Year: 2019

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Best Ways To Deal With Pigmentation

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Acne may be largely the thing that causes most young people to have lower self-esteem, but it doesn’t mean that once the acne stops (when we grow up), our skin woes are over. Hyperpigmentation spots can sometimes really sink in, making the success of some treatments impossible, while others are slightly better and can be easily lightened with other treatments. Many people may not know this, but not all spots are created equal, so don’t enter unknown salons and ask them to give you the same pigment erasing cream or laser that your friend just did. Skin types and the nature of pigmentation is important when selecting the treatment, so go to a reliable doctor and have the problem looked at first. Particularly in darker skin types, even the most well-intended treatment can result in worsening of the original hyperpigmentation. Here are the best ways to get rid of facial pigmentation. 1. PIGMENT LIGHTENERS Hormonally fuelled pigmentation such as melasma are heat and UV sensitive. Treating melasma requires several approaches, Continue Reading

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Is Your Face Aging Faster Than You?

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The truth is, wrinkles will eventually appear and everyone will look older at some point. However, how well you cared for your skin from young can make a difference in wrinkle formation. Getting baggy or jowly around the jaw? Structural arrangements go on behind the scenes as we age. When we are young, fat in the face is more evenly distributed. The forehead, temples, cheeks, around the eye sockets and mouth are plump and youthful-looking. As we age, fat loss occurs and also shifts downwards. At the same time, skin loses its elasticity, sags and wrinkles develop, resulting in an overall volume deflation and loss of definition of the lower face. Even for someone with great genes, age-related changes in the face are unavoidable. If you’d rather have something done than embrace these changes, the surgical facelift is not the only treatment around to stem the tides of time. Non-invasive rejuvenation treatments are now the rave and they are popular because they are relatively inexpensive compared to surgical treatments and Continue Reading

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Upgrade Your Facial Shape With These No-Knife Treatments

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Ever wondered why some people never seem to age, or why some people look even younger than before? In case you were wondering, there is no magical treatment yet that reverses aging. Instead, more and more people are spending money to tighten their skin, so that their cheeks remain lifted and jawlines defined. Here’s are the top gravity defying skin treatments of 2019.   1. BEST SOUND SECRETS Sound is our new best friend, by this we mean high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). FDA-approved Ultherapy stimulates production of collagen deep within the skin with a productive healing response, restoring a sagging jawline back to a sharper, youthful V-shape. This completely non-invasive treatment targets a collagen-rich layer and results in a natural lifting and skin tightening effect that lasts for up to 12 months. For maintenance, another favourite of many, Sygmalift uses fractionated HIFU for a gradual skin tightening effect.   2. STRING IT WITH INFINITY V-LIFT Those with peeking jowls should consider the Infinity V-lift, a threadlift procedure that uses Continue Reading

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Have You Heard Of The Nefertiti Lift Yet?

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While the whole world expects that it’s wrinkles that age you, it’s actually your jaw that’s really making you look old. Why does the jawline age you faster than wrinkles do? In youth, the cheekbones are high and wide, the jawline is sharp and well-defined and this youthful facial shape is known as the “triangle of youth”. As we age, the triangle gradually inverts as the jawline changes from “V”-shaped to U-shaped and a double chin. So is there something for all the 40-somethings who are sadly observing their once-taut jawlines slowly disappear? Apparently, there is a new trend amongst Hollywood celebrities to keep themselves looking ever so youthful. It has to do with using Botox but has nothing to do with erasing wrinkles. It’s the Nefertiti lift, named after the Egyptian queen famous for her well-defined jawline. Many aesthetic doctors consider the shape of the face much more important than wrinkles, so tightening your jawline will make you look much younger compared to Botox for the wrinkles on your Continue Reading

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Neck Tightening Secrets You Should Know

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Ballerinas keep their neck long and this gives their pose maximum grace. It is no secret that their beauty regimen, apart from moisturizing their faces, include moisturizing their necks and chests as well. For the rest of us, the neck falls into a no-man’s land, neglected in maintenance and beauty. As we age, our skin succumbs also to gravity and the neck sags. Women spend decades looking after their faces, only to be let down by their aging necks. Here’s what you need to do to tuck in the unwanted loose folds.   NON-INVASIVE SKIN TIGHTENING Yes, not everything needs to be resolved with the scalpel. Non-invasive facelifts are now a (big) thing. Ultherapy is the world’s first FDA-approved non-invasive device to give a facelift effect. Diving 4.5mm beneath the surface of the skin, it stimulates a productive healing response in the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS), an organized fibrous collagen-rich layer of tissue, resulting in a skin tightening effect. Thermage uses radiofrequency energy to heat the deep dermis without damaging Continue Reading