Understanding how skin works .

The skin is a complex organ and can take ages to explain in detail all about is and may sound like a boring topic, but understanding how the skin works can help you make good decisions when it comes to looking younger and healthier. So here’s the basics of what you need to know in order to help you make smart choices to improve health and appearance of your skin. There are 3 fundamental layers of the skin: the epidermis, the dermis, and the Subcutaneous (fatty) layer.

The outer layer of our skin, epidermis, consist of 4 sub-layers, these are most composed of many layers of dead cells with only the last two layers made of live, regenerating cells. The first three layers are the Stratum Coroneum, Stratum Granulosum, and sometimes the Stratum Lucidium. When the cells reach the last upper layer of epidermis, stratum corneum, they are cut of nourishment and eventually (in about 14 days) die and flake off. And replace themselves completely with new dead cells over a 28 day cycle. It takes 4-6 weeks from the moment the new cell is formed to the moment is sloughs off the surface of your skin. These process slows down with age, that’s why our face don’t look as fresh and glowing as it used to when we were 15! The next two layers are the Stratum Spinosum and the Stratum Basale. These layers are actually made of living and regenerating cells

The dermis: is a layer of skin between the epidermis and subcutaneous tissues, that consists of connective tissue ,collagen, fibers, hair, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, apocrine glands, lymphatic vessels,nerves and blood vessels. The Glands have different functions theses being : Sebaceous glands produce sebum, a kind of oil, which helps keep your skin soft and waterproof. Sweat glands send sweat through pores to the surface of the skin. When your body gets hot, the sweat glands make a lot of sweat which they send to the surface of your skin to cool you down. Nerves Tiny networks of nerves act as sensors to let us feel the world around us. They tell us the temperature around us, make us feel pain if something hurts our skin and let us feel how smooth or rough things are and how hard our skin is being pressed. Blood vessels Blood vessels carry oxygen and nutrients (food) to the cells and carry away the waste.

The Subcutaneous (sub-cute-ay-nee-us) layer is under the skin. It is mostly made up of fat. Fat acts as a cushion to protect your body if you bang into something. It also keeps you warm.

This is how our mini universe-skin operates is very simplified version

Fun & Intresting skin facts:

• Skin is largest organ in body • No other organ is exposed to such harsh conditions • Your skin reflex’s internal conditions and emotions - eg: blushing or sweating • Skin reflects what’s happening on the inside – eg : yellowish tone indicate that you might have live problem Your skin can be mapped to show you where you’re having a problem. The diagram below is a face map that breifly shows what organs are affected when there Are blemishes and marks on skin.

• Your skin loses about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells from the surface almost every minute, even though you do not see it happening. • Your skin sheds a layer of these dead cells every 24 hours and renews itself about every 28 days • The skin emits up to 3 gallons of sweat per day

permanent make up - eye liner

Therapist Shaz

Are you mad? It’s wonderful you’ll never look back!

Theses are things that I was told before going to do my treatment from speaking to people that had it done as well as general people

We’ll my first treatment is done. Upon going into the treatment room I was petrified, nervous and anxious. And to make matters worse i'm scared of needles.

So I hopped onto the bed and tried to relax and chatted away to the therapist. She applied an anesthetic cream to my eyes for 15min and asked me questions. I started to relaxed and then I heard a noses we’ll I was ready to jump off the bed.

I managed to calm myself down and then she started – well I thought I was going to have a heart attack , Not from the pain but from the fear I was feeling : ) She opened up the skin – no there was no blood and IT WASN’T PAINFUL. It was slightly irritating.

She than applied more anesthetic and started treatment.

At the end I still wasn’t in any pain, I just felt like keeping my eyes closed. On the slide show I took photos through my first treatment (please don’t let the swelling scare you).
I was one of those clients that swelled:) I was swollen for about two- three days and I carried on with work as normal. ( For our client we are making our make up days on a Friday so that if it happens to you , you’ll have the weekend. Plus we’ve add on some icing of the area after treatment to help)

My conclusion

Is that as long as it’s the right therapist you’ll be okay so always ask to see there work.
The treatment is terrifying but that’s what we make it, once they are working you’ll be fine and I personally didn’t feel any pain, it was just irritating but my one eye jumped all over the places well that’s at lest what it felt like to me. After all the swelling and discomfort from the treatment I love my eyes and i’m looking forward to my next and last treatment.