11 Hottest Celebrity Skin Treatments

ZIT KILLER

On its own, the acclaimed cortisone shot can shrink colossal zits within 48 hours, but when stars demand faster results, Jessica Wu, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, follows the injection with Intense Pulsed Light. With this combo, "swelling and redness are greatly reduced, if not gone altogether, in 24 hours," Wu says.

Patricia Wexler, an associate clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, has an even speedier fix. When a young starlet came to her four hours before a call time with a whopping cyst, Wexler topped the injection site with a concentrated dose of dehydrating trichloracetic acid, or TCA, and the lump immediately flattened out, she says, so the patient didn't have to wait hours for the cortisone to kick in. (TCA does cause slight scabbing for two to three days, Wexler notes.)
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