NEW Summer Skin Prescriptions! ☀️

Dr. Shereene Idriss launches two summer skincare bundles available until June 24, 2024: the Summer Refresh Kit and Scar Blur Kit. She walks through active ingredients for hyperpigmentation like tranexamic acid and hydroquinone, demonstrates a reusable cotton-round system, and answers questions about chemical peels in heat, sunscreen, and upcoming refill cartridges.
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No, there's no wrong link. You guys are right. We were having some technical difficulty, difficulties on the back end. Can I get water, please? Thanks. Good morning, guys. I'm live now. Hello, from Alaska. Hello, everyone. I might take a call during this live, but there was a mistake, I think, on our website, and I just caught it before going live. And so the team is just confirming everything. Thank you. So we are live. Zulema. I'm here. This is not a bot or an AI. Good morning. Good morning. It's Thursday. Is it Thursday or Friday? It's Friday. Every day is a weekday for me, and I'm excited for you guys to be here. I'm gonna wait a little bit until more people join. I think because I was a few minutes late, people probably thought they had the wrong link, but. Good morning. We have spring, Spain. We have Alaska. We have Turkey. We have Thailand. You guys are truly a worldly group. All right, there we are. People are coming in. We have France, Philippines, U. S. Tennessee, Mexico, Japan, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Australia, Florida, Hong Kong, Oregon, New Jersey, Singapore. Anyone from New York? Like, do we have any. People in New York are probably at work or they're summer Fridaying, and they're already, like, checked out. Oh, we have one New Yorker. That's good. Good morning. Very excited to be here. I wanted to go live because I wanted to introduce our summer bundles for you guys and walk you guys through them. We have Paris, Manhattan. Oh, we have another. We have another. No, that's the same New Yorker. I think the same Yorker is the only one New Yorker in the house, but we have everybody from all over the world, and I think this is an actual representation of our community, which is wild. I love your makeup. Thank you. I did this myself this morning. I actually tested out. Can I get the collagen mask thing? I want to show them what I tested out, and then we'll get into the summer bundles. But I tested out this viral product that has been going all over TikTok to see what it was about. I. Have you guys heard of this thing? It's like that collagen mask from Korea that you put on and then you peel off. It is much more gimmicky, actually. I still actually have some mask left on my hand. It's much more gimmicky than what it actually does. I think it leaves an oily residue left behind on your skin, which is why you see people looking all shiny after they've done this. But is it worth the hunt in trying to find it? Because it is sold Out. My verdict is no. So don't waste your time or your energy. If you want, like, a party trick and you guys are having a sleepover or whatever it is, and you want to, like, entertain yourselves, sure. You can use this. What happened to my left eyebrow? This one? This is my left. I actually have no hair in there. And I color them in. Let's see. Is that better? I don't know what happened to my left eyebrow. So that is that. Okay, are we going to jump into our summer bundles? I'm going to start with the first one. There are two bundles that we are posting on our website for the next few days. This offer is going to end on June 24, and I will be answering questions after I get through the bundles. But for those of you who are new here, I am a. Hold on. I told you guys. Hey, Arielle, I'm on the live. Okay? You're gonna edit it, okay? Just text me what it is. Okay? Okay, fine. All right, so here we go. Our first bundle is. Before I introduce the bundle, I have come up with a little system to help you guys. So if you follow along, you know that I have a very special way of washing my face where I have a different face towel for every night of the week. And I've gotten some pushback on the socials. Like, how are we supposed to wash these every day? Or like, who's going to buy all these little towels? Or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yours truly has made it simpler for you by creating these tiny little cotton rounds with the days of the week. Okay, so we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. You know, you get the gist, and it comes in this little size sack. So after you're done using these every day of the week, you pop them back into the sack and then you toss the whole thing into your washer. Et voila. Every week, you get a fresh set of cotton rounds, reusable ones that you can use on your face. This is on our website currently for $18. But if you buy the bundles, which is available until June 24th at midnight Eastern standard time, you get these for free. So it's an 18 value that is going to be offered to you for free as a gift with purchase when you purchase the next two bundles. And we're going to go through them in a second. And I might jump into a Sephora this afternoon and show you guys how easy these are to use. I'll use the cleanser in the Sephora, but literally what I do is I water them, I put them under the the faucet, wet them up really well. And then I put. This is actually empty. This is, is a fake. Is this used? Is this an empty? It's an empty. It's fine. I'm not going to do it now because I have patient care. I put the cleanser on here, and then I massage, massage, massage. And then depending on the day of the week, I massage it into my eyes, massage it into my eyes, and then I go to town and it gets the makeup off. If you don't have a washer and dryer in your apartment, the other thing you could do very easily is put a little bit of cleanser on here once you're done washing your face, and then just clean it under the faucet and it comes out clean. And so before I put it back in here, I actually clean each round with the cleanser and then I do wash it in the washer because I like. I use fabric softener and I like the way they smell once they are clean. But you guys get seven rounds over here. These are not $4 because you have literally seven of them. And they have every day of the week. But you get them for free when you purchase the first bundle, which is the summer refresh kit. And the Summer Refresh kit is going to be a combination of both the soft wash and the depuffer. Why do I love these two? These are my two essentials for travel. One, I keep this on the plane. Two, this is unfortunately a little bit too big to go through tsa, so I will empty some of this into a smaller tube. Or I will take a mini, which I do have, and I end up using this whenever I travel. Why? Because then I don't use in my cellar water. I could do literally my trick with the cotton pad of going into dry skin with the cleanser, breaking down the makeup, and then washing everything off. And then this I keep on the plane because I puff up so bad. And when I'm traveling through different climates, I get very, very reactive, especially as the summer heat is going nuts. I'm going to be in Europe next week, I believe. I think. And so these are my two must haves for summer. It is the summer refresh kit. Let me see quickly one thing. All right. This is normally an $86 value. These three things, you guys will get it for $68 until June 24th. So, yes, I'm going to Europe next week. I'm going to be in Spain. So this is very exciting. If you guys love these two, you might as well purchase it and get this for free now. And it is. It has been a game changer, at least for the team because nobody wanted to buy seven little towelettes in different colors. This has been very, very helpful. Jb, is there any word about shipping to Europe yet? Starting July 1st we have a couple of very fun announcements, some of which are going to be temporary, some of which are going to lead to more long term things. But you guys are going to have to sign up to the newsletter@doctorers.com and if you are signed up to SMS. So sign up to SMS. But we are going through a training season where Europe might be involved. I can't wait to get all the products. Thailand I wish, I wish the Philippines uk. Hold on to your knickers because something's happening in September in the UK and Malaysia, India. It is all happening eventually. Do you guys have any questions about this first bundle or not? Any questions other than requests of where we should ship? I'm also lisping because I'm wearing my Invisalign. Can you make reviews on arginidine serum? I have done reviews on that serum that mimic Botox, especially the ordinaries. I did one of them. It's very temporary. Don't expect it to be full on like paralyzing. But yeah, pretty straightforward. Can you link the newsletter? Tiffany, do you mind linking how they get to the newsletter so that they can be in the know. So you guys will see what's happening starting July 14th. How often does she do lives? I've never caught one before. I don't do them that often on YouTube. I do them when I have little announcements especially for the brands. But I do more on the cuff or on the go or off the cuff. Lives on Instagram like I did two nights ago when I was walking in the 90 degree heat. Okay, best hand cream for dry skin. We will get into that in one hot second. And if you go to Home Depot you know which hand cream I'm talking about. But let me tell you guys about the second bundle really quick. This is related to acne. It is not an acne line. It is not a new product. But the second bundle basically is our Scar Blur kit which is our quote unquote acne kit. If you are somebody who is extremely oily and acne prone, utilizing this on your marks. The acne marks left behind, especially when they are new, will minimize any sort of post inflammatory redness or discoloration. This is super, super helpful. The reason I incorporated the active seal into the Scar Blur kit is because Utilizing vitamin C before sunscreen is going to help minimize any sort of darkening of marks. And then obviously washing your face to make sure that you're not constantly breaking out. So these three products are in the second kit, plus these. And this is usually a value of $174. You guys would be getting it for $156. So you'll be saving until June 24th once you purchase these three products and getting these in that bundle as well. So that is the Scar Blur kit. We have our summer refresh kit, which is these two over here plus the pads. And then the Scar Blur kit are these three plus the pads. So we have two bundles happening until June 24th. It is very exciting. You guys will be getting these cotton rounds in those bundles that come with this pouch. So you can put them in here and just toss them in the washer and not have to worry about it. So we have two bundles. Very exciting. One with the wash and the de puffer, the other with the wash, the serum, the moisturizer, and both come with the cotton rounds. The Minis. We did have the Minis on our website. I can't remember if they're still up right now, but the Minis will be doing a return at some point in the year. Can I show them something? Where is it? Is it not? Oh, can I show them the cartridges for fun? This is not available yet, but I want to show you guys something. It's so good this is happening. So we launched. Hold on. Minis are coming. This is not a mini situation, but I want to show you guys something. I'm just very excited about when we launched September 2022 as Pillow Talk Derm. I always have to say, we are currently now Dr. Idris. I wanted to launch refills with each thing ASAP. I am a naive human and I don't realize how long things take, but to launch refills is a whole other ordeal because you have to make sure that it's like another sku, which means it's another product. Blah blah, blah, blah, blah, bl blah. But can I get the normal Hyper Serum box? I want to show you guys what we are working on for you guys. This is the Hyper Serum, which you guys are used to getting, right? Which comes with the pen and a cartridge inside. Okay. Starting in the next few months, month or so, I don't know. I'm not going to give you guys a date. We have these which are going to be our refills. And in one of these you get two refills inside this Is not yet available, But I just wanted to show you guys because I am obsessed with this mini box, which has g. I love anything that shines. It's the best packaging. It is so exciting. And I'm finally able to offer you guys. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. The. The refills. So it is something we're actively working on as a team. For those of you guys who are thinking about it, they're coming. So when you do purchase the Scar Blur kit, which is this, this, this, and this plus this. Hold on to the pens. Hold on to this, because something is coming soon, and I'm very, very, very excited about the legit refills because they're legit, you guys. So excited. But yes. Unrelated, though, Unrelated to what is happening today. Today we have kits. So how do you wash your face? With the cotton rounds. Do you guys want to see what's on my first patient? No. You're not gonna actually do it? Just talk through it. I could do one eye. Do you want me to wash one eye? I love anything that shines. If they. If they vote, yes, sure. But I have a patient starting in, like, 10. Oh, their battery is low. Oh, we need to plug in your computer. I love you. We need Dr. E products in Europe. You guys just hold on to July 14th. What are the best ingredients for. Don't mess up your makeup. It's okay. Okay, I have an idea. Oh, I know what. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I know what I'm gonna do because I have my makeup kit. Hold your horses. Look what we're gonna do. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. Okay. I'm gonna show you guys as if my hand was my face. Imagine. Here we go. Here we go. All right. Concealer. Concealer. Okay. This is our under eye over there. We don't have to mess up my makeup. Thank you. You guys are all very nice. Then we're gonna do eyeliner over here. Okay? That's the eyeliner that I wear. And then I don't have any sort of. For shits and giggles. Let's just put a pen. Let's just put a pen. Okay. We don't have a pen. Let's just use some kind of color. Okay. Voila. This is your makeup on your face. All right, There we go. There we have it. The way we wash our face. Because you guys were asking for a demo. Is this. Today is not Sunday. We abide by the days of the week. Let's Find Friday. Friday, we are going to show you how to do this. So I have a bottle of water. This gets wet under the sink, not on top of your white pants. Okay. It's a wet cotton round over here. The way I do this is then I take the cleanser, I apply it to the round just like that. I'm not putting that much. Can you guys see? I don't know why. There's like a white. And then I massage it into the cotton round just like this. And imagine this is your face. Your face has full of makeup. I just kind of wet it. Now, keep in mind, the water is freezing, but this is what I do. And I wash everything off. And that is how I clean my face every single day. I do a first round, and basically I first focus on my eyes. Then I go back and wash this underneath the sink and go in with a second time, and I go all across my face. By the time I'm done rinsing, nothing is left behind, and it takes everything off. I also have. I'm going to show you guys because they sent it to me. I think it's not an embargo anymore. Can you check if KVD has a waterproof? Hold on. Double check, Double check. Sephora. They sent it to me as a gift. They sent me this because they know I'm a fan of their eyeliner. I use the classic one. Did I leave it at home? Hold on, guys. I might have left it at home. Oh, no, I didn't. Okay, can you. It's on Sephora. So this is now available at Sephora. I'm not paid by this company, but I use the KVD tattoo liner. This is the liner I have on. This one is a waterproof one that they just launched. And I swear it works better than the other one because usually by the end of the day, my eyes tear so much that my wings are usually gone. So this is their waterproof one. I'm going to let that dry, and I'm going to show you guys how it cleans it. Okay? Just like this. We will redo the whole thing. Because it's Friday's dirty, we're going to pick another day of the week. Saturday. Sure, why not? It is the best liner. The best liner. So if you guys wear waterproof makeup. Is this dry? No, it's not fully dry yet. Let's add another line so you guys don't say that I smudged it. I don't know where I put it. It's over here. Hold on. I want to just do another Demo. I feel like we're on qvc, guys. Hold on. Okay, we're going to let this dry and I'm going to answer a question. Can I tell you my thoughts on chemical peels for melasma? I can. When you have melasma, you have to be very careful about breaking your skin barrier, especially in the heat, if you live somewhere very hot or if it's summertime or the sun is at highest intensity. So normally if you're going to do a chemical peel, that is an in office peel. So a medical chemical peel, not a bullshit medical grade at home chemical peel, I would not recommend doing it in the middle of summer or somewhere where you're very, very, very living in a very, very warm climate. Because when you break your skin barrier when you have melasma, you're more sensitive to heat and it can flare up. So just be careful about doing that. But if you're doing at home peels like the flash mask two times a week and your face is not actively peeling off or your barrier is not actively breaking apart, then absolutely I recommend doing those typ. Less is more in the long run. Going wrong and strong. Where your face falls off is not worth it. Okay, let us wet this round. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm making a mess over here today. And then this is nice and dry. Okay. All right. Demoing on a waterproof eyeliner hand cream. If you guys go to Home Depot, you know which hand cream I love, any cream they sell at a hardware store you know is going to be damn good. And one of my favorite hand creams is Working Hands by Okeefes. It's the best. And they sell it at the hardware store. Okay, ready? So then same deal, applying the cleanser, massaging it into the cotton round and then washing it off, it comes right off. This is honestly the best cleanser I've ever used. And obviously I'm biased because I made it, but I know what the hell I've made and I love it. It is. I think cleansers are the most underrated step in any single routine. And nobody focuses so much on the cleanser unless you're doing like a whole fancy double cleanse and an oil cleanse and all this bullshit. But it is one of the best cleansers I have ever used. And I actually have used it on an airplane when traveling while sitting in my seat because I didn't want to get up to go use the bathroom because I get grossed out by airplane bathrooms and turbulence It's a whole situation. I get scared in the bathroom, we're gonna hit turbulence. So I do it from my seat and it is amazing. Okay, did you guys see that? I have an asymmetrical jawline due to my sleeping position. They advise me to go to facial sculpt. Okay, buddy. Ciel, which means sky in French. Everybody has an asymmetrical jawline. Look how asymmetric. Like, oh, my God. This side of my face is fugly. This side of my face is the good side. I have no jawline here. I have a jawline here. My left boob, which is also the side of my face, is bigger than my right. My left hand is bigger than my right. Everybody is asymmetric. And it has nothing to do with how you're sleeping. And it has everything to do with in utero when you're being made. Because when you are inside your mother's belly, when you're being made, it literally you're being made from the midline out. And that is why we all have asymmetries. Some people, it's more obvious. It's less obvious when you're younger. As you're getting older, things become more obvious because we start losing bone density. So look at this. You see how much narrower this is compared to this? Everything starts to become a little bit softer. We start to get wider, our fat pads start to shrink, we start to lose the elasticity. And so you start to notice it more. But you can do all the facial sculpting in the world, all that stuff, it's never going to get you anywhere. It's just not. Because your structure inherently is asymmetric. Unless, of course, you get an implant like a jawline implant, but that involves plastic surgery and it is much more invasive. Please. I tolerate flash mask. When I put it at night and leave it to the next day. Can I put another product on it like the rest of the routine? On top of it? If you're sleeping with the flash mask overnight, it's my night to be lazy. So it's the only one that I use that night. And I hope you're not doing this every night of the week because you're going to mess up your skin barrier. So that's something that you do once, maybe twice a week as a one step routine. But when you wash it off in the morning, you can follow it up as well with the serum and the moisturizer. Dr. Idris SPF is hopefully happening in 2025. My team is going to kill me because I gave you guys a year. But it is very hard to make a sunscreen, which is crazy because we've landed on the moon and we only have so many filters in the US that you would have thought that every kind of combination has been approved. But it is extremely hard to make a sunscreen in the US if you're doing it the right way from scratch. And so hopefully, fingers crossed, you can get it together for next year. It has been a very hard labor of love post surgery scars. Well, I do have in my practice what I like to call a procedural kit and it does include the this, this and actually this, this, a post procedure kit. And this helps to minimize swelling and redness. So if you have a cut or a scar, using this on your scar, as it is red on a daily basis can help with the redness. So it doesn't leave behind any sort of any sort of post inflammatory erythema or discoloration. And using this on a scar is going to help minimize it from turning brown. And so I do use these two on my scars in my practice and for my patients. And then obviously I always include the soft wash because you need to be washing your face correctly and gently before getting any sort of procedures. If your scars pop up, using a silicone gel sheet or a silicone based product with a cream can be helpful. I prefer the sheets, but you want to keep those on 12 hours a day or so. I'm using alpha orbutin, tranexamic acid and azelaic acid, but my hyperpigmentation isn't fading. You're not using the best ingredients. So alpha arbutin. Yes, absolutely. Love it has to be at the right concentration. Tranexamic acid I always throw in there because you're throwing the kitchen sink in there. And I like to combine it with an acid to make sure it's at its highest peak performance. And that's why we have it in our flash mask. Azelaic acid is not necessarily the strongest ingredient out there for discoloration, but it's one that you also incorporate into a routine. It's not my first choice, hence why I decided not to include it in the major fade line. Plus it can pill. And so it's not super elegant. If you're really trying to figure discoloration, it's not just those three ingredients. It is literally the whole purple line, which is tranexamic acid. Yes, but glycolic acid, lactic acid, arbutin. Yes. Kojic acid, di glucosil, gallic acid, vitamin C, certain peptides, Certain peptides. Niacinamide can help with the redness. If you're not allergic to niacinamide. D Glucosil, Gallic acid, those are the big ones that you have to have. Plus, if you want to take it up a notch, adding an over the counter retinol. And if you want to take it up a notch even more, a prescription hydroquinone. That is how you deal with hyperpigmentation, not just those three ingredients. I have done videos about topical steroid withdrawal and they were on my TikTok. I think we've posted them on YouTube shorts. I can't remember, but we'll double check. Hydroquinone does work for sunspots, as long as it's not cancerous. But what I will say is do not use hydroquinone as a spot treatment. That is the worst thing you could do for your skin because you're gonna get whiteness around that spot and it's not what you want. You want to be using it evenly around your skin to even out your skin tone and to brighten your skin tone, not to cause lightning just in one spot. It's not the goal of hydroquinone, but I would not do it necessarily just for sunspots. I think using over the counter first to see how your skin balances is the way I would go. And I usually reserve hydroquinone if you have melasma or if you're going in for a procedure with a laser that might cause rebound hyperpigmentation. You're using a vitamin C serum. Can I use your moisturizer that has vitamin C2? Sure. But you're double dipping and it might be redundant. So if you want to spend your money that way, you can, but you don't need to. You could just pick one or the other. Do self tanners make you more sensitive to the products you use in your routine and overall cause acne? So when I use self tanners, my skin gets so dehydrated and dry and my sunspots become so much more obvious. So I'm not the biggest fan of self tanners. I use self tanners before I go to the beach so people don't pressure me to get some color under the sun. And I use self tanners when I'm exposing my white legs to the world. But more than that, I don't use them regularly because I do think in the long run it causes a little bit more damage to the skin in terms of dehydration. Now, if you're gonna have to put a gun to my head and say, pick a suntan versus self tanner. Of course, all day, every day I'll pick self tanners, but it's a personal thing where I don't love the way my skin feels when I use it. I have noticed that I occasionally break out a little bit after using it. So if you get blemishes, I get it. And you can use a normal skincare routine like the major fade line after using a self tanner. Yes, you can. Let's see. Why? What do you want to say? Hold on. I got lost. I think I adore you. Hold on. Thank you so much for always being there. Round pads with a finger holder. So these are available on our website and you guys will get them free with purchase. There are two bundles right now. There is a summer refresh kit, which is this and this and you will get these. So you're asking me where do I get these with the actual finger holder and the day of the week they're on our website. You can either just purchase this alone or get it for free when you get this bundle or also get it when you buy this bundle, which is my Scar Blur bundle. So these are incorporated in the pricing for these or the other ones. And those bundles are available until June 24th. I don't want to mess that up at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. Okay, guys, this was fun. I'm losing my voice. It's 10am and now I have like 25 patients to go see. So I will catch you guys either tonight on Instagram Live or tomorrow. I don't know what time I usually pop on. I saved my Instagram live from a few nights ago where I went on a whole rant about plastic surgery versus minimally invasive procedures. It's up. I didn't get rid of it. You guys asked me to save it. So it's still on my grid. It's probably 40 minutes of me speaking. So if you want more of me, you can find me there. But I will see you guys on stories. And tomorrow, of course, at 10:00am on YouTube, we have a very. Which one are we doing? We're doing a body care video because I did see Tiffany saw the questions. I didn't about eczema, but we have a body care video. Okay, enjoy the bundles. Hope you enjoy the cotton rounds. I hope you guys enjoy the demo of how to wash your face. And I will see you guys Tomorrow morning at 10am Have a great day.
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