IPL disaster: buyer beware
Intense Pulsed Light therapy has hit the news in the UK this month – and not in a good way. A leading UK daily newspaper carried the story of an attractive young woman called Charlotte Cripps who decided to have IPL skin treatment.
IPL or Intense Pulsed Light is a form of laser treatment for skin rejuvenation. This is a photo of Charlotte Cripps immediately before her IPL session in London.
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Perricone MD Light Renewal a match for Baby Quasar?
The Perricone MD launch of a new LED portable device recently was no surprise to anyone. Dr Perricone after all was one of the first and loudest champions of LED light therapy and its revolutionary skin firming results.
What is more surprising is that the Perricone MD Light Renewal device hit the market so much later than the leading product Baby Quasar. What took him so long?
Baby Quasar: Can you really take the salon home?
LED Skin treatments are one of the hottest facial rejuvenation treatments around currently. In clinics, salons and spas all over the US and clients have been reporting wonderful results.
Although LED skin treatments are among the most affordable of salon skin rejuvenation options – sessions will still set you back around £100 a piece and a full program can give you pause for thought in these cash poor times.
Home LED skin treatment devices have recently started to come on the market and – not surprisingly – there has been a lot of interest. Read more
Microdermabrasion creams: three great buys
Microdermabrasion creams are a great way to make your clinic treatment last longer.
Or if you don’t want to commit to a microdermabrasion skin clinic treatment then buying a good microdermabrasion cream is a great way to give yourself an anti aging facial at home.
In this article I’ve selected some great microdermabrasion creams from three excellent skin care lines – Dr Brandt, Dr Michelle Copeland and AFA. Two of the products I can recommend personally and the third I’ve chosen based on forum research and user reviews on skin care sites.
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Microcurrent at home: NuFace review
Until recently if you wanted to get a microcurrent face lift the only option was to book into your favorite skin clinic for an in office treatment.
Although home microcurrent systems were available in Europe – in the US it was a different matter. The sophisticated microcurrent machines used by estheticians and physicians in spas and clinics had not been adapted for our use at home.
Earlier this year Carol Cole changed all that when she released NuFace – the first (and she claims only) FDA approved true home microcurrent system on the US market. Read more
Home microdermabrasion: where do you start?
Given that the cost of microdermabrasion treatment at a skin clinic is going to set you back about $150 nowadays – home microdermabrasion looks like a great idea.
The difficulty is in choosing from the huge range of options available and finding a microdermabrasion home kit that works for you. So – here’s the first of several articles looking at do-it-yourself microdermabrasion products to help you navigate the skin care buying jungle. Read more
Microcurrent facials at home
The microcurrent face lift is definitely one of the hottest anti aging treatments around at the moment.
If botox was the must have anti aging treatment of the nineties – microcurrent face lifts and LED are the anti aging technologies of the future.
And the good news is that microcurrent treatments work – try to find bad reviews of skin clinic microcurrent treatments and you will spend a long time searching. Read more
