Beautiful And Safe

How To Choose A Med Spa

Don’t like what you see in the mirror?

Thinking about visiting a med spa for help with those
frown lines, age spots or unwanted hair?

Be careful when you choose a med spa.
Although modern medical techniques can produce dramatic cosmetic results,
possible complications can be much more serious than a bad haircut.

The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery
offers advice for patients considering cosmetic procedures in a spa or salon:

• Physician on site.
  He or she should be at the location
  and available to respond to any questions or problems.
  Emergency care should be immediately available
  in case something goes wrong
• Pain Management.
  Discuss pain management options.
  Even minor cosmetic treatments can cause discomfort.
• Appropriate Facility.
  Cosmetic procedures are medical procedures.
  They aren’t safe in a home or hotel room.
• Price.
  Don’t rely on price.
  A deep discount on the cost of procedures
  often indicates you aren’t receiving the best treatment.

Be beautiful and safe!

Ageless Elaine

Defy Aging!

Click on the Links Below to Learn More:

Original Article About Med Spa Safety

What is a Med Spa?

Med Spa vs. Day Spa

Brighten Up!

Did You Know?

Age spots aren’t caused by age.

They are caused by the sun.

“Sunshine is an attack on the skin, and one way the skin defends itself is to make pigment,” explains Ranella Hirsch, M.D., a cosmetic dermatologist in Cambridge, MA, and president-elect of the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology & Aesthetic Surgery. If a patient is skeptical about her spots being solar related, Dr. Hirsch asks her to move her bra over a quarter of an inch to expose the skin that the sun never hits. “And then she sees what I mean,” she says. “If these changes really came from aging, you’d have them all over.”

How Can Med Spas Help?

1.     Light-based treatments: Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL or Photo Facials). Most of the time, several treatment sessions are necessary.

2.     Chemical Peels

3.     Skin Care Products to use at home

Bonus

Many of the treatments will also help with wrinkles!
I love a combination of Photo Facials and Chemical Peels.
And, of course, my Retin A.

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

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Photo Facials

Chemical Peels

Anti-Aging Peel Appeal

Original Article

Peel Away the Years

Great Anti-Aging Treatment

Patty Reiman writes about chemical peels in the Spring 2011 issue of “New You”:

“Many of us are turning to the chemical peel to address the skin issues that plague us…

Most often, chemical peels are used to treat sun-damaged skin with mild wrinkling (and) uneven skin tone.”

Peels work by exfoliating the skin’s top layers and vary in strength, depending on the extent of skin damage and what you’re having treated. Usually a series of peels is necessary for desired results:

• decreased wrinkles
• reduced age/brown spots

Ageless Elaine loves her peels!

For even more improvement, peels are often rotated with other anti-aging
med spa treatments, such as fractional laser skin rejuvenation and microdermabrasion.  In fact, at Ageless Remedies SouthPark, our aestheticians feel that a “micro-chem. peel package” is often the way to go.

Don’t forget

You go to the med spa once a month.
The rest of the time — the other 30 days! — it’s important that you follow up with your skin care product regimen at home.

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Blending Beauty and Science

To learn more:

Chemical Peels

Exfoliation

New Anti-Aging Focus from

The South Beach Symposium

What Not To Do

Pigment is The New Wrinkle

Wrinkles make you look old.

So do brown or age spots.

The doctors at the Symposium talked about this issue quite a bit.

(Of course, you do have to wonder why cosmetic dermatologists
choose to have their Symposium at the beach…)

Prevention

• See picture above. Read the caption.
  
• Don’t bother with sunscreen.

Treatment

• Photo Facials
• Chemical Peels
  
• Products to fade brown spots and even out skin tone.
• Oh — Wear Sunscreen.  And avoid the sun.

Ageless Elaine -
who used to think her olive skin protected her from sun damage -
but learned.

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Hyperpigmentation Treatment

Photo Facials

Chemical Peels

Do YOU want to:

Eliminate signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles?
Keep your skin healthy and young-looking?
Clear up your acne?
Achieve even skin tone?
Look your best?       

In the “old days,” 
like when I was your age,
your choices were either lotions and potions
or ablative peels and surgery.       

Now med spas provide a middle ground.
Medical aesthetics blends medically based procedures:
non-invasive cosmetic improvements.       

WHY is this meaningful for you?
BECAUSE you can achieve the results you want
without surgery.  

Lasers: 

• Remove unwanted hair
• Diminish brown/age/sun spots
• Tighten skin, stimulate collagen !!!!!

Medical Skin Care Products: 

• Exfoliate dead skin cells (so your skin really is younger again)
• Protect against free radicals
• Provide serious sun protection
• Grow your eyelashes !!!!! 

 Med spas and laser centers solve problems.

What bothers you the most about your skin?      

Tell me in the comment box below.        

Ageless Elaine
Your Anti-Aging Expert
Proud owner of Ageless Remedies SouthPark Med Spa and Laser Center      

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Lasers  

Skin Tightening  

Medical Skin Care Products  

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