Beauty And The Blog

ageLOC Future Serum is the newest and most advanced product in the Nu Skin Anti-Aging Skin Care Line. This incredible new serum has the highest concentration of ageLOC in any Nu Skin formula and gives your skin the benefit of the proprietary ageLOC ingredient on a daily basis. This is the ingredient that attacks the genetically inherited aging enzyme called arNOX (arSuperMarkers for aging).

ageLOC has been the proprietary anti-aging ingredient in the facial gels used during the Galvanic Home Spa Treatment.

ageLOC Future Serum is a daily anti-aging treatment but is also a complement to twice weekly Galvanic Facial treatments containing ageLOC. Future Serum will promote youthful skin structure by stimulating natural collagen production while decreasing the production of MMP (enzymes that degrade skin structure).

Use of Future Serum will reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, create a  smoother surface texture, even out your skin tone and increase radiance (Oh Yes! I want all of that! You want that?). And with the ability of skin penetrating peptides you are also treating the symptoms of aging taking place in the deeper layers of your skin, that deep secret place (fibroblasts) where collagen and elastin are produced. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe you already know what Galvanic is but for those of you who don’t, its pure magic. No kidding! Nothing else can give you the result of Galvanic without shots, pain or invasive procedure.

Galvanic is  electric current that is applied to the skin.  Galvanic works on the principle of like charges repelling each other. A product that contains a negative ion will be pushed into the skin by a negative electric current. And a positively charged product will be pushed into the skin by a positive current.

Galvanic also has the ability to stimulate the circulation of oxygen and blood in the facial skin supplying an elevated level of nourishment. Skin care specialists have been using Galvanic for over 50 years in facial services. Galvanic also creates an environment in the skin that allows for an incredible  increase in the  efficacy of the skin care products you use after the treatment Neat, huh? Keep reading…  Plus I’ve got some  videos that demonstrate how to use it. Read the rest of this entry »

Anti-Aging and Skin Care can be confusing. And that can make selecting the correct products a daunting task.

Just for a moment though, let’s take all the anti-aging products out of the picture. What do you actually know about how to maintain younger looking skin without all the externally applied lotions and potions?

Does what you eat affect acne, or help dry skin? Are all liquids consumed beneficial to the skin? Hmmm, ever thought about that? Or are you relying on whatever it is that you apply every morning and night (your anti-aging and skin care regimen) to do it all?

What you ingest (food and drink) is a factor. Your daily lifestyle is, too. If you don’t know how these things affect the aging of the skin you don’t have a complete picture. Read the rest of this entry »

Poikiloderma Civatte (the Civatte refers to just below the epidermis/skin). I mentioned this skin condition in “Anti-Aging, Skin Care and IPL Treatment: Part I”.

Sounds scary, huh? It’s not. It’s a pigmentation issue caused by over exposure to the sun without sunscreen as a child. So all you moms out there, protect your little ones. Now that we have so many great sun protection products available, use them! Some researchers believe it is also hereditary as it seems to show up repeatedly in families.

Poikiloderma Civatte can take years to show up on the surface of the skin. It is mostly middle aged women (me), and sometimes men, that get this. It does sometimes show up in much younger individuals. It is predominately a female issue for some odd reason that no one has yet figured out. Hormonal perhaps?

So anyway, Poikiloderma Civatte is a brownish or reddish discoloration that appears on the neck, upper chest and sometimes the cheeks.  The more you expose the area unprotected to the sun, the more prominent it becomes. In some cases it can be itchy and/or scaly. Mine was fairly minor and only on the neck. It did not itch or appear scaly.

Can I tell you how much I did not like having this discoloration on my neck? I did not have as much discoloration as pictured above, but still it bothered me. I had been told at one time that my only option to remove it would be a laser treatment. Long downtime with the blistering and peeling. And costly. Read the rest of this entry »

IPL. Know what that is? Intense Pulsed Light. It’s a computer controlled instrument that emits high intensity pulses of light that penetrate the skin. This is also known as IPL Photorejuvenation. This is something only a medical professional can administer.

Know what it does? A number of very cool things actually. IPL is capable of eliminating or reducing fine wrinkles, redness (rosacea, flushing), freckles, age spots, some types of minor sun damage, various types of visible or broken blood vessels and capillaries, and hyper and hypo pigmentation (dark or light patches on the surface of the skin). It can smooth your skin and improve the texture. It can also treat certain undesirable conditions of the skin, such as Poikiloderma of Civatte (I know, what the heck is that?! That’s coming in Part II).

There are different types of IPL that address different issues. Some types can remove a tattoo, some can remove unwanted hair. And another that addresses the signs of aging such as those mentioned above! Lots of great things can be accomplished using IPL. But we are talking anti-aging and skin care here.  And undesirable skin issues. Read the rest of this entry »