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Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) can be used to heal everything from torn tendons to arthritis-related pain and joint injuries. It’s also very effective at helping to reduce or eliminate fine lines and wrinkles from the face, providing a more youthful and glowing appearance.   The process. Facial PRP treatments begin by extracting a small amount of blood from the patient that will be receiving the treatment. The blood sample is then spun in a centrifuge to separate the plasma-rich platelets from the plasma-poor platelets and red blood cells.   The platelet-rich plasma is then applied to the patient’s face right before micro-needling is performed to push the PRP into the skin. To help make the process as comfortable as possible for the patient, a numbing agent is usually applied to the face about 20 minutes prior to the micro-needling session.   The results. Platelet-rich plasma helps to stimulate collagen production in the skin. The micro-needling also helps to stimulate coll...

 Lip Augmentation To Enhance Your Lips For A Natural Smile Lip augmentation has become very popular, especially in young women who want to emulate the pouting visages of their favorite movie actresses or supermodels. However, lip fillers not only change the volume and shape of the lips, but they can also have a profound impact on a person’s smile, as well.   In fact, lip injections can actually cure various smile problems that can detract from the overall beauty and symmetry of the face. For example, people who have what is called a “gummy smile” where a notable part of the upper gums is evident during a smile, can benefit from injectable fillers. The procedure will plump the upper lip, partially hiding a large percentage of the gums when smiling.   Here are some other ways that lip augmentation can help create a more beautiful smile: -       Asymmetry . If the upper or lower lips are different sizes or shapes, or one side of either lip is larger or small...

The Complete Guide to Facial Fillers: Juvederm, Restylane and Voluma   Injectable dermal fillers are a safe and minimally invasive way to add more plumpness to your skin, significantly decreasing or eliminating fine lines and wrinkles that have grown over time. Dermal fillers are also an effective way to accentuate other areas of your face, such as your lips and cheekbones.   As we age, the collagen production in our faces starts to decrease, robbing us of the radiant and youthful look we once had. In addition, other external factors, such as skin damage from overexposure to the sun, smoke from tobacco products, and even pollution can make your skin look dull, lifeless, and droopy.   Made from a naturally produced substance found in the human body called hyaluronic acid, injectable dermal fillers are a way to bring back the appearance of youth by adding volume and radiance to the skin and lips. The procedure involves injecting a gel-like solution beneath the skin to smoo...

Permanent Method to Remove Unwanted Body Hair for Women Hair removal has been a plague for women (and men) for centuries, with formal recordings of the process dating back to the time of the Egyptians. If you’re tired of tweezing, shaving, and/or waxing just to deal with ingrown hairs and hair growing back eventually, and you’ve tried the hair removal creams but those don’t produce long-term results for you and the chemicals often burn your skin, there is a better way. You can get long-lasting results and enjoy smooth and supple skin with laser hair removal. Laser hair removal is a safe and affordable method to permanently remove unwanted hair from almost any part of your body. Using pulsating waves of light, laser hair removal targets individual hair follicles based on their degree of melanin (darkness), then destroys the hair follicle permanently. Historically, this means laser hair removal works best on people with light skin and dark hair, but new advances have made it an effective...

 Get Lighten Your Face Wrinkles and Fine Lines by Botox Injection There are two types of wrinkles that your face will eventually show over time: -   Dynamic wrinkles , which are caused by facial expressions such as laughing, smiling, frowning, furrowing your brow, and squinting. These expressions cause wrinkles to form at the corners of the eyes (crow’s feet), on the sides of the mouth (laugh lines), in the forehead (worry lines), and at the top of your nose between your eyes. With dynamic wrinkles, once you relax the muscles that cause the lines, the lines will disappear. However, over time, the muscles will start to shorten and dynamic wrinkles will start to remain after the muscle relaxes. They will continue to deepen the more you make the same facial expressions and the shorter/tighter your muscles get. -   Static wrinkles are those that don’t go away after you relax your facial muscles and they tend to deepen over time. This is caused by a slowing of collagen ...

Get Relief From Unwanted Hair with Laser Hair Removal Unwanted hair can be a pain…literally. Whether it’s from the razor burn you get from shaving or the excruciating agony of tweezing or waxing. Not to mention the time and expense that goes into those methods of hair removal.   Laser hair removal is an affordable way to provide you with relief from other painful methods of hair removal while giving you smooth, silky, supple skin that accentuates your muscle tone and gives your skin a radiant glow. Another benefit to laser hair removal is that it can reduce your chances of getting ingrown hairs that can be even more irritating than shaving or waxing.   Laser hair removal works by sending a pulsating beam of light down the hair shaft to destroy the follicle and hair bulb on almost any area of your body. While this may sound just as painful as the other options, especially around areas where your skin is thinner, modern laser systems also provide a cooling mechanism to reduce d...