The Do’s and Don’ts of Facial Exfoliation

As we age, our skin’s ability to shed the excess dead cells that gather at its surface begins to slow down.  This is why it is important to exfoliate.  By encouraging the removal of these dead cells and encouraging the growth of new cells, you can truly maximize the potential of your botox or dermal filler treatments at our Tacoma botox clinic.  However, it is easy to do just as much harm as good when you’re doing it yourself.  So...

Posted on February 14, 2025

Do You Cleanse Too Much?

Cleaning your skin is an important part of maintaining a healthy-looking face, but did you know that there is such a thing as over-cleansing?  Botixue’s Tacoma botox clinic advises you to look out for the following signs that you need to ease up on your facial hygiene. If your skin feels tight after you cleanse, you may need to cleanse less frequently or switch to a gentler cleanser. Some rashes can be a sign that you’ve stripped away the protective...

Posted on November 15, 2023

Lip Augmentation: Non-Surgical vs Surgical

Benefits of Lip Fillers Over Surgical Implants Lip Augmentation is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures today. It restores volume to thin lips and reduces the appearance of lipstick lines by filling age-related creasing along the lip border. It restores the lips’ texture and smoothness. What is a good candidate for lip augmentation? Most women are good candidates for the procedure. If you want fuller, luscious lips because of thin lips, or if you wish to make your lip...

Posted on October 20, 2023

Do Eye Creams Work?

If you ask our Tacoma Botox clinic where the first signs of aging generally appear, we’ll answer that it’s probably going to be the eyes. The skin around your eyes is thinner than that of the rest of your face, and it gets thinner as you age. To combat the wrinkling that appears in this area, many women buy expensive eye creams. But do these creams really turn back the clock? For the most part, an eye cream is just...

Posted on July 14, 2023

Care for your Skin by Caring for your Eyes!

Eye Wrinkles It’s a no-brainer that, in order to maintain healthy and youthful skin, you should be feeding your skin what it needs and guarding it from anything that would damage or age it prematurely. However, you shouldn’t discount the importance of your eyes in keeping the years off of your face. You may be surprised how much a proper maintenance of your eyes can prolong the treatments you receive at our Tacoma Botox clinic. Crow's Feet The name of...

Posted on May 15, 2023

Which Skin Type are You?

Did you know that there are five broad categories that your skin can fall into?  Knowing which type of skin you have is a big part of knowing your skin’s needs, and building your skincare regimen appropriately.  Take these tips from our Tacoma botox clinic to help you determine what kind of skin you have. General Skin Types Oily: Oily skin is characteristic of an overproduction of oils in the sebaceous glands.  If you have enlarged pores and a shiny...

Posted on January 12, 2023

Selecting a Sunscreen that will Guard Against Wrinkles

How do you choose the right sunscreen? Unfortunately, the solution no longer lies in a simple SPF number. Though the SPF rating of a sunscreen is a valid measure of how well it will protect you against sunburns, our Tacoma dermal filler center advises that this number has little if anything to do with protecting your skin from wrinkles. The problem here is that the SPF number measures only how much a sunscreen is able to reflect or absorb UVB...

Posted on December 12, 2022

The Advantages of Botox over Facelifts

Why not a facelift? This is a question asked by many potential customers of our Tacoma Botox clinic. Indeed, if you have the resources necessary to afford the procedure, it may seem desirable to seek a permanent, surgical solution to your facial wrinkles. However, there is certain risk involved with plastic surgery that you simply do not get with Botox. The list of possible side effects from a facelift is long, including scarring, skin or fat necrosis, infection, nerve damage,...

Posted on January 15, 2022

Caring for Your Skin After Botox Treatments

Botox Post-Care Botox procedures are highly safe. However, after your treatment, there are some measures you can take to assure that you get the best results and avoid any discomfort that might occur. So, after you come in for an appointment at Botoxiue’s botox clinic in Tacoma, consider taking the following steps for a short while: Six hours after your treatment, gently clean the treated area with soap and water.Exercise your muscles. Practice smiling and frowning every hour or so...

Posted on December 10, 2021

Photoaging: Your Skin vs. the Sun

Sun Damage to Skin A good way to get the most out of a treatment from our Tacoma Botox clinic is to avoid anything that promotes the breakdown of your skin. This includes the sun, which is likely to be the biggest contributor to your skin’s aging. The sun has its health benefits, of course, but you only need roughly twenty minutes of unprotected sunlight exposure a day to get the vitamin D you need (or more, if you have...

Posted on November 10, 2021