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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

The Amazing Non-Wrinkle Benefits of Botox

Botox: A Medical Wonder Par Excellent Did you know that Botox, that ultra popular anti-wrinkle cosmetic compound has other amazing uses in the medical world? Here are some lesser known benefits of the anti-wrinkle wonder. Botox for Eyelid Spasms Known as blepharospasms, it’s a movement disorder of the eyelid muscles. Persons are not able to control the excessive twitching and as a result eyelids can droop affecting daily activities. If severe one will be unable to see properly, less so...