Looking for dermaplanning training in Midwest. Any recommendations

Hello ladies,

What are your views on dermaplaning? I hear mixed reviews.I am trying to get training on that but just wondering, if it is worth spending money on this class. Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Mary c Carter on January 30, 2013 at 7:54pm

I now dislike dermaplanning

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Permalink Reply by Tabatha Potter on January 31, 2013 at 1:37pm

I have a Guest who did it for acne scarring...very effective but left her COVERED in melasma!

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Permalink Reply by Carol Young on February 14, 2013 at 8:43pm

If someone got melasma, they may not have been properly prepped with melanin inhibitors before the procedure, and may have been a high Fitzpatrick type. This could have happened with any type of peel or resurfacing treatment. Prepping is so important, as well as post care. I love dermaplaning & have been doing it many years. It's something you need training on, for sure, and experience to feel comfortable. You can cut people if you're not careful. I even cut my own arm once when I accidentally bumped the hand holding the instrument by mistake!! The first time I took my class I was too scared to do the treatments & had to go back 6 mo later to retake the class to gain confidence. Then I practiced, and started doing it a lot in my office. A few years after that I was working in a dermatology office and had an opportunity to take the BioMedic Micropeel (dermaplaning) medical training. BioMedic was the originator of dermaplaning. That was GREAT education, and it gave me even more pearls and more confidence in what I had already been doing. All in all, I think it is a great procedure, especially for people whose fragile capillaries cannot tolerate the pressure/suction of microderm, and who want a peel with no flaking, with instant gratification. Not to mention the sleekness of hair removal. Product/equipment cost is minimal. You could also check out Dermafiles if you don't want to use blades and if you're not already doing microderm in your office. Dermaplaning is a good tool in your toolbox of treatment offerings. Go for it!

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Permalink Reply by MELANIE TREHAN on April 4, 2014 at 10:13am

Dermaplaning is an excellent tool to have in your treatment room. Some clients don't like/can't do facial waxing and don't want facial hair.. I don't use dermaplaning as much to exfoliate anymore due to all the new technologies/products I use in my facials but still use dermaplaning for hair removal of the face.. The hair grow back 3/4 weeks just as waxing would.. Your makeup goes on smoother and skin looks better on camera. I will always offer dermaplane <3

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Permalink Reply by Marty Glenn on April 4, 2014 at 5:24pm

Hina

Dermaplaning is the action of sliding a tool or sharp edge across the skin to scrape skin cells away. Right? Now I know you know this but consider this...

The Stratum Corneum (SC) has a programmed death to it. Meaning the corneocystes which make up the skin slough in a timed manner and is based on timed water / enzymatic process within the skin and the way it behaves. So I am sure there are cases where this procedure is very effective, I have yet to see it, but that means nothing that I have not seen it. So what condition would you want to take skin cells from the skin, both the good and bad, and reduce the barrier function? With that said how would you know your taking the right amount evenly across the skin and as the skin goes from good spots to bad spots how is that you actually can see it to know how much pressure to apply?

Take this for example: The face has high and lows of skin cells across the SC and unless you use some high powered tools you'll never know where they are or what your scraping.

What if you tried this: Get certified on glycolic acid and then progress from 20 - 30% at 2.0 pH and go as high as your state will let you then play with times, meaning 1 - 3 minutes vs 3 - 6 minutes, and then go to TCA.

Dermaplaning is a lot like dermabrasion and here is the argument:

How can you use a man made machine with women made pressure and mechanically spray a material on a surface that uses its own process to improve and change? How do you really ever know what your doing or affecting?

(I know, I know! I have clients who say amazing things with dermabrasion and will not acid peel clients)

With chemical peels, the skin cells and the inter cellular space and desmosomes which connect it all together act on the acid to either fight it or surrender to it so strong beat the acid while weaker do not. Its more controlled. Now of course that does not apply to 70% GA at 1.0 pH or TCA and 3 coats of 30%. Those strengths will take everything away so see the middle ground in my point.