Recent posts by Corrie Shenigo

• 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.  

• 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.  

• 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! 

• Tattoo Removal: Can You Undo Your Tattoo? 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  While my own ink isn’t something I recklessly committed to after a night of drunken carousing or in the over-heated throes of a summer fling, it has increasingly through the years become something that I’m less and less jazzed about. Regret is probably too strong a word — in fact, I don’t think about it that often as it’s strategically placed somewhere I can’t see without enlisting the help of a mirror — but when I’m pining over the low-back of an award-season dress or shopping for a vacation bikini I often think, “Hmm… I wonder what would happen if I attempted to undo my tattoo?”  

• Fortifying My Eye Fringe with Latisse: Part 1 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  Remember when a rapid fluttering of your youthful lashes could create a devastating windstorm capable of charming the masses and clearing your desk of a day’s workload? Me too. And I want them back. 

• How to Combat Under-Eye Baggage at Every Age 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  Ladies love pillows. This I know is true. We love hordes of them on the bed, chairs and sofas. However, there is one “pillow” that strikes fear into the heart of every gal — and guy for that matter — and that would be the one that resides under your eyes. This pillow is sometimes accompanied by dark circles and a look of exhaustion. Puffy, pillowy under-eye baggage.  

• Glycation Station: Sugar Highs and Lows 

  • By Corrie Shenigo

  

  Today is the day you face the devastating truth that your best and most delicious friend is, in fact, your complexion’s biggest foe: Sugar. It’s frenemy No. 1. Cue the tears. 

  Sugar is more of a menace than your Pilates instructor would lead you to believe, not only wreaking havoc on your waistline, but also leading your complexion in a direct line to wrinkle, fine line and sagging-town. It’s all due to a little something called ‘glycation’.