What's so good about personal beauty lasers?


What's so bad about surgery? Why shouldn't I inject poisons into my body? Who cares if it gives me cancer or makes me infertile as long as I look young? Must we suffer to be beautiful? Or will a cosmetic laser treatment fix everything safely and painlessly?


What is Low Level Laser Therapy?

"Low Level Laser Therapy or Laser Phototherapy is a method where light from a laser is applied to tissue (or cells in culture) in order to influence cell or tissue functions with such low light intensity that heating is negligible. The effects achieved are hence not due to heating but to photochemical or photobiologic reactions like the effect of light in plants. The lasers used are normally referred to as therapeutic lasers." Swedish Laser Medical Society

Low Level Laser Therapy is widely used in hospitals and clinics around the world to treat and cure a number of conditions including pain relief, problematic skin conditions and to promote healing in wounds or injuries.

Low Level Laser Therapy is beneficial in repairing damaged cells and speeds up and enhances the response of the body’s immune system as well as aiding pain relief. That is why it is so effective when used for skin rejuvenation and healing acne and skin blemishes - it restores the skin to a healthy, more youthful condition.

Also, if you are suffering from hair loss, low level laser therapy can help to stimulate the hair follicles into action again, resulting in new hair growth and healthier hair. Amazing but true.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Go for red light From wrinkles to cold sores, red light therapy is the latest trick to save your face

The weather may be freezing, the days still short, but there is now light — red light — at the end of the tunnel. The power of red light was originally harnessed by NASA, which proved that it helped to heal wounds and burns, and it has been used — successfully — for the treatment of skin cancer.

As with many medical breakthroughs, the cosmetic benefits of red light subsequently emerged and it’s now becoming widely available in High Street salons and shops.

We’ve all heard of infra-red light, which is invisible. But the fast-growing trend is for visible red light — a gentle and effective way of healing and rejuvenating skin.

‘Red light easily penetrates the dermis and can help with a variety of skin conditions, such as acne, rosacea, scarring and eczema, as well as improving skin quality,’ says Jo Martin, clinical director of Mapperley Park Clinic and an expert in light therapy and laser treatments.

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SOURCE Daily Mail

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Plastic Surgery Simulator Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac OS

PARIS, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaeria EURL recently released Plastic Surgery Simulator 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users and version 1.3 for Mac users. The application helps people to envision how they might look like if they undergo a cosmetic surgery procedure by allowing users to stretch, shrink, or move different parts of their body on photos, then view before and after pictures of themselves. Although the application can be used for fun, real plastic surgery results are never guaranteed and this simulation tool can help balance the decision process.

"People want to be beautiful," says Kaeria CEO, Benjamin Melki. "With this app, users can distort their picture to see how they would look with a differently shaped nose, breasts, chin, buttocks, and so on. Sometimes, just a slight modification makes a tremendous difference to one's appearance. It can be shocking to see the before and after photos."

The application provides realistic, high quality plastic surgery simulations for a number of procedures, in an easy-to-use interface.

Five percent of Plastic Surgery Simulator users are doctors, and although the application can be used for serious simulation, it can also be used for fun to distort people and pets in the most hilarious grimacing way.

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SOURCE PR Newswire

The rising trend for 'Bro-tox': Meet the men becoming hooked on cosmetic fillers

As far as Simon Cowell and David Hasselhoff are concerned, Botox is de rigueur if one is in the public eye. But now it seems more and more non-famous men are turning to the needle in an effort to slow the ageing process too.

Dubbed 'Bro-tox', this new age of male grooming is not limited to image-conscious metrosexual types - indeed, 300,000 men in the U.S. had Botox injections last year alone.

In a feature on Good Morning America today, a group of rather unlikely male candidates revealed why they were bucking stereotypes and had elected to use cosmetic fillers.

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SOURCE Daily Mail

Monday, January 09, 2012

Look sweeter: Could sugar be the new key to keeping those wrinkles at bay?

When it comes to advances in skincare, there’s always some magic new ingredient or revolutionary approach that promises to turn anti-ageing on its head and give you back the flawless skin of your youth. 

Most of us are sceptical about such claims, and with good reason. But every once in a while, a concept comes along that makes you take a second look. Yves Saint Laurent’s new range Forever Youth Liberator might just be one of those.

It’s based on a science known as glycomics, or glycobiology, an area of biochemistry that, in 2003, the prestigious journal Technology Review cited as one of ten emerging technologies that would change the world.

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SOURCE Daily Mail

New anti-wrinkle cream will trick human cells into regenerating themselves

A new range of anti-ageing creams which ‘trick’ human skin cells into regenerating themselves is expected this year.

The products, designed to smooth out wrinkles and repair damaged skin, have been designed by experts in ‘glycobiology’, the science of using naturally occurring sugars to improve health.

L’Oreal hopes its attempt to harness the technology, registered as Glycanactif, will prove a popular addition to the £2billion British cosmetics market.

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SOURCE Daily Mail