Halloween and Your Skin

By SkinCareGuide.ca Keep Your Skin from Becoming Ghoulish   With Halloween upon us, adults and children alike are planning costumes for parties, school events and trick or treating. For some adults, it is the one time of year that “the inner child” comes out to play. Costumes, make-up and funny shoes are all fun to put on, but there are some things to...

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For Shapely Brows, Put Down the Tweezers

By KAYLEEN SCHAEFER “TAKE your tweezers,” Maribeth Madron, a makeup artist and eyebrow specialist in New York, will say to about a quarter of her clients, “and put them in a glass jar and freeze them.” To women who obsess over and excessively pluck their brows, tough talk is sometimes necessary. Ms. Madron, 39, who charges $85 for a shaping done with...

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Anti-Aging Skin Care Tips

Learn to look after your skin By SkinCareGuide.ca Although there are different kinds of treatments, procedures and surgery that can assist in improving the look of your skin, it is important that you look after your skin to start with. If you are unhappy with how gravity, the sun and everything else seems to be changing your skin’s appearance, here are some tips and...

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Age Spots? Sun Spots? Skin Cancer?

By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC As time goes on, we start to notice brown spots and freckles — “souvenirs of Florida” — on the backs of our hands and on other sun exposed areas like the upper chest and face. At first, these brown spots are small and light colored, but eventually they become a cosmetic problem; an obvious sign of premature aging of...

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Skin Care Advice for Your Big Event

By Kevin C. Smith MD FACP FRCPC Everyone — guests and those who will be in the public eye — wants their skin to look its best on their big day. Here are some simple tips you can follow to help avoid skin problems on your special day: Acne or Rosacea Skin: Plan ahead: if you have a skin condition like acne or rosacea, see a dermatologist at least 3-4 months...

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It’s All About Health

It’s all about health – It’s all about youth For most of the baby boomer generation, ages forty to sixty five, the effects of aging and the desire to slow the signs of aging are ever increasing. Some undergo a very steep decline where they feel pre-maturely aged and some are blessed with slower aging symptoms and age more gracefully. Recent studies show...

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