Get a slender, beautiful Neck with Botox

The anti-ageing marvel Botox can also be used to beautify the neck

Dr. Janak Thakkar, Orna Skin- Advanced Laser & Hair Care Centre, Rajkot

Beauty may lie in the eyes of the beholder, but it has many dimensions. For some, eyes reflect the beauty of a person, for others a glowing skin is what constitutes beauty. For still others, a beautiful neck is as much a reflection of beauty as is the face.

Neck is also the area of the body that can become the biggest give away of your age, for the thin skin of the neck sags early and more visibly.

While we all know the effective use of wonder drug Botox in erasing the wrinkles of the face, do you know it can also be used to beautify the neck in a procedure interestingly named Nefertiti Neck.



The legendary 14th century BC queen of Egypt Nefertiti was as much renowned for her beauty as she was for her policies and active involvement in the affairs of her kingdom. One look at the portrait of Nefertiti and you will know why the neck beautifying procedure is named after her. A slender, long and beautiful neck augmented Nefertiti’s beauty manifolds.

With modern technology and research giving us miraculous powers, many women of the day are getting their necks crafted like Nefertiti with a simple and brief non-invasive procedure using Botox.

A major feature of ageing is the sagging skin under the chin and on the neck. Even if you have kept your face looking gleaming and beautiful, your neck will certainly give away your age. Nefertiti neck is a procedure that addresses the contours of the area of the neck and the chin. It's not as common as Botox for frown lines and crow’s feet but it is fast gaining popularity among women and some men. The reason is that not many people are aware of it. Cosmetologists, however, say that such is the effect of the procedure that if people who get it done once often come back to repeat it”.

Using Botox, the sagging of the skin can be reduced by reducing the downward pull of the muscles. The neck lift will allow you wear off shoulder dresses too. The procedure helps contour the jawline by redefining the chin, the jaw and the neck into more beautifully crafted, wrinkle free features. A younger looking and beautifully contoured neck and chin is what you get through the procedure.

So, if you long for a beautiful neck that allows you to wear off-shoulder dresses too, a few minutes at a cosmetologist can do wonders for you. But make sure to go to a trained expert.Sometimes, Botox can be used in conjugation with fillers like Juvederm to also give greater depth to the chin or broadness to the jaw.

Jawline correction with Botox is a procedure especially popular among men in whom a wide jawline is considered a desired beauty trait.

The best part is that it is a non surgical non invasive procedure which uses just Injectables. It takes just a few minutes and little downtime

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A ‘hand-full’ of beauty: At this year’s Dandiya nights, make your hennaed hands the most striking

Dr Ranjan Upadhyaya, Dermatologist, Desmoderm skin clinic, Delhi
It is a centuries-old tradition of decking up your hands with patterns of deftly crafted artistic designs but it never fails to excite.

The sight of a henna cone is always attractive for a woman and festivals are just the right excuse to display your beautifully patterned hands.

While you do everything to make sure your henna color turns out to be the darkest -- applying clove oil and lemon –what about the hands themselves?

Why not make your hands the most beautiful part of your body before colored patterns leave them all the more striking.

Mostly for women, their face their only skincare focus with all their beauty regimen revolving around it.

No wonder, hands often become the most prominent giveaways when it comes to betraying your age or displaying the damage caused on skin due to daily wear and tear.

The hands are parts of the body that we expose to a lot of wear and tear, by frequent use of soap & detergents and exposing to sun light.

These stresses contribute to skin dryness when the natural fat in the skin barrier is diminished. And while we take care of the needs of our face, we only seldom extend our regimen to the hands.

This year, as you gear up to celebrate Navratri, get all decked up in a lehnga- chunni with henna on your palms, and dance to the tunes of Garba and Dandiya, make sure your hands look beautiful like never before. A session with Restylane Vital skinboosters can give perfect beauty radiance to your hands.

“Women often come to us expressing displeasure at the way their hands look. Even when their faces are radiant as ever, their hands would look dull, pale and wrinkled with veins protruding out. While a regular regime of manicure would be needed every two months and would consume time, a brief session with Restylane Vital skinboosters would give wonderful results, replenishing the lost beauty of the hands from within. What more, the impact of the procedure lasts for almost a year.

Using microinjections, stabilized hyaluronic acid is implanted into the outer layers of the skin and works naturally to hydrate the skin from within.

Restylane Vital Skinboosters is a new age therapy that moisturizes the skin from within and replenished the lost reserves of moisture as hyaluronic acid is a hydrophilic substance that attracts water and helps retain moisture into the skin.

This not only makes the hands look younger, but also more beautiful and bright. It diminishes appearance of veins, improves skin tone and luster, restores hydrobalance and increases skin elasticity.

Experts say men and women often ignore their hands and neck, when it comes to their beauty regimes. Often we even fail to follow the basic minimum routine of moisturizer and sunscreen when it comes to hands.

The skin on the back of your hands is different from the skin in the palm of your hands. There are no hair follicles in the palm of your hands and the skin is thicker, which makes the skin on the underside more resistant to wear and tear. However, this is not so for the back of the hands, which start looking aged and wrinkled earlier.

“As the trend of looking young and beautiful spreads, women today are inarguably becoming more concerned about their hands. Some are extremely particular about ensuring regular manicure routines to push the signs of ageing, others are open to cosmetic procedures to reverse the signs. Unlike the face, making hands look younger is more difficult given the thinness of the skin at the back of the hands. However, a session with Restylane Vital can drastically change the way your hands look. Especially when you are preparing to flaunt a beautiful finger ring or henna.

When used on the face, Restylane Vital can bring your lost glow back and give your skin a perfect hydrated look. The loss of hyaluronic acid is one of the most important causes of wear and tear and lack of elasticity that our skin shows. Once replenished into the skin, it works just the way it would work naturally to bring glow and radiance back to your face.

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Thermage for youthful skin

Dr Chiranjiv Chhabra, leading cosmeto dermatologist, SkinAlive Clinics

One of the most revolutionary treatments offered in recent years, Thermage is an effective answer to several skin ageing worries.

Decades of exposure to the sun, pollutants and the whims and fancies of the environment can leave an indelible mark on the skin. The effects of photo-ageing, dull and sagging skin, wrinkles that start cropping up in our early 30s, deprive us of our once youthful appearance.

However, science and research has given us several powerful weapons to undo or at least slow down the effects of ageing on the skin.  

Thermage is one such new age procedure that has gained immense popularity in recent years.

It is one of the latest and most effective treatments available for skin lift up, body contouring and skin tightening.

Thermage is a safe, non-invasive, no downtime, single treatment, cosmetic procedure that is clinically proven to tighten, contour and rejuvenate facial skin to help naturally restore a more youthful appearance.

It is US FDA approved for the treatment of facial wrinkles, and utilizes a unique form of Capacitive Radiofrequency (CRF) technology to tighten existing collagen and stimulate new natural collagen production to return you a more youthful and rejuvenated skin.

Thermage tightens sagging jowls and skin. It helps contour the jaw line to achieve a more defined jaw and facial features, it improves skin texture and tones over the entire face.

The area around the eyes is one of the most affected by the signs of ageing. The under eye skin loosens, becomes wrinkly and dull.  

Thermage helps stimulate new collagen generation in the area and tightens the skin around eyes, giving you a fresher, more youthful appearance. It helps reduce hooding, softens fine lines and crow’s feet area, smoothes and tightens skin on the eyelids and eye area.

The best part of the procedure is that it is absolutely non-invasive and non surgical, not even requiring an injection in the process.

A walk-in procedure, it doesn’t take much time and has longer lasting results. In fact, results are visible immediately and continue to improve for up to six months. .

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