Reseña del libro "The Tweakments Guide: Fresher Face (en Inglés)"
Botox, fillers, lasers, peels…everything you’ve ever wanted to know about non-surgical cosmetic procedures, by the woman who has tried them all. If you are curious about these "tweakments" and you want independent,unbiased advice on which ones do what, and how – this is the book you need. Would facial fillers, wrinkle relaxing injections or ultrasound treatment work for you? What does a treatment feel like? How much would it cost, how do you avoid looking overdone and how do you find a good, safe practitioner and avoid the cowboys? What can you achieve with skincare and supplements? This is the first comprehensive guide to this fast-growing field. Alice Hart-Davis is a multiple award-winning journalist, widely considered by doctors and brands to be the UK’s leading non-medical expert in this field. She has spent 20 years investigating this fast growing and confusing field with the consistent aim of providing clear and unbiased information on how these treatments work. She has trialled countless procedures to review them, attends aesthetics conferences around the world and spends time catching up with the doctors, surgeons, dentists, nurses and the companies behind the technology.This book is for:anyone who is curious about what they might do to help keep their face looking as fresh and youthful as they’d like it to look.anyone who has looked in the mirror and realised their face needs more help than can be provided by skincare, diet or more sleep. anyone who doesn’t know where to start in this complicated and confusing area.anyone who wants to know all their options when it comes to cosmetic treatments, and who wants unbiased advice to help work out which might work best for them.This book will tell you everything you need to know about the following topics:why your skin and face look as they do as you get older.what skincare can do to improve each concern.which tweakments can help with which concerns - and how well they work.what it is like to experience one of these treatments - and will you need any ‘downtime’ after a particular treatment.what the treatments cost - and where to find them. how to find a good practitioner.how to avoid things going wrong - but what to do if they do.which home-use devices can help - and which work best.The book describes the main concerns about the face and then explains how each can be improved — first with skincare and then with different tweakments. It explains the technology behind each tweakment, reviews the tweakments, to provide an idea of what each involves, what it feels like to have it done, and what results it gives. The chapters are organised by concern, such as ‘dynamic’ lines and wrinkles, skin texture,uneven pigmentation (the age spots that result from sun damage or are hormone-related), thread veins, rosacea and redness, pores, and acne spots, loss of volume and sagging skin. It explains the different ways to treat each concern covering treatments such as injections of wrinkle-relaxing toxins like Botox; medical needling, laser resurfacing,under-the-skin moisturising injections, laser and intense pulsed light treatment, skin peels, microneedling, injectable fillers, radiofrequency, ultrasound, laser, and skin tightening. There is also a list of the most commonly offered tweakments in ‘The Basic Recipe for a Fresher Face’to provide an idea of the procedures a cosmetic practitioner might suggest, and in which order. Visit www.thetweakmentsguide.com for more information.
