How To Know What Type Of Skin You Have

It's important actually to measure the texture of your skin especially if you're prone to acne. You have acne scars and see whether you actually have dry skin or you have oily skin. And nowadays, that can actually be done with quite sophisticated machinery, all the tools are actually available out there to dermatologist and people who actually deal with your skin conditions.

Now, the way I do it, I use a skin analyzer, computerized analyzer and what I'm doing now is I'm taking a few skin cells of the young lady here, so I'm applying actually, which looks like a little plaster onto the skin, here it is. We're collecting just right now a few skin cells. Now, I'm going to take the plaster off and actually apply it now to my software.

We're going to have a look with the microscope which is a camera at the same time of the type of skin cells now growing on Una's skin and we can actually tell exactly whether the skin is dry, whether it's normal and what type of skin cells are actually living on her skin. Now, we can actually see the skin cells on camera here on my computer screen and I'm just focusing on the skin cells in my little camera which is a microscope at the same time, which is enlarging the skin cells by a hundred and in a short while, we're going to see a 3D image of skin cells we are seeing. Now, you can see that my assistant has very, very dry skin on the sample we have been taking right now.

Now, you can see it gives you a little fluid down there. Normal skin has a fluid undertone means you have enough water and fat in your skin. Green means it's actually quite dry.

Yellow means it's very, very dry. So, what that means is the skin doesn't have enough elasticity, it hasn't got enough water and fat to turn over and probably the products being used are quite harsh and the skin is not moisturized as it should be. Now, on my computer screen, we can actually see the skin cells have just taken in the black and white image, enlarged by a hundred, and you can see on the right hand side a 3D image of all the types of skin cells I've just collected, and that is just a sample.

Now, the skin cells that I've just collected are very,very dry. You can see the various colors. Blue means your skin has enough water and fat to actually turn over.

Your skin regenerates itself every 35 days and a new skin cell called keratinocytes actually comes from the bottom layer of your subdermis, travels through all the layers of your skin to your top layer, the epidermis who regenerates it. Now, in this case, it's not going to be happening, reason being is you can see a lot of red and green and yellow. Now, from the guideline, underneath this picture, you can actually see what's happening.

Green means dry, yellow dryer and red's actually very dry. The skin cells I've collected are very dry. .