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Get Photo-Ready Wedding Skin Now

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Hear ye, hear ye. By order of the bride and groom, not only must all wedding guests greet a gaggle of strangers and acquaintances on the day of the festivities, but they must also have their likeness immortalized in no less than one photo with the gloriously made-up bride.

Ever feel like wedding invitations are a decree on looking your best?

Lucky for you, these treatments will help your skin look so great you just might out-shine the bride. Don’t tell her we said so.

Bridesmaids

Standing next to the bride means all eyes and camera lenses are on you too. Here are quick ways to get skin so radiant, you’ll be drinking in all the attention. Not resenting it.

  • Resurface haggard skin. Often there’s a lot of build-up of dead skin and sebum on the skin’s surface that we just don’t tend to. For smooth radiance you don’t have to rely on primers and foundations. Your skin can become smooth and refreshed with a microdermabrasion facial.
  • Pump up the volume. Ever feel like your daily grind digs its way into your skin—deepening those furrows and sucking the life out of your cheeks. Here’s a way you can improve your skin’s tautness by plumping it up from within. Laser facials send rays deep into your skin to energize your look.
  • Refresh and rehydrate. Already overdosing on too much spring sun? Or haven’t yet recovered from winter dryness? Chronically dehydrated skin is thin, fragile and flaky. By deeply hydrating with our Ultra-Hydrating Facial you could boost plumpness, improve radiance, and clear away fine lines.

Mother of the Bride

Since your own wedding day, time has done a number on your skin. But that doesn’t mean you can’t look as radiant as your daughter. Revitalize your skin and turn back the clock.

  • Rediscover elasticity. Over the years, you’ve tangoed with gravity. As a result, you now intimately know why they’re called eyebags and turkey wattle. But they don’t have to stay baggy and wattle-like. Laser facials restore collagen to tighten any facial or neck sagging.
  • Cast aside your worries. Ever wonder why in old photos you look stressed and angry when you were actually having a great time? Wrinkles have a cruel way of signaling emotions you aren’t even feeling. Look proud and overjoyed at your daughter’s wedding by smoothing away creases with Botox.
  • Focus on tone. While many hope to chase away crepe-like textured skin, they forget the importance of tone. Banishing splotches can make you look instantly refreshed. So obliterate hyperpigmentation and sunspots with our favorite Vitamin C serum: Obagi Professional-C Serum.

Wedding Guests

You’re always happy to celebrate the union of a loving couple. But ever wonder if your face really shows it? With a rejuvenated luminous complexion, your glow will leave no doubt.

  • Erase dullness. Want radiance but don’t have time for major treatments? Be rid of all those dull layers using a gentle VI Peel. No major redness or painful peeling here. All you’ll experience is light shedding. That’s why it’s the perfect peel for teens too.
  • Amplify your skincare. Great skincare tucked away in medicine cabinets isn’t enough to give you amazing skin. It’s what you do with it that counts. Enter the Clarisonic. This little tool will revolutionize your routine. It makes cleansers cleanse deeper and moisturizers moisturize more effectively.
  • Banish breakouts. Not in the mood to celebrate when your skin’s breaking out? Acne begins to form deep within, taking weeks to surface. This means resisting last-minute breakouts is futile. Obliterate acne before it even starts by killing off bacteria deep down inside with Blu Light Therapy.

For more information on these products or treatments, drop by our Raleigh and Cary spas.

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Personalized Guides for Perfect Skin

November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s at the top of everyone’s wishlist. A healthy complexion—smooth, lustrous, and glowing. The wish may be simple. The steps to get there, not so much. Sorry, Santa, it looks like you’ve got a difficult task this year!

Wish all you might. But there’s no magic bullet for perfect skin, no one-regime-fits-all when it comes to glowing skin. Each woman is so unique that the hurdles we must cross to reach perfect skin are drastically different.

But, hark! What’s this? Personalized Skincare Guides for every skin type pulled together by the experts at BodyLase. No need for Santa to pull overtime this year. BodyLase has saved the season. Here’s a guide to flawless velvet complexion just for you.

Acne-Prone Skincare Guide


The trick to managing acne-prone skin is balancing cleanliness with moisture. Acne often occurs because of bacteria and oil production. To ensure your skin is free of all acne-causing bacteria, your must cleanse. And to ensure your skin doesn’t produce too much oil, you must not forget to moisturize.

Morning Routine

Wash your face with a gentle cleanser that contains bacteria-fighting and sebum-managing ingredients. Salicylic acid is a favorite among acne-prone women. After cleansing, pat skin dry and immediately apply a light moisture-locking face lotion (with SPF, of course!).

Evening Routine

After you’ve spent so much time and effort putting on your makeup, to simply wash it away in 5 minutes seems like hassle. But off it must come if you want to maintain a healthy complexion. Clarisonic skincare brushes are an easy, fun way to clean skin gently and thoroughly. As a bonus, the light exfoliating action helps scrub away any excess skin cells, another common acne-causing villain.

Lifestyle Tip

Perfect for teens struggling with less-than-perfect skin is the Glytone Acne Kit, which offers a formidable acne-fighting trio. Glytone Exfoliating Gel Wash features a 4.7% concentration of glycolic acid that effectively clears away dead skin cells and balances oil production. Glytone Acne Cleansing Toner includes 2% salicylic acid, which delivers a deep cleanse to congested skin. Glytone Acne Gel, with 10% benzoyl peroxide, is the perfect spot treatment. Alternatively, Glytone Acne Gel can be applied as a very thin layer all over to manage breakout-crazed skin.

Special Treatment

Fulfilling your dreams of wanting to simply zap the acne out of your life is DUSA Blu-U. This blue light treatment delivers a unique fluorescent light that kills bacteria-causing acne. Painless and effective, this treatment clears acne with 17-minute sessions twice a week. Smooth breakout-free skin is usually achieved around 5 weeks.

To fulfill your glowing wishes with a Clarisonic brush or Glytone Acne Kit, come by our BodyLase spas or give us a call.

Combination Skincare Guide


Dry patches and a grease slick, oily skin and flakes. Oh, the woes of managing combination skin! These problems often plague women in their twenties, still battling acne as the onslaught of dryness and wrinkles only just commence. The trick with combination skin is figuring out your different zones and treating them accordingly.

Morning Routine

After cleansing apply a light face lotion all over. You should select a lotion that’s so light that it won’t clog your oily areas. Then focusing on your dry areas, pat a more substantial moisturizer like a serum or moisturizing gel. The extra moisture will help keep these areas flake-free.

Evening Routine

Though it’s tempting to ignore your oily regions, don’t forget to apply your moisturizing lotion once again. Skipping the moisturizer altogether could make your oily regions more oily as they try to overcompensate for the dryness. But keeping it light on the oily regions will stop these regions from clogging. Now for the fun part: carefully smooth a rich night cream into your dry regions only for extra comfort.

Lifestyle Tip

Unfortunately, combination skin gals need a double-time skincare routine since combination skin needs a little from both ends of the skincare spectrum. So be sure to have some eye creams and acne-fighting cleansers at hand. The eye cream will help you fend off dry, wrinkly skin around your eyes, while acne-fighting washes will help you decongest your oily regions when a breakout threatens.

Special Treatment

A great balancing treatment for combination skin is the VI Peel. This treatment reduces fine wrinkles and sun damage while simultaneously clearing up breakouts and acne scarring. For the holiday season, the VI Peel is a great way to get fresh faced before your string of parties. And lucky for you, this peel is especially loved because it delivers in just one session! Just be sure to schedule your VI Peel a few weeks before you want to unveil you new smooth complexion.

Want to smooth and even out your complexion with a VI Peel? Contact us to schedule your consultation.

Aging Skincare Guide


Though it’s now recommended that anti-aging precautions be taken earlier than ever, it’s never too late to start fending off wrinkles. Even at the first signs of aging—faint wrinkles, a decrease in collagen, and some sightings of photodamage—the right routine can give you the perfect glow. In the beginning phases of aging, your skin is still naturally resilient. As a result, it will respond well to a cocktail of resurfacing and renewing products.

Morning Routine

Let your skincare routine work for you throughout the day. After cleansing, apply an alpha hydroxy acid cream and then slather on a moisturizer with UVA/UVB protection. Alpha hydroxy acid cream will help reduce fine wrinkles by prompting collagen formation.

Evening Routine

Don’t lose an opportunity to regenerate new skin at night! Integrating a retinoid cream into your nightly routine can help reduce photodamage. As an essential antioxidant, retinoids not only counteracts sun damage, they also prompts your skin to regenerate skin cells faster. This gives your skin a youthful, healthy glow while also reducing wrinkles. Just be careful to restrict retinoids for evening use only, as they increase sun sensitivity.

Lifestyle Tip

The bronzed lure of tanning is probably not so strong now the realities of sun damage have started to appear. So though you probably don’t need reminding, we’ll say it anyway: be sure to use sunscreen daily and avoid prolonged, direct sun exposure. For those who can’t avoid the warm glow, we think it’s high time to invest in some cute cover ups.

Special Treatment

As the first signs of aging set in there are slew of problems to juggle. Luckily, microdermabrasion is an excellent exfoliating renewal treatment that will tackle all these skin problems. A series of microdermabrasion sessions can smooth and improve dull, aging and hyperpigmented skin. With gentle, yet effective exfoliating crystals, this treatment reduces fine lines and poor texture, while stimulating the production of collagen.

To find out more about our favorite AHA creams and retinoid creams, get in touch with our skincare specialists.

Mature Skincare Guide


Fending off wrinkles becomes quite the feat once menopause commences. Deeper grooves settle in and a natural drop in estrogen prompts a dry skin phase, making wrinkle-management a tricky task. The constant use of acids won’t be enough to rejuvenate your glow. So while an amped up dosage of retinoids and topical vitamin C is recommended, deeper moisturizers are a must. Look to rich creams and serums—they’ll be your very best friends!

Morning Routine

After cleansing, use a rich moisturizer and topical vitamin C. As a rich moisturizer, we recommend SkinSelect MD Honey Soy Crème. This rich formula is designed to add moisture to dry, dehydrated skin, making it particularly beneficial for those experiencing hormonal fluctuations during menopause. Soy isoflavones, honey and bee pollen extracts work to balance skin while Siberian ginseng extract revitalizes. Vitamin C, on the other hand, is an effective antioxidant that will tighten your skin, stimulate collagen production, and brighten and balance skin pigmentation.

Evening Routine

Amp up the use of retinoids and the results will be visible. Retinoids, which prompt your skin to produce new skin cells, will help your skin regenerate faster. Prolonged use of retinoids decreases fine wrinkles and smoothes your skin texture.

Lifestyle Tip

An active lifestyle isn’t only beneficial for your health and your body. Integrating running or cycling into your weekly schedule can actually help your skin glow brighter. Aerobic exercise prompts blood flow to the skin and boosts the rate of new cell growth. As a result, wrinkle formation can be prevented with good exercise habits. And in the meantime, you can enjoy the healthy, vigorous glow that each workout gives you.

Special Treatment

Age and gravity have one thing in common: with time they make things falls. Mature skin often sees that the areas around our eyes, cheeks and jaws begin to drop, wrinkle, and hang. Though topical creams may not be much use to these regions, Thermage is a perfect option. A single Thermage session delivers a non-invasive skin-contouring laser to those lackluster regions and tightens, firms and smoothes them. Alternatively Fraxel is a great treatment for rejuvenating lackluster skin that’s plagued with bad texture, hyperpigmentation, and wrinkles.

Deeply hydrate your skin with SkinSelect MD Honey Soy Crème and our choice of vitamin C serums, by stopping by our BodyLase spas.

HOLIDAY SPECIALS

FRAXEL FACE

To help you get that wonderful holiday glow, this season BodyLase is offering a special on one of our most popular treatments: the Fraxel Face. Regularly offered at $850, our best-loved Fraxel Face session is available through the end of November at only $499. (Hurry! Offer expires 11/30/11).

MICRODERMABRASION

For those looking to resurface and rejuvenate their skin, you can grab 6 Microdermabrasion sessions for $499 (regularly $600). Alternatively, for the peel lovers out there, you can grab 6 peels for $499 (a savings of up to $400). And for those who love to mix and match, you can customize your resurfacing session by snagging 3 Microdermabrasion sessions and 3 peels for $499. (Hurry! Offers expire 11/30/11)

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Prime, Polish, or Peel Your Way to Acne-Free Perfection

March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Today we tackle the a-word. It’s practically taboo in beauty discussions. Through talk of blemish-hiding techniques or oil-fighting products, it only gets a passing mention. No one wants to say it. Most don’t even want to hear about it. But at BodyLase it’s a topic with tackle nearly everyday. So we’ll just come right out and say it. Acne! Oily skin, hyper-pigmentation, scarring, blackheads, whiteheads, and dare we say it, cysts! Look, we know taming this terror is no cakewalk. So here are some industry tips on reigning in this unmentionable beauty industry beast.

Primed & Polished

To begin any acne-fighting routine, you must prep your skin by cleansing and exfoliating.

Common anti-acne cleansers include chemical acne-fighters like salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide. Both these active ingredients are keratolytics, which means they prompt skin cells to shed, thus unblocking pores.

As for exfoliating acne-prone skin, the key here is moderation. Over-zealous exfoliation of acne-riddled skin could lead to adverse results. Squeaky clean might sound great, but in practice it’s not so nice. Harshly scrubbing acne results in skin breakage and the spread of bacteria, which in turn leads to longer healing times and deeper scars. Not to mention, abrading tender acne-infected skin is just plain painful! Since the active ingredients in most acne cleansers target excess skin chemically, a physical prompting of skin cell turnover isn’t a must for all acne-prone skin. But if you want in on the action, use a soft-bristled Clarisonic brush or a soft, clean terry cloth.

Get the basics of acne-prevention right and you just might find that you can end your battle with acne here and now.

Oil-Free Hydration

When choosing a moisturizer, select products that are oil-free. These moisturizers are breathable, non-occlusive, and non-comedogenic. In short: these won’t clog your skin. But don’t be fooled: passing up moisturizer altogether is a big no-no for acne-prone skin.

After rigorous cleansing, your skin needs a moisturizer to put it back on track. While avoiding pore-cloggers is essential, it’s equally important to attend to the needs of your skin type. Dry skin needs protection and hydration after cleansing, just as oily skin needs ongoing oil-reducing, antibacterial support throughout the moisturizing process.

Obagi Clenziderm system offers moisturizers catered to different kind of acne-prone skin types. The dry skin system contains a moisturizer with glycerin for rehydration, and the oily skin system includes a toner and moisturizer with salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide. Want to hear more about the Obagi Clenziderm system? Leave a note below, or give us a shout!

Gentle Acne Treatments

So you’ve already primed, polished and moisturized, but you still got acne woes? Don’t despair. Sometimes acne-prone skin just needs a little more attention. Enter: two innovative spa treatments that can help whip spotty skin into flawless radiance.

  • Blue Light Therapy

Treat active acne with a new treatment: blue light therapy. That’s right, exposure to light, as revealed by clinical studies, is an effective way to manage acne. But how does it work? Glad you asked! Intensive light exposure causes acne-causing bacteria to die.

FDA-approved blue light products are specifically designed to kill off pesky, acne-causing agents. A narrow-band of blue light delivers the full intensity of bacteria-killing light straight to your skin. Blue light machines don’t contain UV rays, so you can rest assured knowing you won’t damage your skin.

Clinical trials in Japan, Taiwan, Israel and the US demonstrate the success of blue light therapy in treating individuals with all acne types—but not nodulocystic acne. For more about blue light therapy, check out the American Academy of Dermatologists. Interested in finding out if blue light therapy can turn your acne around? Schedule a consultation with one of our BodyLase experts!

  • Gentle Peel Treatments

‘Scarred for life’ takes on a whole new meaning with chemical peel treatments. Over a course of chemical peel treatments, permanent acne-scarring can be turned into a thing of the past.

VIPeel is a new, gentle facial that prompts your skin to peel. As your skin sheds in light, fluffy layers, new skin cell production is initiated. With the sloughing of old skin and the creation of new young cells, scarring diminishes over multiple peels. But the VIPeel is not just damage control. By keeping skin free of excess cells and pore-plugging oil—the two main causes of acne—VIPeel essentially helps fight future acne breakouts. With little downtime and a practically painless application sessions, this new peel is gentle on your skin, but not your acne. For more information on VIPeel check out the VIPeel skincare system, or drop us a line!

Whew! After sharing all those tips, all we have left to say is: Sorry, acne. It looks like you’ve meet your match.

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