There are a bunch of things to look forward to this month, whether your team is playing in the Super Bowl, you’re a Usher super fan, or you just love a good LOL-funny or tear-jerking commercial. Also a given during the big game: snacks on snacks on snacks. And usually, not the healthiest ones. [...]
The holidays can get pretty hectic and it’s easy to slip up on your good skin habits during this festive season. Between all the traveling, cocktail parties and cookie exchanges, your skin is as likely to get a “hangover” as much as your body. Thankfully, there are also a lot of easy fixes. Here [...]
With the holidays just around the corner, we begin to indulge in behaviors that are not always so great for our skin and bodies. The sweets on Halloween; the heavy foods on Thanksgiving; the stress on Black Friday; the traveling around Christmas; the imbibing on New Years eve…while these can be highlights of the cooler [...]
Applying sunscreen on a daily basis should be mandatory, like doing your taxes or changing the oil in your car, which is why finding the perfect sunscreen for your skin is so important! Unlike sunscreen formulas of the past, today’s sunscreens come in so many different versions that it’s certainly easy and possible to find [...]
Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers, each year in the U.S. over 5.4 million cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer are treated in more than 3.3 million people. It is also the easiest to cure, if diagnosed and treated early. When allowed to progress, however, skin cancer can result in disfigurement and even [...]
After months of snow, slush, and frigid temperatures, spring is finally on the horizon. Winter has left the building (well, almost), taking with it our dreary moods and dry, itchy skin. Warmer air and increased humidity mean our skin is about to be in for a shock. Here are our top 5 beauty tips [...]
Before we dive right in, it’s important to understand what retinol is before you go singing its praises to all of your friends. Retinol is is the pure form of vitamin A and its multitasking capabilities—including surface cellular turnover, diminishing the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, shrinking the look of enlarged pores, and [...]
Did you know that putting on the same chapstick multiple times a day may leave you with an irritant dermatitis to the chemicals in it? This explains why your lips are still cracked, even after all that applying! Ready to do away with cracked lips for good? Try using a moisturizing lip balm like the Ormedic [...]
Cleansing your face should be a daily part of your normal skin care routine. Not only does a thorough cleansing help remove dirt, sweat, dead skin cells, makeup, and excess oil from the surface of your skin, but it also helps to refresh your skin and improve your complexion. Proper cleansing also creates a [...]
On my first day of work at Barris Laser & Skin Care, I was warned that I would soon become the spa's guinea pig. I figured that as long as it was for the benefit of my skin, I'd try anything once. One of the first treatments I tried was the IPL Photorejuvenation treatment, [...]
