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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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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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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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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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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