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Reasons Are Personal When Considering a Facelift
Ask anyone who’s had a facelift about why they did it, and their answers are as unique as the individual. As you consider this solution, think about your motivation and expectations. It's important that you already feel good about yourself – that you just want to improve your self-image, refresh your face. While you can expect positive results, don’t expect to look like your favorite movie star. Instead, embrace the star within you that a facelift can help reveal again. Aging is a natural part...
See What It Takes to Feel More Beautiful
Poet E.E. Cummings once wrote, “The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.” It’s true. Your eyes are one of the first parts of your face that draws attention to you. What story are your eyes sharing about you with people? If you’re concerned people are seeing sad, saggy, puffy or droopy skin on your upper eyelids or bags and dark circles under your eyes, treatments exist to tell help you tell a more beautiful story. In a tale as old as time, as skin ages, it gradually loses its...
Give Yourself a Gift with Hydrafacial
You’ve hustled and bustled through this holiday season taking care of everyone else. Now, it’s time to take a moment and take care of you. Skip the routine facial and treat yourself to the luxurious HydraFacial. While maximizing skin’s firmness, this treatment minimizes signs of aging and sun damage, like wrinkles, nagging fine lines, discoloration, brown spots, as well as acne, oil and pore size, dehydration and uneven skin texture. Consistently safe and effective, HydraFacials are performed...
It’s Time to Love Your Lips
As we embrace the month of love, we’re literally faced with hugs, hearts, and lipstick kisses. With all this emphasis on eye-catching lips, if your pucker isn’t exactly what you envisioned, why not explore lip and perioral (around your mouth) enhancement? Did you know your skin loses collagen as you age? The skin on your lips is no different. The loss of collagen, a key structural protein that provides firmness to your body tissues, affects the appearance, fullness, and shape of your mouth....
Give yourself a gift this season with a HydraFacial®
As you hustle and bustle through this holiday season, take a moment and take care of you! Skip the routine facial and treat yourself to a luxurious HydraFacial. A HydraFacial is a multistep facial that uses a unique patented Vortex-Fusion delivery system to cleanse, exfoliate, extract, and hydrate. Because it is safe and highly customizable, it can be performed on all skin types and tones. The Hydrafacial addresses skin concerns such as fine lines and wrinkles, elasticity and firmness, even...
Darker Days Make for Brighter Skin with Laser Resurfacing
Now that we see the sun less and daytime hours are shorter, we possess a great window of opportunity to reclaim our youthful looking appearance through laser skin resurfacing. Laser resurfacing is a proven and safe way to dramatically improve your skin’s appearance by reducing wrinkles, fine lines, age spots, uneven pigmentation, red moles, scars, and other blemishes as well as tighten skin and balance tone. Because laser-treated skin is extra sensitive to sun exposure, fall or winter months...
Find Your Brilliance Again with Limelight IPL
As we age, many of us find ourselves inspecting the sun damage delivered by our youth’s worship and misunderstanding of the unforgiving sun. Especially for the fair-complexioned, we can feel super self-conscious about it. Instead of letting the sun damage and literal wrinkles of time wreak havoc on our self-esteem, we can find our brilliance again with LimeLight IPL. Limelight IPL is non-invasive and is a highly effective procedure that works to correct skin tone and imperfections such as sun...
Want a facelift without the surgery? Try FaceTite™
Have you started to notice looser skin around your neck and chin, maybe even your lower cheeks? Or possibly, your neck isn’t as defined as it once was. You would like options for toning and tightening, but plastic surgery – like a facelift – feels overwhelming. A non-surgical option does exist and has been honed over the past decade to achieve many of the benefits of a facelift but without the recovery time and potential risk that can come with surgery. The procedure, known as...
Barbed Sutures: Again, Prove Disappointing
The history of barbed sutures (threadlifts, PDO threads) has been disappointing. The newest generation has promised increased safety and longer duration. Unfortunately, a recent study in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal shows otherwise. The study followed 160 patients who underwent facelifts with barbed PDO threads. The good news is all patients did see some improvement initially as well as at one month. Unfortunately, by 6 months the benefits had markedly declined. No patients had any...
Jeuveau: The New Neuromodulator on the Block
Jeuveau is the newest neuromodulator(neurotoxin) to go along with the other products that we have had for some time, Botox cosmetic, Dysport and Xeomin. While there are a few studies out there on Jeuveau and it is FDA approved, we are still just beginning to figure this product out and what it can do. Jeuveau like the other neuromodulators works to relax muscles temporarily and results in softening of wrinkles and creases. We are using it for the many of the same areas we have been using Botox...