This is a guest posting by Michele Dalton. Anyone who knows Michele knows she is passionate about chemical peels. In this article, Michele dispels the myths and misconceptions that scare many people off from peels.When you think of a chemical peel, what image pops into your mind? Is it Samantha from Sex and the City, with [...]
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 [...]
"I love what Botox does for me but I've been hearing the reports in the media and I don't think I should use it any more."The call came in yesterday but I've been hearing similar comments recently from various sources. What's going on? Why are people afraid of BOTOX®?Here's the buzz in the media:Botox and a [...]
We get a lot of calls from people who are shopping around and comparing prices. I'd just like to caution people who are wondering about widely divergent prices to make sure that they are comparing apples with apples.There are different protocols for lipolysis out there. The original protocol from Brazil involved fewer injections of larger volumes [...]
Lipodissolve is going great!We have completed the 8-week treatment cycle on our first clients treated with Lipodissolve and the results have been better than expected.I was a little concerned because the folks treated in November would be completing their treatment cycle through the holiday season so I thought that the results might be minimized by holiday [...]
I've been noodling around on various spa and equipment websites and there's one thing that always puts my back up. Just about every equipment-based treatment gets referred to as a laser treatment.Lasers sound sexy. Think of James Bond, captured by the villain and facing a horrible death. Somehow the idea of a laser treatment sounds more [...]
Before I got into the medical cosmetic world, I was dealing with aging skin myself. I didn't feel old inside but I had that typical British fair skin that had been exposed to too much sun and wind -- lots of sun damage, wrinkles, sagging skin, heavy eyelids, redness, zits, you name it.My mother is a [...]
They penetrate glass. They penetrate clouds. Their power is the same on a dull winter day and the sunniest summer day. They damage your skin, leading to aging and skin cancer.What are they? UVA rays.Ultraviolet raysUltraviolet (UV) light is divided into UVA, UVB and UVC. For years, our attention has been focused on UVB, the cause [...]