| Facing the New Year With A Lift
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Whether you're getting healthier, cleaning up finances, or finding ways to improve your image, the New Year offers many opportunities for change.
With the holidays behind us and winter settling in, this is a great time to schedule a facelift. January, February and March are often slow months on people’s social calendars. It’s the perfect time to schedule a procedure like a facelift, which requires at least a few weeks of recovery. Your healing will be less conspicuous to others, and you won’t have to miss any important events.
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Imagine emerging in the spring with your new look, ready to attend weddings, dinner parties, and Easter or Passover events. You won't look completely different, and that's the benefit of having the procedure while nobody's watching. You will look like you've had a great winter's nap. The contours of your face will be more defined, your skin will lie taught over your features, and your neck will no longer have that sagging excess skin.
Intrigued? Give us a call and come in for a consultation. It could be the best decision you’ll make in 2008.
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| Plastic Surgery Options for Men: Turning Your Keg into a Six Pack |
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Tired of the "keg" around your stomach? Wish you had "six-pack" abs? Work out and stick to a healthy diet and yet still have a tire around the middle? Then join the legions of men who are turning to plastic surgery to improve their appearance. The areas that generally concern men most are their eyes, nose, neck, stomachs and chests.
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The Eyes
The eyes are the focal point of the face and contribute substantially to a person's overall appearance. Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) can help a man look fresher and younger. Fat, which builds and accumulates as we age, is removed, wrinkled and excessive skin is eliminated, and drooping eyebrows are given a lift. The result - a tired or sad-looking face is invigorated.
The Nose
Nose contouring or reshaping (rhinoplasty) has always been one of the most popular procedures for men. Bringing the nose into balance with the rest of the face can dramatically improve one's appearance. Sometimes it is combined with a chin implant to further balance the face while improving the jaw line.
The Neck
Instead of a facelift, men often choose to get rid of the excess skin that gathers in their necks, often referred to as their neck waddle or turkey gobbler. For men it is one of the earliest signs of aging, and can be resolved with less scarring and much less downtime than a facelift.
The Stomach
Liposuction helps men the same way it helps women. It gets rid of those excess pounds - the dreaded love handles - that linger despite a healthy diet and exercise. "Six-pack abs" can be obtained by combining liposuction with abdominal etching, followed by rigorous training of the “abs.” The resulting definition is so spectacular it will give a man in his forties the six-pack of a 20-year-old.
The Chest
An area of particular concern is the chest, where fat can accumulate and skin can sag - making men feel as if they have female breasts. This condition, known as gynecomastia, is surgically treated by removing excess skin and fat with minimal scarring.
More than ever, men are making the choice to improve their appearance with cosmetic surgery. Whether it's to maintain their competitive edge or simply to feel better, men now have a multitude of options. Swapping a "keg" for a "six-pack" has never been easier.
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| Oh, Those Kissable Lips: a Valentine’s Day Must |
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Valentine’s Day will be here sooner than you think, and having kissable lips can add spark to any romance. Treating yourself to a lip enhancement can also boost your self-esteem if you feel like your lips are showing signs of age or detracting from your otherwise sparkling features.
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The best way to recreate a youthful lip is through subtle injection enhancement of the lip itself and rejuvenation of the area around the lip. You may need to have more than one type of treatment to get the result you are looking for.
Acqua Blu offers the following solutions for lovelier lips:
Kiss small lips goodbye: Hyaluronic acid-based fillers such as Restylane, Juvederm and Perlane are among the most popular as they will plump the lip, re-lift and define the lip border and lift drooping mouth corners.
A solution for smoker's lines: Those fine lines around the mouth can add years to your visible appearance-and cause lipstick to bleed. Whether caused by smoking or just years of puckering up, these wrinkles can be softened with a laser treatment like ProFractional.
Don’t forget during the month of January, you can receive $50 off your dermal filler treatment.
Call 724.776.2111 to schedule your appointment or visit www.AcquaBluMedicalSpa.com for a full list of spa services.
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Brian V. Heil, MD, FACS
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The weather outside may be unsightly, but your skin doesn't have to be.
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| How to banish dry skin and give your winter skin care regimen a boost. |
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Unless you live in a tropical paradise, the dryness and blustery winds of winter can wreak havoc on your skin. But that doesn't mean you have to suffer from a flaky, dehydrated complexion.
We understand. You just cranked up the heat in your home and your skin seems to be drying out as quickly as you can move your parched lips to say "moisturizer." So, here are some treatments to indulge your thirsty skin with precious moisture. They’ll also infuse vitamins and minerals back into your environmentally deprived skin, smoothing those flakes away in no time at all.
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Here at Acqua Blu, we can deliver skincare services that allow your skin to face winter head on! We offer an assortment of nurturing, medical-grade treatments that are quick, non-invasive and can be achieved in about an hour. For example, consider treating yourself to our Signature Facial - a sensuously soothing and luxuriously hydrating experience.
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For resurfacing your delicate, exposed skin, we offer medical-grade microdermabrasion. Our gentle exfoliating Power Peel Treatment removes fine lines and blotchy pigmentation, improves skin texture and acne scarring in as little as 20 to 30 minutes -- without any downtime. The treatment leaves your skin looking radiant and brilliantly vibrant.
Finally, try our most amazing pulsating light treatment: the Photo Facial. This skin rejuvenating technology rids you of those horrid brown spots, red spots, broken capillaries and uneven pigmented areas from decades of UV light damage. A lifetime of sunning can be undone, erased by the magic of laser energy. Imagine being able to show off your youthful, even-toned complexion this winter. This treatment is ideal for face, hands, arms, chest and décolleté.
So, don’t fear the winter blues. We are here to help you stay beautiful.
Call 724.776.2111 to schedule your medical spa treatment today.
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PRODUCT OF THE MONTH |
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Rhonda Allison Mares Milk Moisturizer
(a light, fast-absorbing day and night protection cream)
As you know, we like to spotlight a special skin care product each month. We recognize that most of you try a plethora of lotions and potions claiming to deliver outstanding beauty to the skin. Well, how many of those products failed to deliver what they claimed and promised?
Heck, with all the products we have sampled here at Acqua Blu, we should look like 20-year-olds! However, we do not, and that is simply because so many of the “newest and hottest” skin care products just don’t deliver.
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Now, having said that, here is one product that truly delivers: Rhonda Allison Mares Milk Moisturizer! It does exactly what it says, giving the skin important nutrition and moisture.
Many products claim to do that, but in actuality, we have found the results to be minimal at best. This moisturizer is by far one of the best we have ever tested. It works on even sensitive skin.
Mares Milk Moisturizer is a light, fast-absorbing day and night protection cream. The special blend of natural olive oil, almond oil, Vitamin E & A, with the mare’s milk powder provides a healthy and soothing dose of skin nutrition. Your skin will feel luxuriously smooth and silky. |
Why not try a bottle of Rhonda Allison Mares Milk Moisturizer today?
$24 |
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