Read Lyn’s article
“A Collagen Boosting Alternative:
Dermal Micro Needling”
in February’s Les Nouvelles Esthetiques & Spa magazine.
“Remember that smooth, dewy glow your skin had during your childhood? Young skin looks tight and toned because of active collagen production in the dermis, which slows steadily as we age, causing skin to loosen and fine lines and wrinkles to appear. New technology and products come out every day, promising the secrets to the fountain of youth, so it becomes difficult to choose the most effective treatment plan to achieve your specified results. Of course, …

Most clients spend numerous hours and plenty of money on treating their face, their nails and their hair each month. But somehow in the time, effort, and dollars most of us spend on maintaining our look, we neglect our body skin (even though it takes up vastly more surface area than our face!). Our bodies don’t feel the love and therefore become victim to a vast number of evils including genetics, hormones, sun damage, aging, and that awful “C” word. Cellulite. Here are a few tips to address those body …

Younger Looking Skin Glossary

DermaFrac™: This new treatment in skin rejuvenation is a micro-needling procedure that can treat a variety of skin issues including aging, hyperpigmentation, uneven skin texture, acne scars, and stretch marks. You might be wondering what all these conditions have in common. Well, collagen production in the skin is lacking and needs to be stimulated in order to correct these skin concerns. Here’s how it works: microscopic stainless steel needles on a roller glide across the skin’s surface and create tiny punctures. By using the micro-needle roller, the …

Is the skin around your eyes feeling a little dry? Are you noticing those fine lines and wrinkles begin to appear under and at the sides of your eyes? Have you noticed a bit of a sag?
If these issues sound all too familiar, then the Renewing Eye Complex is an eye cream packed with active ingredients to work on wrinkle-relaxing. Matrixyl 3000 ™, one of the key ingredients in the Renewing Eye Complex, is a powerhouse ingredient derived from fatty acid synthesis, collagen and fibronectan that works to reduce wrinkle …

Microcurrent Therapy
Plastic surgery is painful, expensive, and takes weeks, sometimes even months, to heal.  What if the face could be contoured without the in depth process and hassle of going under the knife?  Microcurrent therapy is a facial contouring alternative to plastic surgery and can be performed by any licensed esthetician.
What is Microcurrent?
 
Low levels of electrical current, known as microcurrents, send impulses to the muscles in your face. Micocurrents are such a small amount of pulse that the sensory nerves are not stimulated and no pain is felt. Essentially, Microcurrent …

The Appeal, When to Use & the Best Options for You
Aging is inevitable, and so is the evidence of aging on the skin ( including wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, or age spots). Women and men alike are all searching for ways to keep themselves looking and feeling good, and hopefully not break the bank while doing it. Hence why facial peels have become an increasingly popular skin care treatment, they are relatively inexpensive and not nearly as invasive as other anti-aging treatments, like surgery or injections.
So here is a little Facial Peel …

5 Mistakes Most Clients Make (And Don’t Even Realize)

1. Less is sometimes more
I see clients all the time who come in with irritated and sometimes broken out skin and they can’t figure out why the products they are using are not working. People buying numerous products for their skin condition, whether it’s acne, aging, rosacea or hyperpigmentation, and overloading their skin are likely to suffer from irritation. I recommend you bring all the products you are currently using in to your esthetician. The two of you can go …

Aging signs and Effective Treatments

20s
If you’re in your twenties, you’re still enjoying a tight collagen and elastin network, wrinkle free skin, with minimal to no hyperpigmentation or discoloration. Wrinkles still seem like a faraway worry, only for “old” people. But, beware. Though you can’t see the effects of aging on your skin yet, how you take care of your skin at this stage effects its aging process. Luckily, there is little to no need for foundation or makeup (Even if you might feel like you can’t leave the house without …

5 Tips to Avoid Acne
Let’s face it we’ve all suffered from breakouts at some point in our life. It’s embarrassing; it interferes with your life, and can even lower your self-esteem. Unfortunately, what causes these annoy skin issues is unclear and can vary from person to person,  but here are five easy tips everyone can keep in mind to battle the breakout….

First, use appropriate skin care ingredients that will control the oil production in the skin, for example a cleanser containing salicylic acid will be an effective oil controller.
People are prone …

Check out Lyn’s article “Skin Care and the Hormonal Balance” in this month’s Dermascope Magazine.
Understanding hormones and their effect on the skin, from the teenage years to perimenopause and menopause, is challenging for many skin care specialists. Journeying through the roller coaster with many clients can be rough sailing. Understanding the prominent hormones in the body is essential in order to correctly diagnose, treat and prevent hormone related skin conditions. Estrogen and progesterone are the main partners in this delicate balancing act. Designed to work together as a team, when …