I've been meaning to write about Joan Rivers for a long while now but, frankly, I had trouble finding a good quality photo of her before she had any plastic surgery done. Joan is an excellent model for showing how our ideas about cosmetic medicine and surgery have changed over the years. In the photo on [...]
Is your sunscreen working for you? Are you and your family truly protected from harmful UVA and UVB rays? Are any of the components of your sunscreen potentially harmful?Now you can get the answers to these questions and more from a not-for-profit expert team called the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Their annual report on sunscreens was [...]
Front-page news: Botox injection nearly kills woman. Yesterday's Hamilton Spectator trumpeted the news.Does this mean that everyone who decides to smooth out a few wrinkles is risking a brush with death? Not at all.Let's look at what happened: Francine Giacomelli, a 25-year old woman who lived confined to a wheelchair because of severe cerebral palsy had [...]
It's that time of year again when we think about protecting ourselves from the sun. Before you go outdoors, make sure you're not making any of the following common mistakes with your sunscreen.Not wearing sunscreen on cloudy or overcast days.Damaging ultraviolet rays, UVA, stay at a pretty constant level all year round and all day. These [...]
We are in the middle of a project that is so fun, so gratifying and so absorbing that I have not been writing on this site for a while.Yes, that's right, it's time once again for 10 Years Younger in Burlington!We had quite a number of applicants this year and every one of them deserved a [...]
Here are Miss A's comments about her Pixel experience and the skincare products.Based on the science and Miss A's experience, I think the HYDRAgel and TNS Ceramide Treatment Cream are ideal for comfort and rapid healing after the Pixel.You can see Miss A's photos here.I would like to thank all of you for the opportunity of [...]
This is what a Pixel fractionated laser treatment looks like from before (first image) to immediately after (second image) and day-by-day to the seventh day after the treatment. We compared our standard skincare products on the left side of the face, with a new product from Vivier, HYDRAgel, and a SkinMedica product, TNS Ceramide Treatment Cream. [...]
You may have heard about the Boob Job Bandit, a woman who purchased $12,000-worth of cosmetic services from 2 Newport Beach clinics using a stolen credit card.Her stolen purchases included liposuction and new breast implants to replace an old set.She has now been captured and it was the old breast implants that revealed her identity as [...]
Donatella Versace is always making the lists for bad plastic surgery. What is she doing that is drawing so much criticism? These images are from 1993 and 2007. The first and most obvious problem is that her look hasn't really changed. Long bleached blond hair, thick black eyeliner and mascara don't suit her age and look [...]
The New York Times is saying today that cosmetic surgery procedures increased by 3% in 2008, compared with 2007, even with the recession.What's interesting about the article is that they are lumping together both surgical and non-surgical treatments. In fact, it is the non-surgical treatments that are increasing and cosmetic plastic surgery that is declining.Here are [...]