Need a Resolution for 2010? Love Your Skin.

In 2010, we want our patients in Little Rock to love their skin more. Don’t procrastinate or make excuses; just follow these steps:

1. See a professional for instruction on how to use the right skin care products in the proper order at the proper times. Don’t buy those trendy new skin care products in the shiny packaging.  Instead, simplify and do it right: one aesthetician, one set of products chosen just for your particular skin, and one place to return to for periodic facials and replenishing of products. We like to call that skin care monogamy.
2. Get more sleep! Lack of sleep can contribute to dark rings under your eyes, more pimples, ashy skin and a bad attitude.
3. Get yourself a series of microdermabrasion treatments to soften those fine lines and wrinkles, minimize blotches, stimulate collagen production and give your face a youthful glow. Go every 2 weeks or so for a quick session and you can maintain that fresh look.
4. Commit to using sun block to protect your skincare investment. Obagi makes a great sunblock that won’t clog pores, make the skin feel greasy or cause unwanted breakouts. To prevent premature aging, blotchy skin and decrease your risk of skin cancer, use it regularly according the directions.
5. Join the herd of new gym members who make the same resolution each year: start an exercise regimen and do it 5 times a week. Actually, scratch that; get outside and walk, run or swim – or mix it up and do all three. Vary your routine and work your body from head-to-toe.
6. Take your daily multivitamin and calcium supplements before the expiration dates elapse. While you’re at it, drink plenty of water.
7. Share these resolutions with at least two strong, honest, and supportive close friends or family members so that you can be held accountable for your actions and decisions in 2010. Send them a link to this post!
8. Quit smoking, going to tanning salons and engaging in other high risk behaviors that take a toll on your face, not to mention shorten your life. You have gifts and abilities that need to be exercised; stop sabotaging your true potential.
9. Celebrate all the changes you have made by remembering how fortunate you are to be alive and to have effective ways of optimizing your health, happiness and appearance.

Have a Happy New Year!