08/25/2026
💌The story here has so many similarities and yet so many differences that it's hard to explain it all in words.
Just before Christmas this truly exquisite young girl and her mom came to see me. The pain in her mom’s eyes was TANGIBLE, as for her she avoided all eye contact… I have a personal VENDETTA against the attacks that come to steal our identity , our self worth and our future self; our hope. I said to her “ give me a year, and I promise you I will go to the ends of the earth BUT WE WILL give you the skin and the confidence that you deserve “. I did just that. I have witnessed time and time again, and therefore wholeheartedly trust the science based principles of Dr Zein Obagi’s ZO skinhealth diagnosis targetted skinHEALTH regimens. So yes, that is 100% of the time my starting point.
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In January I was blessed to go to the SCARS conference in Italy and my "skin health" toolbox got a total revamp. Dr Matteo Clementoni shared his years of practice pearls using fractional laser devices like the Alma Hybrid to actively and purposefully deliver pharmaceutical medication into different layers, different skin types, different disease stages but in one patient. Bringing that back, and adding the powers of ZO skin health, gut and lifestyle restoration, low ( LOW) doses of medication and the unbeatable POWER COUPLE: The Alma Harmony DyeVL and AlmaHybrid Proscan, we started THE LIFT OFF... 6 months later THIS is our results. Continue👉
SIX MONTHS. Now let me be transparent, ACNE is a medical condition and it should undoubtedly be covered under healthcare. BUT IT ISN'T. So there is an investment from the patient that is a pre-requisite: time, monetary, commitment... but my patients know that this job is not only my passion, but my God-authored purpose, so I give 100% of what I can invest to the cause of "reclaiming confidence, and changing lives". This young bright-spark wants to be an architect... she now shyishly looks me right in the eye, and she GLOWS with hope. When people ask me what | do for a living, I say "I am a human-art restorator"... We are artworks of the Creator, artworks that get destroyed in the struggles and burdens of life.
I cannot,