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If you had five hundred dollars, would you spend it on serums and face creams, or would you spend it on a beauty tweakment at your doctor’s office? If you don’t already know, a beauty tweakment done by qualified doctors is a minor cosmetic procedure, usually non- or minimally invasive, which means it doesn’t involve going under general anaesthesia or under the knife in order to beautify (usually) the face. Common tweakments usually involve Botox and fillers. Are these facial tweakments common, hell yes. For the young, a few jabs here and there can pretty much enhance your facial shape, tweak the ratio of things here and there to make you finally look “enhanced”, while usually still looking a lot more like yourself than what plastic surgery does. Full lips (lip fillers), earnest wide eyes (botox browlift), a slender, straight nose (nose fillers or nose threads), smooth skin (lasers and chemical peels), and a V-shaped sculpted jawline (Botox masseters). For the older women, tweakments are for a slightly different purpose. Continue Reading

Trying your best to clear the blemishes from your skin? If they are not going away, there is a chance that what you have been doing could be doing more harm than good. Exfoliating Too Much When we get a breakout, some of us go into a cleansing frenzy and scrub our faces more often, hoping to rid our skin of clogged pores or dead skin so that breakouts will stop. While exfoliation is important, too much of it can aggravate a breakout and increase risks of scarring. Instead of physical exfoliation or literally scrubbing your skin with an exfoliating brush or sponge, try chemical exfoliation instead, such as a daily salicylic acid serum, or a home peel once every fortnightly. Not Cleansing Your Face After A Workout Guess what? Bacteria on the skin from sweating can clog pores and cause infections, so be sure to cleanse the skin as soon as possible after your workout. If you are prone to breakouts then something as simple as a salicylic acid Continue Reading

You have probably heard of vitamin c, glycolic acid and retinol – skincare ingredients that help fight pigmentation, improve dull and uneven skin texture, and even reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. A rather new and still rare skincare ingredient has now surfaced, with a lot of research commending on its effectiveness for healing dark spots and reducing the appearance of unwelcome discoloration. Tranexamic acid is now slowly being infused into over-the-counter hyperpigmentation formulas such as serums, creams, and even whitening sheet masks.   But tranexamic acid is not new. It is actually a drug approved for use in women experiencing menorrhagia, to reduce blood loss. However, physicians noticed that patients who took tranexamic acid also noticed an improvement in skin discolouration. Tranexamic acid is now sometimes given orally by dermatologists for melasma short-term. Environmental elements such as sun exposure, hormonal therapy such as being on the oral contraceptive pill and some treatments can trigger melasma by activating inflammatory mediators within the skin. This results in an increase Continue Reading