Baby Boomer Peel-The Beginning

It’s here.

The newest addition to our lineup of skin care remedies and products is our Baby Boomer Peel. The whole month of January we are focusing on bringing up the fresh skin cells that have been lingering underneath the dead cornea layer (the outside layer of skin) which we call a buildup of dead skin cells. This is an accumulation of wrinkles or crows feet around the eyes that those of us that are self conscious are extremely aware of.What’s so special, you ask? Let’s see what the Boss (Kimberly) has to say about her experience so far with the peel…

“In the event that we desire to remedy the aging process, I chose to take on “the Baby Boomer peel”. Yes, I was determined to remove this dead layer of skin basis the recommendation of our skin care therapist at Indulge Salon on S. george street in york, PA. She told me that I would look younger (key word for me) and that this would last about a month. Before beginning the process, she gave me some information that she thought would be helpful for me to understand about “the peel”. I trusted her and let her tell me all the information but I didn’t realize how valuable and super intelligent she was until the 3^rdday of “the peel”. Boy, did I appreciate her even more when my skin was starting to peel. I digress.

Let’s start from the actual service that I had with her on Saturday, New Years Day. I laid on her treatment table and awaited the service. She said, “this will take about 10-20 minutes”. I said “what about the massage” because I was so ready to relax and be pampered. She said no massage it would be to aggressive. I was disappointed. What she did explain was that the process requires you come in with the knowledge that this treatment is three steps. (how did I miss this?) She explained the first step is to come in for a thorough facial, massage, extractions if necessary to remove the white and black heads. The second treatment which is the following appointment, normally a week after the interrogation of the nose and face, is to receive your cleansing. You need to remove all makeup from the night before or, in general, the dirt from the day, and then apply the appropriate level of peel. I say that specifically because she gave me the Baby Boomer peel. Whoa! Already categorizing me into a group. Drat. Obviously, that is why I’m in the roon receiving this aggressive peel to take the top layer of my skin off and to endure the next few days feeling like my face is going to burn off. As she applied the peel, she told me “this may burn a little”. Right! It felt like burning fire!!! She told me mine was stronger than most. I said thank you very much……I then immediately had the fan blowing directly on my face to tone down the fire blazing feeling I was experiencing. I couldn’t get that cool air close enough. Mind you, this was only a minute my skin was frothing. New word ladies. Frothing. This means the chemical peel will actually have a light film on the skin. No its not like a mocha frappe at the local coffee shop where it froths up.

After about ½ a minute, she uses a warm cloth to remove the light film and my skin feels so much better. Aah..she continues to rinse it and does other magical procedures and instructs me how to use it. She actually gave me instructions on paper. I was cool with this. I felt like I’m going to look amazing at my conference next week. She gave me a sunscreen which is ESSENTIAL to the safety of your skin. She gave me a gentle cleanser from Guinot which is amazingly gentle and not harsh. She kept reminding me not to pull the skin pieces off while peeling during the day. It will feel tight like your skin will crack. It will feel like you want to keep peeling off the skin. I feel compelled, what can I say. I hate a loose end. I like things nice and neat. Seriously girls, don’t mess with those loose ends. Continue to moisturize with a protective barrier and whatever else the skin care specialist tells you to do because she knows. I listened. She told me this is like new baby skin. I agree, after 4 days. It still burns a little, but I love my skin feeling incredibly soft. I think this process has been worth it.”

Kimberly was nice enough to allow us to display her testimony and before pictures here, on indulgefullthrottlelifestyle. We absolutely cannot wait to display her “after pictures”

Check out her pictures:

Day 3

Day 3Day 3

Day 4 of Baby Boomer Peel

Day 4 of Baby Boomer Peel

So, here’s the bad news: you’ll have to go through a little rough patches of pain in order to get a GREAT end result. In the next couple of days we’ll have a follow up post with the “after” pictures from Kimberly’s Baby Boomer Peel at Indulge Salon in York, PA. To learn more about how this particular service could renew your skin, call 717-846-4424 and ask to speak with the Skin Care Specialist.

Here’s to living our lives…FULL THROTTLE!

Indulge Pure Originals

Our newly released skin care collection, Indulge Pure Originals, has the most luscious soaps, creams, lotions, and body butter bars available. Without harsh chemicals and additives, our skin care products literally will help to improve your skin’s condition almost instantly.

Sometimes it can be difficult to find the right balance in a lotion or cream. Some lotions are too watery, some creams are too thick. Indulge Pure Originals lotions and creams combine the right balance of moisture, consistency, and thickness to give you the ultimate skin spreadability. Seven Luxurious Fragrances available: Egyptian Musk, Vanilla and Lavender, Tropical Coconut, Citrus, Blossom, Love and Clean.

Our Glycerin Soaps, Fragranced Soaps, and Scrubs are long lasting and moisturizing. Do you ever notice your soap leaving a film on your skin? This film leftover by your current soap is helping to dry out your skin, leaving it itchy and scaly. Indulge Pure Originals give moisture without leaving a film on your skin.Several soap/scrub fragrances are available: Fresh Morning, Mystic, Blossom, Honey Oatmeal, Madagascar Vanilla, Mint Scrub, Acai Berry, Citrus Bliss, and Coconut Lemon Grass.

Need Extreme Moisture? Invest in Indulge Body Butter Bars. These bars literally melt moisture onto your skin. Used while in the shower, the steam and warmth combine with the Body Butter Bar to create a layer of moisture on your skin. Fragrances Include: Cocoa Butter, Citrus, Coconut, and Unscented.

Our soaps and scrubs can be customized! Need a large bar? Or do you need to give small samples to friends and family?Our soaps and scrubs can be custom cut to fit your needs. Click Here for Pricing.

New fragrances are being developed! Give us your suggestions. What are your favorite scents?

As Always, Live your life…FULL THROTTLE!

4 Ways to Prevent Hair Loss Today

On Wednesday, we gave some straight talk about Hair Loss.

If you missed that post, you should read it now. Today is all about Tips for preventing Hair Loss. Some of these tips were adapted from healthinfotimes.com.

Number One: Stay as stress free as possible. Life holds many stresses, but we need to learn how to cope with the stress instead of keeping it all locked up. Catch and Release that stress! If you don’t, stress will imbed itself in your body, and that can create more problems than just hair loss.

Two: Eat well! Treat your body right with more than plenty veggies, fruits, proteins, meats, and fish. Replace junk food with clean eats and your body and mind will thank you. You’ll turn yourself into a ball of energy, fueled and ready to take on each and every day.

Three: Massage Your Scalp. Take 10 minutes every night to calm yourself and massage your scalp with your fingertips. Be sure to massage every inch of your scalp. This will increase blood flow to your scalp and hair follicles will love you for it!

Four: Be Gentle! Always use a wide tooth comb when de-tangling your hair after you get out of the shower. Normally, you rake through your wet hair after tousling roughly with a towel. Stop this. Gently towel blot the ends of your hair. Although it is best to wait to comb through your hair when it’s dry, we all know that most of us comb our hair before it’s dry. If you must, wait until your hair is mostly dry, then start from the ends to the scalp using your wide tooth comb. You can even use a gentle de-tangling conditioner/treatment.

For more tips on preventing hair loss visit healthinfotimes.com

Use the four tips listed above to help prevent hair loss. If you haven’t yet read the previous post on Hair Loss. Read it now. You can always give us a call at 717-846-4424 to have a consultation about your hair concerns. Visit www.indulgesalon.com for more information and read about our commitment to you.

As always, Live Your Life…Full Throttle!

Straight Talk on Hair Loss

Hair loss can be devastating.

You might discover it in your brush, comb, on the shoulder of your clothes, or on your bathroom sink, but when you discover that you are losing hair, you feel immediately insecure.

I once experienced this feeling of insecurity. I remember, I was sitting in the styling chair, and my stylist was going through my hair, like she does at every appointment. She reviews the healthiness of my scalp and hair. This day, as she was going through her normal routine, she noticed a small patch of hair missing from the right side of my scalp, above my right ear, and near the nape of my neck. I quickly grabbed the hand mirror as she showed me the spots on my scalp. Immediately, I felt a sense of insecurity and sadness. At 20 years old, I knew I shouldn’t be losing my hair. The back story before this event is that I just had my appendix removed and had been heavy on morphine for pain while in the hospital. I remember that my scalp was always itchy after getting out of the hospital. I thought for sure that that was the reason for my patchy hair loss.

My stylist at Indulge Salon assured me that my hair would grow back and everything would be okay. I bought a three step treatment system by Nioxin. I used it religiously for three months, and eventually my hair started growing back and itching less.

The key to knowing how to treat thinning hair or hair loss is knowing what the cause may be. There are so many reasons that could be the cause of hair loss. Here are a few:

• Allergic reactions
• Immune system complications
• Surgery
• Side effect from medications
• Hormone imbalances
• Alopecia Areata
• Androgenic Areata
• Nutritional deficiency
• Side effect from stress
• Thyroid Disorder

Be sure that your stylist is checking your hair and scalp when you are at your regularly scheduled appointments. Since you should be visiting your stylist about every 4-5 weeks, your stylist will be able to inform you if there is a problem or potential concern. Should there be a concern that your stylist doesn’t believe will be solved at the salon, you should consult a dermatologist.

Stay tuned for Friday’s Blog about Hair Loss Prevention tips.

As always, Live Your Life…FULL THROTTLE!

Make Life Easier–Freeze It

At Indulge Salon, we believe in making life easier, not just in beauty and fashion, but in our every day lives. Home, work, play.

While browsing my favorite new app, Pinterest, I found a dandy little post that is completely about making  home life easier–especially in the cooking and meal prep department!

Weekly meals can be such a daunting task, especially when unprepared. I always like to go grocery shopping on the weekend, that way, I can shop for everything that I’ll need during the week to make dinners. This is called: Prepping the Prep.

First, you’ll want to make a list of all the ingredients that you’ll need for all of your menu items. This blog is great because it has similar ingredients for all of the meals you’ll be preparing. Similar but different at the same time. You’ll also want to put on your list a box of ziplock freezer bags if you don’t already have them.

Second, you’ll get all of your items.

Third, get your chopping block and cutting boards out! This will probably take you the longest unless you have little helpers assisting you. You’ll want to cut everything up and divvy up the ingredients between the different bags you have set up for the week. Don’t lose your mind, label the bags with a permanent marker.

Side note***To make your life even easier–label one side with the name of the meal, and on the other side, write the ingredients. This way, you can reuse the ziplock bags. Easy and Green!

After you finish putting all of the ingredients in each of the bags, zip to seal, and place in the freezer.

Wasn’t that simple? All you have to do is take a bag out the morning of, place in the crock pot, and let it cook itself. By the time you get home, your dinner is ready. This allows you more time to decompress from the day, spend time with your kids, feed the pets, or just watch your favorite dvr’d program.

Planning the Prep is always going to help you life your life full throttle throughout the year. With more time on your hands, you can focus on things more important than meal planning, like beauty and fashion, duh!

Have a happy planning week!

As always, Live Your Life… FULL THROTTLE

Spray on Tan in York PA

Why is it that a tan can boost our self confidence?

We are in the day and age where our skin idols are Snookie and the cast of the Jersey Shore. Don’t get me wrong, this season’s Jersey Shore cast is in shape now more than ever before, and JWow has a body that could compete with any Victoria Secret model. Okay…off topic, I know, but come on…it’s true. A tan, whether it be a Driveway Diva Tan, or the delicate mist from an aerosol bottle, is a true self-confidence booster.Here’s what I don’t get-How do we go from high society and royalty staying indoors to avoid the sun and look as pale as possible to the more tan the better?

I have tried several self-tanners. The most recent self tanner is the Banana Boat “Summer Color” self-tanning mist. It has a light citrus scent, and seems to apply evenly while standing like a naked star. The hardest part about a misting self-tanner is applying evenly on your mid to upper back. I mean, it’s quite difficult to wrap your arm and aim the nozzle at the same time. Best bet is to have a girlfriend help you out.

After I’ve applied one coat, I start noticing and feeling instantly confidence about my body and my overall appearance. Hey, for $6.97, I’ll take confidence in a mist! Toward the back end of the week, and several self-tanning applications, I really start to feel good about myself. It’s an excellent way to start any day, especially a Manic Monday.

Here’s to Spray on Confidence!

As always,…Live your life…FULL THROTTLE!

The Quest: Paleo Lifestyle

What is this Paleo, New Evolution Lifestyle everyone keeps talking about?

Recently, I was given “The New Evolution Diet” written by Arthur De Vany. I had put off reading it up until last week, and even still I only read the first chapter and put the book down. I didn’t put it down because it wasn’t an interesting read, but because I’ve read so many “diet” books that claim they are the way to go, and that every other fad diet out there isn’t good. About two days ago I started reading it again and as I’m making my way through the chapters, I’m realizing how much sense this book actually makes. It’s unbelievable how many foods we eat are the link to why we have diseases and illnesses. The New Evolution Diet explains how some foods are the main causes of diabetes, obesity, and inflammation in our bodies. The author explains how our cells function in our body, and how it processes our food. We live in a world of processed and enriched foods that, yes, taste amazing, but our inherently terrible for our figures and our health.

I am curious as to the difference it could make to not only my health…but my voluptuous figure. The idea is just not sinking in that I can eat any of the “allowed” foods that I want, and exercise less resulting in the body that I’ve always desired. How can this possibly happen?

Stay tuned for more info into my quest for answers on the Paleo lifestyle…

If you have any advice on this topic please feel free to leave a comment!

Vintage Curls Without the Heat

Searching Google on Sunday brought me to an amazing video blog by TheLipstickDiaries. I always like to research new and inventive ways to creatively do my hair in the morning. So, after watching the tutorial, I decided to try it out! The best part is that you don’t have to use a curling iron or flat iron to complete this Vintage Curls look.

Here’s what you need in order to try it yourself:

1. A Hairband. One that isn’t too tight on your head. You don’t want it to cut off circulation at night.
2. For fine hair: A spray-in volumizer. I recommend Pureology Pure Volume.
3. For thick hair: A gloss. Run it through the ends of your hair to prevent frizz.

You’ll want to begin by showering. Then, I dried my hair about 80-90% dry. After that, I sprayed a few spritzes of Pureology Pure Volume at the scalp, and I would recommend a texturizer on the ends. Then, you take the hairband and tuck tufts of hair into the band, wrapping it around and under the band. With each section of hair, you will be creating curls all around your head. You’ll want to grab smaller sections of hair if you want tight curls, and large sections to create waves.

In the morning, your hair will look like a crazy mess, but I promise it will turn out okay once you style your hair.

So….Hopefully yours will look better than mind turned out, but here’s the jist of what your hair should look like in the morning…

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The final outcome of your hair will completely depend on your creativity. You can get ideas from the original tutorial on thelipstickdiaries web blog on Youtube.

The first thing you’ll want to do if you have fine hair is to spray your hair while still put up in the hair band. Spray it well.

Then, gently take the hair band out, and you’ll end up with some crazy curls, some tight, some loose. You might think that you didn’t do it correctly, but once you put some more product in it and comb out the curls it will turn out looking something like this..

My final ‘do looked like this today:

Make sure you upload pictures of your Vintage Curls Without the Heat hairdo on our facebook page. www.facebook.com/IndulgeSalon

I’d be happy to answer any questions you may have! Send me a message or comment on this post!

As Always, Live Your Life…Full Throttle!

Driveway Diva Tan

The greatest thing about tanning is that you don’t have to be at the beach to do it…

Tanning has options...and we, as Indulge Full Throttle Lifers, Love Options. Suppose you don’t like tanning in a tanning bed, you can lay out in your backyard instead. Perhaps you hate being hot, you can go have an airbrush tan service. Or, maybe you love tanning at the beach but can’t get away for a weekend trip. Like I said, many options. The option we are focusing on today, however, is the Driveway Diva Tan.

The Driveway Diva Tan is quite possibly one of the best ways to tan. Personally, when I am outside enjoying a beautiful day, I want to feel all warm inside from the heat-That way, I know I’m getting those UVA and UVB rays that turn me into a sandy tan superstar. There are a few steps to take in order to get the luscious brown tan we all want. First, shower.. Then, immediately out of the shower use the Indulge Body Cocoa Butter Bar. Using it all over your body right after you get out of the shower will lock in moisture which is what you always need when tanning. Next, you’ll want to lather yourself with a suntan lotion that has SPF 15 or higher in it. Let it dry. Then,pop the Indulge Body Butter Cocoa Butter Bar in a microwaveable container, put it in the microwave for about 10 sections until the bar is completely melted. Here’s the amazing part–slather yourself with the melted Body Butter Bar before you settle onto your towel. Not only will it give you enough moisture to keep your skin supple while tanning, but it will also give you a glistening, glowing tan.

Don’t forget to pair your Driveway Diva Tanning session with an icy cool beverage, enough towels to keep you comfortable on the driveway, and some tunes. Also, you should be flipping every 20-30 minutes to keep your tan even on both your front and your rear!

The first person to comment on this post and upload your Driveway Diva Tan pictures to our facebook page will receive a free sample of our newest Indulge Body Butter Bars!

Full Throttle Life: Flat Stomach Plan of Attack

It’s summertime, and we know what you’re thinking…I’ve got to get in shape, I’ve got to get that flat stomach I’ve been attempting to pull off.

Here’s the trick: You must be strictly watching your consumption of food, be consistent with your workout schedule, and be willing to modify your routine.

First Thing’s First: I can’t stress enough how important it is to be strict about your diet. Make a plan of attack for each day (or the whole week!). Balance out your meals with plenty of protein, salads (minimal vinaigrette dressing), and vegetables. Remember that fruits have a lot of sugar in them so keep those to a minimum as well. Make sure you’re eating enough because you’ll need the energy for your tough workouts.

Secondly: Be completely consistent to your workout schedule. If you plan to go to gym in the morning before work go at the time you set your alarm for. If you plan to go at night after work, pack your gym bag with all the essentials the day before and put it in your car. If you are going to do “two-a-days” (working out twice a day), then stick to it. Whatever time or times of day you plan on working out, then really do it. Don’t let that voice in your head that wants you to fail talk you out of your routine. The hardest part is usually getting to the gym, but once you’re there, and you start workin’ it, that angel on your shoulder usually kicks in with encouragement. Sometimes, it helps to create a calendar and X-off the days that you go. It gives you a visual countdown to your goal date.

Last, but Not Least: Modify. Modify. Modify. Switch it up. Every two weeks you should be switching up your routine. If you’re always working with weight machines, do a class instead. You can also buy an exercise book with many different exercises in them. Work out an exercise routine and constantly review it to update the moves you are doing. Tweaking it just slightly will keep your muscles guessing. This is what keeps us (or gets us) in shape.

These three steps aren’t always easy, especially since we have so much temptation around us 24/7. Avoid it, and keep your goal at the front of your mind. Getting into shape isn’t just great for us to maintain our health, but it’s a step closer to living that Full Throttle life we all desire.

As always,

Live your life…Full Throttle!