Plastic Surgery Blog

When Angelina Jolie first debuted her voluptuous lips on the big screen, many women began seeking to enhance and augment their lips. Different lip shapes, like many things, have become fashion trends, and are subject to passing fads. What is popular today, unfortunately (or fortunately) may not be tomorrow. Five years ago, Angelina’s lips were […]

Blessed with year round sunshine here in southern California, we can just step outside to prevent vitamin D deficiencies, and research suggests that we are happier overall. Plus, it’s easy to get a good tan! However, prolonged sun exposure speeds up wrinkle formation and skin discoloration. In the last few years, Dr. Chow has been […]

Ever since the invention of photography, we have been constantly bombarded with images of beautiful women with flawless skin most of us would kill for. However, behind all that glitz and glamour, every red carpet-walking celebrity has the help of a vital make up technique called “highlight and contour.” Highlighting and contouring is the master […]

There are probably as many different remedies for dark circles under the eyes as there are people on earth. In my experience, when many treatments exist for the same problem, most of them are not terribly successful. Most large cosmetics companies and not a few pharmaceutical companies have been wrestling with this problem for years […]

My first experience applying make-up as a young girl still makes me blush. Literally. In the chaos preceding a ballet recital, I applied blush myself rather than waiting for one of the busy parents to do it. My proud excitement at the accomplishment was soon smashed when another girl’s mother compared my pink face to […]

Have you gazed in the mirror lately only to see someone with that old, tired look? For many of us, the single facial feature that ages us most is having dark circles under our eyes. Although these dark circles most commonly appear in healthy individuals who are not suffering from illness or exhaustion, they can […]

Dark circles under the eyes plague many of us. There are many reasons for the dark circles, including allergies, hormonal changes or imbalances, shadowing from “puffy” lower eyelid bags, and prominent veins or capillaries, but often the discoloration has to do with the thin skin overlying the muscles and blood vessels around the eyes. Because […]

The nonsurgical rhinoplasty is a relatively recent development in facial plastic surgery. Although dermal fillers to provide contouring and volume have existed for many years, starting with bovine collagen, improved, longer lasting fillers have only become available for cosmetic use in recent years. As this is a nonsurgical procedure, no incisions of any kind are […]

Reshaping the nose is one of the most common concerns my patients have. As such, I have spent a great deal of time focused on the problems unique to noses in general, as well as those specific to each ethnicity. Naturally, individual cultural preferences play a large role in defining beauty of the nose. I […]

For some people, lip augmentation should be permanent, and surgery or implantation of permanent fillers is appropriate. As dermal fillers have improved over time, however, these options are no longer as popular as they once were. One reason that I often favor long lasting temporary solutions (dermal fillers such as Juvederm or Restylane and occasionally […]