Healthy Beauty Features
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Hair Care
Shopping for summer hair care products? You may want to read this 2005 article about your options.
- Summer Buyers' Guide: Sunless Tanning Lotions
Achieving that bronze-kissed look without ever stepping foot on the beach has never been easier. And sunless tans will be hotter than ever this year with all sorts of streak-proof varieties, including a do-it-yourself airbrush tanning kit, readily available.
- Foods for Healthy Skin: You Are What You Eat
Eat your way to healthy, vibrant skin by getting enough super foods that nourish the skin. Experts offer tips on the foods that make skin glow.
- Plus-Size Panache
If frustrations over style and fit have left you vowing not to shop for clothes until you hit your goal weight, listen up: Experts say this is the season to cut loose and let your inner fashionista come out!
- Healthy Fingernails: Clues About Your Health
To the trained eye, nails can provide valuable clues about your overall health; and noticing and following up on those clues is the best way to maintain healthy fingernails.
- The ABCs of a Healthy Skin Diet
Eat your way to healthy, vibrant skin by getting enough super foods that nourish the skin. Experts offer tips on the foods in a healthy skin diet.
- Puttin' on the Glitz
If glamming it up seems way too time-consuming for your busy life, take heart. Fashion and beauty experts who spoke to WebMD shared 12 tricks of the trade that can help you put on the glitz in record time.
- Holiday Skin Stress? Get the Glow Back
Holiday stress, too many goodies, and a whole lot of celebrating can take a toll on your skin. Experts offer quick fixes and new ways to glow through the season.
- The ABCs of Summer Hair Repair
Basics of summer hair repair -- undoing the damage of sun, salt water, chlorine and other summer hair hazards.
- Fit, Fabulous, and 14 (Size 14, That Is)
Read dietitian, author, and WebMD Weight Loss Clinic consultant Elaine Magee’s essay about wearing size 14 clothes and learning to love her body.
- Fighting Cellulite: 'Jean' Therapy to Creams
Do cellulite treatments work, and which treatments work best?
- Hope in a Jar: Do Skin Creams Work?
Well if you're skeptical about what you read about skin creams, you're not alone. Not surprisingly, some doctors also question the claims and the promises.
- How Safe Is Permanent Makeup?
Adding permanent makeup to your skin may sound easy and convenient, but like any surgical procedure, there are risks.
- Your Body: Love It or Loathe It?
With the right attitude, you can wear a swimsuit!
- Plastic Surgery TV: Therapeutic or Trivial?
Is the new wave of plastic surgery shows too good or too bad to be true?
- Extreme Makeover: Coming to a Beach Near You
When you notice the growing numbers of bodacious bods on the beach, there may be more to it than you realize, say leading plastic surgeons, aestheticians, podiatrists, and dermatologists.
- Spring Cleaning: How to Pamper Your Skin.
What to do right now to get your face and body ready for spring.
- Over-the-Counter Beauty Tips
Eggs, lemon juice, olive oil, and parsley aren't just for salads anymore -- they're beauty products, too!
- Prevent Skin Damage Before It Starts
To maintain healthy skin and reduce the risk of further damage at midlife, Tina Alster, MD, clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University, recommends the following regimen.
- Year of 'Extreme Makeovers'
Today's plastic surgery is quick, with little downtime, and affordable.
- Want A Face Lift? Here Are 10 Tips
Before facial plastic surgery, get real about expectations.
- Make Over Your Mouth
From a mere cleaning to tooth whitening to "smile design," a trip to the dentist can be a cosmetic experience these days.
- Cosmetic Surgery on the Sly.
Can minor cosmetic surgery revitalize you over the weekend? Yes and no.
- The Many Faces of Botox
Botox, a deadly toxin, is also a powerful drug and a so-called fountain of youth. But could it also become a weapon?
- Make Your Skin Shine Before the Big Party
Learn what to eat to maximize your looks and give your skin a healthy shine.
- Erase Aging With a 'Mid-Facelift'?
Some claim a new cosmetic technique helps to restore youth; others are doubtful.
- Myth vs. Reality on Anti-Aging Vitamins
Despite Wrinkle-Reducing Claims, Few Vitamins Actually Work on Skin
- The (Costly) Magic of Laser Surgery
Want to look younger? Lasers are a convenient -- but expensive -- way of removing all kinds of blemishes.
- The Mind-Skin-Health Connection.
Your skin is connected to more than your insides. This living suit is united with your mind, your emotions, and your health so intimately that some experts say relaxation is one of the best skin products you could ever use.
- Magic in a Makeover
Can a new look turn your life around? It just might. Research suggests that improving your appearance can boost your self-esteem and change the way others treat you.
- No More Cover-Ups
What's sarong about your body? Nothing that a few products and procedures (and sit-ups) can't take care of in time for fun in the sun this summer.
- Turning Back Time
More seniors are choosing cosmetic surgery. Those over 65 are the fastest growing segment of that group.
- Are Saline Implants Safe?
The government has recommended that two types of saline implants be allowed to stay on the market, so long as women are told about the risks. But what does 'informed consent' really mean?
- Saline Implants: FDA Hearing
Silicone implants became the centerpiece of a legal and medical firestorm, culminating last November in a massive $3.2 billion settlement against the nation's leading maker of silicone implants, Dow Corning Corp.
- Implant Risks
The guidelines that identify 26 separate risks issued by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) to doctors who are preparing informed consent forms for women considering breast implant surgery.
- Rules for a Safe Summer
Here are three simple rules to follow for a safe summer in the sun.