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April 5, 2008
Posted by marta
I’ve been comparing notes (by email, so we’re taking each other on trust) with a friend of a friend about our treatments. In the last week she had (after much deliberation) IPL (intense pulsed light therapy). At about the same time, I had LED (light emitting diode). If you’ve been checking in to Truth In Aging this week, you’ll have seen that I’ve been knocked out by the LED experience and results. I keep checking myself out in mirrors and doing a pleasantly surprised little double-take.
Before I relate the IPL experience, a quick reprise of what it is. A computer-regulated light pulse heats a portion of the skin. This removes the unwanted tissue while it spares or avoids the surrounding healthy or “normal” tissue. This is because both long and short wavelengths of light can be delivered allowing better targeting than a traditional laser. The LED is rather different; it doesn’t remove tissue, but stimulates the cells and is, therefore, non-invasive. Read more...
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April 4, 2008
Posted by marta
I sometimes get a few blocked pores around the eye area and the prime suspect is my eye cream. I was advised by an esthetician that if this happens, I should try a gel until the pores clear and then go back to something heavier and more hydrating. It seemed like a good tip. Unfortunately, the product she recommended is not. Or, at my most generous, I could say it is an extremely expensive shot in the dark.
Sisley Sisleya Daily Line Reducer costs in the region of $470 (I have seen it for less and for as much as $570). Granted a little goes a long way and this gel/serum is supposed to last one year. For that much money, I’d want to be fairly confident that I had my hands on a proven anti-ager or, at the very least, something that is new and cutting edge. Not so with Sisleya Daily Line Reducer. Read more...
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April 3, 2008
Posted by marta
I feel impelled to post a brief update on the LED light therapy treatment that I had on Tuesday (April 1). Today, I spent the morning at the gym taking a muscular strength training class. The instructor had us working at the bar in front of wall to ceiling mirrors. Normally, I avoid making too much eye contact with myself in such situations (it can be distracting and unproductive to only see defects). However, this time I kept vainly taking sly looks at myself.
I look younger. I really look smoother, firmer and less lined. Given that it has nothing to do with getting any R&R (I had a boozy dinner party on Tuesaday evening and yesterday took a long plane journey, I can only assume that it is the effect of the LED treatment.
My next session is at the end of the month, so I’ll see then if the results are consistent. Read more...
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April 3, 2008
Posted by marta
I met someone at a party who told me that I simply had to discover this amazing anti-aging guru called Dr Braverman. When I first looked him up, I thought I might have a new victim for Dept of Daft. However, browsing his book, Younger You, led me to a couple of useful (although not spectacular) revelations.
Thanks to Dr Braverman, I discovered wolfberries. Much of Younger You extols the virtues of the ‘rainbow diet’ which basically means eating lots of fruit and vegetables and recognizing that being even 10-20 pounds overweight will have an impact on how well your body and brain ages.
The more interesting part is his notion of an ‘age map’. His idea is to identify whatever aspect of you is aging most rapidly and treat that first (even if you go to him ostensibly with other symptoms). Once you have stopped (even reversed, he claims) your most advanced aging symptoms the rest of you will start to improve too. Read more...
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April 2, 2008
Posted by marta
My finger nails rarely break (unless I try to use them as pliers or screwdrivers) and are in such rude good health that I have to resort to clipping them when they get too long (I credit Bareille's nail strengthener for this). Within days of applying a nail polish – even with an expensive manicure – my nails, flake and break. I've tried polish without formaldehyde (the ingredient that is commonly blamed for drying out nails) without success. So I am very excited to find VB Cosmetics' Dazzle Dry.
This new range of polish claims to be a world first. I don't know about that, but Dazzle Dry certainly looks worth a try. In addition to being formaldehyde free, it has no nitrocellulose (although I haven't been able to find out why I should be glad about this), no phthalate (this does unspeakable things to hormones and is banned from children's toys in Europe), and no toluene (a toxic paint thinner). Read more...
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