Renee's 9 Skin Types
“If you don’t know your skin type, are you even getting results?”
Skin is more complex than dry, oily, or sensitive.
Throughout my hands-on experience in the treatment room, I’ve identified recurring patterns in how skin looks, feels, reacts, and changes. They reflected lifestyle, environment, stress, hormones, and daily habits. Because skin tells a story.
That insight shaped my belief that there are nine unique skin types. From that belief, I built a system grounded in observation, hands-on experience, and real-world results. Not theory. Not trends. Just real skin, understood over time.
Let’s touch on the 9 Skin Types and uncover the patterns your skin has been showing you all along. Once you understand how your skin behaves, everything changes.
Below is an overview of each type to guide you toward what resonates most. For a true assessment, take the Skin Quiz.
- Your skin is oily, and new blemishes or cysts seem to be constant.
- Large pores, bumps and blackheads appear on your face.
- Heavy oils and pore-clogging ingredients tend to trigger breakouts.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- Dark or red post-breakout marks linger long after blemishes have healed.
- Your skin produces oil in your t-zone, and may have blackheads and large pores.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- Your skin needs hydration, but not in the form of heavy oils and pore-clogging ingredients.
- You experience breakouts occasionally, weekly or monthly that leave behind discoloration.
- You want to prevent the signs of aging and always keep your skin looking healthy.
- Your skin produces oil in your t-zone, and may have blackheads and enlarged pores.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- Heavy oils and pore-clogging ingredients tend to trigger breakouts.
- You experience breakouts regularly with several new blemishes or cysts a week.
- Dark or red post-breakout marks linger long after blemishes have healed.
- You want to prevent the signs of aging and always keep your skin looking healthy.
- Your skin produces oil in your t-zone, and may have blackheads and enlarged pores.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- Your skin may get red easily and you consider your skin to be sensitive.
- You experience breakouts occasionally, weekly or monthly that leave behind discoloration.
- Heavy oils and pore-clogging ingredients tend to trigger breakouts.
- You want to prevent the signs of aging and always keep your skin looking healthy.
- Your skin is considered to be "over-circulated" with redness or you may have rosacea-like symptoms.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- You may produce t-zone oil in the summer, and have blackheads or enlarged pores.
- Your skin can feel dry in the winter, and requires extra hydration without pore-clogging ingredients.
- You want to prevent the signs of aging and always keep your skin looking healthy and free from discoloration.
- Your skin may get "under-circulated" and can look dull or tired, in need of a brightening boost.
- You may produce t-zone oil in the summer, and blackheads or enlarged pores.
- Your skin can feel dry in the winter and requires extra hydration without pore-clogging ingredients.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- You want to prevent the signs of aging and always keep your skin looking healthy and free from discoloration.
- Your skin feels tight and dry year-round, and is in constant need of hydration.
- Your skin may get "under-circulated" and can look dull or tired, in need of a brightening boost.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- You're concerned about the signs of aging, loss of tone, and loss of elasticity.
- You want a more even, smoother texture in less visible lines, pores and discoloration.
- Your skin feels tight and dry year-round, and is in constant need of hydration.
- You have a history of excess sun exposure and you may have visible broken capillaries from sun.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- Your skin may get "under-circulated" and can look dull or tired, in need of a brightening boost.
- You're concerned about the signs of aging, loss of tone, and loss of elasticity.
- You want a more even, smoother texture in less visible lines, pores and discoloration.
- Your skin feels tight and dry year-round, and is in constant need of hydration.
- Your skin is considered to be "over-circulated" with redness or you may have rosacea-like symptoms.
- Harsh products make your skin feel tight, irritated, or sensitive.
- You're concerned about the signs of aging, loss of tone, and loss of elasticity.
- You want a more even, smoother texture in less visible lines, pores and discoloration.