Booking an in person or virtual consultation (if you are from out of town) is a very important first step. This allows us to discuss in depth your lifestyle, diet, current skin care regimen, medications and other health conditions that could be altering your clearing journey. If you are booked in for an in person consultation, we will take photos of your skin with our OBSERV skin analysis device to take a deeper look beneath the skins surface to assess inflammation, dryness, irritaiton, sebaceous flow and underlying pigmention.

After your inital intake and consultation, a fully customized treatment plan will be provided to you. Follow Ups are sent out within 24 hours and go over in detail any suggestions your acne specialist deems best for your specific skin going forward. This is when you will start your recommended home care regimen (this is a crucial step in the acne clearing process and we cannot gauruntee results or success unless you are on a fully customized home care regimen). This is also when your acne specialist will ship your products out if you are remote.

The client will check in at 2 week intervals with photos to make sure that progress is being made and we can go over any questions, concerns or feedback on the acne program thus far. This is also when your acne specialist will book you in for any treatments as recommended from your consultation.

This is usually when you will have your first treatment at SKN (yay!). This is when we take updated photos with our OBSERV and make sure the overall skin health is improving. This is the point of the process where we should have some significant initial clearing- keep in mind the skin ebbs and flows and we are essentially detoxing a system. More acne could surface around this time as well- but fear not- it will clear as quickly as it came because we have all the tools to do so.

You’ve likely been in for 2-3 treatments by this point and are about 3 months into your skin clearing journey. Acne should be significantly reduced to around 80-90% clearing if all recommendations and lifestyle/diet swaps have been followed. This is likely when you will need to restock on some products and some tweaks may be made to your regimen to get you to a full clear and accommodate to a more long term skin care plan.

Typically by this stage we will be about 3-6 months in and you will be at a full clear! Yay! You realized your body can and will heal and is capable of so much more than you could have ever imagined. By this point we will go over how we can maintain these results and not fall into old habits. Ideally we will still see each other once every few months, you will keep up on your new lifestyle and skin care regimen and we can keep your skin thriving, happy and healthy for years to come.