Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Have you ever looked in the mirror and sighed at the sight of pores scattered across your nose and both cheeks, the so-called “butterfly zone”? When I consult with patients about pore treatment, I often feel that the stress they experience is deeper than expected. “Even if I carefully do my makeup in the morning, by lunchtime the foundation gets stuck in my pores and makes my skin look so dirty.” “My skin texture is so bumpy, like an orange peel, that I hesitate to go to the convenience store near my home without makeup.” “No matter how much primer I apply, the pitted marks just won’t fill in.”

Many people end up wearing thicker and thicker makeup to hide enlarged pores, and then that makeup clogs the pores, causes breakouts, and makes the pores widen again, creating a vicious cycle. Once pores have enlarged, they do not naturally shrink again, so medical help is absolutely necessary. However, not all pore lasers are the same. You need to find the real reason your pores have widened and apply a combined solution tailored to that cause in order to get satisfying results. Today, I’ll explain in detail the causes of enlarged pores and a customized 3-step treatment method—“cleanse, fill, tighten”—to address them at the source.

Why do pores keep getting larger?

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

There are two main reasons pores become noticeably enlarged. The first is excessive sebum production. Pores are the passage through which sebum is released to the outside of the skin. During puberty, or in people with oily skin, the amount of sebum that needs to be discharged is large, so the passage naturally becomes wider. It is similar to how a river widens when more water flows through it.

The second is reduced skin elasticity due to aging. After the late 20s, collagen and elastin in our skin begin to decrease, and the skin as a whole starts to loosen. At this point, the surrounding skin that used to hold the pores tightly also weakens, and round pores begin to stretch vertically into longer shapes. This is called “vertical pores,” and as the skin texture sags, the pores can connect with one another and even look like wrinkles.

Therefore, the key to pore treatment is to reduce sebum, which is the cause of enlarged pores, while also tightening the loosened skin elasticity at the same time.

Step 1: Clean out the pores with Clarity Pro

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Before tightening pores, the first thing to do is empty them out. If the pores are packed with coarse hairs, oxidized sebum (blackheads), and waste, then no matter how good the laser is, tightening the surface won’t help.

Clarity Pro plays an excellent role at this stage. First, it effectively removes coarse hairs embedded in the pores and dark blackheads. In other words, it clears away the obstacles that were physically widening the pores. It also delivers thermal energy to the sebaceous glands themselves, causing them to shrink and helping suppress excessive sebum production. When oiliness decreases and the inside is cleanly emptied out, the size of the pores naturally becomes smaller, and you can feel the skin tone becoming much clearer.

Step 2: Build new tissue from within with Virtue RF

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Once the cleaning is done, it is time to tighten the empty pores from the inside. To narrow pores that have already lost elasticity and become loose, regeneration of the deep skin layer, the dermis, is essential. Virtue RF is a procedure that penetrates the skin’s dermis with fine needles and delivers radiofrequency energy directly. As the physical stimulation of the needles and the heat energy from the radiofrequency act together, they help strengthen the collagen bonds that have aged and broken down.

Just as you would pull a loosened rubber band taut again, the skin tissue around the pores becomes fuller, creating the effect of tightened, smaller pores. In particular, Virtue RF is equipped with a cooling system, so pain is minimal and epidermal damage is minimized, which is a major advantage because you can return to daily life after the procedure without worrying about redness or scabbing.

Step 3: Tighten the skin surface with InMode

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Lastly, a process is needed to raise surface elasticity and create synergy. InMode is a lifting device that uses radiofrequency energy to tighten loosened skin. When the skin sags downward due to aging, the pores also become more stretched, but if InMode tightens the outer skin as if ironing it smooth, the elongated pores can become rounder and smaller again.

If Virtue RF builds up the pillars inside the skin, InMode can be thought of as completing elasticity by coating the outside of the skin smoothly. When these two procedures are combined, you can expect a powerful pore-reducing effect that tightens both inside and out.

Bangbae-dong Dermatology: A 3-Step Customized Treatment to Reduce Enlarged Pores

Along with treatment at the clinic, patients’ home care is also important. When washing your face, it is good to open the pores with lukewarm water to remove impurities, and then finish by gently patting with slightly cool water to help with firmness. Also, ultraviolet rays destroy collagen and are a major cause of sagging pores, so be sure to apply sunscreen thoroughly when going বাইরে. Above all, you should absolutely avoid the habit of squeezing out visible sebum with your hands, as this can permanently damage the pores.

Pore treatment is not magic that makes your skin smooth like porcelain after just one procedure. However, if you consistently receive a systematic combined treatment that reduces sebum and restores elasticity through an accurate diagnosis, you can clearly see a noticeable improvement in skin texture. If looking in the mirror is stressful because your skin feels like orange peel, don’t worry about it alone—consult a dermatologist.