Welcome to “Face It,” wherein practitioners, dermatologists, facialists and different magnificence specialists reply our rapid-fire questions (faster than you possibly can say “just some extra models, please?”), revealing their hottest takes, most controversial opinions and the arduous truths they need their shoppers may come to phrases with.
I wish to name New York Metropolis’s Higher East Aspect 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 creator of two textbooks and a lead investigator in lasers, dermatology and genetics for main aesthetics firms together with Allergan/Abbvie, Candela Lasers, InMode, Lumenis and Surgivance.
Oh, and Dr. Alexiades one way or the other additionally discovered the time to change into a magnificence founder: Her eponymous Macrene Actives model goals to exchange the very procedures and in-office therapies she’s helped pioneer with using “‘clear’ lively components sourced from medicinal botanicals and marine vegetation.”
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So naturally, Dr. Alexiades is a wealth of knowledge — and fortunate for us, she’s all about sharing mentioned information for the larger 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 skin care, therapies that depart you “swollen like a blimp” and the stylish, more and more widespread skin-care components she thinks you must skip and “save your cash.”
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Within the video beneath, Dr. Alexiades lets us in on all her must-know insights:
