Learn about the best anti-aging and beauty solutions, from skin tightening to removing spider veins.
Sadly, while other body parts get bigger with age, lips have a tendency to thin. Lips are largely plumped with collagen, which supports the tissue in the lips. Collagen production slows down with age, and collagen can also break down when exposed to the UV radiation in sunlight. This loss of collagen causes the collapse and thinning of lips.
If you want plumper lips - or to reverse age-related lip thinning - you'll need to fill them back up. Fortunately, there is a wide array of fillers that can re-inflate your lovely lips.
Thermage reduces signs of aging, like loose skin, cellulite and wrinkles, by stimulating the body's supply of collagen - the protein that makes up 80% of the skin.
Thermage not only improves the condition of existing collagen but further stimulates the body fresh collagen, thus revitalizing and tightening the skin.
Thermage uses a kind of radiofrequency (RF) energy that passes through the skin to heat and tighten underlying tissues and increase collagen production, which in turns smooths the surface of the skin.
Radiofrequency (RF) energy is just another name for radio waves. Not only can radio carry sound, it can also transmit energy and heat. Microwaves, for example, use radio waves to heat food. Radiofrequency energy can also be used to deliver targeted heat into deep layers of body tissue without affecting the surface of the skin.
A mouthful of braces isn't any fun when you're in middle school - and even less so when you're middle-aged. Invisalign braces will straighten your teeth without filling your smile with metal studs.
Align Technologies introduced Invisalign in 1999 as an inconspicuous way to shift teeth into position gradually without the use of visible braces. The removable bite trays, called aligners, are less than one millimeter thick and are placed on both the top and bottom rows of teeth.
Tanning can give the skin an attractive golden glow. But UVA and UVB rays from the sun can also wrinkle your skin (through breaking down elastin and collagen) and increase the likelihood of developing melanomas and other skin cancers.
The solution, for many, is sunless tanning. A sunless tan can be achieved in one of many ways and most commonly involves the application of reactive chemicals (DHA and/or erythrulos—more on them later) to the skin to give it the appearance of a suntan without actually spending time in the sun.
It's possible to temporarily color the face without chemicals - through the use of cosmetic bronzers, which are tinted powders or creams - but if you're looking for an overall glow that won't wash off right away, sunless tanning is the way to go. Keep in mind that sunless tanning does not provide any protection from the sun - it's not a "base tan."
Sunless tanners come in two main forms: lotions and spray tans. You can apply these lotions and…