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By the time the aspens start turning, your skin has quietly logged every patio lunch, trail run and afternoon at the pool. Summer in the Denver area is generous with sunlight, and at a mile above sea level, there is less atmosphere overhead to filter it out. The Skin Cancer Foundation notes that UV exposure […]

You bought a good sunscreen, you put it on before heading out and you feel set for the day. Most of us stop thinking about it right there. The trouble is that sunscreen only works as well as the way you use it, and a few small habits can quietly cut its protection in half. […]

Denver summers are a gift. Long days, wide-open skies and more reasons to be outside than any other season. They also happen to be when your skin faces the heaviest ultraviolet load of the year, and at a mile above sea level, that load lands harder than it would almost anywhere else.  Preventing sun damage […]

Summer wardrobes put more skin on display, and for a lot of people, that means more time with a razor and more waxing appointments booked before every pool day. What tends to get overlooked is the toll that the constant battle against unwanted hair takes on the skin itself. Nicks, ingrown hairs and angry red […]

If you deal with melasma, summer probably feels less like a season and more like a standoff. Those brown or grayish patches across your cheeks, forehead or upper lip tend to darken the moment the sun comes out, and Denver makes that harder than most places. At a mile above sea level, our thinner atmosphere […]

Wedding season, the class reunion, that trip you have been counting down to since January. Summer in Colorado fills the calendar fast, and a lot of people start thinking about a neuromodulator touch-up right as the invitations land in the mailbox. The catch? These injectables work on their own timeline, not yours. Book too late […]

Living a mile above sea level comes with a trade-off most people feel on their skin before they can name it. Denver sits in a semi-arid, high-altitude climate where the air holds very little moisture, and dry air is thirsty air. It pulls water out of your skin faster than your skin can replace it, […]

Broken capillaries have a way of showing up uninvited. One week your skin looks even, and the next there is a thin red thread tracing across your cheek or fanning out beside your nose. For people in and around Denver, the mile-high sun does not help, since a thinner atmosphere lets more ultraviolet light reach […]

If you have looked into non-ablative fractional laser resurfacing and are curious about how many treatments you’ll need, you have probably run into the same answer over and over: it depends. That is true, but it is not very useful on its own. The real number comes down to what you are treating, which laser […]