Imagine how awesome it would be to have a dermatologist for a parentโsomeone you could talk to or text, day or night, about all things skin. Well, it turns out, dermsโ kids are no different than anyone else when on the receiving end of advice from their parents: โMy daughterโs eyes kind of glazed over the first time I started telling her what to do about her acne; I had to remind her that people pay me for my opinion,โ laughs Peterson Pierre, M.D., a dermatologist in Thousand Oaks, California who has a daughter, 20, and son, 18. โBut once she got that the advice was coming from a dermatologist, not โdad,โ she started following it.โ
To give you the best of both worldsโthe expert, insider advice without the parental opinion or commentary baked-inโwe asked four skin gurus-slash-guardians about the most important wisdom theyโve handed down to their teens and 20-somethings.