Beauty Tips

Summer Beauty Tips
by Karen Trionfo

Summer is just around the bend! With warm weather come the thoughts of swimming, outdoor sports, vacationing and more. It's an exciting time of the year. It's also, for some, a time to exercise, lose weight, and improve appearance.

As a licensed electrologist and esthetician, I see lots of new faces when spring arrives. Some come in for a makeover and others are concerned with improving their skin using skin care products and facials. My most worried clients are those with unwanted hair growth.

For centuries, men and women have been concerned about having hair in all the wrong places. Most don't know that it is common for almost all women and some men to have unwanted hair growth at some point in their lives.

For women, the problem spots - neck, chin, lip, brows, bikini lines, breasts - are pretty obvious. All of a sudden these hairs appear and they wonder why. Well, many things can cause hair growth. A slight hormone imbalance can cause hairs to sprout. Some causes of the imbalance include pregnancy, birth control pills, certain medications, stress or heredity.

Unwanted hair in men is usually attributable to heredity. Hair on the back and eyebrows that are joined together are the most common complaints among men.

As an electrologist, my biggest concern is how people are dealing with unwanted hair. Most folks choose temporary methods, such as waxing or tweezing, to remove unwanted hair. Unfortunately, these methods are not successful. Each hair is connected, under the skin, to a capillary that sends blood to nourish the follicle. Think of it in terms of watering a plant. If you nourish a plant, it will grow stronger and sprout new limbs and leaves. The same is true with hair. Stimulating the hair by waxing or tweezing will cause the hair to appear more frequently.

Actually, it takes about eight weeks for a hair to grow, so why do we find ourselves tweezing once a week? The truth is these aren't the same hairs. The stimulation caused by waxing or tweezing has caused cycles of growth to appear. Therefore, if you tweeze a hair today and another pops out tomorrow, it's not the same hair. What seemed to be a good idea at the start has turned into a monthly, weekly, or daily ritual. Looking in the mirror, grabbing the tweezers, and plucking every unwanted hair that you see becomes a never-ending battle.

The permanent solution to unwanted hair growth is electrolysis. Electrolysis has been around for over one hundred years and perfected in the last few decades. It's a simple and affordable process. A filament that eliminates the root system treats each hair. When the root is destroyed, the hair can no longer return. The end result is the best result- NO MORE HAIR!

Your questions and/or concerns should be directed to Karen Trionfo of My Fair Lady Electrolysis and Skin Care at 993-9404.

 

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