneous fat. This not only helps to create smoother and younger-looking skin but also creates more of a sculpted and contoured appearance for your body or your face.
NeoGenPSR
The NeoGenPSR is one of our most popular treatments, since it provides the most benefits with just 1 treatment session. This device converts nitrogen into plasma energy, causing it to heat the tissue of your dermis. This makes your body believe it has been injured without actually causing an open wound, so it stimulates your natural healing response. To ensure your skin heals, your body will increase collagen and elastin production, providing your skin with what it needs to correct concerns like wrinkles, fine lines, sagging skin, and more.
Fotona Laser
The versatile technology of the Fotona laser can help with many skin concerns at once. It converts laser light into heat, stimulating your body’s healing response to increase collagen and elastin production. Unlike lasers of the past, the Fotona is precise and accurate, targeting imperfections while leaving the surrounding tissue untouched. This helps speed up healing and produces better improvements, making it a very popular treatment for patients.
Nonsurgical Facelift
A nonsurgical facelift combines many of the above treatments to target moderate-to-severe wrinkles. By strategically pairing these treatments together, our team can multiply the amount of collagen and elastin your body can produce, creating even more dramatic improvements to your appearance. Each nonsurgical facelift is customized to the patient, so you can achieve your individual goals for your complexion.
At-Home Skin Care
Once you have started receiving in-house treatments, our team will help you find the best products for your skin care in East Meadow. You can find so many skincare brands and products available today, making it difficult to pick the right products on your own. So we also provide skincare-only consultations, helping you correct specific concerns with medical-grade products that support, hydrate, and nourish your skin.
We have thoroughly researched some of the best skincare brands, looking for the top-shelf products that provide all the nutrients your skin needs.
SkinMedica
We offer SkinMedica products to support our patients’ skin care in East Meadow. Since 1999, SkinMedica has been the most studied, most awarded, and most recognized name in skincare, having revolutionized skincare to help millions of people improve their skin. They’ve received so much recognition for their products, including:
- Over 80 awards for their transformative skincare products
- Undergone over 200 clinical studies globally
- Have been reviewed in over 90 peer-reviewed publications
- Have been granted over 50 U.S. patents for their products and processes.
SkinBetter
Founded in 2016, SkinBetter created a line of skincare products after working closely with a wide network of dermatologists, plastic surgeons, and other healthcare professionals to identify and target genuine concerns that patients experience. Their research has led them to develop some of the best-in-class skin care solutions, improving the lives of users through accomplished science, genuine connections, and real life results. We offer this brand of skincare in East Meadow both online and in-store, ensuring our patients have easy access to skincare that will nourish and protect their skin.
Revision Skincare
Revision Skincare delivers transformative results using high-potency ingredients and breakthrough formulas that protect and nourish your skin’s microbiome. Their superior formulation philosophy has produced high-quality skincare products that have passed through rigorous clinical testing, delivering effective solutions for a wide variety of skin concerns. When you’re looking for long-lasting, effective skin care in East Meadow, our team likes to recommend Revision.
Anfisa
Anfisa Skincare uses high-quality ingredients sources from all around the globe, creating ethical skincare that focuses on purity and efficacy. Every skincare product from this exceptional brand is meant to deliver natural yet effective improvements to your skin.
GlyMed+
GlyMed+ Skin Care products have been delivering transformative skin for over 30 years. GlyMed+ was founded by Master Aesthetician, Christine Heathman. She currently serves on the Utah State Board of Licensing, helping raise the bar for aestheticians across the state and ensuring patients receive the highest quality care. Dedicated to high-quality skincare, Christine created GlyMed+, and we offer her products both in-office and online to enhance your skin care in East Meadow.
The Importance of Sunscreen
The biggest environmental factor that impacts your body’s ability to maintain healthy, glowing skin is UV radiation from the sun. UV radiation damages the fibroblasts within your skin that produce collagen and elastin, slowing down their production even more. This causes you to develop sagging skin, wrinkles, and sun spots sooner rather than later.
In every appointment, we emphasize the importance of protecting your skin using sunscreen. Sunscreen either reflects the UV rays or absorbs them, ensuring they do not impact or harm your skin. Typically, we recommend using a minimum of SPF 30 sunscreen during your morning skincare routine, and then reapplying every 2 to 3 hours. However, you can choose from many different types of sunscreen, so we suggest booking a consultation to find the right sunscreen that will fit in your personalized plan for skin care in East Meadow.
Show Your Skin Some TLC
Use our treatment planning tool to explore your options for in-office treatments, and then schedule a consultation to personalize your skin care in East Meadow to your unique needs.
