The Centre, P.C. - Plastic Surgery Blog

Be Your Best under Any Light - Monday, August 18, 2008

Now that we have passed the dog days of summer and the days are getting shorter and shorter, the garden and cocktail parties that you enjoyed in the long late summer evenings under the full light of sun will be moved more and more under cover and under artificial light. You may think that the glare of sunlight is the harshest, most revealing light, and that interior lighting will be more forgiving, but that is not entirely true. While some fine wrinkles and crepey skin textures do stand out more in the bright light of day, interior lighting will not allow you to neglect skin care.

Interior lighting is different from natural sunlight. It is not generally as bright, but because it is often a point-light source, it shows your skin differently from sunlight, and can be just as effective, if not more so, at highlighting different regions of your face. Most importantly, interior lighting generally has a different spectrum of light than pure sunlight, even if it appears the same white color. Many incandescent bulbs give off a more yellow color than natural sunlight, while fluorescents are more balanced to the blue. This can wreck havoc on your apparent complexion. Cosmetics that can give you an even porcelain tone in sunlight can make you look washed out under fluorescent bulbs, and a natural-looking tan can appear almost jaundiced under incandescent lights.

To be sure you look your best under any and all light, we offer VISIA computerized complexion analysis. The first step to making your skin look its best is to make it as healthy as possible, and VISIA analysis can detect areas of unevenness in your skin to make sure your face is a smooth canvas before you put on your makeup. Once it detects any skin problems, they can be treated with skin treatments from our proprietary line of cosmeceuticals: Centre Yourself™.

Once your skin is the perfect, smooth canvas, using the best cosmetics available can keep you looking your best. Jane Iredale mineral skin care makeup not only helps maintain the healthy complexion you have achieved, but their micro-pulverized mineral tints are less susceptible to change as the light changes. Mineral tints reflect radiation precisely, but chemical pigments are more likely to have secondary reflections that can appear under different lights.

To learn more about complexion analysis and mineral makeup, contact us at The Centre, P.C. today for a consultation.