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  • What is IPL and How Does it Work?

    Spending time in the sun has its advantages. You get to be outdoors, enjoying the fresh air and hopefully participating in an enjoyable activity. Your body will also get the Vitamin D it needs from spending time in the sunshine. But a side effect of spending time in the sun is damage to your skin. Over the years, your skin may develop discolorations or brownish spots that make you look old and ...
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  • Easy Diet Tips For Great Skin

    When it comes to great skin, you need to take care of it with proper cleansing, quality anti-aging ingredients, and of course, daily sun protection. But more evidence is emerging about the effects our diet may have on our skin’s appearance. Whether your concern is acne breakouts, aging, or just keeping a healthy glow, you don’t have the follow a fancy diet to feed your skin what it needs. Just ...
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  • 6 Reasons To Consider Dermal Fillers

    What makes a face more radiant and youthful? Certainly good skin care products and avoiding the sun can go a long way. But, even the best skin care routine won’t keep all wrinkles at bay. Not to mention, the face naturally starts losing volume as we age, as early as our 20’s. So what can you do to keep your face looking young, plump, and smooth? One of the best options available today is dermal ...
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  • Top 10 Ways To Reduce Wrinkles And Age Spots

    As women grow older, their top skin care concerns often involve how to prevent wrinkles and age spots. Until Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth is finally discovered, it’s up to us to find the best ways to reduce the appearance of these unsightly face blemishes. While there may be hundreds and thousands of skin care products on the market that promise to smooth out fine lines and reduce the ...
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  • Don't Make These 4 Skin Care Mistakes

    Healthy, radiant skin is a beauty trend that never goes out of style. But if your skin doesn’t look its best, it can affect your overall appearance. Makeup can cover some issues, but having healthy skin that glows from within can only be achieved by taking care of your skin year-round. In recognition of Healthy Skin Month, we want to help you put your best face forward. To keep skin in great ...
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  • Ways To Correct Sun Damage On Your Face

    The effects of time and sun can rob our faces of their youthful look. Whether it’s lines, wrinkles, discolorations, or sagging skin, everyone’s face ages differently. With the help of a cosmetic surgeon, you can address almost any form of aging on the face to get back a youthful, attractive appearance. And the beauty is, you can choose what fits your lifestyle – from a variety of minimally ...
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  • 6 Tips To Keep Your Skin Healthy This Summer

    This weekend marks the beginning of summer, and that means more time outdoors, hotter weather, and sunshine. Keeping your skin happy and healthy this summer all comes down to protection. Sunscreen, as you know, is an important part of summer as it can help protect your skin from damaging UV rays and the development of skin cancer. Before you leave the house this summer, remember these tips for ...
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  • Answers To 6 Common Botox Questions

    When it comes to smoothing out skin, Botox® is considered the principal product to use. With a few injections, your fine lines and wrinkles can be transformed into smooth, youthful-looking skin. Before you undergo Botox injections, you should meet with your doctor and discuss any questions you may have. Here are answers to six common Botox questions: 1. How can the appearance of my wrinkles be ...
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  • 7 Common Face-Washing Mistakes, And How To Avoid Them

    Washing your face may seem like the simplest part of your skin care routine. However, if you frequently struggle with common skin conditions such as dryness, oiliness, irritation, and acne breakouts, it’s possible you could be practicing one or more face-washing habits that aren’t ideal for great skin health. It’s never too late to improve your face-washing routine. In fact, the sooner you start ...
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  • 5 easy ways to keep your skin healthy in the sun

    Summer is just around the corner, which means you’ll soon be spending more time outdoors enjoying barbecues, laying out at the beach or pool, and going on outings with friends and family. While soaking in the sun’s rays may warm both your body and soul, it’s important to keep in mind that excess sun exposure could increase your risk for premature aging and skin cancer. However, as long as you ...
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  • Youthful Body Vs Youthful Face: What's Your Preference?

    For centuries, people around the globe have been searching for Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth with hopes of finding a way to preserve their youth forever. After all, most individuals often associate eternal youth with everlasting energy, good health, and an attractive appearance. When asked whether they would prefer having a youthful body or a youthful face if given the option, a group of women ...
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  • 3 Popular Myths About Dermal Fillers, Busted

    Dermal fillers are some of the most popular and highly coveted non-surgical treatments available, in that they can help soften and reduce wrinkles and fine lines, enhance shallow contours, plump your lips, and reduce the appearance of scars. While dermal fillers may be effective at helping reverse signs of aging, and are generally associated with little to no downtime, there are still many ...
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  • 5 Ways To Tighten Excess Skin After Weight Loss

    Losing a lot of weight within a short period of time can sometimes result in unwanted areas of excess skin. Individuals who undergo weight-loss surgery often tend to develop loose pockets of skin, as well as those who do cardio exercise frequently without adding strength training to their routines. In some cases, you might even have loose skin due to switching to eating healthier foods, but have ...
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  • How To Reduce And Eliminate Crow's Feet

    As you grow older, you may notice that the crow’s feet around your eyes will become more pronounced. Crow’s feet are typically viewed as a normal part of the aging process, and can be caused by smiling, squinting, and sleeping. When you smile, take note of the small lines that extend from the corners of your eyes out toward your temples. Then, stop smiling to see if those lines go away. If the ...
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  • How To Maintain Dermal Filler Results For As Long As Possible

    Dermal fillers are one of the most popular non-surgical treatments for reducing wrinkles and restoring volume to the face. Dermal fillers are versatile, convenient, effective, and are associated with little to no downtime, meaning you can have treatment and return back to your normal, daily routine as soon as you leave the clinic. Those who seek dermal filler treatments can often achieve plumper ...
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  • Love Your Body [Infographic]

    Whether you’re a busy mother, a professional career woman, or both, it can be difficult to find time in your day to pamper and take care of your body when you’re constantly on the go. Since the lifestyle behaviors you practice today can affect your health and your beauty in the future, it’s important that you make loving your body a top priority. From removing your makeup properly every night, to ...
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  • The Newest Anti-Wrinkle Ingredients In Skin Care

    As we become older, concerns about fine lines and wrinkles seem to dominate our skin care needs. For years now, cosmetics and skin care brands have been releasing products that promise to reverse signs of aging and restore a youthful appearance. Despite the availability of such products, many continue to turn to various facial rejuvenation procedures such as dermal fillers and cosmetic ...
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  • Tips For A Healthy Nighttime Skin Care Routine

    Daytime activities can often take a major toll on your skin, even if you feel that you’re already practicing a healthy skin care routine. Makeup, oil, pollution, and various weather conditions can wear out your skin throughout the course of the day, which means that by nighttime, your skin needs extra care. Even if you’re exhausted at the end of the day, it’s important that you provide your skin ...
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  • Sunscreen - Separating Fact From Fiction

    With the sun about to be — thankfully — a much bigger part of our daily lives, we here at GLOW Surgical Arts thought it might be a good time to play a little bit of fact or fiction. The sunscreen edition! So! Fact or fiction? The higher the SPF, the better: First, just in case, SPF is sun protection factor. The automatic assumption then, of course, is there is no such thing as too much SPF. The ...
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  • Prescription Skincare: Products That Deliver What They Promise

    Fine lines, dark spots, acne scarring, oh my! With thousands of products that promise to minimize our most dreaded complexion concerns, it is hard to decipher the truth from the fairy tales. At GLOW, we treat these concerns with lasers (IPL, SmartSkin C02, Fraxel). However, to achieve the best results, we recommend the use of prescription skincare post laser treatment. For dark spots and uneven ...
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  • Out With The Old...In With The New: Tips On Skin Health For Summer

    We've all heard the saying when the seasons change and spring approaches “time for spring cleaning! You proceed to clean everything out whether it be your wardrobe or nick knacks around the house that have seen better days...but what about your skincare products? We've all done it... kept all the little sample products of creams, cleansers, toners, masks, that are all outdated or have never been ...
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