Microdermabrasion is one of those treatments that’s used to remove dead skin cells from your face, which is a form of exfoliation.

For some of you, it’s used to make your skin clearer, to remove or minimize fine lines that are forming and to help offset some of the aging that occurs.

However, as women of color, you seek a microdermabrasion treatment that will even out your skin tone and help you remove dark spots.

Microdermabrasion it is an exfoliating treatment that can assist you with minimizing dark spots and evening your skin tone. An extremely important factor depends on who has the tool in hand that’s going to be working on your skin.

If the skin care therapist does not understand melanated skin, there’s going to be a challenge when they begin the technique and the process in using microdermabrasion.

For your skin as a woman of color, the slightest scratch, cut or nick is going to cause some type of trauma to your skin. Once the skin is broken your brain registers that there is trauma to that area, so it immediately sends the blood cells there to heal that area, and in doing so the blood that’s rushed in, creates melanin build up and this is what you begin to see as dark spots. For some it results in keloids on your skin.

What you want to make sure of is that the person working on your skin understands how of skin of color should be treated. You aren’t always going to find the answer in a book or class that has trained them on how to work with black skin.

What Happens to African American Skin After A Microdermabrasion Treatment?

With a lot of you when it comes to wanting to even out your skin tone, the microdermabrasion treatment can cause more harm than good. What happens is, the top layer of your skin becomes increasingly thin and it can cause immediate damage if you go out into the sun right after treatment.

You must have a sunscreen on when you go out into the sun. Your microdermabrasion treatment has actually taken a layer off of your face. It brings immediate exposure to the sun rays and when not treated properly, it can turn your skin darker, which is not a bad thing unless it’s darker in spots and then you’re experiencing the reverse effect of why you actually went to get the treatment.

What you’d like to see happen is the uneven skin tone you’re experiencing, whether it’s from medication you’re taking, dead skin cell build up or just the natural course of things, you want to use the treatment to take that particular portion and even it out with the rest of your skin.

It’s going to take sunscreens and natural creams to make sure that your skin is nourished and moisturized and not traumatized from the treatment of microdermabrasion.

Microdermabrasion – Is It Friend or Foe To Your Skin?

When you’re looking at a microdermabrasion treatment you have to consider if this is the route you should take. Not because it’s being projected as the treatment fad of the moment, but there are things that you really want to take into consideration and one of them being how it’s going to effect your skin in the long run. Is it going to enhance it or make it worse?

The minute you go into the sun after the treatment, you’re going to risk developing more patches of dark brown pigments and skin discoloration. Not only that, your skin is now like an open wound.

You’re coming out after taking a layer of it off and the healing process has to take place over time. The best thing to do would be to minimize your exposure to the sun even though for people of color it’s healing.

Once you start working with treatments like microdermabrasion you have to think of it as not being able to use the sun’s healing process until you allow your skin to take the natural course of replenishing the layer you’ve just exposed.

Extreme exfoliation (too many treatments, too much pressure by the person giving the treatment) can trigger hyper-pigmentation. Harsh facials can also cause inflammation and this will turn what you thought was a treatment to diminish into a condition that you know as hyper-pigmentation.

Your skin’s going to produce more melanin and it’s going to become patchy and blotchy. If you insist on having microdermabrasion treatments, it might be a good idea to make sure you’ve got your sunscreens and a nourishing cream that’s going to help feed your skin layer.

It’s extremely important to wear a hat that will act as a visor (wide brim). Something that’s going to shield your face from direct sunlight exposure.

That’s it for this week. Think it over before jumping into a series of microdermabrasion treatments. Don’t create a problem that doesn’t exist.

Dedicated To Your Beauty,

Juliette Samuel

Esthetician/Author/Publisher

Nyraju Skin Care