The hot thing right now is a product that you apply to your face to instantly banish wrinkles and bags under your eyes. It goes by names like Instantly Ageless.Here is what I understand about the basic principle of these types of products:As we age, we lose the collagen and elastin in our skin that gave [...]
Check out this photo of a 68 year old truckdriver. For 28 years, the left side of his face was exposed to UVA rays through the window of his truck. See the difference? The left side shows extreme wrinkling, puckering and sagging. The right side looks much smoother. UVA rays are in sunlight. They penetrate glass [...]
The other day, Coral* came to see me. A health professional who works in the aesthetic industry, Coral has a youthful, volumized face in keeping with a woman who has access to all of the best anti-aging treatments.On this visit, I can see that she is healing from a fractionated laser treatment (see our Pixel -- [...]
This March Break, are you planning to go somewhere warm and bake your skin?Maybe you'll even try to justify it by naming all the Hollywood stars that sport a sun-kissed look?Don't do it! A week of sun tanning really roughens the texture of your skin and increases the number of lines and wrinkles.I have seen it [...]
Bryan McCourt is a 37 year old man who is not shy about describing the cosmetic medical treatments that he has had done in this interview from UK newspaper The Sunday Sun.Bryan does regular skin peels, botox every six month and has had fillers injected.The reporter described him as looking at least 10 years younger than [...]
I was looking at the list of topics that I have written about and I couldn't believe that I hadn't devoted an article to the Pixel laser treatment.This is one shot of light from the Pixel. See the square on the hand made up of tiny white dots? Older lasers were unfractionated, meaning that laser would [...]
Continuing from my previous post What's in a skincare regimen, this article discusses Vitamin A derivatives as part of the treatment phase of a skincare protocol. An earlier article discussed the benefit of the Vitamin C serums.Vitamin A: you take it internally as part of a healthy diet but today we're talking about the amazing things [...]
Here are the profile views of Michele that I mentioned below. The first thing that really jumps out at me here is the crepe-like appearance of the cheek. You can see that the skin is sagging with a little bit of a jowl. The temple looks a bit hollow to me. There is no volume in [...]
Many of you are familiar with our lovely Michele, an esthetician here at Advanced Rejuvenation but you may not know that Michele at one time was challenged with aging skin.Let's look at Michele in July 2007:I hope you can see this image as clearly as it appears on our computers here at the clinic.What I see [...]
When I first heard about this product, I thought it was amazing, a totally different approach to restoring youthfulness to the face. I attended my first training course on it one year ago in the US. I've been waiting patiently for it and now I finally have it.This is a product that stimulates your own body [...]