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Getting Ready For A Wedding Series
August 13, 2010
Mother of the Bride or Groom- Part II
Energy-Based Treatments
To pi .....
Getting Ready For A Wedding Series
August 05, 2010
The Mother of the Bride or Groom- Part 1
Injectables
Botox—Using Botox before your son or daughter’s marriage celebration wil .....
Getting Ready For A Wedding Series
July 28, 2010
The Bride
Botox- Using a little Botox before your big day can help smooth out unwanted lines and give a truly refreshed look for your day! This is a must for any bride-to-be, and easy to do with little down time.
Filler- Filler can help even o .....
Will Wearing Sunscreen Make Me Vitamin D Deficient?
July 21, 2010
No. We are able to make vitamin D in our skin in the presence of sunlight, however we also get vitamin D in our diet (fish, seafood, Vit D fortified milk, bread and cereals, mushrooms, egg yolks) and can also get vitamin D through supplements. If you wish to take more Vitamin D for health benefits (there has been new research that shows promising links between Vitamin D and prevention of s .....
Sun Exposure-- Part II- What is a Tan?
July 14, 2010
It is really a damage signal—melanin is produced in response to photooxidative stress on the skin’s DNA. And the sun and rays cause damage to the skin’s collagen and elastic fibres creating wrinkles and sagging.
Dr. Fitzpatrick developed the Fitzpatrick Skin Classification Scale in 1975 as a way to classify the response of different types of skin to .....
July 08, 2010
Sun makes us feel good—UV stimulates production of endorphins—the feel-good brain chemical. Exercise does the same thing. Most dermatologists advise never to go out into the sun without sun protection and in fact, preach sun avoidance.
Skin cancer is rising because we are exposing more of our bodies to sun than we did before. Since the time of C .....
July 06, 2010
Everyone wants to shrink skin without an operation with its attendant risks and downtime. Thermage is a system using radiowaves which are powerful stimulators of new collagen formation when they are applied directly to the skin through a chilled tip so the surface of the skin is not affected.
In terms of the electromagnetic spectrum radiowaves are to the right of infrared .....
What is IPL (Intense Pulsed Light)?
June 28, 2010
IPL is one of the most useful treatments for excessive brown and red pigmentation for sun damage. The face, neck, chest, hands, and arms are the most frequently treated areas.
The wavelengths used are 515nm-590nm and treatment is applied to the skin through a chilled light guide. The chil .....
Composition of Sunscreens—What is the Best SPF?
June 23, 2010
It used to be said that you only needed an SPF 15. Fine as far as it goes as SPF 15 really only protects against UVB—the rays that cause a sunburn.
The UVA rays cause the cancer, tan, and wrinkles and they are not protected by the lower number sunscreen.
Recent research shows that the higher number sunscreens SPF 60 that contain Mexoryl SX, titanium dioxide, .....
June 19, 2010
Photodamage to our skin gives us telltale broken capillaries (telangiectasias) and brown spots (lentigos). The damage is often a little worse on the side of the driving window!
Recent research shows that reducing exposure to ultraviolet alone is not enough photoprotection. Infrared rays penetrate even more deeply into the dermis than UV and also trigger damage to the derm .....





