Every woman sooner or later thinks about her age: wrinkles appear on her face, the skin becomes saggy and loses elasticity. All these changes spoil the mood and make women look less and less often in the mirror. A separate area of medicine, called cosmetology, has for many years been developing various methods of healing the body and combating the manifestation of old age.
At the moment, there are a huge number of procedures that can "restore youth". People who know this, successfully rejuvenate and engage in their health in specialized cosmetology clinics.
What is cosmetology?
Cosmetology is a science that studies the aesthetic problems of the human body and how to correct them. In other words, we can say that this industry corrects appearance defects resulting from age-related changes and injuries. There are two main trends that cosmetology is studying. This is a therapeutic and surgical direction. The latter solves aesthetic problems of a person with the help of surgical intervention. Only a highly qualified specialist with a medical education can work in this area. The profession "cosmetologist" was officially approved in Russia only in 2009.
The therapeutic area, in turn, solves aesthetic problems with the help of various cosmetics (creams, lotions, tonics), massages, injections and various physical factors affecting the body (laser cosmetology, phototherapy, electric currents). The choice of one or another way to correct deficiencies in general depends on the expected result.
What are the types of skin rejuvenation and healing
Above, we examined two areas of science such as cosmetology. It is surgical and therapeutic. Depending on the complexity of the aesthetic problem, a method of solving it is also chosen. The most complex and risky procedure is plastic cosmetology, which refers to the surgical direction. As a rule, surgery is a necessary measure when other methods of healing or rejuvenation cannot give the desired result. In turn, therapeutic cosmetology includes a huge number of different procedures aimed at correcting the aesthetic imperfections of the skin. Let's consider them in more detail.
Facial Injection
The procedures discussed in this section, although they relate to the therapeutic area of cosmetology, however, they should be performed only by an experienced cosmetologist in a clinic. Surely many have heard of such a concept as fillers in cosmetology. What is it, cosmetologists know well. Fillers are substances (natural or synthetic) that an experienced specialist injects under the patient’s skin to smooth wrinkles and add volume to saggy skin.
These types of injection therapy are distinguished:
- Botulinum Therapy. This procedure is the correction and prevention of facial wrinkles. A substance is introduced into the subcutaneous layer that suppresses the activity of mediators responsible for the transmission of a nerve impulse. As a result of this procedure, the muscles of the face and neck relax, which means that facial wrinkles disappear. For injection, very famous fillers in cosmetology are used. What it is? These are Relatox, Botox, Dysport, Lantox, Xeomin.
- Plasma lifting. The name of this procedure indicates that plasma is used to rejuvenate and improve the skin. No matter how surprising it may sound, the composition of the liquid part of human blood is actually very useful. Hyaluronic acid, collagen, and elastin are present in it. All these components are very important for preserving youth and beauty. For this procedure, blood plasma is taken from the patient himself, saturated with some useful elements and injected under the skin.
Hardware cosmetology
This type includes a huge number of the most various ways of rejuvenating and healing the body, in which not cosmetic products are used, but special equipment (lasers, microcurrents, crystals, light pulses). The treatment of aesthetic deficiencies using such procedures is almost painless and very effective.
As a rule, to achieve a good result, it is necessary to take several courses of hardware cosmetology. In various salons you can find a variety of procedures, and the better and more popular such a place, the larger the list of procedures there is provided. Undoubtedly, everyone needs the best cosmetology clinic. Moscow is that city where it undoubtedly is. What hardware methods exist?
Laser rejuvenation
This procedure involves the use of a powerful stream of light - a laser penetrating through the layers of the dermis and not damaging it. Laser cosmetology helps to improve the condition and structure of the skin, eliminate age spots, improve blood circulation, increase firmness and elasticity. There are two main procedures that use a laser. These are laser resurfacing of skin and fractional laser cosmetology. Prices for these types of rejuvenation are almost the same (about 15,000 rubles for one zone), and only the method of exposure to light flux (in the form of a spot or in the form of a grid) differs.
Microcurrents for face and body
For this method of rejuvenation, cosmetologists use microcurrents. This procedure has found wide application both in Russia and abroad. Microcurrent treatment is offered by almost any cosmetology clinic. Moscow is the city where in every beauty parlor there is such a method of rejuvenating and healing the body. An advantage of this procedure is its ability to act on muscle fibers. An electric shock makes the vessels contract for a split second, stopping the flow of lymph and blood. This process can be safely called micromassage. Microcurrents allow you to restore muscle tone and reduce the depth of wrinkles. The cost of one procedure is about 2000 rubles.
Thermage
As a rule, this procedure is applied in the area around the eyes, on the eyelids, on the face, on the hands and on the stomach. Thermage is the so-called alternative method of plastic surgery. Cosmetologists and patients who have already undergone rejuvenation in this way, argue that the difference between it and plastic surgery is practically not noticeable.
This procedure is a patented technique based on heating the deep layers of the skin. Since the collagen contained in the cells stretches over time, which leads to sagging skin, heating these fibers allows them to tighten and tighten again. In order not to burn the upper layers of the dermis, a special nozzle is attached to the equipment, it sprays a coolant on the epidermis. The Thermage procedure is expensive, as is plastic cosmetology. Prices for this method of rejuvenation range from 100 to 200 thousand rubles and are due to the fact that the equipment itself for this type of lifting is very expensive.
Ozone Rejuvenation
Ozone therapy is a fairly popular method. This procedure allows you to saturate the skin with useful substances, speed up metabolism, remove toxins and toxins, remove fine wrinkles and lighten age spots. Ozone therapy is carried out both in the form of injections, and in the form of an ozone cocktail that wipes the surface of the skin. There are also ointments in facial cosmetology that can reduce wrinkles, but compared with injections, the result from them is less long.
Beautician courses
One of the most popular professions in the modern world is medical cosmetology. Courses held at various schools of cosmetology allow you to master this profession and become a qualified specialist in this field. As a rule, medical subjects (cosmetology chemistry, microbiology, anatomy, dermatology, physiotherapy and others) are necessarily read for this. It is very important that the specialist who will carry out the procedure on your face knows exactly what medical cosmetology is. Courses help you learn all the necessary skills for this. Otherwise, the cosmetology procedure of such a "master" may have the opposite effect.
Since cosmetology is a whole science, of course, it is difficult to be a complete expert in this field, however, in order to protect yourself, certain knowledge is still necessary. Do not be shy to ask your cosmetologist for a diploma about his training. In addition, it is very important to know the contraindications to a particular procedure and the rules for caring for the area of the skin on which it was performed.