Aging is inevitable. We fight it, we deny it, we spend our lives trying to avoid it, but ultimately, our age catches up to us. As we get older, our skin begins to reflect that age through fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, uneven skin tone, and other irregularities. These imperfections in our skin can cause us [...]
Microdermabrasion is an excellent, deep exfoliation treatment that results in glowing, youthful skin. But, as with anything with beauty, you can’t just “fix it and forget about it.” You’ll have to maintain your results. Available in a variety of intensities, microdermabrasion removes dead skin cells and promotes healthy new skin cell growth. Your skin care professional [...]
Sometimes called permanent makeup, micropigmentation is a popular cosmetic procedure to help you skip applying makeup in the morning and enhance your natural features. One of the most popular sites to apply pigmentation is to the lips. Here are six things you should know about permanent lip color. Micropigmentation enhances color, not fullness Just like lipstick, [...]
Those craters left behind by aggressive acne can be minimized with dermaplaning. It’s just one of the many benefits of shaving your face. Dermaplaning uses a 10-guage scalpel to remove the outer most layer of your skin, which usually consists of dead skin cells, and to remove fine vellus hair to give your face a glowing, [...]
There are a lot of choices in chemical peels on the market, and some are better than others. One of the best, and one we offer at Skintherapy, is the Image I Peel. What is a Chemical Peel? Chemical peels continue to be a popular skin care treatment because they provide excellent results for aging, acne-prone, [...]
Whether you’ve undergone one of our effective skin-tightening treatments, such as Ultherapy, or you’re not experiencing the ravages of time just yet, you’ll want to read this article. I know you’re not going to want to hear this, but your mom was right. No, not about that your face sticking like that. And not about that [...]
Sometimes even the gentlest of chemical peels can be too harsh for sensitive skin. But don’t worry; there is an excellent alternative treatment with enzymes. Enzyme treatments remove impurities from the skin, firm and tone skin, and smooth the appearance of scars and rough skin. At Skintherapy, our enzyme treatments use a complex, colloidal oat extract, [...]
With so many great options to rejuvenate your face, you may forget to give one important piece of information to your skin care professional that can significantly impact finding the right facial for you: your daily medications. When you’re popping a daily birth control pill or antihistamine or even a daily multi-vitamin, it may seem like [...]
Up to 90 percent of pregnant women experience stretch marks as their bodies grow to accommodate new life. Stretch marks can also appear for people who have gained weight quickly and then lost it. If you have stretch marks, you don’t have to resign yourself to one-piece bathing suits forever. At Skintherapy, we have a treatment [...]
Too much fun in the sun? Overexposure to sunlight can prematurely age the skin by reducing elasticity and causing hyperpigmentation. The good news is that you can fight light with light – fight sunlight with Intense Pulsed Light, that is. An Intense Pulsed Light photofacial delivers broadband light through the skin’s layers to promote skin rejuvenation. [...]
