Word: collagenous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Don’t expect any high comedy or biting social satire. Instead, the humor plays with ever-crass, but laugh-worthy, gags involving farting, racial stereotypes, and collagen. Think of enhanced breasts so large as to knock over card stands...
...treatment includes a mineral-oil-and-Epsom-salt scrub, glycolic-acid peel, intensive tissue-repair cream (applied with an ultrasound wand) and callus-blasting microdermabrasion. Savvy strutters whose feet are sore from their Manolos are hobbling to doctors to get the balls of their feet injected with collagen, Restylane and Botox. The extra cushioning allows for hours of pain-free high-heel wearing. Salons too are stepping up to the plate, with fake nails for tootsies. Dashing Diva, a Manhattan-based nail boutique and spa, offers Tip-Toes, ready-to-wear nail falsies (kits are $10). You can order Levine...
Another approach gaining popularity is collagen or fat injections, administered under local anesthesia by a urologist, to plump up tissues around the urethra. The body tends to absorb collagen, so the shots must be repeated every year...
...uses radio waves to tighten small areas of collagen, creating a constrictive band, like a belt, that increases the curvature of the cornea and brings near vision back into focus. But CK won't be the last word on presbyopia. Other techniques are in the pipeline vying for the looming market of 90 million baby boomers. --By David Bjerklie
...vast majority of cosmetic procedures--both surgical, such as face-lifts and liposuction, and nonsurgical, like Botox and collagen injections--conclude without incident. But with the number of these operations growing--8.3 million in 2003, a 293% increase from 1997--things can end badly more often. Part of the problem may be that it is not necessary, from a legal standpoint, to be trained as a plastic surgeon to practice plastic surgery. All a person needs is a medical degree. Doctors can choose to become certified by the American Medical Association--recognized American Board of Plastic Surgery. For that, they...