An important product for looking 10 years younger

If you wanted to look 10 years younger today and didn’t have much money, here’s what I would recommend:

TNS Line Refine

This is a very cool product.

It has immediate effects (within 5 minutes) of relaxing the small facial muscles that cause wrinkles and filling the wrinkles with hyaluronic acid filling spheres.

Hyaluronic acid is a sugar that we make in our bodies whose function is to hold moisture where we want it. It is the major component of a number of injectable dermal fillers like Restylane, Juvederm and Teosyal. In TNS Line Refine, it comes as lotion that you apply to your skin.

These photos show the before image and 5 minutes after the first application of TNS Line Refine to a 50 year old woman.

Before applying TNS Line Refine

5 minutes after applying TNS Line Refine

As you use this product every day over time, you get some very nice long-term effects. TNS Line Refine contains CoEnzyme Q10 which helps to prevent free radical damage. It also contains certain peptides that help to stimulate the body’s repair mechanisms at the cellular level and promote collagen, elastin and new skin cell formation.

We have been very impressed with the product ourselves. And we’ve had good feedback from everyone who bought it.

Dr. Rose Jeans
Advanced Rejuvenation Medical Spa

Advice about how to look 10 years younger

People often ask me what they should do to look 10 years younger. Of course, the advice varies from person to person depending on their specific needs. In this article, I’m going to lay out some general guidelines about what to fix in your face to look younger.

If you are the kind of person who never goes to the hairdresser, doesn’t wear makeup or hasn’t changed your makeup style since you were in your 20s, and only buys the most basic and functional clothes at WalMart, then the best thing you can do to look 10 years younger is put yourself in the hands of a good stylist for your hair, have a makeup lesson and let a sympathetic saleswoman at a good clothing store help you choose some clothes. You’ve put yourself on the back burner long enough! Now is the time to do something nice for yourself for a change.

If you’re keeping up with hair, makeup and clothes then you want to take a trip to the medical spa to find out what we can do for you.

The absolute bedrock, most important basic thing to do is to use good, medical-grade skincare products. Good skincare makes your skin look smoother and better; it improves the physiology of your skin so it is more tolerant of all of the usual environmental stresses that damage your skin, like pollution, UV rays and extreme temperatures. Our Vivier skincare products are really effective and cost about the same as the better drugstore brands so if you’ve been dabbling in various product lines with mediocre results, come and get something that really works.

After skincare, you want to think about your face’s texture, color, tightness and volume.

Texture includes things like old acne scars, crepe-like skin, roughness, blocked pores and bumps. My skin used to be so rough from sun damage that I gave up wearing makeup because it just wouldn’t go on right any more.

Color refers to the brown spots of sun damage or abnormal pigment and the redness of broken capillaries, environmental damage and rosacea. An uneven skintone adds 5 – 10 years to your face.

Tightness really means looking at whether you have sagging skin or not enough tightness. As we age, the quality and quantity of collagen goes down so our skin starts to sag as well as wrinkle.

Volume changes in the face include loss of volume or hollowing out of the face, as well as the volume changing position. Many of us find that our cheeks head towards our jowls as we age.

Take a good look at your face in the mirror. How even is your skintone? Does your skin look smooth? Are you pores enlarged? Is the fullest part of cheek up at your cheekbone or is it drifting south? Do you have hollow temples? Do you have jowls? Do you have a lot of lines in your lips or around your mouth?

You probably know which problem is aging your appearance the most or you can come and talk to me and I’ll give you my objective opinion.

The good news is that all of these problems can be fixed – without surgery! Wouldn’t you like to look in the mirror and see a face that looks as young as you feel inside? You will find your mood and energy level totally improve as you start looking better and better.

In future articles, I will write about each problem and the various treatments that can be done to fix them.

Dr. Rose Jeans, MD
Advanced Rejuvenation Medical Spa

The changes in Catherine’s face

These images were taken on our medical camera system, the left image before we did any treatments on Catherine, and the right 2 days ago.

Do you see how the redness has really come out of her skin? The Vivier Redness Relief skincare products and the IPL treatments did that.

You can also see how her brown sun spots are fewer, smaller and lighter. The IPLs did that too. Catherine would need a few more IPLs to erase the brown spots completely.

Catherine’s skin looks smoother and more dewy. This is also called radiance. Radiance comes from the skincare products and the Pixel laser treatments.

Catherine’s face has slimmed down with her 15 pound weight loss but her cheeks haven’t flattened out. That’s because I injected some Teosyal dermal filler along her cheekbones to lift and volumize her cheeks. Putting filler in the cheeks helps to reduce the lines that bracket the mouth (nasolabial folds and marionette lines) and lifts jowls.

The frown lines on Catherine’s forehead were smoothed out with BOTOX® Cosmetic. She also got a bit of a brow lift with the botox but you can’t see it in this picture.

Catherine’s lips are plumped up just enough to smooth out the vertical lines using Teosyal KISS, a product I really like.

Another important point about Catherine’s face is that she continued her running during the makeover period and competed in a couple of races without getting tanned. Catherine was really diligent about applying her sunscreen.

Isn’t it exciting to see what a transformation can occur in just a 1-month period?

Before and after UV images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are Catherine’s UV photos, the before on the left and today’s photo right. Yes, I know she looks a bit moribund but that is because ultraviolet light picks up different things from regular visible light.

If you watch crime shows like CSI, you know that UV light sees deeper into the skin, revealing sun damage that may not be visible on the surface. That’s what the brown spots are on Catherine’s skin.

You can see that we’ve reduced the size and number of brown spots with one month of treatments. The primary treatment responsible for this change is the IPL or Intense Pulsed Light treatment. The fractionated laser, the Pixel, also plays a role.

The skincare products helped too. Catherine was able to tolerate the Vitamin C serum with hydroquinone called SeeQuin by Vivier.

This is what Catherine’s skin looks like below the surface. Pretty good, eh? Wait until you see what it looks like in daylight. Stay tuned for the next article.

An excellent sunscreen for runners

One of the products that we gave Catherine was the UV Sport SPF 50 Sunscreen from Elta MD.

There’s nothing worse than trying to work out, and as soon as you work up a sweat, your sunscreen is making your eyes burn. Elta MD’s Sport sunscreen is highly water-resistant, specifically to prevent this problem.

We put it to the test on Catherine and she reports “I was sweating and the Sport sunscreen didn’t bother my eyes.”

Elta MD’s sunscreens are ideal because they are unscented and combine the best physical and chemical sunscreen ingredients to give broad spectrum protection against UVA and UVB rays.

The physical ingredient, zinc oxide, is micronized or finely ground so you don’t have a white residue on your skin.

This summer, you don’t have to choose between being active outdoors with no protection or with burning eyes from a regular sunscreen. Choose Elta MD UV Sport SPF 50.

Catherine’s video diary

Meet Catherine and hear her story. Her transformation started last year and has been building so that undergoing the 10 Years Younger … in Burlington! program is a natural next step in her progression.

Catherine is motivating herself with some pretty big goals. You can support Catherine’s dream to do the 60k Weekend to End Breast Cancer by clicking here.

Skin analysis: Recommended skincare products

In Part 1 of Catherine’s skincare analysis, I commented on Catherine’s sun damage (brown discoloration) and redness. I have reviewed Catherine’s symptoms with her and she doesn’t have problems with flushing easily, for instance with emotional upset, spicy foods or alcohol and she doesn’t tend to get spots or blemishes. However, she has reacted to skincare products so her pattern is consistent with a mild form of rosacea.

The first step for Catherine is to get her using medical grade skincare products. I have chosen the Vivier Redness Relief kit for her which contains Hexam IDS Gentle Cleanser, Refreshing Toner, Firming Eye Contour Cream, A/K Capsules, Lexxel IDS Redness Relief Moisturizing Cream and Daily Moisturizing Shield SPF 30. This is an excellent kit for rosacea-prone skin. The Hexam cleanser and Lexxel moisturizer knock back the redness immediately, i.e. by the time you’re done your skincare routine.

I would like to thank Vivier for donating Catherine’s skincare products. Vivier is a Canadian company and family-owned. Most importantly, their products really  work.

The Redness Relief Kit, in addition to reducing redness in Catherine’s skin, is going to help normalize dry and oily areas and make the skin more tolerant. That means that over time, her skin won’t react with redness or breakouts the way it used to. These products will also help to stimulate collagen formation in her skin, making her skin appear smoother and firmer.

There are 2 other products that I would like to use on Catherine if she can tolerate them. One is the SeeQuin IDS 4 serum which contains Vitamin C 10% and Hydroquinone 4%. The hydroquinone will help lighten her brown sun spots and the vitamin C will help lighten her skin and stimulate collagen formation.

The other product, Clarité, comes from Vivier’s SkinTx line. SkinTx is a more active skincare line designed to restore skin that is photodamaged, acne-prone or aged. SkinTx is not recommended for rosacea, which is why I would only try the one product out of the whole SkinTx line and only have Catherine use it as tolerated.

Clarité contains hydroquinone, anti-oxidants and alpha hydroxy acid (AHA). It helps to lighten the skin.

The SeeQuin and Clarité are a couple of little skincare tricks for accelerating the lightening and brightening of Catherine’s complexion but the Redness Relief Kit alone will make a huge difference in the quality of her skin.

In my next post, I will discuss the physical treatments we are planning for Catherine. She’s going to look great!

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You may notice that the picture above shows the kit for dry, hypersensitive skin rather than the Redness Relief Kit. Unfortunately I don’t have the artwork for RR kit but this picture shows that the kit comes in a nice bag and has full sizes of all of the products. One kit should last between 4 and 6 months.

5 Hollywood secrets for staying young

I saw a program on Star! over the weekend called Staying Young in Hollywood. Dr. Stephen Mulholland of SpaMedica listed the top 5 secrets that Hollywood stars use to stay young.

1. Avoid sun exposure
   UV rays hasten the breakdown of collagen in the skin leading to wrinkles, rough skin texture and sagging skin (not to mention skin cancer).
2. Use medical-grade skincare products
   The skin is a good barrier and stops most products from penetrating. Medical-grade skincare products have been formulated to penetrate the skin tocreate the results you want and they have the research to prove it.
3. Use BOTOX® Cosmetic
   This really is the simplest and safest way to prevent and treat wrinkles caused by muscle contraction.
4. Use dermal fillers
   Dermal fillers can replace lost volume in the face, fill in a wrinkle and plump up your lips. Formulations like Teosyal are more purified and longer-lasting than earlier products.
5. Have IPL treatments
   Intense pulsed light treatments erase sun damage, broken capillaries and redness leaving the skin looking smoother and more even-toned.

And there is one more thing that Dr. Mulholland didn’t include in his top 5…

• Avoid cigarette smoke
  Smoking wreaks havoc on your skin, speeding up the destruction of collagen and giving you a grayish cast. Smoking can also stain your skin and hair yellow — not a pretty sight!