I always admired how great the latino skin is.  It ages well, and never shows these fine annoying wrinkles.  However, one can never rest on their laurels.  Sooo-all my latino ladies, even though you have the genetic leg up you still must maintain, maintain and maintain.   Anita, my nurse practicioner with the magic wand, who herself is partly latino can advise and guide you to make your skin forever young, and delicious and fresh looking.   So call our office and speak with Anita.  You can even speak with her in spanish.  Skin is the biggest organ you have and therefore must keep it great looking.  Your friends, you and your genes will love it.

Latino skin

We try to look young. We exercise, diet, eat healthy foods, color our hair if need to, buy makeup and all kinds of creams, buy skin care products, and if need to lift our breasts, faces, eyelids, foreheads, upper arms, thighs, abdomen, buttocks and mons pubis. However, we forget that our very bottoms, the place where our children come from, suffer the most changes of all. First of all being so dependent, gravity causes our muscular sling as well as our skin to sag in the perineal area more than anywhere else.  We constantly run around with filling our bladder and then emptying, so constantly undergoing weight bearing and then loss.  We empty our bowels hopefully daily again causing strain and pushing.  We carry full intestines for a while before emptying. Of course if we suffer from constipating or the opposite, an irritable bowel, imagine the number of times our musculature has to contract and relax.  The pushing and tenesmus alone cause great distention and dilitation.  Then try again thinking about delivery of babies. The head coming through the vaginal canal. The amount of stretch and distention that creates, never mind the weight that the bottom muscles have to carry during the pregnancy.  Then the muscles get cut more during the episiotomy and not always put together well.  I will stop here as my own bottom is beginning to ache.  So now, with all that going on -don’t you think some enhancement may be necessary?  How about the labia that get elongated, and the vagina that gets stretched and all the tags that are hanging around.  Thing about the varicosities created in your labia majora and do not forget your saggy mons pubis.

take care of your bottom

So if you want to look younger and feel better, you better look at your bottom and consider what rejuvenation that may need before you declare yourself done.

I just read an article in Reuters 4/8/09 that there is an increase in facelifts and other cosmetic procedures because of the economy. The article states that now that the economy is bad people are flocking to plastic surgeons to look better to get a better job. That is always the case not only in bad economy.  People like to be around young looking vigorous people and so if you want to get a great job, or stay in the job or get promoted, I hate to say it, but you have to maintain your look and stay uplifted. Economy has nothing to do with it. Matter of fact economy can be bad for your uplift as the surplus money is not there. So the only bad thing that happens in a bad economy is that you get all crazed as you do not know whether to keep the money as you do not know when you will get a job or to spend it to get the job. What a dilemma. Just remember people with dilemmas who verbalize them too much usually do not get the job as they get to be too annoying to listen to. So just do it -if you do not you will say I should have done it.

The other day I was doing facial surgery on a young woman when I realized that her hair was very heavy,seemed knotted and not too hygienic looking. To me it looked like rats nest. After the surgery I asked her about her hair. She said that she felt that her hair was thin and so she had these extensions put on. With the amount of pull and weight I cannot imagine her hair not falling out and thinning out more. The extensions came up right to her scalp and seemed to be strangulating her hair. I cannot imagine combing through it. I told her that if she went swimming in the ocean she could catch her dinner in that hair. Well, her surgery came out great but I am not sure at what point she will loose her hair. I told her that she will still be beautiful even tho she may be bold.  She did not like that.  I wonder how many people have these extensions and what their experience has been.  I however, cannot imagine that these extensions are good for you. Some tell me that if they start away from the scalp then they are not so heavy and detrimental. I am still skeptical. In any case, hair is sexy, and lots of it is more sexy, but I wonder if you add more of it this way whether you are not in danger of loosing it all.

are bald women sexy?

On the other hand, some women who are bald are sexy too. So I wonder, extensions for hair may lead to this, however, if you are beautiful all is sexy. I welcome your comments.

As we age not only does the skin becomes less elastic and thin, but our bony skeleton also becomes thinner and smaller. The fat “baby fat” disappears and it all results in hanging empty skin with less architectural aesthetics. The atrophy of the fat is addressed with fillers.  The skin thinness and lack of elasticity is addressed with various lifts whether face lift, abdominoplasty, breast lift or mons pubis lift.  Some require arm lifts, and thigh lifts as well.  In some areas the fat disappears more than others. For example how often we hear people say-”if I loose enough weight for my thighs to be thin my face becomes too gaunt”.. Therefore often we do liposuction on the thighs which stubbornly hold on to fat while our face looses it very quickly.  So now what about the shrinking skeleton. We all know that with age we get shorter. However, we also know that even tho we look better after a facelift the area around the mouth rarely improves. ASK DR. STEPHEN COLEN who is trained as a dentist as well as a plastic surgeon. He will be the firtst one to tell you that in order for the area around the mouth to improve very often one may need to do onlay grafts to fill out the bone area under the upper lip so that the lip will not hang like a curtain with pleats.  Only grafts could also be put under the base of the nasal vestibule so that the nose will not look too long and hooked as our face shrinks.  Often we hear people say -”she is so photogenic”. This is often said about models or actresses.  They usually have in common a squere and strong bone structure which we loose as we get older.  So there are many ways to look younger besides just lifts, skin fillers and botox.  ONLAY grafts can also be very necessary.

Finally we have someone who takes pride in showing her body. Michelle is confident and, therefore, showing her arms is not a big deal. Her confidence obviously is so strong that no one even dares to criticize what she does. Her husband who is the most powerful man in the world and quite the looker himself adores her. Why does he adore her?? For the same reason that everyone adores her. It is her confidence in herself that makes him respect her as he beams with pride everytime she is around. Sooo- what does that tell you. Your self confidence is very important. How you feel about yourself is the key. Your feeling about yourself says tons and communicates to all whether you are great, just so and so or a true failure to be dismissed. So you must boost your confidence and pride in yourself whatever it takes. Diet, exercise, a new lipstick and makeup or haircu or a bit of fillers, botox, latisse to bat those long eyelashes, fraxel for good skin, lipo for skinny arms, or a tuck here and there. Vaginal tightening anyone, or labiaplasty for great confident sex life?????? Your self confidence will boost your relationship, get you a job or keep you on the job. You are what you think you are and not what they say you are.

As we look at our bodies we realize that there is one dreaded thing missing from our closet. That is the corset. All women in years past realized that a flat tummy and uplifted breasts is sexy and desired.  The only way to achieve it then was to wear the corset and have someone tighten it till we could not breathe. Then came Coco Chanel and freed women from the dreaded corset. However, she forgot that not all women remain young childless and skinny. Coco had no children or pregnancies.  So the burning of the corset like burning of the bras was a symbol of freedom however, the beginning of prominent bellies, and saggy breast look.  So now what. Well if you want to continue to be free of the corset, and have the same look then the only thing to do is a breast uplift and a tummytuck.   Stenghthen the core in the gym helps a bit in the tummy department but the only thing that helps in the breast department is walking on your head.  In that case the corset is a better option.   The tummytuck brings the abdominal muscles together like a corset and the surgeon tightens them just like a corset to have the corset look without the corset wearing.  Freedom????or just a different way to stop breathing and holding it in.   We as women will never be FREE of wanting to look sexy. Flat stomach and uplifted breast is our desire and we will not be happy till we achieve it one way or another. So, what will it be for you-tummytuck or corset. Eventually you will choose one.  If you want to know more about those procedures call us to better understand the modern corset.