Creating Beauty From Within
Beauty
Main Differences Between Cosmetic Surgery and Plastic Surgery
May 22nd
Plastic surgery is primarily involved with reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery with enhancing one’s appearance. Plastic surgeons attempt to restore functionality of a specific are of the body or return the appearance to ‘normal’, or near normal, following any sort of accident, hereditary malformation or illness. Whereas cosmetic surgery, has a psychological More >
Skincare Problems – Questions and Answers
Feb 20th
My grandmother and mother both have fantastic skin for their age, so will I too?
Possibly, but not necessarily. Their fantastic skin is more than likely to be due to the fact that they spent more time out of the sun than in it. The rate at which your skin ages More >
Laser Skin Resurfacing
Feb 20th
Laser Skin Resurfacing
The newest cosmetic weapon that is wielded by the dermatologist waging war against wrinkles, sun spots and pre-cancerous lesions is the laser.
What it involvesIt is becoming apparent that improvements often continue in the laser resurfaced face for up to one year after the procedure itself.
Laser resurfacing, More >
Skin Dermabrasion for Skin Rejuvenation
Feb 20th
Skin Dermabrasion for Skin Rejuvenation
Dermabrasion involves quite simply, but rather gruesomely, abrading or scouring away layers of skin. The dermatologist uses a motor driven sanding wheel armed with a fine grade of silica or a rotating steel brush to destroy — by mulching away — all epidermal layers and often More >
Chemical Skin Peels
Feb 19th
Chemical Skin Peels
Chemical peels use acid solutions to remove, or actively kill off (induce necrosis or denaturing of) a predetermined numbers of the upper layers of skin. Chemical peels have been performed for over 40 years – ever since a Florida beauty therapist revealed the secret ‘fountain of youth’ More >
Skin Resurfacing Procedures
Feb 19th
You and your resurfacing procedure
Whether you opt for a light chemical peel over your whole face or a deep laser resurfacing over your top lip only, the before, during and aftercare process is similar. The deeper the peel, the longer and more difficult the recovery period may be, but More >
Chemical Peeling Principles
Feb 19th
Chemical Peeling – Principles
While the processes and the equipment vary, the aim of all peeling or resurfacing procedures is the same — to remove skin layers. Unlike some of our other organs, our skin possesses remarkable recuperative powers. The principle is similar to pruning: pare back the skin layers More >
Permanent Fillers – Silicone
Feb 19th
Silicone Fillers
Silicone has been used by some physicians for over 30 years to correct naso-labial lines and scars and is known as a filler.
Injected droplet by droplet, it was originally thought that enough granulated collagen and fibrous tissue formed around the foreign silicone beads, encapsulating it and locking it More >
Fat Transfer Surgery, Isolagen and Botox
Feb 18th
Fat Transfer Surgery
This is a procedure which involves using fat that has either been specifically removed for the operation or as a separate procedure involving liposuction, from another area of the body.
Used for: If you have very deep smile lines, sunken cheeks or very deep acne scars your best, More >
Line Fillers and Wrinkle Remedies
Feb 18th
Line Fillers and Wrinkle Remedies
The reason most patients now cite for ‘having something done’ is to divest themseves of age-related expression marks that they feel make them look mean or miserable.
As we age our dermis deflates, the full lips of our youth thin and expression lines become permanent furrows. The More >