Welcome to “Face It,” by which practitioners, dermatologists, facialists and different magnificence specialists reply our rapid-fire questions (faster than you may say “only a few extra models, please?”), revealing their hottest takes, most controversial opinions and the exhausting truths they want their shoppers might come to phrases with.
I wish to name New York Metropolis’s Higher East Facet the Dermatologist District as a result of it is so chock filled with skilled, well-credentialed specialists. And maybe nobody embodies that final descriptor greater than Dr. Macrene Alexiades, a double-board-certified dermatologist in each the U.S. and EU who additionally holds three levels from Harvard College (a B.A./M.D. and a Ph.D. in genetics). She’s additionally a patent-holding analysis scientist, fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and American Society for Laser Drugs and Surgical procedure, the writer of two textbooks and a lead investigator in lasers, dermatology and genetics for main aesthetics corporations together with Allergan/Abbvie, Candela Lasers, InMode, Lumenis and Surgivance.
Oh, and Dr. Alexiades one way or the other additionally discovered the time to develop into a magnificence founder: Her eponymous Macrene Actives model goals to switch the very procedures and in-office therapies she’s helped pioneer with using “‘clear’ energetic elements sourced from medicinal botanicals and marine crops.”
Photograph: Courtesy of Macrene Actives
So naturally, Dr. Alexiades is a wealth of knowledge — and fortunate for us, she’s all about sharing stated information for the higher pores and skin good. Fashionista just lately took the chance to quiz her on her hottest aesthetics takes, from her ideas on GLP-1-era skincare, therapies that go away you “swollen like a blimp” and the stylish, more and more frequent skin-care elements she thinks it’s best to skip and “save your cash.”
Photograph: Courtesy of Dr&interval; Macrene Alexiades
Within the video under, Dr. Alexiades lets us in on all her must-know insights:
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