Everything is going along at an even keel, sometimes even for years, when suddenly… you’re starting a new job. Moving. Getting married. Having a baby. Going off to school. Making a major life transition. That means a lot of planning, doing and upheaval in a compressed amount of time. The stress can be intense, unrelenting. [...]
Are you comfortable when you’re by yourself? Can you do things solo and enjoy them—like going to the movies, a restaurant, museum, even traveling—without feeling ill at ease or self-conscious? Or do you always feel you have to have someone else in tow, and lacking that are prone to miss out? If so, be assertive, [...]
You may have the kind of job, or life, where you constantly have to drop something to take care of something else. This can be a never-ending source of stress and frustration. If you let it. Or, as unlikely as it seems now, you can condition yourself to get used to it…even enjoy it! When [...]
What angry scenes we stage in our minds! Reenactments of arguments recently fought. Vengeful thoughts of what we’ll say next time we see that so-and-so. Seething dialogs and envisioned acts of retribution aimed at whatever current nemesis we’re up against. These inner rants can poison our temperament, and have an all-consuming effect far out of [...]
You’re furious at someone. Flustered by an embarrassing thing you did. Or upset about a serious blunder you made. In that distressed state, you’re unfocused, distracted, likely to make costly errors and thus compound the misery you’re feeling. In those situations, it’s wise to consciously slow down and proceed with caution, as if navigating a [...]
4. Test area: Anterior shin.
It is probably no surprise that stress can wreck havoc on your body, hormones and subsequently, your face. The body naturally releases a hormone called cortisol during a stressful situation coined the “fight or flight” response. If the body maintains a constant level of stress without allowing for drops in [...]
1. The Investigator must be a qualified graduate electrologist with no less than two years experience and a member in good standing of the American Electrol(o)ysis Association.
There are various Mary Kay beauty products that can help you get radiant and flawless skin. Depending on the type of skin that you have you can use [...]
Permanent Hair Removal is defined by the International Guild of Professional Electrologists (IGPE) in their Official Standards dated December 8, 1978 as follows:
DEFINITION: Hair removal is accomplished by destroying the dermal papilla and the surrounding germinative cells in the lower portion of the hair follicle, without harming the upper layers of the skin. The [...]
Generally speaking, two types of hair are produced by the follicle:
• vellus
• terminal
Vellus hair is like “peach fuzz” and it is normally found on a woman’s cheek or a young child. It is soft, downy and colorless. The follicles producing vellus hair are shallow, and the hair shaft produced is relatively short. [...]
The hair system is known the pilosebaceous system. It consists of four main parts
1. Follicle - the hair canal
2. Papilla - the organ that feeds hair growth
3. Sebaceous Gland - the associated oil gland
4. Hair - shaft or structure which has been hardened (keratinized)
Follicle
A hair follicle is an indention [...]