With the recent influx of celebrity engagements and tabloids tracking the brides-to-be with a focus on their engagement rings, many women have thought about improving the appearance of their own hands. While manicures obviously help in appearance, hands are just as plagued with age spots, wrinkles and loss of volume as the face. Yet cosmetic…
In Belotero Lip Injections for Lip Enhancement and Belotero Smile Lines Treatment: Part 1, we discussed how aging, sun damage and other environmental factors affect our skin. All contribute to the appearance of fine line and wrinkles, skin’s volume loss, lips’ volume loss and skin’s elasticity loss. Thankfully Belotero injections can reverse the signs of…
Dark circles under the eyes are a common cosmetic concern for many people. This issue is caused by the thinness of skin in the tear trough area. This causes blood vessels to be visible. There are two types of dark circles: (1) blue (2) brown Blueness is caused by oxygenated blood. Dark brown circles are…
Facial symmetry and radiant skin are paramount to beauty. Not only that, how we feel about our looks can positively or negatively affect self-esteem. The philosophy of an ideal symmetry has existed since Ancient Greece with the golden mean and golden ratio. Aristotle defined “universal standards of beauty” using his golden mean equation, based on…
Radiesse is an injectable dermal filler to improve the symmetry and appearance of the face where there is fat loss. It is used for temporary facial contouring and to eliminate the appearance of wrinkles. It may also be used on the back of hands and earlobes. Radiesse is a synthetic gel formulation that includes particles…
Facelift has been the favored approach to the sagging jowls for a long time. It is however thought of with multiple risks some of which can be severe. Facelift also involves a very long and involved downtime. The results of many facelifts are unnatural and many people in the public know the tell tale signs of…
As we age, the skin around our eyes begins to lose elasticity and firmness that leads to laugh lines. Creases, or laugh lines, can also be a result of environmental damage such as exposure to the sun; or they can be hereditary. The deepening of laugh lines is a characteristic of aging that we often…
How to Reduce Puffy Eyes
Many people wake up with puffy eyes, which can be an interesting discovery upon looking in the mirror first thing in the morning. Once the initial shock of seeing the under eye bulges wears off, one might wonder “What gives you bags under your eyes?” There are several reasons why you might have puffy eyes…
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