Rosemary Coleman

Well, there is that nowadays.

Well, the important thing is that if you have something you want to correct, don't pitch up to the dermatologist three weeks before your wedding, having spent a fortune.

getting beauty treatments and gimmicks to try and get rid of your acne, your rosacea, pigmentation, dermatitis.

Give us a chance to correct your skin of any flaws, shrink the pores, get rid of the pigment.

That's going to take a couple of months.

So this is a marathon and not a sprint.

OK, well, a common problem I've had is brides coming in four to six weeks before the wedding with acne.

So if you're the bride, don't tolerate.

People don't often realize that a couple of spots on their chin all the time is actually acne and it's scarring their skin.

So don't tolerate any skin problems.

Don't be covering them up with makeup 10 months in advance.

So I would say deal with any skin abnormalities that need medical treatment like acne, rosacea,

severe broken blood vessels, pigmentation, young girls, melasma, pigmentation of the pill or of pregnancy and things like that.

And what is the treatment that they would need for things like this?

We would use medical treatments largely and then we'll complement them.

So if somebody has acne and acne scarring, we will treat their acne medically, but we will treat their acne scarring with lasers, microneedling,

occasionally peels, mainly lasers.

And you need downtime because they might need three to six treatments a month apart.

So you need that 10 to 12 month run in time for the correction phase.

Or if they've melasma, we will treat them with a prescription grade hydroquinone, kojic acid, vitamin C creams, plus microneedling.