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Ditch the Razor With Laser Hair Removal: 3 Reasons to Give It a Try

The average adult woman shaves her legs and underarms at least 200 times per year! Think of everything you could accomplish if so many hours of your life were not wasted shaving. Laser hair removal can give you that freedom! You’re probably familiar with laser hair removal, so here are three reasons you should give it a try.

First, What Is Laser Hair Removal?

Laser hair removal is proven to reduce the hair that grows on the treated areas of your body. You can treat nearly any area on your face or body! Laser hair removal uses a concentrated beam of laser light that is absorbed by the pigment (or color) in your hair. This causes severe and lasting damage to your hair follicle. Once all of your hair follicles in a specific location, like your underarms or legs, become permanently disabled, they stop growing hair and leave your skin smooth and silky. Continue reading “Ditch the Razor With Laser Hair Removal: 3 Reasons to Give It a Try”

What’s On Your Pre-Holiday Checklist?

The Holiday Season is nearly here, so you may already be planning the gifts you buy your coworkers or the dessert you bring to Thanksgiving dinner. What cosmetic goals are on your list? Use this pre-holiday checklist to make sure you are giving your skin and body the TLC it needs ahead of the chaotic holiday season.

Microdermabrasion

Microdermabrasion is a treatment designed to exfoliate your skin and stimulate collagen production. Just one microdermabrasion treatment can reduce wrinkles, fine lines, and acne scarring while totally refreshing and rejuvenating your skin. You’ll enter the holiday season looking and feeling like a revitalized version of yourself. You can even add this into a monthly or bi-monthly routine to keep your skin fresh.

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Belotero for Fine Lines around the Eyes and Mouth

The skin around your eyes and mouth is thin and delicate. As you age and your skin starts to lose its natural elasticity and firmness, fine lines start to develop around your eyes and mouth. These wrinkles aren’t like deep nasolabial folds that disappear with an injection of a heavier hyaluronic acid dermal fillers like Juvederm.

Instead, the fine lines around your eyes and mouth need to be treated with a gentler filler like Belotero. Belotero is a lighter hyaluronic acid filler that offers important differences from other HA fillers like Juvederm and Restylane.

The Belotero Difference

Belotero was specifically formulated for women who have started to notice stubborn lines above their lips, wrinkles developing around the mouth, and fine lines showing near the eyes. Its proprietary Cohesive Polydensified Matrix (CPM) produces an incredibly smooth and flexible gel that completely integrates into the skin tissue. This allows Belotero to work in a way few other fillers can by blending into the natural skin structure and subtly smoothing out facial lines and wrinkles. Continue reading “Belotero for Fine Lines around the Eyes and Mouth”

Botox for Hyperhidrosis: What You Need to Know

Sweating is a fact of life, but if you sweat so much that normal deodorants and antiperspirants barely have an effect, you could have a condition called hyperhidrosis. Hyperhidrosis is a medical problem that causes excessive sweating on the palms, feet, underarms, and/or head.

You understand how easily excessive sweating can interfere with normal activities and become a major source of embarrassment, but there’s good news! Simple treatments like Botox can actually minimize your sweating to normal, healthy levels and help you take back your life.

Do You Have Hyperhidrosis? Continue reading “Botox for Hyperhidrosis: What You Need to Know”

Creating a Solid At-Home Skincare Routine with Skinade

We all want beautiful, radiant skin, yet we overlook one of the most important parts of an at-home skincare routine that nourishes youthful skin. You need more than topical products like toner and moisturizer to maintain healthy, vibrant skin – you also need to nurture your skin from within.

Skinade makes this possible! Skinade is a results-driven and hassle-free skincare drink designed to boost your skin health. Here’s what you should know about using this innovative product to transform your complexion.

What Is Skinade? Continue reading “Creating a Solid At-Home Skincare Routine with Skinade”

Treating Melasma: What You Need to Know

If you have dark, discolored patches on your skin, you are probably one of the millions of  women in American suffering from melasma. Though melasma isn’t dangerous, most people are unhappy with the appearance of this skin discoloration. Fortunately, there are three safe and easy ways to treat melasma and restore clear, healthy skin. Here’s what you need to know!

What Is Melasma?

Melasma is a skin condition that causes discoloration across the cheeks, forehead, chin, nose, neck, and forearms. It is likely caused by hormone sensitivity, sun exposure, and stress. Pregnancy is also a leading contributing factor to melasma, which explains why 90% of all melasma occurs in women. Some cases of melasma disappear on their own, especially in cases related to pregnancy, but many melasma cases require additional treatments to fade. Continue reading “Treating Melasma: What You Need to Know”

Stimulate New Hair Growth with Platelet Rich Plasma

Nearly 100 million men and women in America suffer from significant hair loss and balding. If you are one of the 100 million, you know exactly how embarrassing and frustrating hair loss can be. Worse yet, the creams, shampoos, and medications commonly used to treat hair loss cause a range of unpleasant side effects and rarely deliver sustainable results.

If you want to regrow your hair naturally and enjoy the results permanently, there actually is a solution! Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has emerged as a hair regrowth treatment that poses virtually no side effects. Could PRP finally be the solution you’ve been looking for to stimulate new hair growth?

How Does PRP Achieve Hair Growth? Continue reading “Stimulate New Hair Growth with Platelet Rich Plasma”

7 Reasons Your Teen Should Consider Medically Supervised Weight Loss

Gaining weight is easy, but losing weight can feel impossible. If your teenager is struggling with excess weight, medically supervised weight loss could be the answer. There are many reasons medically supervised weight loss is the best choice to help your teen overcome obesity.

  1. Obesity Causes Other Health Complications

Obesity is a dangerous condition because it leads to other serious health complications. Carrying extra fat makes the body vulnerable to diabetes, sleep apnea, anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease, and more. It’s important that your teen lose weight and embrace a healthy, active future that is never limited by extra weight and recurring medical problems. Continue reading “7 Reasons Your Teen Should Consider Medically Supervised Weight Loss”

Laser Hair Removal: What You Need to Do to Prepare

You’ve been enduring daily hair removal inconveniences since you were a teenager, and enough is enough! It’s time to put the razor down for good. Laser hair removal makes it possible to wake up every day with smooth, hairless skin. Use these preparation tips to make sure you get the most from your laser hair removal treatments.

A Quick Introduction to Laser Hair Removal

Laser hair removal is proven to reduce the hair that grows on your treated areas. You can receive laser hair removal virtually anywhere on your face or body! It uses a concentrated beam of laser light that is absorbed by the pigment (or color) in your hair. This causes severe and lasting damage to your hair follicle.

Once all of your hair follicles in a specific location, like your underarms or legs, become permanently disabled, they stop growing hair and leave your skin smooth and silky. Since hair grows in cycles, not all hair follicles will respond to the first session of laser hair removal. Most patients find that they need about six sessions for full and lasting results. Continue reading “Laser Hair Removal: What You Need to Do to Prepare”

4 Incredible Uses for the IPL Laser

You’ve heard of laser treatments and dermal fillers, but are you familiar with the potential of the IPL laser? Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is a versatile cosmetic technology that can serve many different purposes to meet your exact needs.

From tackling skin pigmentation to dermatologic diseases, IPL can do it all. Check out our five favorite uses of the IPL laser here.

Use IPL to Eliminate Dark Sun Spots

IPL lasers emit a range of lightwaves that are absorbed to damage the walls of blood vessels and fragment unwanted melanin pigment. This damage forces the vessels and melanin to die and become absorbed by the body, rendering them less visible on the surface of the skin. Schedule one treatment per month for up to five months for maximum results. Continue reading “4 Incredible Uses for the IPL Laser”