Refine MD

09/27/2025

09/26/2025

Why We Ask About Your Skin Type at Refine MD

When you visit us for aesthetic treatments, you’ll be asked to fill out a skin type form. This helps us determine your Fitzpatrick skin type—a system that measures how your skin responds to sun exposure. Knowing this is key to providing treatments that are both safe and effective.

You might wonder, “Can’t you just tell by looking?” Not always. With treatments like lasers and light therapies, accuracy matters. The right settings protect your skin while delivering the most beautiful results.

For some patients, the answer is straightforward. For others, factors like ethnic heritage and personal history with sun exposure make things a little more complex. That’s why we take the time to ask the right questions and get it right.

At Refine MD, your safety and results will always come first.

09/25/2025

Dr. Kay got her BBL + Moxi stack treatment this morning — the ultimate combo for a seasonal skin reset! ✨

This powerful duo works together to:
✅ Brighten dull skin
✅ Smooth texture and fine lines
✅ Fade sun damage and pigmentation
✅ Give that radiant, post-summer glow

It's the perfect way to refresh, rejuvenate, and clean up after a long, sun-filled summer. Ready to glow into fall? 🍁

📅 Book your fall skin refresh now — your future skin will thank you!

09/24/2025

🍊 The Power of Vitamin C in Your Skincare 🍊

If there’s one ingredient your skin can’t live without, it’s a high-quality Vitamin C. This antioxidant powerhouse does more than brighten—it works overtime to keep your skin healthy, youthful, and glowing, and it's on sale this month at Refine MD!

2️⃣ ways to save on Vitamin C this month
🍊Save 15% Vitamin C products at Refine MD
OR
🍊Purchase a package of BBLs, save 20% on a Vitamin C product

💡 Why Vitamin C is Essential:
-Brightens & Evens Tone: Fades dark spots and helps correct discoloration.
-Protects Against Damage: Shields skin from free radicals caused by sun and pollution.
-Boosts Collagen: Supports firmer, smoother, more youthful-looking skin.
-Enhances Glow: Restores radiance for that fresh, healthy look.

🌟 Pro Tip: Apply Vitamin C serum in the morning before SPF to maximize protection and keep your complexion vibrant all day.

Healthy skin starts with the right daily routine—and Vitamin C is a must-have step for brighter, stronger, more radiant skin.

09/22/2025

✨ Calm the Red, Reveal Your Best Skin ✨

Rosacea can leave skin feeling flushed, uneven, and sensitive—but it doesn’t have to define you. Sciton BroadBand Light (BBL) gently targets the root causes of visible redness and broken capillaries, helping you achieve a clearer, more balanced complexion.

💡 Why choose BBL for Rosacea?

-Precisely targets blood vessels that cause flushing & redness
-Reduces visible capillaries and uneven skin tone
-Soothes inflammation and helps minimize future flare-ups
-Non-invasive with little to no downtime
-Improves overall skin health, tone, and radiance

🌟 Pro Tip: Pair your in-office treatment with a powerful at-home regimen. We love Mystro by Skinbetter Science—a daily skincare essential designed to support healthy skin balance and improve resilience against triggers that worsen rosacea.

At Refine MD, we customize each BBL treatment and guide you on the perfect home care routine—so your results last longer and your skin feels calmer, stronger, and more radiant.

🌸 Even tone. Clearer skin. Renewed confidence.

09/19/2025

Why do providers recommend 3 BBLs per year?

Think of BroadBand Light (BBL) as skin maintenance, not just a one-time fix. Just like you see your dentist for cleanings or your stylist for trims, your skin also needs regular care to stay its healthiest and most radiant.

✨Cumulative results – Each treatment builds on the last, continually improving tone, clarity, and collagen production.

✨Long-term prevention – Routine BBLs keep pigmentation, redness, and sun damage from coming back as strongly.

✨Youthful skin reset – Stanford's landmark 10-year Sciton BBL study showed that regular BBL treatments (at least 3 per year) actually change the way your skin cells behave, helping them act more like young, healthy cells.

By scheduling 3 treatments per year, you keep your results fresh, luminous, and long-lasting—protecting your investment and your glow.

09/18/2025

🍂 Fall Into Laser Season at Refine MD! 🍂

While we’re always a little sad to say goodbye to summer, the team at Refine MD looks forward to laser season! Fall is the perfect time to erase unwanted pigment from summer sun and enjoy the powerful anti-aging benefits of Sciton BBL.

✨ Backed by a landmark 10-year Stanford study, Sciton BBL is the only laser (BBL or IPL) scientifically proven to rejuvenate skin at a cellular level, preserving youthful beauty for years to come.

This month only, save 20% on BBL packages and achieve the clear, glowing skin you’ve always wanted.

Want even more? Add a Moxi treatment and/or a Vitamin C product to your package for 20% off as well!

📅 Hurry—this promotion ends September 30th!

09/16/2025

✨ Katie’s 2-Week Moxi Update ✨

It’s been two weeks since Katie’s Moxi, and we wanted to give you a full look at her journey. All of the photos we’ve shared are barefaced—no tinted moisturizer or makeup—so you can see her true skin.

Katie is 41 years old and follows a consistent, high-quality skincare regimen at home, which plays a big role in both her recovery and her overall skin health. While we’ve shared the products she used during Moxi recovery, it’s equally important to note that preparing your skin with the right routine before treatment helps set the stage for great results. Here is Katie's daily routine.

☀️Morning:
✅Pineapple Tonique (Eminence) – toner
✅Alto Advanced (SkinBetter Science) – vitamin C
✅InterFuse Eye Cream (SkinBetter Science)
✅Triple Lipid (SkinCeuticals) or Trio Luxe (SkinBetter Science) – moisturizer if she is feeling dry
✅Intellishade Clear or Intellishade TruPhysical Tinted if she wants a little coverage (Revision) – SPF

🌙Evening:
✅(plated) Daily – whole face and neck, including up to her lash line below and above eyes - exosomes
✅Intensive AlphaRet (SkinBetter Science) – retinol
✅InterFuse Eye Cream (SkinBetter Science)
✅Triple Lipid (SkinCeuticals) or Trio Luxe (SkinBetter Science) – moisturizer, depending on dryness

Katie’s consistency, paired with her Moxi treatment, has given her a noticeable glow and smoothness already—and the best part is that results will continue to improve over the coming weeks.

✨ Katie’s Moxi Recovery Recap ✨

Here’s how Katie’s skin responded after her Moxi treatment:
Day 0️⃣ (Treatment Day): Skin felt hot and sensitive to the touch.
Day 1️⃣: Heat and sensitivity were gone, but redness and swelling remained.
Days 2️⃣–3️⃣: Mild swelling, redness lessened while dryness and tightness increased as MENDS began to appear.
Day 4️⃣: Katie reports this was her “worst-looking” day socially, as her MENDS became their darkest.
Day 5️⃣: Dark MENDS started shedding; she would say this was also a “worst-looking” day socially.
Day 6️⃣: Center of her face looked great where the MENDS had cleared leaving just the boarders of her face still holding on.
Day 7️⃣: All MENDS on her face had cleared.
Day 1️⃣0️⃣: Neck area fully shed its MENDS.

Everyone’s healing journey is unique, but this timeline gives a helpful look at what you might expect. Katie’s consistent skincare routine and healthy skin foundation also played an important role in her smooth recovery.

09/16/2025

Medical aesthetics is an ever-evolving industry, which is why continuous education is so important. At Refine MD, we believe a service is only as good as the provider performing it. We've had clients tell us they’ve tried the same treatments elsewhere, but it simply wasn’t the same experience they’ve come to expect at Refine MD.

We take great pride not only in offering the best brands and technologies, but also in the talent and training of our providers. Last week, our medical aestheticians had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with Joe, a trainer from Chicago, who shared his expertise with our team.

A big thank you to Joe and to our medical aesthetician team for always striving to learn, grow, and deliver the very best care to our clients. 🩷

09/15/2025

This past weekend Dr. Kay, Dr. Veronica, and medical aesthetician Peggy traveled to Chicago to take part in Sciton’s Skin CEO program.

It was a weekend full of learning the latest advancements in the award-winning Sciton laser platform, hearing from some of the nation’s top laser experts, and of course sharing plenty of laughs and great company along the way.

We’re excited to bring back fresh knowledge and techniques to continue offering you the very best in advanced skin care! ✨

09/15/2025

After such a gorgeous weekend, our schedule has shifted, and a few new spots have opened up! 🍂

Ready to kick off your fall treatments? Call now to reserve your spot before they’re gone!