Recent posts by Corrie Shenigo

• The Healing Process: Recovery Times for The Most Popular Procedures 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  You’ve done your research, chosen the right board-certified plastic surgeon and gotten through your surgery without a hitch. Now you can’t wait to jump back into your daily routine, and maybe show off your fabulous results, right? Well, cool your jets, cowboy, because the truth is: you may not be ready. 

• Stack ‘Em Up: A Noninvasive Approach to the Facelift 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  For many people considering plastic surgery, no words ring sweeter than ‘noninvasive procedures’ which are precisely the words used during a recent discussion I had with board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Julius Few, about a concept he pioneered to achieve near-surgical facelift results without going under the knife. 

• Don’t Sweat It: Can Botox Save Your Blowout? 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  If you’re an early adopter of fitness and beauty trends, then you no doubt noticed the early summer headlines touting the latest holy grail of the hair/skin set. According to Harper’s Bazaar, Shape Magazine, InStyle and more, devotees of the daily workout have started having Botox administered to their scalps in order to stop excessive sweating at the gym from ruining their costly blowouts. After all, dry shampoo can only do so much, right?  

  Maybe.  

• Is a “Cooling-Off Period” for Plastic Surgery on its Way? 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  We live in an age of immediate gratification, with little to no room for any “patience is a virtue” idealism. But when it comes to plastic surgery, both the U.K. and Australia are thinking that’s just what consumers need. Both countries are proposing guidelines for plastic surgery that would instate mandatory “cooling off periods” after the initial consultation, for patients seeking these elective procedures, and many doctors agree with their thinking.  

• Botox Party Bust: Why Botox and Parties Don’t Mix. 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  Oil and water. Fire and ice. My own taste buds and Christmas-flavored coffee. (Never again.) There are things in this world that simply do not, and should not mix. And since summer is upon us, and it’s easy to get lost in the boozy haze of poolside cocktails and friendly gatherings, we thought we should point out two more things that don’t mix: Botox (Botulinum Toxin) injections and parties. (Same goes for the other brand names of botulinum toxin: Xeomin and Dysport) 

• Myth Busting: Plastic surgery Fact vs. Fiction 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  For all the factual information out there on cosmetic surgery, there’s an equal amount of gobbledygook, flimflam and hornswoggle. Today we’re going to look at a few popular misconceptions being bandied about in order to clear the air using a little something we like to call reality. Here we go! 

• The Latest in Weird and Wonderful: 2015’s Most Unusual Procedures 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  There’s a unique intersection in our culture where advances in science meet an “extreme” section of the population and create such pop cultural anomalies as the Human Ken and Barbie doll, Cat Women and the three-boobed Floridian. Then there are the rest of us.  

• Eye Spy: 3 Ways to Un-Age Your Peepers 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  If your shut-in winter status has left you with even more time to fixate on the ravages that Father Time is inflicting on you, you may have noticed that your eyes — once merely the windows to your soul — are now a reflection of the true digits on your driver’s license. 

• Hair Removal Goes High Tech 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  A cascade of luscious locks is a woman’s crowning glory, but hair anywhere south of the top of your head has certainly gotten a bum wrap. Leg hair, back hair, chin hair, hair down there — it doesn’t matter how many perfectly rational and functional reasons the science-set serves up in defense of body hair, the modern species simply does not care. We want our skin silky, smooth and bare, and by golly, we’ll go to high-tech lengths to get it. 

• Fear Factor: 5 Reasons Plastic Surgery Isn’t So Scary After All 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  Coffee or tea? Heels or flats? To be or not to be? Life’s decisions are a complicated lot. Thankfully, the decision to have cosmetic surgery has become less complicated with the many advances in technique, accessibility and safety of surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures. Of course, “advances” don’t always allay fears. So today — in a single dose of “fear be gone” — we’re going to quash 5 big fears that might be stopping you from feeling fully empowered to make the choice to have aesthetic surgery, ‘cause, gosh darn it, people want to look good!