Many people today love to enjoy the pampering in day spas that provide relaxation and rejuvenation treatments. Many are also interested in the non-surgical cosmetic procedures that are normally performed in doctors’ clinics. For those who’d love to try both types of procedures, medi-spas offer the best of both worlds.
What is a Medi-Spa?
A medi-spa or medical spa is a place that employs both relaxation therapies as well as cosmetic surgery medical treatments. This allows people to opt for treatments like Botox, derma fillers, or collagen injections in their skin, while relaxing in a luxurious, comfortable atmosphere, in stark contrast to the sterile, cold environment of a surgeon’s chair.
What Can a Medi-Spa do for You?
You can enjoy all the benefits of a resort with the treatments that are unique to a beauty parlour, like body wraps to skim your figure and remove toxins, facials to rejuvenate the pores on your face, manicures, and pedicures to give your hands and feet star treatment. But you can also have several other procedures that have longer-lasting results.
Derma Fillers
You can enjoy soothing the smells and sounds of a resort, while getting derma fillers injections to plump up your lips or make your face look younger. Derma fillers, like Restylane, help plump up tired and thin lips to give a fuller, more attractive mouth.
Restylane can also be used to fill out other parts of your facial skin where fine lines and wrinkles have begun their invasive march. Restylane contains hyaluronic acid, which is a natural substance in the human body and it gives a younger, more supple look to the skin. The results of Restylane treatements can last up to six months.
Botox Cosmetic
Botox is one of the leading types of injectables and most medi-spas provide it as an option. Botox comes from a substance called Botulinum toxin and it works to turn back the clock by reducing the appearance of wrinkles and frown lines.
Botox is very effective in minimizing the appearance of wrinkles around the eyes, as well as other deep lines on the face. Several treatment sessions are usually required to achieve the desired look and the injections must be repeated after the effects wear off.
Permanent Makeup
Many of these centers also offer services like permanent makeup treatments. This could include things like permanently colored eyebrows, eye liners, lip liners, and eyelashes enhancement. Women and men can also benefit from permanent makeup pigmentation adjustments. Scars or discolorations acquired over time can be re-colored to create a more uniform facial complexion.
Laser Hair Removal
Finally, you can also receive laser hair removal treatments at a medi-spa. Women commonly like to have their legs, underarms, and upper lips treated, while men often opt to get rid of hair growth in the beard area or on their chests. This eliminates time consuming shaving and lots of work and concern. Several treatments are generally required, but the results are incredible. Talk to your local medi-spa to see which services they provide.
By: A Aaronson
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Medi-Spa Services – Beauty Plus Relaxation
April 11th, 2010Suffering for Beauty’s Sake
February 6th, 2010
How far would you go to stay beautiful? The answer depends on where you live and society’s definition of beauty. Before women “tortured” themselves with plastic surgery, Botox, and other painful cosmetic procedures, they had to endure more barbaric beauty rituals to look good.
“Adhering to the modern American standard of beauty is no small task. It demands time, money, and effort. We, as a culture, subject ourselves to invasive surgical procedures and food deprivation in the name of aesthetics. But bizarre beauty rituals are certainly not new phenomena. Since the beginning of civilization, people have altered their bodies in strange and
uncomfortable ways to fit cultural perceptions of beauty. These standards are constantly evolving and regressing based on the culture that sets them,” said Cecilia Estriech in VersusMag.Org.
Cosmetics were first used by the Egyptians in 4,000 B.C. although history shows that the ancient Greeks and Romans were also concerned about their appearance. A pale appearance was prized in those days and mercury, lead, and chalk were worn to achieve this effect.
This trend continued until the Middle Ages among European women where paleness was associated with wealth. Having a tan in those days meant you were a laborer who worked in the fields so the rich used make-up to emphasize their paleness and affluence. Sixth-century women achieved this effect by bleeding themselves using leeches or by cupping (drawing blood by heating air in a glass cup). However, those who used cosmetics were no better since this caused deformities, blindness, and even death.
“From the 1400s onwards whitening the face was one of the most common cosmetic practices. This was still popular in the 1800s. A mixture composed of carbonate, hydroxide, and lead oxide was commonly used. This could lead to muscle paralysis or death when used repeatedly,” according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
“During the Italian Renaissance, women wore lead paint on their faces. The damage inflicted by the lead was unintentional – but arsenic face powder wasn’t. Aqua Toffana, named for creator Signora Toffana, was a face powder designed for women from rich families. The container directed women to visit the signora for proper usage instructions. During the visit, women would be instructed never to ingest the makeup, but to apply it to their cheeks when their husbands were around. Six hundred dead husbands (and many wealthy widows) later, Toffana was executed,” added Autumn Madrano in “A Colorful History.”
In New Zealand, men of the Maori tribe would make themselves handsome by decorating their faces, thighs, and buttocks with intricate tribal patterns. The tattoos were carved into the skin with a chisel and the wounds were filled with ink. This painful procedure caused extreme swelling.
Today, women continue to pursue unrealistic beauty standards, sometimes mangling and maiming themselves in the name of vanity. They continue to equate perfect looks with a perfect life. But this is an illusion at best that only leads to unhappiness, confusion, and insecurity.
Being beautiful inside and out need not be expensive nor do you have to torture yourself in the process. All it takes is to believe in yourself, accept your limitations, and live life to the fullest. And if you need help with wrinkles, try the Rejuvinol AM/PM Botox Alternative Age-Defying System. It’s the only system that combines the nourishing effects of the Rejuvinol morning moisturizer and the muscle-relaxing Rejuvox night cream. Check out http://www.rejuvinol.com for details.
By: Sharon A Bell
