Rough, uneven skin texture

Finding what drives rough, uneven skin texture

With rough texture, your practitioner asks where your skin catches under the fingertips and looks at where makeup clings to rough patches, then works out which driver dominates: a build-up of dead surface cells, congestion sitting in the follicles, or sun damage that has coarsened the surface over years. They will also ask how often you exfoliate at home, since past a certain point the barrier gets damaged and skin becomes rougher.

Build-up responds quickly: Dermaplaning and Chemical Peels at a light-refresh strength both tend to leave skin feeling smoother the same day, and the Apocalypsis Phyto-Peel suits rough texture on skin that reacts to strong acids. Coarsened, sun-damaged texture calls for Skin Resurfacing, which works deeper and takes a course. If home exfoliation has not worked, adding more is usually the wrong next step.

What happens when you come in?

Your first visit is a free consultation at the Aldergrove clinic. A practitioner looks at the area in good light, asks how long you have noticed it and what you have already tried, and checks anything that would affect which treatments are suitable: medication, recent sun exposure, previous treatments.

You then hear which of the options above suits your skin, what it realistically achieves, how many sessions it usually takes and what recovery looks like. If the honest answer is that none of them will give you what you want, or that something needs a doctor first, you will hear that instead.

Worth mentioning at your consultation

• When you first noticed it, and whether it has changed since
• Products and treatments you have already tried
• Any medication, supplements or diagnosed skin conditions
• Holidays, events or sun exposure you are planning around