The Skin Journal

Straightforward explanations of the questions patients actually ask — written and reviewed by Dr. Apurva Preetam Raut, MBBS, FCPS (Dermatology & Venereology).

Articles

Reading for patients

Pigmentation

Why your pigmentation keeps coming back

Pigmentation returns for three predictable reasons: the type was never identified, sun protection stopped, or maintenance treatment was abandoned once the skin looked better. Understanding which applies to you is what turns a repeating cycle into lasting control.

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Acne & scars

Acne scars: which type do you have, and what actually helps

Acne scars fall into recognisable types — ice-pick, boxcar, rolling and flat pigmented marks — and each responds to a different procedure. Identifying your type explains why one person's microneedling course worked and another's did nothing.

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Hair & scalp

Hair fall after fever, childbirth or crash dieting

Sudden, heavy shedding two to three months after an illness, delivery or rapid weight loss is usually telogen effluvium — a reversible shift in the hair cycle. It is distressing, it looks alarming in the shower, and in most cases it recovers.

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Laser hair reduction

Laser hair reduction: what a course can and cannot do

Laser hair reduction reduces hair density, thickness and regrowth speed over six to eight sessions. It does not remove hair permanently, it works poorly on light or grey hair, and hormonally driven facial hair needs its cause treated alongside.

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Bridal dermatology

A bridal skin timeline: what to do six months, three months and one week before

Good bridal skin is a scheduling problem more than a treatment problem. Correction needs months, refinement needs weeks, and the final days need restraint. This is the sequence that works, and the one mistake that undoes it.

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