A Letter From the Editor
Everyone wants better skin. Better hair. A face that looks like the best version of itself.
When I moved to the US, the routine I had built with my dermatologist ended overnight. I had been going to her for as long as I can remember. She knew my skin. I knew the order of the room, the chair she stood on my left side of, the sound of the machine warming up. That routine was gone, and I started looking for ways to rebuild it at home.
The first thing I bought was an LED mask. Then a DPL machine. I saw videos, I read what I could find. I set them up and used them the way I thought my clinic would have used them, at the times of day I thought made sense, for the length of the session I had been used to. I waited for the results I had seen in the clinic to arrive.
When they did not, I went looking. The technology was not the problem. The wavelengths were right. The studies were real. The difference was in the energy output, in the session length, in the cumulative dose, in small technical details that no one selling the device to me had thought to explain. The mask was a real device. It was also not the device I thought I had bought.
I am not sorry I bought them. I still use them. I reach for them on nights I want to feel like I am doing something. What I wish is that I had known what I was buying, so I could have set my expectations against what the device could actually do, instead of against what I had hoped it would.
It is not about price. A fifteen dollar serum and a three hundred dollar serum ask the same question of the woman paying for them. Do you know what you are buying.
That is the gap Naturale Edit was made to close.