Doctors are very well familiar with Botox and other fillers that are being used today in the treatment of wrinkles and loss of volume with age, explains how the treatment works – when administered by a specialist in a dedicated facility. What are the risks such procedures entail? What are the side-effects and their frequency? Is the so-called “wax / frozen face” a given after a while with Botox? Does it lead to “addiction,” as they say? From your own personal experience, what is the worst that can happen with these procedures? We used to think that the face aged purely as a result of gravity causing the tissues to sag. We now realize the ageing process is more complicated than that and many of the signs of ageing, particularly at the earlier stages, are due to a loss of volume from the face. Successful facial rejuvenation therefore requires volume replacement but the volume needs to be replaced in the right amount at the right places and deciding on these variables is where the real
artistry is involved. Over-doing it or placing the volume in the wrong place can create a very odd appearance.

There are risks associated with cosmetic procedures and it is important that anyone considering treatment fully understands them. Most of the side effects are quite minor and transient such as bruising and swelling but there are a few more serious things that can happen such as infections, granulomas and even skin necrosis. That is why it is so important to make sure the person carrying out your treatment is a qualified doctor who is not only able to carry out an injection but also manage all of the potential things that can, and sometimes do, go wrong.

I don’t think anyone ever sets out to become addicted to cosmetic procedures. What seem to happen is after a while patients forget what they used to look like and think the effects have worn off and they want more treatment. This is why it is essential to take photographs before you start so you can look back and demonstrate the improvements and convince patients that they don’t need any more yet.

The ‘frozen look’ that you sometimes see when people have had Botox is a big concern to most people thinking about having the treatment. An important part of the doctors job is to sometimes say ‘no’ and most good doctors will do that although there is always the odd person who won’t which not only reflects badly on the individual but on the whole profession.

Pricey you might think? Not at all! Here at GemVie we have awesome spa party deals. For example: Party Host (or anybody from the list) can enjoy free treatment if 5 or more guests are spending over $100. We provide with slippers and softest robes and wraps in town! The facility will be closed just for you guys and there will be snacks and beverages available for you or wine and chocolate upon your request . You and your guests will chill out and relax in modern lounge room with the view on our hidden gem – outdoor patio a true oasis in the middle of Manhattan.

Our treatments are unique and pleasant, our staff is friendly and professional, our products are aimed to work and treat. The time you spend in our spa will be stress free and let us just assure you that after a spa party with us you will be you friends and relative’s favorite for a while. Cause everybody like to relax, get pampered and take care of themselves.

Nestled below the towering office buildings of midtown Manhattan, GemVie Medispa is a spa treasure for those looking to escape the area’s hustle and bustle while tending to their skincare needs. “We wanted to create a space clients would find soothing, with soft colors, light hardwoods, and clean lines, but one that would also instill confidence in the technological and medical treatments,” says Vladimir Morgovsky, M.D., the spa’s founder and medical director. “In creating the treatment rooms, we wanted them to be flexible and consistent. The similar, clean design of each room makes the client feel confident and in capable hands for each new treatment they experience.”

GemVie’s garden terrace provides a soothing respite from busy midtown Manhattan.

Another thing that puts clients at ease is GemVie’s charming garden terrace. “The patio is the ideal place for socializing before, after, and between treatments,” says Morgovsky. “Because we are a medical spa, no full treatments are performed there, but refreshments are served, and this summer, we plan to host discussions and lectures on health- and beauty-related topics.”

The elegant spa design incorporates soothing colors and light hardwood floors.

When it comes to treatments, there are a number of traditional spa and medical spa services available, which makes GemVie an ideal one-stop shop for on-the-go guests. The Office Escape ($150, 90 minutes), for example, is an excellent lunchtime option for local businesspeople and includes an Aroma-Charme Facial, 30 minutes of massage and reflexology, and a PerfectSense Paraffin Hand Treatment. The Marine Algae “Hot Date” Facial ($135, 60 minutes), meanwhile, is a soothing skincare refresher that incorporates a seaweed-based mask that detoxifies, restores, and purifies the skin to create a fresh, glowing face for a night out on the town. Along with a wide selection of massages, facials, and body treatments are myriad medical spa options, including Botox and other injectables, chemical peels, laser hair removal, laser vein treatments, digital skin analysis, microdermabrasion, and more. “The digital skin analysis is very popular, as it uses a multi-spectral imaging system to identify a client’s problem areas, and laser hair removal is always highly requested in the spring,” says Morgovsky.

A number of high-tech medical treatments help address skin issues.

Those making these requests and more are GemVie’s spa-savvy main clientele, women ages 27 to 50 who are interested in maintaining a healthy and youthful appearance. As such, the most popular medical spa service is the Micropeel (starting at $200, 45 minutes), which is a results-oriented combination of microdermabrasion and a chemical peel. “Regard- less of what a client comes in for, we discuss their needs and issues with them before any treatment,” says Morgovsky. “It is during this interaction and through discussions about the client’s needs that a combination of services or new treatments are suggested. This way, we are continually educating our clients about their current and future needs.”

Products from Yon-Ka Paris and Belladerm are available in the retail area.

Meeting these needs is the ultimate priority for Morgovsky and his team of five full-time staff members, including his wife, spa director Galina Morgovsky, who was trained in Russia and has more than 25 years of experience in skincare and the spa industry. Results—not hype—are the ultimate goal of every guest experience. “Because we focus on educating and informing the client, our goal isn’t just to sell a particular service,” he says. “Every client has different needs that require different courses of action to see real results. We focus on providing results, so if that means we see twenty clients, and the best course for all is a chemical peel, we are not concerned that we didn’t sell any microdermabrasion treatments that day. We want our clients to leave the spa happy with the results.”

GemVie Medispa created the Blackberry Hand Treatment to help over-texted hands. The company thinks it is time to pay attention to the hands and fingers that make our blackberries go.

I had the chance to try out the treatment and really enjoyed the 30 minutes of relaxation. Originally, I thought it was going to be like a manicure, but you actually lay down in a towel for a full arm and hand massage. Very relaxing except for when the paraffin is warming up. Get ready for a POPPING sound.

GemVie also has a great outdoor area for the warmer months.

The Blackberry Hand Treatment begins with an aromatherapy hand massage with a

Blackberry Basil hand lotion that soothes the senses and relaxes the hands.

The Blackberry Basil hand lotion has three key ingredients to keep you texting and typing; olive oil, which can revive even the driest skin, glycerin, which attracts moisture from the air and protects the skin, and Aloe Vera, which softens the skin and smooths out wrinkles.

To finish off this all-encompassing hand treatment, you get treated to the Perfect Sense Parrafin treatment.

The BlackberryHand Treatment is $50 for 30 minutes.

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Different skin types need different skin care. Pore size, tone, and texture and oil production, called sebum are the factors that determine skin type.

There are many factors and elements that are harsh on our skin these days. The air itself with pollutants; improper cleaning routine; smoke; weather such as wind and sun; and biggest culprit of all can be our diet. These are things that can make a Manhattan facial a necessity for men or women!  During your regular facials you get a professional who looks after your skin personally. You also get to learn a lot about your skin and get advice on how to take care of your skin at home.

So what does a facial involve then?

Simply stated, a facial is a treatment of the outer layer of your skin that is designed to improve the general appearance and texture of your skin. It can involve things like cleansing, removing dead skin cells, hydrating and unblocking clogged pores,lifting, tightening your face muscles, rejuvenate your skin, improve blood circulation and much more.

Those who have experienced it confess -”it’s result – oriented not just a treatment-is experience! Facials provides a great sense of relaxation and peace of mind while at the same time boosting a feeling
of well being and make the skin glowing. Get your New York Facial today and start your way to younger healthier skin!

(What isn’t luggage), Puffy Eyes, Dark Circles, Lines or wrinkles?

Puffy eyes can be caused by fluid retention and/or by fluid retention and/or allergies. Fluid retention can be caused by fluid that builds up under your eyes as you sleep, it is a temporary, but can be most severe when you’re struggling with allergies and sinus problems, or premenstrual syndrome. In order to reduce the puffiness you can try:

Home remedy:

Cucumber Slices, Tea Bags, Cooling Eye Mask.

GemVie MediSpa Home Solution:
Phyto-Contour Yon-Ka Eye Cream

This delicate cream, with rosemary extracts works deep down on the eyelids to produce an immediate sensation of freshness. Firms, tones and corrects dark circles, puffiness and uneven toned skin. • Visibly helps decongest fluid buildup and lines around the eyes • Works to fight off under-eye bumps •

Dark circles may be a result of any number of things: a highly pigmented skin condition, enlarged blood vessels under the delicate eye skin, dehydration, fatigue, overexposure to the sun, or the aging process can bring it on, as well as medical conditions pertaining to thyroid or renal issues. Even menopause can do its share in bringing on dark circles. The skin underneath our eyes becomes even more delicate as we get older, and the veins under the eyes grow more prominent as we age.

If the blood vessels are enlarged, you can try

Home Remedy:

Cold compress can restrict the blood vessels and reducing the appearance of dark circles.Cucumber slices, tea bags, cooling Eye Mask.

GemVie Medispa solution:

Bellederm intensive eye cream

Powerful antioxidants hydrate and diminish the appearance of fine lines

Reduces puffiness and dark circles around the eyes .

This treatment combines several powerful vitamins and oils to target those trouble spots under the eyes. Ingredients include Vitamin K, emu oil, carrot seed extract, grape seed extract, hemp oil, shea butter, green tea extract.

Phyto-Contour Yon-Ka eye cream

This delicate cream, with rosemary extracts, works deep down on the eyelids to produce an immediate sensation of freshness. Firms, tones and corrects dark circles, puffiness and uneven toned skin. • Visibly helps decongest fluid buildup and lines around the eyes • Works to fight off under-eye bumps •

Fine lines and crow’s feet

Our everyday facial expressions use our eye area, whether we are squinting because of the sun, smiling, or laughing. Smoking can also be a culprit in causing crow’s feet. Wrinkles and fine lines are made more obvious when skin is dry, so keeping the area moisturized will keep it looking supple, and fine lines will be less obvious.

Home remedy:

Olive oil, Cucumber slices, tea

bags, cooling Eye Mask

GemVie Medispa Solution:

Alpha-countour Yon-Ka eye cream

Stimulates the renewal process of the eye and lip contours

* Ensures ample protection from premature aging and dehydration as it gently stimulates skin’s cell
* renewal action – without the risk of irritation

Yonka Alpha Contour imparts a pleasant cooling and toning action as it treats and protects

Its lightweight texture enables 24-hour treatment benefits to eye and lip contours

Yonka Alpha Contour allows make-up to stay fresh and last longer.

Nutri-contour Yon-Ka eye cream

Smooth out the areas of your face that age you most with Yonka Paris Nutri -Contour Hazelnut Eye Contour & Lip Cream. It uses renewing vitamins and oils to reduce the look of crows feet and frown lines.

Bellederm Intensive eye cream

Powerful antioxidants hydrate and diminish the appearance of fine lines

Reduces puffiness and dark circles around the eyes .

This treatment combines several powerful vitamins and oils to target those trouble spots under the eyes. Ingredients include Vitamin K, emu oil, carrot seed extract, grape seed extract, hemp oil, shea butter, green tea extract.

Whatever your eye needs and concerns may be, it is important that you use some sort of eye cream or gel, as this area needs moisture and care as much as the rest of your body.

For every human being at age 13 to 50 acne is a major problem. From dermatologist recommended drugs to over the counter remedies at the pharmacy, companies promise that their product is the best and simple cure for acne. Almost everyone suffers from this common skin disease. There are simple ways to avoid and treat acne, and here they are.

1. Drink several glasses of water a day to flush out the toxins in your body and skin. Try replacing milk with soymilk, studies have shown an association between milk and acne.

1. Reduce your coffee intake; coffee could encourage acne and zits to appear. It’s most likely a good idea to limit how much you drink.

1. Cleansing your skin is very important when it comes to avoiding acne because during stressful times this can cause pimples to pop up.

1. Improve your food intake. Our skin, like everything else in the human body benefits from a good diet. Try eating foods that contain micronutrients, which are fruits and vegetables.

1. Try to cut down or stop smoking; in many studies smoking is prove to worsen the effects of acne.

1. Wash your hair regularly; this helps is you have acne along your hairline or on your forehead. This kind of acne is due to a build up of fatty acids from oily hair.

1. Try to make time for exercise; exercising reduces your stress level and increases oxygen in the skin, which in most cases can help reduce acne.

1. This is very important: Remove makeup before going to bed – Don’t ever go to bed with makeup on. This clogs our pores and makes acne worse.

1. Take a shower after every workout, as sweat in concurrence with the oils in your skin may lock in dirt and bacteria.

1. And of course, never pop your pimples.

Following these simple steps to can help you prevent and treat acne. Enjoy the skin you’re in!

The past decade, jeans have become extremely vital in women’s wardrobe and it’s hard to think back to how we got by without them. Come on, what would we put on when going straight from work to a cool bar in the evening? No other piece of clothing can be worn in so many diverse situations and look good. Although we all love getting dolled up; everyday clothes do have to be practical. Best of all, there is no age limit on jeans. A sixty-five-year-old granny could wear jeans and she’d look fabulous, as long as it’s a pair that suitable to her shape. That is something to keep in mind: we all change figure as we get older and so you’ll almost definitely need to change the style of jeans you wear every few years instead of automatically still buying the same sort you were dressed in when you were twenty-one. That’s not disappointing; it’s just doing something that will make you look and feel better.

The range of jeans offers out of the ordinary styles, cuts, fits and colors to suit the varying demands of the discerning denim-lover. Whether you love straight-legs, boot-cuts, drainpipes or even shorts, there is absolutely something to suit nearly all shapes and sizes. One way of telling whether a jeans shop is any good is by the mirrors in the dressing rooms: any denim shop with a bit of intellect will have multi-facing mirrors so you can see every possible view of yourself, predominantly your bottom. Getting the full prospective is especially significant when it comes to denim. A frequent problem is that if the jeans are tight enough around the leg they’re too tight at the waistband. And speaking of the waist, the waistband shouldn’t be too thick and intense because it will dig painfully into your hips and that gives all the hated appearance of a muffin-top. Look for jeans that are cut higher at the back so not only do they not gawk but also they don’t give you builders bottom each time you sit down.

No bagging! Jeans that bag around the knees or bottom are another fashion tragedy. For example, skinny-fit jeans are great, but some can start bagging around the knees after a couple of wears. Always make sure your jeans have just a bit of stretch to them. Get the length right! It is critical to make sure the jeans are long enough. When trying them on, stand and look in front of the mirror on your tiptoes and then with flat feet, as you are probable to be dressed in them with heels. With heels, the bottom of your jeans should just skim your toe, as that will give a good couple of inches of length to your legs. Boot-cut jeans can be very versatile, as you can wear them with heels, sexy boots and flats. A lot of women never move away from wearing boot-cut as they really elongate your legs and can be very flattering around the hips for curvier shaped figures. The most flattering jeans outfit for a woman can simply be a pair of well-cut straight-leg jeans, heels and a simple top or fitted jacket. It’s a no fuss dressing and looks fabulous.

As a broad guideline, I recommend buying one pair of straight-leg or boot-cut jeans and one pair of skinny. Skinny jeans styles are in fact great, and look very rock n roll, mostly in black. For me, when I’m buying jeans, or jean shorts all the rules are the same: check the cut; check how they look from every angle; check the crotch area; and don’t buy anything too small for your figure. The basic rule is if you try something on and it makes you feel good and look good, then buy it.

It’s often with tops that it all starts to go wrong. You might decide to wear something because it’s on the top of the pile of clothes in your drawer, or because it will keep you warm enough, whether or not it goes with the rest of your outfit. It’s through mixing and matching, but careful preparation, that you make the outfit yours. Good quality t-shirts and vests can form the beginning of a great outfit.

In terms of cuts, scoop necks, and V-necks look lovely on most women as they elongate the neck. Obviously, any cut that plunges is going to make your neck look longer, whereas one that ends right under your neck can shorten it and be less sexy. Square-necked tops look a bit more formal than V-necks and scoop necks, they go best with a more formal outfit, such as cute pants or a pencil skirt, both of which poise out the broadening effect of the square neck on top as they are narrower on your lower half. Scoop necks, on the other hand, are very casual and can be worn just with a simple denim mini skirt or denim cut-offs.

With vests its always a good idea to get them a size bigger than you need just to make sure that they’re long enough. Lycra usually has the ability of making the vest grip to your body in precisely the places you’d rather it didn’t, so always look for pure cotton. Length, too, is key, as this will give you a much nicer figure. Color is also very important. Blue, black, slate grey and white are the most effective colors when it comes to tops as they go with practically everything. Cap sleeves are mainly popular with high-street stores but they can be risky. Often they are cut so narrowly they nearly cut off your blood supply, which looks as unflattering and uncomfortable as a waistband that’s too tight. With long-sleeved shirts, make sure the sleeves are actually long enough, in example, not ending halfway down your wrist, otherwise your top will look like it’s shrunk in the wash.

Patterned T-shirts are OK. Big prints can look good but it’s best just to limit to your accessories because they can be a little gimmicky on clothes and it’s really noticeable if you wear them too often. Some T-shirts with slogans are OK – some are even fashion classics. Like vintage rock n roll tees. Wear them with good jeans and heels and you look cool, casual and show you have a sense of humor, which is always attractive.

1. Our nails are made of a hard protein called keratin. Nail care help protect the ends of fingers and toes from trauma and also help us pick up small objects; most importantly well-groomed fingernails are beautiful.

2. When filing nails, go from the corner to the center in one direction. Follow the groove on the side of your nail. Filing this way will allow the nail to grow equally and properly.

3. Buffing nails provides a shinier finish. Start at the cuticle and work your way down to the tip with light pressure. Don’t buff back and forth, this can cause heat build up, which can damage your nails. Buff lightly, until all ridges on the nail surface are gone.

4. Before applying any nail polish make sure that nails are clean and dry, free of any oil or lotion.

5. Always apply the base (clear) coat, and let dry for 1 minute. The base coat supports the nail polish from chipping and allows polish to last longer.

6. Two coats of polish is the perfect amount.

7. Drying time in between layers is key to a flawless manicure. Allow 1 minute of dry time before applying next coat. Remember, darker shades take longer to dry.

8. Avoid fast drying nail polish; it does not last as long.

9. When the last coat has dried, apply a clear Top Coat to seal it. Continue to apply the Top Coat daily to keep nails looking fresh longer.

10. Try to stay away from acrylic and powder nails because the carry harmful bacteria, and are difficult to disinfect.

11. If you seek thicker nails, there are many polishes that moisturize, nourish and provide vitamins to your nails to make them thick and beautiful.

12. You can also improve your nails through your diet, by eating eggs, flaxseed, fresh fruit, herbal teas, nuts, vegetable and whole grains.

13. Biotin is a B-complex mineral that can help nails. In fact, it is included as an ingredient in many nails vitamins.

14. A vitamin E supplement is your best option, because you will have noticeable results.

After a period of time in self nail grooming and care, you will become a manicure specialist; start giving out great nail tips to your closest friends and relatives as well, as they will admire your perfectly polished nails and wish to know your secrets.