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Surgut: 7 beauty treatments in the North
This year, winter came to our city unexpectedly early. Freezing outdoor air and dry indoor air do not make your skin healthier or better. Cosmetologist, member of the national society of mesotherapists Irina Nazarenko told Woman’s Day what procedures will help preserve beauty.
Peeling is a chemical action on skin cells using special products that make the skin look younger and more beautiful. Peeling perfectly helps to achieve a lifting effect, reduce wrinkles, even out skin color, remove traces of freckles, pimples, age-related skin changes.
Superficial peels are used to completely exfoliate the top layer of the skin. Effect: reducing the saturation of freckles and age spots, reducing the number of fine wrinkles.
A mid-peel is used to exfoliate the upper papillary dermis. Effect: reducing the depth of serious wrinkles, getting rid of age spots, smoothing damaged skin, and seriously renewing the skin of the face.
Deep peeling is used to remove two layers – papillary and reticular – of the dermis. Effect: smoothing mimic and deep wrinkles, removing small scars.
Chemical peels are not recommended in summer. If you are going on vacation to hot countries in winter, the procedure should be done at least a month before the trip. The most favorable time for these procedures is the autumn-winter period, since ultraviolet radiation can provoke hyperpigmentation. In this regard, even in winter, after peeling, you need to use a sunscreen.
Cost: from 1700 rubles.
The basis of this technique is delivery to skin cells through injections of hyaluronic acid. Interacting with cell receptors, it stimulates tissue regeneration. This acid is a natural component of skin cells and is produced in the body on its own, it is she who is responsible for the natural hydration of the skin. However, over time, this process slows down significantly, resulting in dull, aging skin and the appearance of wrinkles. The biorevitalization procedure not only supplies the skin cells with this acid, but also stimulates the production of its own elastin and collagen fibers in the body. The specialist, using a syringe, injects hyaluronic acid into the skin of the face.
Effect: wrinkles are smoothed out, and their number is also significantly reduced. The skin becomes hydrated, radiant, more youthful and elastic, and the complexion improves.
Cost: from 3000 rubles.
Body mesotherapy, with the help of which you can solve many problems associated with the condition of the skin (get rid of cellulite, sagging skin, stretch marks, age spots, local fat deposits), is also best done in winter. The body mesotherapy procedure is quite extensive, it extends to the arms, inner and outer thighs, legs, abdomen … and takes time. So if you want to look good by the beginning of spring, it’s best to start your treatments now.
In addition, indications for mesotherapy are dehydration and dry skin, edema, scars and stretch marks. The mesotherapy procedure consists in the introduction of certain substances in microscopic doses of a cocktail using a very thin needle.
Effect: increased skin tone and immunity, cosmetic imperfections become less pronounced. Also, the introduction of mesotherapeutic substances promotes the destruction of fat cells, evens out scars on the body, as well as postpartum stretch marks on the abdomen, eliminates flabbiness and excessive dryness, restores skin elasticity.
Cost: from 3500 rubles.
Skin nourishment and hydration
In winter, our skin needs more care than ever before. It is advisable to undergo a course of salon procedures for moisturizing and nourishing it using special concentrates, serums, moisturizing and nourishing masks.
Pay special attention to the hands. With the onset of winter, you need to change your usual manicure to spa care (masks, baths, compresses with essential oils, scrubs, seaweed wraps). These procedures will leave your hands silky and well-groomed. Light creams for daily care should be replaced with more fatty ones with amino acids and vitamins. And in frosts, use protective creams from bad weather.
If the skin condition requires, you can take a course of massage.
Cost: from 1500 rubles.
To effectively nourish the skin in the autumn-winter period, you can use homemade masks.
Apple honey face mask
Peel and finely chop a large apple, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey, the yolk of 1 egg and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of unrefined vegetable oil (corn, sunflower, olive). Mix everything thoroughly, mash through cheesecloth. This mask gives elasticity and tone to normal, dry or aging skin.
Chamomile and milk face mask
To soothe sensitive skin, use the following recipe. Pour 2 tbsp. tablespoons of dried chamomile or sage flowers with a glass of boiling milk. Soak the infusion for 20-30 minutes, and then apply the warm thick of flowers to clean skin of the face. This mask does not have to be washed off, you can simply wipe your face with a cotton swab and apply a nourishing cream.
Honey and hand cream mask
1 tbsp. Melt a spoonful of honey in a water bath, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of olive oil and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cream (30%). In a warm form, apply to the skin of the hands, put on cellophane gloves, wrap with a towel and hold for 20 minutes. then rinse with warm water, spread with cream. Wear cloth gloves overnight.
Laser facial rejuvenation (photothermolysis)
Photothermolysis is a non-surgical treatment of the skin that stimulates and corrects the development of the cellular structure without destructive consequences. Fractional photothermolysis is performed using a thin laser beam that is split into multiple microbeams. Thus, this allows you to act on the skin not with a solid spot, but with a mesh on areas that are close to each other. It is better to carry out the procedure in autumn or winter. The laser beam, penetrating into the deep layers of the skin, affects the cells of the dermis, stimulating the process of renewal of collagen fibers in them, since it is collagen that is responsible for the youth and elasticity of the skin.
Effect: smoothing of enlarged pores, elimination of mimic wrinkles, scars, age spots, renewal of the skin in the neck and décolleté, skin of the hands.
Cost: from 4000 rub. zone
Removal of moles and warts
Autumn and the deputy are the best time to get rid of unattractive moles or warts, because in the summer there is a possibility of the formation of age spots. Previously, they were removed surgically with a scalpel or liquid nitrogen. It was quite a painful procedure. Currently, there is a more radical and effective method of removing warts and moles – this is the laser method. The laser method for removing warts, moles, papillomas is so safe that it is suitable for people of all ages. Patients do not require an inpatient stay, the procedure takes place on an outpatient basis.
Effect: beautiful face and body.
Cost: from 350 rubles.
This procedure allows you to forget about the morning make-up procedure, which tends to disappear in a short time in a strong north wind or frost.
Permanent lip makeup. This is a visual lip augmentation and shape correction. They are achieved by drawing a permanent outline above the natural one. And the gap between the drawn contour and yours is painted over with a color close to the natural color of the lips (shaded). Effect: lips look more neat and sophisticated.
Permanent eyebrow makeup allows you to draw a non-continuous shape of the eyebrows, as is done with a pencil or special eyebrow shadows. It is done with small, hair-thin strokes. At the same time, specially developed eyebrow pigments are used in permanent make-up, based on natural hair colors. But at the request of customers, you can make solid or slightly shaded lines. Effect: eyebrows with permanent makeup look natural.
Permanent eye makeup. The upper or lower eyelid can also be expressed with permanent makeup. The upper eyelid can be made as a neat pencil arrow, or you can make a more inconspicuous and natural effect, like thick eyelashes, if you draw a clear line or slightly shaded at the base of the eyelashes of the eye. The lower eyelid is also performed. This is not a pencil that can be erased in minutes. Effect: the procedure allows you to correct the shape of the eyes.
Cost: from 3000 rubles.