Skin problems in the face? This helps!

You have skin problems on your face and are wondering what you can do? Here you will find tips and tricks on what you can do to prevent rosacea, spider veins, dark eye shadows and other skin problems on the face. Our tips range from first aid tricks to long-term and intensive measures.

Spider veins

From the middle of the 20th she has every third woman, the fine veins on thighs, calves and ankles. Guilt is our way of life (sitting too much, standing, lying down) and a weak connective tissue. Clearly visible spider veins are almost always an indication that even larger veins may be affected. Be sure to get checked by the doctor (phlebologist)!

What to do with spider veins?

First aid: Self-tanning gel, which itself is already tinted and leaves a golden shimmer (eg "Eclat Irisé" by Dior Bronze), apply carefully and evenly. In the summer for smooth legs distribute liquid special make-up (eg "Sun Effects Leg Make-Up" by Alessandro, "Luxury Legs" by Venus) and brush over it with a thick brush shimmering powder (eg " Poudre Dermophile Stérilisée Banana Dorée "by LeClerc).

That works long term: Move! Eighty percent of our total blood volume flows through the main veins of the foot ankle calf muscle. Especially the calf muscle is heavily interspersed with veins. He sucks while walking with each step once full, is then squeezed out and must pump the oxygen-poor blood up. Without movement, this cycle section is constantly massively overloaded. Especially in summer, swollen legs can be alleviated by elevation, cool showers and decongesting venous sprays (eg from Tetesept with horse chestnut or from Kneipp with arnica).

Intensive measures: As before, the best method against spider veins is sclerotherapy ("sclerosing"). A thin cannula is advanced into the vein, then a substance (brand new: a foam) is injected. The treatment is almost painless. Price: about 100 euros per leg. Dr. Kathi Turnbull, Dermatologist and Laser Specialist at Dermatologikum Hamburg: "The laser therapy of spider veins harbors the possibility of the formation of brown spots and scars."

rosacea

Fine bluish-red veins, shimmering through the skin, usually show up most clearly on the cheeks and around the nose. This is called couperose. Causes: predisposition (genetic), sun, high blood pressure, alcohol or as a result of rosacea. This is an inflammatory skin disease, the triggers of which have not been sufficiently clarified, but unfortunately often occurs (even more often than atopic dermatitis).

What to do with couperose?

• First aid against couperose:
• Use green cover cream. As a complementary color, the clay neutralises the redness (eg "Couvrance Duo Concealer Pencil" by Avène). Tap the cream lightly and fade it out with a fine brush. Also very well cover compact make-up with high pigment content (25%) or special camouflage products (eg "Dermablend" from Vichy, "Unifiance" from La Roche-Posay) Couperose. If you do not like make-up: use a self-tanner, then you will notice less veins.
• This has a long-term effect against couperose:
• Special day creams soothe and cool sensitive skin with thermal water, soften irritation with vitamin B3 and strengthen the vessel walls by Vitamin CG, a particularly compatible form of vitamin C. With their slightly greenish color they are perfect as a make-up pad (eg "Rosaliac" by La Roche-Posay, "Herbal Vital Special" by Charlotte Meentzen). Massages and strong rubbing of the reddened parts should be avoided. However, there is a special massage technique that is used in medical cosmetics ("Soebi technique"). It relies on training of the vessels and can mitigate couperose with circulation-enhancing masks and stimulation of the connective tissue. Treatment should be for three months, once a week. From medically trained beauticians, from 40 euros.
• Intensive measures against couperose:
• With a diode laser that emits particularly short pulses of red blood pigment and glued the veins in three to six sessions. Unfortunately without anesthesia and therefore at times unpleasant. Cost: from about 150 euros per treatment. Side effects: Scabs that are visible for up to a week. And: the veins can come back.
• EXTRA TIP:
• Avoid sun completely or at least use sunblock (SPF 50). Reduce coffee and alcohol. If you do not want to do without a sauna and a steam bath: Cover your skin thick with cooling cream, wet cotton pads or washcloths.

Dark eye shadow

Who is in constant stress, sleeps little and / or drinks too little water (less than 1.5 liters daily), provokes a poor nutritional supply of his body.The transparent thin skin allows fine vessels to shimmer through quickly. It can also be an iron deficiency behind it (eg by one-sided, strictly vegetarian diet). And: some women are also naturally thin-skinned by nature.

• First aid:
• Use eye cream with plenty of moisturizers (eg hyaluronic acid) and whitening, shimmering particles (eg Clinique's "Advanced Stop Signs Eye", Artdeco's "Liquid Silk Eye Cream"). Apply fingertips to a liquid concealer that does not appear dehydrating (eg, "Touche Éclat" by Yves Saint Laurent, "Forget it" by Biotherm). The outer corner of the eye with a bright eye shadow accentuates, this distracts optically from the shadows.
• That works long term:
• Drink plenty of water and sleep well. Apply cotton pads twice a week, saturated with minerals and moisture (eg "Stress Relief Eye Mask" by Estée Lauder). To care calm eye creams from men's series try: the effect especially against rings and shadows more intense, because they are equipped for the slightly thicker skin with highly concentrated active ingredients (eg Biotherm, Nickel, Shiseido).
• Intensive measures:
• A treatment in the cosmetics institute with oxygen and a collagen ampoule stimulates the blood circulation and provides a short-term (palpable and visible) freshness effect lasting one to two days. Approximately 50 Euros.
• EXTRA TIP:
• Check your diet. Iron is in many foods, but is not easily absorbed by the body. In vegetables, the resorption rate is one to seven percent. The best odds (about 10-20 percent) have red meat and fish. And: Many foods prevent or prevent the body from using iron (eg coffee, black tea, red wine, spinach and whole grains). They contain substances (tannins, oxalic acid, phytates) that make iron absorption more difficult. Vitamin C, on the other hand, promotes absorption.

Dry and low-fat skin

In most cases, incorrect or too frequent cleaning will damage the acid mantle of the skin. As a result, the skin loses more moisture than necessary, becomes dry and more susceptible to irritants.

• First aid:
• The skin desperately needs lipids (skin's own fats) plus moisture in a concentrated but super-tolerable form. In rich, nourishing masks are also minerals that can rebuild the protective layer (eg "Caviar mask" or "silk
• & Olive "from Fette with minerals and trace elements) Instead of compact make-up or matting foundations, apply better cream-make-up or tinted moisturizers that have a slightly smoothing effect (eg Shiseido's" Cream Foundation "," Teint Prodigieux "by Nuxe).
• That works long term:
• For removing make-up use only super-mild cleansing milk for sensitive skin and remove it with cotton pads, without water (eg "Cleansing Milk" by Sebamed). Do not use foam, do not use tonic! For care, switch to soothing products containing lipids and moisture binders (with amino acids, algae and thermal plankton extracts, eg "Oleosource" from Biotherm, "Nutrilogie" from Vichy).
• Intensive measures:
• Useful is a differentiated skin analysis: measurement of moisture, fat content, pH plus analysis of the state of the barrier layer and the relief of the surface. After that, dermatologists can create an individual care concept. Controls can then determine very accurately whether the cosmetic applications are working and how the appearance of the skin improves. price for
• the analysis: about 30 to 80 euros, depending on effort and measurement methods.

Pale complexion

This is usually a clear case of unhealthy lifestyle: too much nicotine, coffee, stress, sleep deficit and lack of exercise. All this impairs the circulation, the skin is no longer optimally supplied with nutrients. Mini vessels form back, cell division is too slow.

• First aid:
• Stimulating circulation and injecting moisture is the motto. First a scrub to remove the gray haze, then a mask to bring back the energy and charisma (eg "The Refining Facial" by La Mer, "Instant Pur Gommage" by Yves Saint Laurent). Under or over the foundation, give transparent fluids with microfine, shimmering miniparticles in gold or copper. This gives the complexion a bit more luminosity (eg "Brillance Lumière" by Chanel, "Luminous Make-up Base SPF 13" and "Fluid Sheer" by Giorgio Armani).
• That works long term:
• In the morning, stimulate the circulation with alternating showers. Drink plenty of water and herbal teas. Eating fruits and vegetables (five mini pies a day is enough), get out into the fresh air at least once a day, go fast and get out of breath once a day. Use care products that gently cleanse the complexion of old horns (eg "Thermal Beauty Advancer" from Sans Soucis with glycolic acid from sugar cane).
• Intensive measures:
• Dr. Kathi Turnbull: "If the complexion is permanently pale, you can consider taking vitamin A acid at the age of 50. In younger years, a treatment with fruit acid in increasing concentration from 20 percent." At least six times every two to four weeks (for about 120 euros per session).

Swollen eyelids

Responsible is usually a disturbed flow of water in the tissue (lymph congestion), which forms especially over night, because the facial expressions of the eyes and eyelids are missing. Swelling is favored by a wrong sleeping position (too shallow, too many crushing cushions) or nutrition (eating too late, too much salt that binds water). The causes are more and more often allergic nature.

• First aid:
• Store tablespoons or special gel packs for the eye area in the refrigerator and cool the eyelids with it. Brew black tea in the bag, allow to cool and place on the eyelids for ten minutes. Apply decongestant, refreshing care pads (also from the fridge) (eg "Pure Calmille Soothing Eye Pads" by Yves Rocher, "Cooling Mask Cucumber Gurkenpads" by Artdeco).
• That works long term:
• In the search for the trigger you just try different things - reduce salt (soy sauce, for example, contains an extremely high amount of salt), raise your head to sleep, change the shampoo (recently wear a pony, the strands of which reach to the eyelids ?). In the evening, do without rich eye creams, prefer light, fresh gels (eg "Force C" by Helena Rubinstein). Apply firming, decongestant products in the morning (eg "Rénergie Contour Lift Yeux" by Lancôme). By the way, eye creams only belong to lower and never upper eyelids.
• Intensive measures:
• Dermatologists also focus on root cause research, but are more thorough and may send you to internists or ophthalmologists to rule out kidney, heart or inflammation problems. Lymphatic drainage at the beautician (every three days for four weeks) can help. Unfortunately there is no guarantee that things will get better. From 30 euros.

Small scars

Particularly dark skin types are increasingly prone to growth of the skin and often form raised scars. Only relatively fresh scars are even treatable.

• First aid:
• Cover with camouflage products (see "Couperose").
• That works long term:
• Massage, massage, massage! To stimulate the circulation and to keep the skin soft and supple. This is best done with special scar cream (which is available in the pharmacy, is expensive, and some pharmacists swear therefore alternatively on the eye cream by Louis Widmer). Stick a special scar plaster (drugstore, pharmacy) on it at night.
• Intensive measures:
• Older scars are almost resistant to therapy.
• Fresh Mininarben can be mitigated by dermabrasion or fruit acid. Small, raised scars treat doctors with silicone patches (gel and foil), sunken ones are filled with hyaluronic acid.

Pigment spots on the hands

Lentigines, as dermatologists call them, also appear laterally on the face and are signs of sun exposure that has stored the skin and reveals it as brown spots with age. Hence the colloquial term age spots.

• First aid:
• Cover with camouflage. Add a very light shade to the dark spots with a thin, flat brush. Then comes a second tone, matching the skin color. Two thin layers on top of each other cover better than a thick one. For fixing, dust with transparent powder. Make-up artist and camouflage expert René Koch: "Make-up on the back of your hand is especially natural when it is briefly held under running water - do not dab it off, let it slowly air-dry."
• That works long term:
• After eight weeks, the first "brightening" results are shown by creams with bleaching agents. The spots become smaller and brighter (eg "Anti-Dark-Spot SOS" by Stendhal, "Concentré Anti-Taches" by Chanel). Additionally, always use hand care with sunscreen and antioxidants (eg, grapeseed oil vitamins) which
• prevent further stains (eg "Absolue Mains" by Lancôme with SPF 15).

• Intensive measures:
• With the neodymium and ruby ​​laser, the laser specialist shoots away the spots in a single treatment. Piekst a bit and is, but only on express request, also with anesthetic to have. It forms scab, which falls off after seven to ten days. Side effects: rare, but possible that the skin reacts with inflammation. Excessive laser power can cause burns and scars. Cost: about 150 euros to 400 euros. Important: The hands must be as pale as possible because tanned skin is otherwise lasered away. The result may look like a vitiligo "white spot disease". After lasering, always apply (!) Very high light protection (from SPF 40).

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