The Time To Get Your Summer Glow and Beach Body Is Now

By Sharleen St. Surin-Lord, MD

Visage Dermatology and Aesthetic Center

. http://www.visagederm.com/

More Beauty Skin Care & Gorgeous Smiles Articles

The Time To Get Your Summer Glow and Beach Body Is Now

Many of us began our summer preparation when we invested in fitness tracking devices or when we made our New Year's Resolutions and hit the gym or the pavement. Here's the thing, you do not need a New Year's Resolution to make a personal commitment to look your best. You just need to make the decision to do so.

Time waits for no man. We all have to get old, but aging is optional. How you age is under your control. We now have so many anti-aging and firming, and fat loss options that many patients are bombarded by ads and overwhelmed with information, asking which options are best. You are unique and when it comes to skin care and fat loss. There is no one size fits all model. What bothers you the most? Your treatment plan should be tailored around the person you would like to see when you look in the mirror.

Tightening and lifting of the aging face used to require a facelift. This meant bruising, swelling, hiding, and wearing a chin strap. Today, if you want to tighten up loose skin, Ultherapy is an excellent option. It is a facelift without the knife. Ultrasound guides the operator by allowing us to visualize the different layers of the skin, and then we deliver heat to tighten and firm the tissue with numbing of course, for comfort. No one has to know, but they will notice.

Losing fat use to mean, and sometimes still means, getting liposuction. But surgery is no longer your only option to get rid of fat. These days you can freeze it, heat it, ultrasound it off, and some will try to convince you that you can wrap it off. One of the most popular and predictable non-surgical fat loss procedures is CoolSculpting. It has been around since 2009 and it is used to treat belly fat, back rolls, inner and outer thigh fat, as well as the double chin. Procedures that do not require surgery, do require time. Results from procedures do take time to materialize. For example, with CoolSculpting you begin to see results in as early as four weeks and you do not need to wear a compression garment, (as with liposuction and tummy tucks), but you lose the most fat at the 3-4 month mark.

If you have acne and dark spots and get chemical peels, you will have glowing, pimple-free, and even-toned skin. It just takes four months for you to get the best results. Why? Many procedures such as chemical peels and microneedling require multiple treatments – usually performed four weeks apart. So, to get rid of the dips and craters left behind by acne, you will need a series of four microneedling treatments one every month to get your best results. It takes your skin three months to build collagen, so even after you completed your microneedling and Ultherapy treatments, your skin will continue to look smoother, firmer, and more evenly toned.

It's the same with laser hair removal. You will notice no hair growth after the third treatment but it takes at least six laser hair removal treatments to be completely hair free. So if you want to raise your hands in the air like you just don't care (about hairy armpits), or you want those hair bumps gone by summer, come in for laser hair removal today.