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Your skin is one of your most impor­tant organs, and it’s up to you to take care of it. As the sea­sons change and we expose our skin to a vari­ety of cli­mates, activ­i­ties and skin-care reg­i­mens, it’s impor­tant to keep one thing con­sis­tent: hydra­tion. Keep­ing your skin well-hydrat­ed is nec­es­sary to a youth­ful appear­ance, mak­ing your skin more plump and resilient, improv­ing elas­tic­i­ty and com­bat­ting unde­sir­able oils. While drink­ing water and mois­tur­iz­ing your face are essen­tial day-to-day tasks, there are a vari­ety of treat­ments offered to restore your skin’s health and hydration.

Grow­ing old­er is no longer syn­ony­mous with look­ing or feel­ing that way. We can now pre­vent, reduce and erase the signs of age with lit­tle or no down­time or pain. Laser treat­ments can range from hair removal, reduc­tion of wrin­kles and bro­ken blood ves­sels, treat­ment of acne scars and much more. When con­sult­ing with your provider, ask­ing well thought out ques­tions is essen­tial to ensur­ing a pos­i­tive expe­ri­ence; even the sim­plest pro­ce­dure car­ries poten­tial risk by some­one who is not prop­er­ly trained. Some ques­tions to get your con­ver­sa­tion start­ed include:

When you were young you may have devel­oped cute freck­les on your nose and cheeks, but as you have got­ten old­er their cute­ness has fad­ed. Sun expo­sure over the years def­i­nite­ly takes its toll on your skin and those freck­les start look­ing more like age spots or a vari­ety of oth­er skin con­di­tions. Many of these spots may fade a lit­tle by avoid­ing the sun, but usu­al­ly don’t dis­ap­pear on their own.

In this day and age, many peo­ple want to have aes­thet­ic treat­ments such as a laser, injec­tions, or chem­i­cal peels dur­ing their lunch break and have their ​“work” go unno­ticed by oth­ers. For the most part, many pro­ce­dures can be per­formed with lit­tle or no down­time. But some aes­thet­ic treat­ments such as lasers may require some down time due to your post-treat­ment appearance.

Der­mal fillers refer to a group of injectable prod­ucts that can be used for aes­thet­ic cor­rec­tion of lines, wrin­kles and hol­low­ing of the face. The first, and per­haps best known, mem­ber of this prod­uct group was col­la­gen. Col­la­gen first came to mar­ket over 20 years ago and was found to be an excel­lent prod­uct to help enhance lips and also fill very fine lines. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the results would only last 1 – 3 months and the lack of com­pet­i­tive prod­ucts made it fair­ly cost­ly. This and the need for aller­gy test­ing pri­or to its use was the dri­ving force behind research to devel­op alternatives.

I fre­quent­ly see patients inter­est­ed in chang­ing the appear­ance of their nose. They may be unhap­py with the size, shape or angle of their nose. They may have a bump or inden­ta­tion that both­ers them, or they do not like the way their nasal tip looks. It may be the nose that they were born with or the appear­ance may be the result of an injury. What­ev­er the rea­son, nasal appear­ance can ulti­mate­ly affect the way we view and feel about ourselves.

I’ve been think­ing about get­ting Botox for rough­ly a year, espe­cial­ly after my birth­day and third baby. As a mom of three, fit­ness instruc­tor and a busi­ness own­er, I was feel­ing like tired and dull skin was not reflect­ing my ener­gy and activ­i­ty. When sev­er­al local moms in a Face­book group start­ed a thread about Botox, I knew it was time to give some seri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion to this cos­met­ic procedure.

Are you both­ered by dark spots and are con­sid­er­ing hav­ing a CO2 laser treat­ment to cor­rect your skin? Make sure you add a top­i­cal reg­i­men to your list! By com­bin­ing CO2 laser treat­ments with top­i­cal ther­a­py you can achieve the most effec­tive results for mod­er­ate to severe skin pig­men­ta­tion. Plus you get the added ben­e­fit of improved over­all col­la­gen formation!

Your eyes are often the first place signs of aging show up, but these strate­gies will smooth, bright­en, and reduce puffiness.

Pep­tides are the new buzz­word in skin care, and the newest anti-aging ingre­di­ent to receive a lot of atten­tion. But what are pep­tides and how to they work?