Not sure what your Valentine desires?  We offer gift certificates!  With the purchase of a gift certificate of $100 or more, you will receive a complimentary Jane Iredale Roses n Lollipops Lipstick & Gloss Locket, a $30 value.  Yes, we really do love you!

Dr. Niedbalski and staff would like to wish you a February filled with love!  We know that in our hectic lives, we sometimes get so busy taking care of other people and other things, that we forget to take care of ourselves.  Laser Hair & Skin Center has special offerings for the month of February to help revitalize you or your loved ones.  When we take better care of ourselves, we feel better and deepen our capacity to show kindness and love toward others.  After all, and maybe best of all, being kind and loving are the most effective beauty tricks we know of!

Love Your Lashes

Have you tried Latisse yet?!!  We love batting our longer, thicker eyelashes every chance we get!  This prescription-only lash growth serum works wonders on scrawny lashes.  Brush it on your lashline nightly, and in a few weeks you’ll be batting more luscious lashes, too!

The regular price for Latisse is $120 per kit, but we have 15 double-packs available.  That’s right, two kits for $120, and they come packaged together, so you won’t have to wait for your free kit to come in the mail!

Price: $120

BRILLIANT DISTINCTIONS

Are you a member of Brilliant Distinctions yet?  When you are a member you Earn points each time you get BOTOX® Cosmetic and/or JUVÉDERM® XC treatments, as well as LATISSÉ® from a participating physician.  Botox is always on sale with a BD coupon!  If your not…Sign Up Now and remember to check your account for points and coupons, and get yourself a little Botox love for Valentines Day!

1. Pick your treatment area and purchase your LHR package.  Discounted package pricing applies.

2.  Begin your treatment in October and come in for UNLIMITED treatments for 1 year!  (Treatment frequency should not be any closer than 4 weeks between treatments)

3.  Come in as often as you can over the next year to be rid of unwanted hair!

Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn’t get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that’s how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. Thus we’re introducing Worth It, a daily recommendation of random things that we’ve actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we’d actually tell our friends about. And now we’re telling you.

I actually came across iS Clinical Active Serum (ridiculous capitalization original) in a goodie bag at a fashion show, but a) said goodie bag wasn’t actually intended for my paws, as I was a mere model working for trade and not a guest and b) I’ve since bought the stuff for myself many times over, so I think I’m on the right side of our no-shilling policy. I also mention this because, well, there’s no way around it — this stuff is pricey. But hear me out: iS Clinical is hands-down the best skincare product I’ve ever used. And I have tried a great many of them.

I have your classic combination skin — prone to being flaky in certain places, oily in others, and breakout-prone all over. My acne never merited Roaccutane or anything like that, but when I turned 18, I started getting big, painful zits on my cheeks that would sometimes take weeks to clear. Weeks. I’m fairly certain I’ve tried just about every skincare product combination known to man: Clinique and its three steps, Proactiv and its three-monthly automatic billing cycle, Cetaphil, something Icelandic called Skyn, Dr. Bronner’s, Estée Lauder Idealist Skin Refinisher, and home-mixed tea tree+olive+castor oil, which I administered according to the oil cleansing method, to name a few. Benzoyl peroxide this, salicylic acid that, hyaluronic acid over here, Clearasil, Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena. I tried fucking Crème de la Mer. You know what? It sucked! I was that girl with the a million half-empty department-store samples in her dop kit (ooh, let’s try that thing Cate Blanchett endorses! Have you seen Cate Blanchett?) and still I had pimples to show for it. (The Idealist came the closest to meeting my needs until I found iS Clinical, which — though not cheap — is cheaper per application and gets better results.)

So, since September of 2008, after I wash my face at night, I’ve put a few drops of iS Clinical Active Serum on my skin and rubbed it in. And that’s the end of my routine. iS Clinical is so gentle and non-drying that I really don’t need a moisturizer, except in winter, sometimes. The serum tingles at first, which feels nice. Then it goes to work healing any zits I may have, preventing the formation of new ones, and making my skin generally pretty and soft. I’ve gone from weekly outbreaks to getting one or two much smaller pimples once a month. (Oh, hormones!) And I can put a drop of Active Serum on an angry, red zit at night, and by morning, all that will remain is a faint pink mark on a patch of smooth skin. It. Is. Magic. I have never experienced any product that works so quickly and effectively. When I started using it, it cleared up the hyperpigmentation that had resulted from my previous acne outbreaks in less than a month. And I have heard that if one stays out ’til dawn drinking and whatnot, but remembers to wash one’s face and slap some of this on before crawling into bed, then by the time one awakes the inside of one’s mouth may feel like a Dorito-gorging rat curled up and died inside an old sneaker that fell in a sewer that was washed into a fetid pond, but one’s skin will still look nice and fresh and glow-y.

Exfoliating my face has also never been easier; it feels like the dead skin just dissolves away. And the new skin underneath looks better than it by rights should. I don’t know what’s in this stuff (I mean, I do, but what the fuck is “kojic acid” anyway?), I do know you’re supposed to go to the dermatologist or some shit to get it (I buy it online, in bulk), and I also know that the iS Clinical Poly-Vitamin Serum, which someone once shipped me “by accident,” is totally worthless for acne (seriously, don’t even bother). (Although if you do use Poly-Vitamin Serum and like it, I now have some. Reasonable prices, inquire within! I am not kidding.) It’s not cheap. It’s on Amazon for like $100 or some shit, which is insane! I’ve never paid that much for this. Shop around. By scouring eBay, I paid $30 for .63 fl. oz. last time I bought it, which is still a lot, but a) I would pay almost anything to have skin this good and b) that supply will last me around 3-4 months, because you only need a couple drops. The stuff just works. That’s all.
Source: http://jezebel.com/5834164/worth-it-something-to-actually-get-those-pimples-off-your-face

Medical Esthetician - Angela Janssen

We welcome Angela Janssen. Angela is a trained and certified medical esthetician, with more than 10 years of experience in the medical field and medical skin care.

She is offering several new procedures including facial waxing, brow tinting, and an exfoliation procedure called dermaplaning, a non-invasive manual method of exfoliation that gently sloughs away dead surface cells and removes the light, very fine, vellus hairs (peach fuzz) on the skin.  Leaving skin smooth and fresh.  This procedure can only be provided in a physicians office under physician supervision and requires the skilled touch of a trained medical esthetician.

We are thrilled to add such an experienced professional to our team!

For an easy makeup solution to enhancing your brows instantly, Jane Iredale, The Skin Care Makeup, has a travel-size compact called Bitty Brow Kit, that comes in blonde and brunette.  The kit is $26.00, and includes a botanical brow wax and pigmented powder for adding definition and staying power.

We are happy to welcome our new medical esthetician/laser technician, Angela Janssen!  In addition to loving skin care, she is also a big fan of brow waxing and tinting!  You will be thrilled to know that Angela is offering a brow waxing and tinting special where you will receive a brow wax and a brow tint for $25.00.  Sold singly, brow wax will be offered for $17.00, and brow tint for $17.00.

For those deep furrows or worry lines between the brows, Botox is a terrific option.  Botox is a purified protein that, when injected into your expression lines, will cause the muscle to relax and smooth out.  This treatment lasts approximately 4 months.

We are featuring our special Minoxidil 5% Foam during the summer months and offering it to our patients at a discount!  Purchase two bottles and receive the third bottle free!  This is a 6 month supply for only $70!  Contact us at 253-572-2949 to request your prescription of Minoxidil 5% Foam*.  We will ship it directly to you.

*Minoxidil 5% Foam is a prescription product and may only be prescribed patients under Dr. Niedbalski’s care.  Minoxidil 5% Foam works with the hair follicle’s natural growth cycle and should be used for a minimum of six months for patients to see full results.  Dr. Niedbalski recommends patients who start using Minoxidil 5% Foam continue using it on an ongoing basis for maximum benefit.

If you are interested in trying Minoxidil Foam 5% and not currently a patient of Dr. Niedbalski’s, please call to schedule your complimentary consultation.  253-572-2949.

The cannula is flexible and has a blunt tip with a side-hole for filler extrusion.
 
What are the advantages of using a cannula to inject facial fillers when compared to needles?

IMPROVED:

• Safety – the blunt tip of cannula prevents intra-arterial injection, the most serious complication from injecting fillers using needles
• Comfort - patients undergoing cannula injection experience much less discomfort
• Recovery – the social downtime from bruising and swelling is practically eliminated
• Value – fillers can be administered with greater precision so the results are more natural and less product is needed to treat most areas.
• Flexibility – cannulas allow access to virtually any area of the facial anatomy for improvement with fillers. Previously hard to treat areas such as vertical lip lines, hollow cheeks and temples (to name a few) are easily corrected using this technique.

Dermal fillers, such as Juvederm, Radiesse and Restylane, fill in wrinkles and stimulate the body to produce new collagen.  It’s a safe and natural way to rejuvenate the face for younger looking skin. The results often last for up to a year or longer.

The Laser Hair and Skin Center of Tacoma is the only practice in the area offer men and women a new technology in laser hair removal that is faster, more effective and more comfortable. The new Lumenis Light Sheer Duet is so appealing for permanent hair growth reduction because it treats a larger space, 22 x 35 mm, at a time compared to most other lasers that cover only 9 x 9 mm at a time. There is also no need for numbing or topical gels thanks to a vacuum-assist suction that causes the skin to absorb less laser energy, thus giving the patient more comfortable treatment sessions.

“We are constantly investigating the latest technologies to assure our patients have the most effective procedure possible with maximum comfort,” said Dr. Robert Niedbalski, medical director of Laser Hair and Skin Center of Tacoma. “The Lumenis Light Sheer Duet is so appealing to our cosmetic practice because it improves upon previous technology and gives patients a better laser hair removal experience and more effective results, which is most important.”