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I was just flipping through the TLC channel, and came across a participant asking a professional aestitician (sp?) about how best to handle her dry skin. She told the participant about the "Tight Test".

To test if a moisturizer is right for you, try it on. If your face feels tight after 5 minutes, it is NOT rich enough for you.



I haven't heard of this before. If it's right, it seems a great way to test which moisturizer is right for our clients. Is this valid, in your experience or an over simplification?

Never heard of that. Sounds like a good question for Gary's office...

I've never heard of an official tight test, but have told clients the same thing. Let's try this one and if your skin feels too tight, then we'll try one higher. On the other hand, if it feels too greasy, like the mositurizer hasn't soaked in, they need to go down one age group. I don't think it's over simplified. We need to keep it simple to teach our recruits and clients. Gary has an awesome questionnaire on his blog that you can use to figure out which one is the best line for them to start with, and then you use the "tight test" to tweak it if necessary.

I agree w/Johannaa...keep it simple, keep it to the skin care questionnaire from Gary and go from there. And keep doing as we've always done...start some place and tweak if necessary according to the issue. You can use that terminology "tight test"to make it sound like you're in the know of the skin care professionals. I've been known to through a couple of words or phrases like "in the field we..." around to make it sound like I"m among lots of skin care professioals....well.., I AM among other skin care professionals...right!?!?!?http://www.wahm.com/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif

I tried emailing Gary but haven't had a response yet. I didn't find a direct email to him, sent it via the Product question link.

Is there a direct line to Gary that I missed? http://www.wahm.com/forum/smileys/smiley9.gif

I dont' know what gary's direct line/email is....but IMO (& its just my opinion ladies)...Gary is a very busy individual and has bigger fish to fry then answering something...again JMO....that can be common sense, has already been answeredor handled at a lower level.Perhaps thisis why you haven'theard back so quickly. http://www.wahm.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif

Gary answers as many questions as he can at the product@beauticontrol.com (product@beauticontrol.com) address. I have emailed him in the past and received a response back in less than 2 hours. If you have not heard back within 24-48 hours, the likelihood of that email being lost is pretty good. I would just email him back and ask again.

On the other side, I agree with mconkling. Gary is very busy, and a LOT of your questions can probably be answered on BeautiNet. I know it's very tempting to email him, since that seems to be the quickest way, but he has a WEALTH of information posted on BeautiNet that is absolutely FABULOUS and could probably save you the wait of a response.

I actually got two responses from product@beauticontrol.com (product@beauticontrol.com) within 48 hours. One confirmed the 'tight test', another stated her personal preference to try a moisturizer twice to see if it was a good fit for her. It didn't seem conclusive enough to bring back here, although I do see that I left the thread hanging.