3 Day Face Lift - What is it and Does it Work?

3 Day Face Lift - What is it and Does it Work?
If you have been looking in the mirror and thinking about a face lift, you might worry about the pain, the cost, the long recovery time. What you might not know is there are options for you that shorten the time it takes to get the benefits of a face lift and that can either provide no recovery time or a very short period of recovery.

There are two ways to enjoy the benefit of a three-day face lift: either surgically, or through diet. Let's look at the nutritional method first.

1. Three-day face lift diet

This method was pioneered by Dr. Nicholas Perricone, but there are many copycat versions available. The idea is that in just three days you can have a substantial impact on the look of your skin just by changing your diet.

Perricone calls it a "wrinkle free" way of eating that will provide dramatic changes in your skin and help you to look younger in just a few short days. He considers the three-day diet to be a jumpstart to his 28-day anti aging diet, but some people follow the three-day diet without then applying the principles of the longer plan.

Here's how it works. For the three day plan to work, you must eat salmon twice a day. Perricone recommends wild Alaskan salmon versus farm-raised salmon, but any kind of salmon is going to provide you with the essential fatty acids that help to keep your skin vital and moist.

Breakfast might include a 3-egg omelet with 4-6 oz. of grilled salmon, with ½ cup cooked oatmeal, some cantaloupe or berries and spring water (no caffeine is allowed).

For lunch you might enjoy 4-6 oz. of grilled salmon, 2 cups of green salad with a dressing made from olive oil and fresh lemon, and some kiwi fruit or cantaloupe. Again, you have spring water to drink.

Dinner could be 4-6 oz. of grilled salmon, a green salad, ½ cup of non-root vegetables like broccoli, spinach or asparagus, and cantaloupe and berries. Again, drink spring water with the meal.

Snacks include apples, 2 oz. chicken or turkey breast, 6 oz. of plain yogurt, or a handful of nuts.

Perricone says that within three days your skin will be vibrant, healthy looking and younger looking as well.

2. Surgical 3 day face lift

A three-day face lift that's done surgically is often called a "weekend lift" because patients often will have the surgical procedure one on a Friday and return to work on Monday.

The three-day face lift takes about 2 hours to do, and provides dramatic results to the patient's face, but not to the degree that you get with a full face lift. Often, the patient can end up looking 8 to 10 years younger after a three-day face lift.

The cost of a three-day face lift is significantly less than a full face lift, but so are the results. Experts say you can expect that the three-day lift can remove jowls, elevate cheeks and remove excess skin and fat from the neck and face areas. It can also tighten facial muscles.

Often, the three-day face lift is combined with liposuction and anti-wrinkle cream injections for a powerful one-two punch of cosmetic improvement.

So there you have it. Two dramatically different ways to get a face lift, without having to get a full-on face lift.

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Skin Care - Face Lift and Mesotherapy

by Franchis Adam

In August 2005, I went to my hair colorist. Like most beauty salons in Southern California, the place was milling with talk about the latest beauty tips and aids. Among them that caught my interest like a heat-seeking missile to a target was this "latest thing" - mesotherapy. The aesthetician and the girls were just raving about it- how it shrunk and tightened and smoothed your skin.

I am not particularly bad looking, but I do have this issue with my face. I have high cheekbones, which is a good thing, but the bottom of my cheeks are hollow. If you can imagine, I had shadows across my cheeks which distracted a lot from my appearance. And I thought, "Well let me see about this mesotherapy." I asked for the phone number and proceeded to make the appointment.

After talking with the aesthetician (she was a physician assistant), we agreed that she would give me what they called an "meso-lift" on the cheeks. I was given the numbing cream and in a few minutes, she was injecting me with a cocktail of different solutions which supposedly would shrink fat cells (danger zone, I should have recognized!) and vitamins that would be good for my skin. She told me that with mesotherapy, I should expect a good amount of swelling and some bruising.

Good amount indeed! Overnight, my face swelled up like a chipmunk's-- no, like a helium balloon. I could not recognize me! I had a lot of bruising and swelling on the injection sites and ALL OVER my face where it wasn't even treated.

Let me backtrack. When I made the mesotherapy appointment, I has no intention of telling my husband. I was under the impression that I could pull this off and explain the "slight" swelling and bruising to a bad facial procedure. Well, so much for that! By night time the swelling was bad enough that my husband refused to take me out to dinner. He told me that I looked like a battered wife! Lesson # 1: Never lie to your husband, in case something terrible happens.

The following morning, the swelling was even worse. It was so bad that I didn't want to go out. I placed a call to the aesthetician. She told me that the swelling and bruising was normal with mesotherapy and that I should be fine in two days.

So day two goes by, then day three. The swelling was going down, but ever so slightly. I still looked like my face was stung by a swarm of bees. Even the bruising was still bad enough that I started to panic.

Day four.... this is bad, I started to think. I should go to see her. So I made the long drive from Garden Grove, where I live, to deep deep South of Orange County. I was a mess. I did not want anyone inside the beauty salon to see my face, but that was not possible. Of course, there just HAD to be no private entrance, so I was forced to bear the humiliation.

The aesthetician told me that some people are prone to more bruising and swelling. All I could do was wait for it to go away.

I was a good two weeks to almost three weeks before the swelling went down. But the discoloration, which I thought was bruising, did not completely fade. I now have even dark, larger areas of shadows across my cheeks-- worse than before I started the mesotherapy. I felt devastated.

I went back to see her again. She took a good look at my face and told me it was melasma. She said that mesotherapy does not cause discoloration and that the melasma was more than likely due to hormonal change. I, of course, did not believe her. Hello? I did not have discoloration pre-mesotherapy! And now I have it? Logic would dictate the discoloration was due to the mesotherapy. She again reiterated that there is no known fact that mesotherapy causes this. I left her office as a ruined, victimized woman, feeling angry, depressed, and a part of me feeling guilty about my vanity that started this whole thing. The thing that started as a quest for a little more beauty, which had turned into a quest to fix a mistake. The quest to look like me-- the way I did BEFORE mesotherapy.

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