Hi, guys! It’s Becca here (aka prettyin_pcos) on Instagram! I wanted to share with you guys today 6 skincare myths or saying that you might think is true up until today, so let’s debunk them! 1. “People think you get acne because you don’t wash your face” – if we get a dollar every time […]

This patient is the same person who had the brown bumps, aka dermatosis papulosa nigra, on her cheeks and neck, removed with laser treatment with the Iriderm laser. She also came to see me for this bump on her forehead which is not painful, but the appearance really bothers her. It is very mobile, and […]

This is a cyst excision on the upper back, on a cyst that has been previously inflamed and had a small scar visible on an edge of the initial bump. This patient is darker complected, which is by the macerated keratin within the sac of this cyst is dark grey in color. The contents of […]

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I will tell you all the secrets you need to know to have great skin, from the simple and easy to the more complex advice, here are 20 tips I can give you as a licensed Esthetician: 1. Always wash your face in the morning 2. Take your makeup off 3. Eat with your skin […]

This is the patient you have seen last week, who had a scar/mole removed from her chin, and during that visit, I treat to extract blackheads from her nose, but they were extremely stubborn. So, this time, I used forceps/ tweezers to pluck the keratin filaments which very pretty adherent to the nose, and many […]

Simple blackheads extractions on the face. I often use a little numbing (lidocaine plus bicarbonate and epinephrine) to anesthetize the area a little before extractions because this is much more comfortable for the patient. Also many of you notice that as I numb the skin, I shake my left hand, and this is on purpose. […]

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This lovely woman came to see me because she hated this noticeable bump on her forehead which she knew to be a cyst, since she has squeezed it in the past. I excised it today, but since it has been manipulated in the past, this may increase the chances that the cyst reoccurs, but there […]

This patient has a pilomatricoma, aka a calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe, which is commonly a solitary but mobile growth under the skin which is most often confused to be an epidermoid cyst. These are benign growths, not painful or uncomfortable. I was suspicious it was a pilomatricoma when I removed it because of it’s firmness, […]