Dr. Shawana Vali

Some people want their lips done or they want their cheeks done, something like that.

The first thing someone looks at is your eyes.

Next thing is your teeth.

Fix that first.

Forget your lips.

Forget your cheeks.

No one's looking at them.

So it's understanding.

And the reason why we went in and around is because of the journey that we've both been on.

We understand internally what's happening pathophysiologically and histopathologically on each cell that we can now understand what happens on the outside.

Okay, so let's go back to basics.

Regardless of gender, and I always do this, regardless of gender, heritage, age,

And if they were like, you know, the 21-year-old sitting in the room, the 16-year-old sitting in the room, then there's me, there's you, right?

30s, 40s, 50s, whatever it is.

Regardless of gender and ethnicity, something's going on in our skin for all of us the same thing.

There's only two things that are happening that we're synonymously feeling the same.

We all have fibroblast degradation from the age of 20s, early 20s.

Your collagen, elastin, your hyaluronic acid, your GAGs are all going down.

That gives you fine lines, wrinkles, open pores, oiliness.

Then all of us, regardless of ethnicity, have some form of pigmentation.