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- Beauty Products With A Positive Attitude
It took two caring, creative mothers and their teenage daughters to create a line of skin care products that promotes a healthy attitude toward beauty and self-esteem.
"The teenage years can be awkward both physically and emotionally for teens," said Susan Shand, one of the co-founders of Tess (Teen Everyday Skincare System). So Shand, co-founder Sheri Poe and their daughters created a brand that celebrates the personal, individual beauty of each teenage girl. - Today's Orthodontic Treatment: Comfortable, Convenient
Brace yourself: As a result of innovations in orthodontic materials, orthodontists are able to provide today's patients with a comfortable and convenient experience while working toward the ultimate goal of a healthy, beautiful smile, a good bite and improved facial appearance.
Traditional braces, a combination of brackets and wires, have moved into the 21st century. Metal brackets are smaller and less conspicuous; tooth-colored brackets blend with the color of teeth. Patients benefit from the use of NASA-developed technology: advanced "space-age" wires with built-in memory. The wires, which actually move the teeth under the orthodontist's supervision, deliver a light, continuous pressure. When they reach mouth temperature, the wires become active and "remember" their original shape. As the wires attempt to return to that shape, they gently guide the teeth into their correct positions. When compared to materials used as recently as a decade ago, today's high-tech materials can result in fewer and less frequent appointments, so patients require less time away from school or work, and the treatment time may be shorter. - October Is National Eczema Awareness Month. Skin Care Tips You Can Use
According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated 15 million people in the United States are affected by eczema, a disease that causes dry, itchy and irritated skin. Thankfully, there is an increasing number of resources and products created to help those living with eczema.
One such organization, the National Eczema Association (NEA), has a Web site dedicated to promoting eczema awareness through research and education. One way they've spearheaded getting the word out about this common skin condition is by designating the month of October as National Eczema Awareness Month. - Insider Picks
You can stand out from the crowd in sizzling style with help from a star in the know-beauty entrepreneur and mom-on-the-go Kimora Lee Simmons.
She created a new cosmetics line to reflect her lifestyle-urban hip-hop culture and luxury at an affordable price. - What's Your Hair Iq?
How do you care for your hair? What hair products are right for you? If you don't know, you're not alone. A recent hair care survey by Impulse Research found many women make hair mistakes. Here are tips to help you get the most from your hair:
Long Hair Care - An Effective Way To Support Healthy Aging
New research is helping ordinary Americans take control of their health. It's easier than you think to live healthy as you age.
Despite the hype about anti-aging solutions, we know there's no fountain of youth. However, we also know that there are things we can do to live young as we age, such as exercising, eating well and taking supplements. Unstable molecules in your body called free radicals cause a condition called oxidative stress, which is associated with more than 100 diseases, according to published studies. Each of the millions of cells in your body is assaulted by free radicals more than 10,000 times each day, causing cell damage and cellular aging. - A Sound Way To Treat Hearing Loss In Children
There's good news for parents who have a child born with significant hearing loss. Advances in technology are making it possible to address profound hearing loss in children as young as 12 months of age.
Approximately one of every 1,000 newborns in the United States-about 33 babies per day-is born profoundly deaf. - As Summer Fades, Your Tan Doesn't Have To
Enjoying the sun has been a favorite pastime for people of all ages for many years. Today, it is still one of life's free pleasures.
In the early 1920s, "Sun Therapy" became very popular and was prescribed as a cure for everything from simple fatigue to tuberculosis. Around the same time, French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel popularized the tan as a status symbol when she appeared at the fashion shows with a golden tan obtained while vacationing on the French Riviera. - Sleek, Smooth Summer Beauty
Warm-weather fashions make smooth, sleek skin essential from head to toe-and the first step to achieving that radiant look is to remove unwanted hair.
Among the most popular ways to de-fuzz and de-fluff: waxing, sugaring and shaving. All, as you'll see, have their plusses and minuses. - Vintage Meets Modern: A Classic New Look
Retro glam looks of the past are back in a big way-and not just on runway supermodels. Fashionable women across America are sporting a multitude of styles from previous decades, but with a few contemporary twists.
Try these cost-effective tips from celebrity makeup artist Nick Barose. He can help you join the vintage-meets-modern revolution. - Recipe For Smooth Skin: Tips For Getting Great Results At Home
Must-have beauty and fashion items may change with each new season, but women's desire for smooth, beautiful skin is always in style.
Despite the many options out there, women don't have to search high and low for products to get skin that looks and feels wonderfully smooth. The key is to develop a beauty routine that is right for your skin. - Rejuvenate Beauty Without Needles
The universal mark of beauty is in the skin. Healthy, firm, ageless skin is something everyone strives for, women and men alike. But to maintain that healthy dermis, it is important to give your body a little TLC by following a few simple skin care tips:
1. SPF every day. Sun protection dramatically helps prevent aging of the skin. The sun is primarily responsible for wrinkles, blotchy pigmentation, thinning of the skin, broken blood vessels, texture changes and some skin-related diseases. Use sunscreen when the skin will be exposed to any sunlight, including a moisturizer plus SPF every morning. Look for a moisturizer that offers both anti-aging ingredients and SPF in one. This type of treatment provides an excellent way to fight against aging and get sun protection in one application. Be sure to use products that contain the recommended daily dose of SPF 15 as well as the three top anti-aging ingredients: Matrixyl 3000™, Argireline® and Hyaluronic Acid. - Dental Grillz Might Bring Glitz But Could Tarnish Smile
Grillz or "fronts" may bring a lot of bling to one's mouth, but the American Dental Association (ADA) says wearers should take notice that they also might be bringing an increased risk of tarnishing the health of their teeth and gums.
There is no doubt that teeth with bling project style to some, but grill wearers should be very careful about making a fashion statement with tooth adornments, cautions Matt Messina, D.D.S., American Dental Association consumer advisor. - True Beauty Is Feeling Touchable
Something wonderful happens when skin touches skin and people connect. People feel something. They express love, compassion, understanding and comfort through touch.
To feel beautiful, human touch is essential. It evokes both an emotional desire and a fundamental physical need. The first sensory input in life comes from touch and continues to be the primary means for all of life's developmental stages, including those in our most intimate relationships. Touch is the moment in which one makes contact with another through the skin, the single largest receptor of sensual touch on the body. Yet when one thinks of touch, the skin is not the first thing that comes to mind. But all of that is about to change. Skin care giant Nivea is now embracing the power of touch with a new Touch And Be Touched campaign that aims to tap into both the emotional and sensual aspects of touch. - A Beauty Tour Accomplishes Beautiful Things
The Avon Let's Talk Beauty Tour is doing a beautiful thing. This traveling beauty pavilion is already under way and will make stops nationwide through November, offering ways to help make women's lives safer and more financially secure, all while helping them feel more beautiful.
Visitors can do a beautiful thing for themselves by receiving complimentary makeovers, skin consultations, free samples and beauty advice from an Avon Certified Beauty Advisor. In addition, visitors can take a sneak peek at the summer and fall product launches, such as Anew Clinical ThermaFirm Face Lifting Cream, superFull Mascara, Avon Solutions Ageless Results Day Cream SPF 15, Ageless Results Overnight Renewing Cream, Ageless Results Eye Cream, and Avon's newest fragrances, Crystal Aura and Derek Jeter Driven. - New Advances In Skincare Technology Help Repair Skin While You Sleep
Sleep is critical to the body. Skimp on it and the body won't operate at an optimal level. With today's fast-paced lifestyles, many women feel stressed-out and need the night to decompress, and, as research demonstrates, help repair the appearance of skin-damage.
A recent study exploring the link between emotional stress and its effect on skin found an interesting correlation. A clinical study conducted by researchers at Estée Lauder has shown emotional stress can actually inhibit the skin's ability to repair its moisture barrier. The moisture barrier protects the skin from the environment and helps prevent water loss. For example, the study showed that among otherwise healthy married women, those who felt emotionally stressed and didn't perceive themselves as happy had slower moisture barrier recovery rates than their happily married counterparts and single women. - How To Find This Fall's Best Looks
How do you separate this fall's must-haves from the rather-nots? Ask an expert.
According to style experts, this season's looks feature dark, murky colors, plaids, skinny pants, puffed sleeves and lots of bows. Looks to love include: - How To Make Your Holiday Color Last
The holiday season is when you make the rounds of your family and friends. It's a great time to catch up with people you may not have seen all year, and part of the fun is looking your best, including your hair.
Make sure your tresses stay picture-perfect from Thanksgiving on through the New Year with these tips from the A-lister's colorist of choice, Marie Robinson. Robinson is responsible for coloring the locks of nearly every top celebrity filming or living in New York, including Natalie Portman, Rachel McAdams, Sienna Miller and Liv Tyler. Follow these insider suggestions to achieve the holiday look that's right for you. - Bringing The Best Of Beauty From Europe To The States
The way American women shop for beauty is about to change dramatically, as something unprecedented is coming to your local drugstore. For the first time, seven of Europe's leading beauty brands are making their way to the United States. This fall, Walgreens will carry a new beauty center full of high-end European bath, body and skin care luxuries. Women in the United States will now be able to indulge in the latest beauty treatments and technologies that have previously been available only to those residing in or traveling to countries such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Greece.
The European Beauty Collection "beauty centers" will look as though they have been pulled from a high-end department store. At each Walgreens there will be expert Beauty Advisors, signature gift bags, testers, deluxe samples, and product informational panels to help shoppers navigate the extensive line. - A Picture-perfect Appearance Starts With A Smile
Can you imagine yourself with a "picture-perfect smile"?
According to a recent survey, the majority of consumers (80 percent) indicated that a picture-perfect smile plays an important role in making a favorable first impression. - Creating A Wedding-day Look For Any Season
Increasingly, brides are choosing a season other than spring for their wedding. So how do you create a wedding-day look to reflect the season? Here are some tips:
Fall: For a fall wedding, opt for more dramatic hues for your eyes while keeping lips pretty and understated with a light pink or neutral color. Adding false lashes as a finishing touch can make your eyes smolder. - Helping Adult Skin Return To Baby Softness
Even though every woman's skin has its own special needs, there is a gold standard that inspires millions of women to seek out and experiment with the latest skin care treatments: a desire to return to baby softness.
When a woman's skin feels baby soft, she feels relaxed and rejuvenated; taking time to nurture her skin helps her feel ready for the day. Every woman should develop a nurturing routine with a combination of good nutrition, a restful night's sleep, regular exercise and moisturizing skin care; it is through this nurturing routine that women can maintain a healthy body and soul. - What Illicit Drugs Do To Your Teeth
There's a new effort under way to protect America's youth from the menace of drugs. Created by the American Dental Association (ADA), it focuses on the effects of methamphetamine not just on the user's life, but specifically on his or her teeth.
Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive drug. It can lead to long-term neurological damage, but over the short term it can seriously damage oral health, destroying a person's smile and natural ability to chew, according to the ADA. - Enjoy The Colder Months Without Dry Skin
The colder months are notorious for inflicting dry, irritated, flaky skin. Fortunately, a few tips from skin care experts can make it easier to keep skin glowing and healthy, whatever the weather does.
The combination of lower temperatures and reduced humidity associated with the colder months naturally draws moisture from the skin, making it feel flaky, scaly and even irritated and itchy. According to experts, the key to keeping itching and scratching at bay is protecting your skin with the right moisturizer. Here are a few more tips: - Beat Stress To Look Your Best
Letting stress get the best of you is not a beautiful idea. Stress can mar your appearance, wrinkling skin and making hair-your greatest natural accessory--look dull. To beat the effects of stress, beauty expert Damien Carney offers these tips:
• Schedule time for yourself. Find time each month for recharging--whether you book a massage or a facial, sleep in one morning or take a day to catch up. - Winter Skin Care Essentials
The wintertime brings outdoor fun like skiing and sledding. However, let's not forget the indoor fun like snuggling up by the fire and drinking hot cocoa. And although these activities invite comfy sweaters and fleece blankets, it's still a beauty essential to maintain touchably soft skin underneath all that attire!
However, protecting the skin during the winter months goes beyond warm clothing. Cold, dry air and strong winds sap skin of moisture. This moisture loss leads to chapped lips and cracked and flaky skin that can become extremely dry and irritated. Also, even during the chilliest months, skin is vulnerable to the burning and drying effects of sun exposure. So one may look cute and sexy in her snow bunny attire, but underneath, the winter weather may be doing damage. - Lip Health: Treating Chapped Lips And Cold Sores
Few women ignore their lip-care needs. In fact, 64 percent of women use lip balm to protect or prevent chapped lips, which is really just the dehydration of lips.
Most women know how much better lipstick looks when applied to soft, smooth and moisturized lips. However, one of the greatest frustrations women cite in reference to lip balms is the constant need for reapplication in order to keep their lips moisturized, according to Johnson & Johnson research. - What You Wear Can Care For Your Skin
The easiest way to keep your skin smooth and supple this winter may be to slip into something comfortable.
A new concept in fabric technology offers the wearer specific skin care benefits provided by moisturizing ingredients embedded in the fabric. Making these ingredients microscopically small means you can't see them, and yet they soothe and moisturize the skin all day long. - A Physician-patient's Perspective On Silicone Gel-filled Breast Implants
Dr. Christine Rodgers, a Denver plastic surgeon, is inspired to help other women reshape their lives after breast cancer. For more than 22 years, she has been treating breast cancer patients and performing breast reconstructive surgery. Her professional experience became personal when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002. Now Dr. Rodgers, a four-year breast cancer survivor, draws upon her own experience every time she sees a new patient.
With a new perspective, she is better able to connect with her patients and offer them a customized treatment based on their individual needs and desires. In addition, with the recent approval of Allergan's silicone breast implants by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Rodgers is now able to provide an unprecedented array of implant options to patients in the United States who are seeking breast augmentation, reconstruction and revision surgery. - Protecting Yourself From Harsh Winter Weather
When winter sends its icy chill your way, the weather outside isn't the only thing that's frightful. Harsh winter weather can wreak havoc on your skin, hair and nails.
Here are some tips from the experts at Sally Beauty Supply to help you assemble a winter survival kit: - Putting Your Best Face And Figure Forward
For an increasing number of American women, big is beautiful-and they have the self-confidence to show off that opinion.
Whatever size you may be, there are a few style and self-expression questions and answers you may care to consider: - Live Younger-age Is Merely A Number
Although getting older is inevitable, today, people are more health conscious than ever and refuse to let a numerical age define them. But thinking and feeling young and healthy is not enough; we want to look it, too. Here are a few simple tips from anti-aging experts that may help:
• Eat Right. Defy aging with a diet consisting of foods low in calories, full of nutrients such as calcium, protein and vitamins C, E and D, and low in saturated and trans fats. Eat lots of vegetables, fruits and whole grains. The anti-oxidant properties of these foods help battle free radicals, which contribute to the aging process. - Skin Care And Cosmetic Surgery: Myth Vs. Reality
Knowing the truth about skin care now can help you avoid cosmetic surgery later. Here are a few myths and the facts explained by A.F. Kalil, M.D., an internist, beauty guru and well-respected advocate of modern medical aesthetics, who has trained thousands of doctors in the common sense of skin care:
Myth: A face-lift will dramatically improve your looks and your life. - Caring For Your Scalp Can Have Beautiful Results
If you want to get to the root of what it takes to have healthy, beautiful hair-start at the scalp.
A surprising 50 percent of Americans experience dandruff at some point in their life and, of these, 26 percent have severe dandruff. Dandruff-whether it's just a few flakes or severe-can diminish a person's self-confidence, even if he or she spends a fortune on beauty products. - Slow Down The Signs Of Aging
Here's food for thought. Vitamins can nourish you from the outside in as well as the inside out.
The Inside Story - Secrets Of The Stars
Dryer sheets to calm flyaway hair? Baby toothbrushes to pump up the volume? Kitchen scrub brushes to rub off dead skin? If you've ever wondered how celebrities always seem to look "red-carpet ready" even when they are exhausted and overworked, a new book may offer some (often surprisingly) affordable beauty secrets.
Okay, how do the stars reduce puffiness, lose five pounds in a week, put shine in their hair, buff their skin and vacuum their pores without spending a fortune? - New Ways To Combat Dry, Wrinkled, Crepe Paper Skin
Many American women are now treating their arms and hands as well as they do their faces.
To help, there are products designed to help provide elasticity, firmness and moisture to skin of all types and ages. They're made to eliminate the crepe paper texture of skin and reduce wrinkles. - Antioxidants: A Weapon In The Fight Against Aging
When it comes to improving the appearance of sun-damaged skin, there's a brighter outlook-thanks to antioxidants.
The Problem - Beauty Has No Age Limit!-celebrating Beauty At Any Age
Nearly all women over 50 want to see a change in society's view on women and aging. In addition, the majority of women believe that if media were reflective of the population, a person would likely believe women over 50 do not exist. These and other observations can be found in the new Dove global report, Beauty Comes of Age. According to the study, there exists a new generation of women who possess a pro•age attitude, believing they are "too young to be old."
pro•age is a global initiative designed to help start an attitudinal change about aging-from negative and fear driven to affirmative and hope driven. In its commitment to widen the narrow definition of beauty, the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty hopes to change the way society views women 50-plus and break down the stereotype that only young is beautiful. - Healthy Skin In A High-tech World
Automobiles, air-conditioning and cell phones have become basic staples of modern-day life, but have they had an effect on the faces of people who use them? Some scientists now say yes.
A group of scientists now states that their studies show a connection between exposure to the pollution generated by these types of modern conveniences and accelerated skin aging. - Get Your Toes Ready
If you want terrific toenails to make the most of your favorite sandals, it's time to treat yourself to a pedicure.
Some women prefer to give themselves a pedicure. That's because they don't want anyone to see their embarrassing, thick, ugly, discolored toenails, which could be a sign of a nail fungus, a common foot health problem. - A Closer Look At Micro-dermabrasion
Beauty may only be skin deep, but dermatologists will tell you that it's what's on the surface that can most affect how shiny, dull or refreshed your skin looks.
That's one reason micro-dermabrasion has become the new beauty buzz word. The treatment removes dead or dry skin, leaving skin smooth, healthy and looking its best. Many also notice a reduction in the appearance of wrinkles and other signs of aging. However, the harsh chemicals used for in-office microdermabrasion-as well as its hefty price tag-has led many women to turn the other cheek on the procedure. - Does Your Skin Have You Red In The Face?
Flushing with frustration over your chronically red facial skin? Everyone experiences facial redness at one time or another, but for many people, living with the embarrassing effects of persistently red, blotchy skin is something they deal with on a daily basis.
More than 16 million women in the United States suffer from rosacea, a common skin problem that often appears on the nose, cheeks and chin and can take various forms-from a slight flush to more noticeable reddening on the face. - Survey: Women Aspire To Beautiful Lives
Can a woman become more beautiful as the result of the way she lives her life?
A recent Bali intimate apparel survey says yes. Beauty, apparently, does shine from within, reflecting self-acceptance, self-confidence and contentment with a life well lived. - Safety Sense
Heeding a few hints from dermatologists can help you protect the skin you're in:
Limit Sun Exposure: Especially from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., when the sun's rays are the strongest, seek shade whenever possible. Wear a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses and protective, lightweight clothing. And don't forget the sunscreen. Use one daily that has an SPF of at least 15.
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