Transform Your Skin: 30-60-90 Days of Consistent Skincare

KaramMD Trifecta skincare routine three steps with a swatch of each product spread out on a peach colored background: a daily cleanser, a vitamin C serum, and an all-in-one-anti-aging cream

Written by Founder, Amir Karam MD

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I’ll be honest—I didn’t have a skincare routine until about three years ago when I created Trifecta.

I saw the results of my wife’s dedication to her multi-step regimen, but I knew I couldn’t stick to something that time-consuming. I wanted the benefits of great skincare without spending 20 minutes in front of the mirror. That’s why I created Trifecta: to simplify the process and make an effective skincare routine achievable for anyone.

Trifecta combines all the most powerful, science-backed anti-aging ingredients, including Retinol, Vitamin C, Niacinamide, Peptides, and Hyaluronic Acid, and 20+ other active ingredients into a single easy-to-use system.

In three quick steps, that take less than five minutes a day, you’re giving your skin everything it needs to resist and reverse fine lines, wrinkles, dullness, and loss of elasticity. 

But, visible, lasting results don’t happen with skincare alone. The right routine also requires the Three Cs: commitment, consistency, and continuity

You must commit to using the routine every day, apply it consistently twice a day, and continue month after month. The payoff? Smoother, firmer, brighter skin that continues to improve over time. 

I speak all the time about the journey your skin will take when you commit to a comprehensive routine, so let’s go through that skincare journey, and discuss how your skin changes over 30, 60, and 90 days with a consistent skincare routine like Trifecta.

The First 30 Days: Laying the Foundation for Healthy Skin

The first month focuses on surface-level hydration, environmental protection, and early stages of cellular turnover. While results may be subtle, your skin is hard at work repairing past damage and beginning to interact with active ingredients in preparation for transformation.

Hydration and Plumpness

  • Hyaluronic Acid is a humectant that attracts water to the skin’s surface. This brings hydration and softness to dry skin, as well as an immediate plumping effect on the skin’s surface, reducing fine lines caused by dehydration.
  • Natural botanicals like AloeCalendula, and Arnica work to calm irritation and fortify the skin barrier, helping it retain essential moisture. These soothing ingredients play a crucial role in easing the skin’s adjustment to potent active ingredients, providing comfort and support as your skin adapts.

Brighter Glow and More Even Skin Tone

  • Vitamin C, a potent antioxidant, fights free radicals to protect your skin from further environmental damage. Vitamin C also begins lightening dark spots and balancing skin tone for noticeable glow and brighter complexion.
  • Another antioxidant, Niacinamide, reinforces the skin barrier, reduces redness, and evens out skin tone, promoting a calmer, more balanced complexion. Especially when combined with other actives, it enhances skin clarity and luminosity that improves progressively over time.

Smoother Texture by Initiating Cellular Turnover

  • Gentle resurfacing begins as Retinol stimulates cellular turnover, accelerating the shedding of old, damaged skin cells, encouraging the production of new ones. These healthier skin cells emerge more quickly, and uneven texture becomes smoother and softer.
  • While primarily known for barrier repair and calming inflammation, Niacinamide also encourages cell turnover by improving overall skin function. This enhances the skin’s ability to shed dead cells, which smooths texture and reduces dullness.

Laying this foundation in the first 30 days is crucial because healthy, hydrated, renewed skin is better prepared to absorb active ingredients and undergo deeper structural changes in the months ahead.

Cellular turnover takes about 28–40 days depending on age, which means you might not notice major changes right away, but these subtle changes happening within the first 30 day cycle are signs that your skin is regenerating and repairing itself, which means more visible changes to come.

At 60 Days: Visible Changes and Strengthened Resiliency

By the second month, your skin shows more noticeable improvement as significant progress is taking place beneath the surface. Active ingredients are working together to enhance cellular turnover and collagen production is beginning to ramp up, resulting in for healthier, more resilient skin.

Refined Pores and Fewer Blemishes

  • Retinol continues working to increase the speed at which skin cells renew. This effective shedding of old cells prevents clogged pores, reduces blemishes, and minimizes post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. As fresh cells replace old ones, pores appear more refined, and the overall complexion looks clearer and more even.

Improved Firmness and Elasticity

  • Peptides, composed of amino acid chains, function as cellular messengers that signal the skin to boost collagen production. This process strengthens the skin’s structure, and over time, the enhanced collagen levels contribute to a firmer, more lifted, and youthful appearance.
  • In addition to its barrier-repairing and skin-soothing properties, Niacinamide plays a crucial role in boosting elastin production. Elastin is responsible for the skin’s ability to stretch and bounce back, and its replenishment boosts elasticity and suppleness.

Enhanced Brightness and Even Tone

  • Persistent use of Vitamin C, along with other antioxidants like Vitamin E, work to target deeper layers of pigmentation by inhibiting melanin production and fading existing dark spots. 
  • Additional use of botanical brighteners like Licorice root, Green tea, and Daisy flower extract, enhance these brightening effects, leaving the skin looking more vibrant and uniform.

More Visibly Reduced Fine Lines

  • Sodium Hyaluronate, a smaller and more soluble form of Hyaluronic Acid, penetrates deeper into the skin to deliver hydration at a cellular level. By replenishing moisture from within, it provides longer-lasting hydration that restores volume to soften the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
  • Retinol continues stimulating collagen production to improve skin elasticity and firmness while reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Cell turnover has now completed a full cycle helping to reveal fresher, smoother, and more radiant skin over time.

By the 60-day mark, cellular turnover has accelerated, resulting in more noticeable improvements in skin texture, pores, and firmness. Collagen production, which naturally declines with age, is now revitalized, strengthening and thickening the dermal layer for improved structural support. This renewed collagen, combined with increased elastin production, helps the skin retain its bounce and flexibility, effectively softening the appearance of wrinkles and preventing them from becoming more pronounced.

At 90 Days: Structural Changes and Deeper Transformation

After three months of consistent use, your skin has undergone remarkable transformations both on the surface and deep within its structure. Collagen and elastin production are rejuvenated, strengthening your skin’s foundation, enhancing firmness, and reducing the visibility of wrinkles. This marks the stage where the true potential of active ingredients becomes evident, delivering more dramatic, visible improvements. The results are not only noticeable but enduring, underscoring the profound and lasting benefits of a committed skincare routine.

Smoother Skin and Stronger Resilience

  • Cellular renewal becomes more efficient after completing three full skin cycles. Cellular turnover has now been optimized, ensuring that new, healthier cells replace old ones at a steady rate. 
  • Aloe Vera and Niacinamide continue to strengthen the skin barrier, locking in essential hydration while protecting against external irritation. This increases skin resiliency and contributes to a more hydrated, healthy complexion.

Improved Firmness and Elasticity

  • With consistent use of Retinol and Peptides, collagen fibers produced during the first two months start to mature and reorganize, forming a denser, more supportive matrix within the dermis. This improves the structural integrity for firmer, more lifted skin that can help withstand and delay the inevitable sagging.
  • Elastin production strengthens bounce, and thanks to Niacinamide and natural ingredients like Broccoli seed oil, which supports elastin regeneration, the skin’s ability to stretch and snap back is restored. Skin feels more supple and looks more youthful as deeper lines caused by reduced elasticity are softening.

Glowing, Balanced Complexion

  • Persistent use of brighteners like Vitamin C and Niacinamide reduces melanin overproduction, fading dark spots, sun damage, and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. This reduction in stubborn pigmentation reveals a luminous, even-toned glow.
  • Consistent exfoliation with gentle, acidic ingredients like Glycolic Acid and Apple Amino Acids helps maintain the skin’s pH balance while continuing to refine texture and enhance radiance. These natural acids cleanse away dead skin cells that cause dullness and keep skin soft and smooth without over-drying.

Reduction in Deeper Wrinkles and Smoother Skin

  • Collagen remodeling reduces the depth and visibility of established wrinkles, while hydration deep within the skin from Sodium Hyaluronate and natural plant oils plump and smooth the skin. The skin is stronger and more resilient, even as environmental factors like weather or stress challenge the skin’s hydration levels. 
  • Antioxidants prevent collagen breakdown and maintain skin elasticity. This protection is critical for sustaining improvements.

By 90 days, collagen remodeling, enhanced barrier repair, and steady cellular turnover make skin look firmer, smoother, brighter, and more supple. At this stage, your skin is not only visibly transformed but is also healthier, and functioning at its best. 

With continued commitment, the results only grow more profound over time. Trust the process, and continue to let the science-backed ingredients work their magic.

Lifelong Use: Prevention and Long-Term Benefits

Skincare is not just about addressing current concerns; it’s an investment in your skin’s future. 

Lifelong skincare is more than a beauty regimen—it’s a scientifically proven approach to maintaining skin health and combating the natural processes of aging. As we age, our skin undergoes unwanted changes, including a 1% annual loss of collagen starting in our 20s, decreased elasticity, slower cell turnover, and a weaker skin barrier. These changes, while natural, can be mitigated with a long-term commitment to skincare.

Additionally, lifelong use of sun protection is essential for defending against the cumulative effects of UV damage, which is responsible for up to 80% of visible skin aging. Paired with hydrating ingredients like lipids and ceramides, a consistent skincare routine can maintain a strong, healthy skin barrier, locking in moisture and warding off environmental stressors. 

Individuals who adhere to a consistent skincare routine with clinically-proven active ingredients will enjoy skin that looks and feels youthful and is naturally vibrant, no matter your age.

Lifelong skincare is not just about appearance; it’s about preserving your skin’s health and functionality for decades.

The Power of the Three Cs

Achieving and maintaining youthful, healthy skin isn’t about quick fixes or occasional effort—it’s a process grounded in commitment, consistency, and continuity. These three principles are the cornerstone of effective skincare, ensuring that the benefits of active ingredients accumulate and deliver visible, lasting results. 

Without the three Cs, even the most advanced formulas cannot unlock their full potential.

By staying committed to a routine, using products consistently, and maintaining continuity over time, you allow your skin to thrive and achieve long-term improvements in tone, texture, and elasticity.

Invest in Your Skin’s Future: Trifecta for Lasting Change

Lifelong skincare is an investment in yourself–not only enhance your skin’s health and appearance in the short term but also provide lasting protection and rejuvenation over time.

With active ingredients that repair, protect, and prevent, the KaramMD Trifecta empowers you to achieve the skin you’ve always wanted. With everything your skin needs in one complete system, Trifecta is your ideal partner on this skincare journey. 

Embrace the process, trust in the science behind Trifecta, and unlock transformative, lasting benefits through commitment, consistency, and continuity… and your best skin is closer than you think–it’s only 90 days away.

Amir Karam MD

Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon
Founder / Creator of KaramMD Skin

Dr. Amir Karam is a renowned facial cosmetic surgeon and an authority in his field. With over two decades of experience helping patients achieve a younger, refreshed appearance. In addition to surgical procedures that sculpt a youthfully-defined facial shape, Dr. Karam takes the quality of the skin into account.

2 comments

carmen lafountaine

Dr. Karam,
I’ve been a dedicated user of Skinceuticals C& E with ferulic, am, and tretinoin at night. Can your products be layered or should they be used on their own?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping us on our skin care journey!
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KaramMD Skin replied:
Hi Carmen—Thanks for your questions. Trifecta covers all of your daily skincare needs. If you are not already religious with a Retinol, the Trifecta is perfect as a stand alone trio. While there won’t be any need for another product, you can continue using your Skinceuticals and Tretinoin if you’d like. You would simply apply any additional products after your Trifecta routine. Trifecta is meant to be used as a complete skincare system, so after you finish all three steps, you would apply your Tretinoin afterward as a supplement to the Retinol we already have in Illuminate. If you want to use your other Vitamin C alongside Quench, that should be fine. But pay attention to your skin to see if it’s too much—it’s essential to listen to your skin when layering products that have not been formulated to work together. We hope these guidelines help you, but if you have any further questions or need additional assistance, feel free to reach out to our customer care team at cusotmerservice@karammdskin.com <mailto:cusotmerservice@karammdskin.com>.

Judith Smtana

I am on the first 30 days of the Trifecta. I have already experienced results. Thank you for your hardwork.
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KaramMD Skin replied:
Hi Judith—Thank you so much for sharing your experience! We’re thrilled to hear you’re already seeing results within your first 30 days with Trifecta. We love to hear your success stories and hope they inspire someone else looking to begin their skincare journey. Thank you for your dedication to the routine, keep up the good work, and the best is yet to come!

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