What is skin analysis?

Skin analysis is the process of identifying the client’s skin type, strengths and flaws. The skin test allows you to see the state of all aspects of your skin, and the images also allow you to analyze the oil, moisture, elasticity, and collagen of your face. Based on the skin analysis, you can find products and treatment plans that are more suitable for you.

How does an esthetician perform a skin analysis?

The skin analysis begins when the client walks through the door. The four general steps of skin analysis by an esthetician are face diagnosis, consultation, palpation, and comprehensive analysis of the client’s skin condition with the assistance of a skin analysis machine.

Step 1: Face Diagnosis

The first step of face diagnosis: wash the customer’s face to remove makeup so that you can see more clearly because the sensitive skin of the shelter is generally invisible. After the removal of makeup will appear red and other problems.

Step 2: Consultation

In the second step of consultation: the esthetician should also carefully ask the customer about their usual eating and living habits to understand where the problem lies. The goal is to understand the customer’s daily habits, concerns and skin care products. When analyzing the client’s skin problems, a combination of methods should be used for scientific analysis.

Consultation topics may include:

The general health of the client’s skin

The skin is the largest organ of the body, so if your client is unhealthy, it will show. Learning more about your client’s well-being can give you a good idea of how receptive they are to lifestyle changes that will benefit their appearance.

Do clients smoke?

Smoking can deprive the skin of oxygen, speeding up its ageing process and causing wrinkles. It can also turn the skin yellow, toughen it and cause age spots.

What about the client’s diet

While much of the quality of the skin is genetic, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can support elasticity. Diets lacking essential nutrients often cause inflammation and lead to redness or dryness.

Whether the client has allergies

Allergies are a common cause of redness and rashes. It is also important for you to know if your client is allergic, especially to sunscreen or other ingredients in skin care products.

What is the client’s medical condition?

Medical conditions can directly affect the health of the skin. For example, people with diabetes suffer from glycosylation, a process that impairs circulation and cell regeneration. This can also make someone more susceptible to infections, so treatment precautions must be taken.

What does your client’s medication use look like

Dozens of medications can exacerbate sunburn. Others may react with ingredients in skin care products. The esthetician needs to be fully informed before choosing what to apply.

What is the client’s skincare routine?

Using the wrong cleansers, scrubs and moisturizers for the skin type, or using the right products in the wrong consistency, can be annoying. Knowing which products your clients use regularly can help you determine if they are responsible for redness and what changes to recommend. It can also provide insight into what treatments are appropriate for someone’s lifestyle.

The amount of time your clients spend outdoors

The amount of time your client spends outdoors may be contributing to wrinkles. Knowing why your client is reappearing with wrinkles or other signs will change the way you approach the problem. It would help if you always considered whether your client’s skin is tough due to smoking or prolonged exposure to outdoor work, as this can affect treatment choices.

Step 3: Palpation

The third step in an esthetician’s skin analysis is the close examination. Technology is constantly evolving, and today’s skincare professionals can choose from a wide range of devices to improve their exams, from devices that measure sebum to 3D facial analyzers. But the primary tool for aestheticians is still touching, and using your fingers to assess texture helps to detect subtle irregularities.

Magnifying lights make it easy to see the smallest irregularities you may feel on a client’s skin. Equipped with cool bulbs that don’t distort skin tones, these lamps come in various configurations, from fixed floor lamps to wheeled lamps that can be manoeuvred around a chair during an exam. Some come with storage and evaporators to easily clean the client’s face.

 

Step 4: Detailed analysis with the help of a skin analysis machine.

Smart skin analysis machine can deeply analyze pigmentation, blemishes, wrinkles, texture, oil analysis, vasodilation, pores, UV discolouration, skin age, etc.; similar to a skin butler that allows us to detect the various problems that exist in our skin.

What is the goal of skin analysis?

The significance of skin testing is – to reveal skin problems that are difficult to identify with the naked eye, to visualize deep skin problems, and to facilitate early warning and correct determination of skin problems so that the right skincare and the right products can be recommended.

 

Skin Classification

During skin analysis, we also need to understand the basic skin types. Depending on the water content, sebaceous gland secretion, skin pH, and the degree of skin reaction to the outside world, skin can be classified into five types, normal skin, dry skin, oily skin, combination skin, and sensitive skin. Normal skin belongs to the ideal skin type. Dry skin may be related to congenital factors, wind and sun exposure, and excessive washing; oily skin is mostly related to high androgen secretion, preference for high-fat and high-sugar foods and spicy, stimulating foods; sensitive skin is overly reactive to external stimuli; and combination skin is skin with two or more different nature types at the same time.

1. Dry skin

Performance characteristics: dry skin, rough skin, oil and moisture are not normal, the PH value of the skin is not normal, lack of elasticity, small pores, thin skin on the face, easy to sensitive. Facial skin is prone to breakage, flakiness, long spots, dullness, and lack of lustre, and not easy to apply makeup on. However, the appearance is relatively clean, and the skin mound is flat; the skin furrow is in a straight line, shallow, messy and wide. The skin is saggy and prone to wrinkles and ageing. Dry skin can be further divided into two types: oil deficiency and water deficiency.

 

2. Normal skin

Performance characteristics: oil, water moderate, smooth and soft skin, red and lustrous, moderate skin pH, rich in elasticity, small pores, skin furrow vertical and horizontal direction, the lines are neatly arranged, is the ideal beautiful skin. Most children are neutral skin, usually under 10 years of age before the development of young girls for more. Few younger people, especially after puberty, can still maintain normal skin. This skin tends to be oily in the summer and dry in the winter.

 

3. Oily skin

Performance characteristics: T-area oily obvious, oil secretion, often have blackheads, pores, deeper skin lines leather thick hard not smooth, darker skin tone, dark yellow appearance, alkaline skin, better elasticity, not easy to wrinkle, ageing, not sensitive to external stimuli. The skin is easy to absorb ultraviolet rays, easy to darken, easy to take off makeup, and easy to produce acne.

 

4. Mixed skin

Characteristics: A kind of skin showing two or more kinds of appearance (with the characteristics of both oily and dry skin). Most of the T-zone area of the face is prone to oil, while the rest of the face is dry and acne occurs from time to time. 80% of women have combination skin. 20-39-year-olds are mostly combination skin.

 

5. Sensitive skin

Performance characteristics:

• The sebaceous film is thin.
• The skin is more sensitive.
• The skin’s own protection ability is weak.
• The skin is easy to appear swollen, red, prickly, itchy, painful and dehydrated, peeling phenomenon.