A drop in Botox effect is not always resistance. With cosmetic Botox, resistance is rare, at about 1 in 200 pe…
I often hear that skin botox works well but hurts too much. So to ease the pain we tried sodium bicarbonate an…
With a wedding or photo shoot a week away there is only a week to recover, so first-time Botox, fillers and st…
After Potenza there is redness like a light sunburn, along with some warmth. In a study that followed 20 peopl…
An acne injection puts a very small amount of medicine that calms inflammation into a red, hard, swollen spot.…
RF microneedling (Potenza type) used for depressed acne scars tends to hurt more than laser. A study comparing…
Ultherapy hurts because it focuses energy point by point into a deep layer and fires those points hundreds of …
The resistance people worry about with repeated skin botox is linked to how much and how often it is given rat…
Skin botox usually hurts because of how it is delivered rather than the drug itself. To place it in the dermis…
For people who come in with a hollow lateral cheek, HILO WAVE is now the main choice. It fills naturally and, …
At the first visit, acne that has built up over time is all flaring at once, so it is hard to tell which areas…
One Liftera session lasts about 1–2 months, and after three sessions the result lasts about 6 months. Expectin…
Laser toning mainly works on melasma that sits in small patches. When toning alone is not enough, the answer i…
The Potenza pumping tip (CP tip) delivers radiofrequency while injecting a product such as Juvelook straight i…
In gold PTT, gold particles applied to the skin travel down the pores close to the oil glands, and a laser mak…
Cheek sagging is hard to read as stretched skin alone. The deep cheek fat moves downward, the ligaments that h…
The pain of a fat dissolving injection is not set by the strength of the drug alone. Deoxycholic acid breaks d…
Rather than fixing the duration of a HIFU result at one number, it is more accurate to separate out how the li…
Acne that keeps appearing on the nose is not a sign that you have managed your skin badly. It comes from the s…
The examination comes first and the device is chosen after it. A consultation where what you will have and how…
Botox works on a square jaw only when the masseter is the reason it looks square. If the bone angle is wide, o…
Neck lines are not one thing. The lines that fold across and the bands that stand out vertically form in diffe…
Azelaic acid is not the gentlest acne treatment there is, but it is the one you can retreat to when irritation…
Most Korean procedure names are product names, while most English ones are names for a method. That is why the…
Comparing HIFU by shot count or by total joules often fails to match what actually happens. The same amount of…
Feeling something after Olidia does not mean it is a nodule. For the first few days it is normal to feel the i…
Coolsonic and Liftera are not better or worse than one another. They are for different places. Both are pen-ty…
The patches that surface in autumn are melasma, sun spots, or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, and the thr…
Ozempic face happens because the skin cannot keep up with the speed at which the fat disappears. If you lost w…
The goal on the evening of your treatment is to add no further irritation. Moisturising and sun protection are…
Home-use beauty devices and medical devices are designed for different purposes from the start. They are a sup…
Azelaic acid can help pigmentation. But the reason I reach for it in practice is different: it treats the acne…
Skin can be fine most of the month and then break out along the jaw before a period. These are often nodules —…
Some people arrive having had both Ultherapy and InMode elsewhere, saying the jawline never changed as much as…
Skin concerns rarely arrive one at a time. The jawline blurs while the texture is rough, and pores and acne sc…
"I had filler in my neck and the line is still visible." "It stays there even when I hold my head up." Neck li…
"Extraction helps for a few days and then it is back." "Why do the marks and the pitting never go?" Searching …
"Will sunscreen block my pores when the acne is already bad?" It comes up every summer. Acne-prone skin still …
It comes up more often than you would expect. Washing with hotel body wash once or twice is unlikely to make a…
People postpone pigment treatment to autumn, then winter, then another summer arrives and nothing has changed.…
The first question about Coolphase is always whether it really is not hot. It is not — noticeably less than ot…
RF microneedling does not have to hurt to work. How much it hurts is decided by how briefly the energy is deli…
The same treatment at the same settings produces very different pain on different days. The people who found i…
People often come back after lifting elsewhere — the result fell short, or it hurt too much, or they had both …
Excess underarm sweating has a name — hyperhidrosis — and botulinum toxin treats it reasonably simply. What de…
Acne is thought of as starting after puberty, but forehead comedones from primary school age are not rare. Wha…
You often hear that retaining ligament filler pulls the face up, or strengthens the ligament to produce a lift…
You will have heard that one tip is for pores and another for acne scars. But if you have both, which do you h…
"I had a course of treatment and the melasma got darker." Answering that means going back to what melasma is. …
A fair question comes up often: what is the difference between a hyaluronic acid serum, a hyaluronic acid skin…
The question people ask most before a lifting treatment is whether Ultherapy will hollow their cheeks. The wor…
A common question is which device is better — InMode, Ultherapy, Thermage. Before the device, the thing to est…
Online you will see simple formulas: lose the cheek fat and you look better, clear the deep cheek and you get …
"The acne settled but the nose is still bumpy." "Is it enlarged pores or a scar?" Bumps left on the nose are o…
"I looked into collagen stimulators for a hollow anterior cheek — Juvelook, Olidia, Sculptra — and there are t…
People sometimes wax the day before a laser hair removal appointment to arrive tidy. That can substantially re…
With one or two weeks to go, the question is what to have. The answer is that this is not the point to try som…
"I had lateral cheek filler for hollowing and now it looks more saggy." The cause is usually not the product. …
"I have had laser several times and the acne marks are still there." Most often the cause is not the device bu…
