With the summer wrapping up, many of us are looking at the toll that the summer months took on our skin. Sun exposure, long days with late nights, and summer cocktails can leave your skin...
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What is Photoaging?
For those of us interested in health and beauty our relationship status with the sun is “it’s complicated.” For most of history, avoiding sun exposure and a pale complexion was considered...
What is a Unit of Botox?
Botox is a medication, and as such has a dosage which is determined by a Medical Professional. Botox dosage is measured in units. The best wrinkle-erasing results come from a strategic...
Don’t Sweat It
There are millions of sayings about sweat: Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff Women don’t sweat, they glisten This will take blood sweat and tears Don’t let them see you...
Where Do Brown Spots Come From?
All skin color from the lightest to the darkest is created by melanin. To quote Professor Nina Jablonski, melanin is "a really cool molecule.” It is a brown pigment produced by cells called...
Exfoliation is a Key to Anti-Aging
Exfoliating is a necessary step to achieve a glowing complexion, but just what is exfoliation? Exfoliation is the general term for any process of removing the oldest dead skin cells on the...
Men’s Skin
Men and women have many differences, but one similarity is their skin. The skin behaves in a remarkably similar way for both men and women though what men and women notice as an issue may be...
What is Collagen?
If you are interested in anti-aging, you have heard the word collagen before. Just what is collagen? Collagen is a protein that occurs in many places in the body including our skin, joints,...
Hormonal Skin
The word ‘hormonal’ is often used to explain away break-outs, bad moods and erratic behavior, but what is the real effect that hormones have on our skin? Hormonal changes are part of the...
Banish Ingrowns with Laser Hair Removal
Ingrown hairs can be a pain. The term for ingrown hair is “pseudofolliculitis barbae”, a condition in which a foreign body inflammatory reaction is produced when curved hairs grow back into...