Beautiful You Med Spa Articles
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Winter Newsletter
Positive Aging
If you’re like me, you are constantly seeing marketing campaigns on television, social media, and in print; shared by friends, family and acquaintances; all designed to improve, reduce, emphasize, and sometimes altogether change your appearance. It can be overwhelming...
What Does Exercise Have To Do With Aging Beautifully?
I don’t know about you, but I am noticing many changes in my body the last couple of years as I enter my mid-50s. My body doesn’t respond as quickly to weight loss. Physical fitness changes one used to expect to see after a...
What is Beauty to You?
"Beauty is skin deep," as the saying goes. According to a Global Advisor Study done by 18,000 participants across 27 countries in 2019, the top five attributes of beauty included confidence, kindness, happiness, dignity, and intelligence. These attributes are...
Sunshine Through the Rain
Are you as tired of hearing about Covid as I am? How long is this bug going to be around? Last year at this time, I thought we were on our way out of this mess from a day-to-day, moment-by-moment basis. My daughter recently got married over Labor Day weekend and we...
Kissed by the Sun
Remember those days when you couldn’t get enough sun? For me, it started as a teenager when each spring, my sister, cousins, friends and I would sign up for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) fundraiser walk-a-thon. Preparing for the event included finding an...
New Services… New Brochure!
Are you interested in learning what all is new at Beautiful You? We have an updated brochure that describes our current services and prices. Download and view below or pick up a copy at our office soon! [button...
Permanent Cosmetic Correction and Removal
Sometimes things don’t go exactly as expected. We have been receiving a lot of calls about people who have had their makeup done elsewhere and things went awry. Usually, the calls pertain to eyebrows that are placed too low, too high, or brows that are too chunky in...
Botox™ vs. Dysport™
What is the difference between Botox and Dysport when it comes to facial aesthetics? In the world of aesthetic neurotoxins, people often recognize the name Botox way before they recognize the name Dysport. Both of these products are used in the aesthetics world, but...
Message from the Owner
A Message from Sheila Bowen, RN, BSN, NP Founder and President of Beautiful You Med Spa Hello Beautiful Friends, I’m Sheila Bowen, founder and president of Beautiful You Med Spa. Since opening our doors in 2006, my mission has been simple: to help every client embrace...
Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP)
I have observed many clients with thinning hair over the last fifteen years of doing permanent cosmetics. They use all kinds of methods to camouflage their hair loss such as parting their hair in various ways or using powders and sprays. Both men and women are often...
Rejuvenating Your Youthful Look
Since Beautiful You began providing permanent cosmetics in 2006, people have been asking, “What else do you do?” I always feel honored when I get this question because it tells me, in part, that my clients’ trust me and feel comfortable with me. As my clients are on...
Your Skin Can Impact Application of Permanent Eyeliner Springfield MO
As permanent cosmetics professionals, we’ve learned that there are a lot of variables when it comes to dealing with human skin. The protective skin of your body is the largest organ of the human body. In terms of implanting pigment into human skin for the purposes of a tattoo or permanent cosmetics, our technicians are experienced in dealing with many different variables and the medical background of our owner is essential in handling each situation properly.
Professional Eyebrow Tattoo Springfield, MO
Eyebrows, specifically microbladed brows, are all the rage right now. This is leading many people to try to get into the cosmetic tattooing game. The state of Missouri does not regulate microblading at all. In fact, it does not consider it tattoo and therefore does not feel it needs to be regulated at this point. Lots of people, often with no previous beauty or medical training, are running off to weekend workshops to learn “microblading” and then coming back and offering Groupon or local discounts for brows. A perfect brow photo is placed into the ad and for $75 – $100, you can get your brows done. But unfortunately you often get what you pay for.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder – Permanent Makeup Springfield MO
The permanent cosmetics industry sees its fair share of clients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). This disorder is a mental health condition where the person affected by it has the propensity to fret about their perceived visual flaws to the point of distraction...
Addressing Cancer Treatment Hair Loss With Permanent Makeup Springfield MO
Cancer can wreak havoc on the body and so can the treatments for cancer. People often lose their brows and their lashes. Sometimes these areas grow back and sometimes they never do. Along with the ravages of this awful disease on the body, self-perception can change...
Natural Looking Eyebrows with Microblading – Permanent Eyebrows Springfield MO
Microbladed (hair stroke) eyebrows are all the rage right now. Women and men, from fifteen to ninety years of age are trading in their sparse brows for a shaped and fuller looking brow line with microblading. Our eyebrows are the perfect frame for our eyes, which are...
Permanent Makeup on the Wetline of the Eye – Permanent Eyeliner Springfield MO
Often times women will ask to have the wetline of their eyes tattooed. A woman will wear eyeliner pencil or gel on their wetline daily and want this same look with their permanent makeup. For health and medical reasons, this is not a good idea. The Meibomian glands...
Color Correction For Permanent Eyebrows Springfield MO
We do a lot of correction work for women and men who have had previous permanent cosmetics done in years past. Like anything we put in or on our body, such as food or hair coloring, pigments from permanent eyebrows also oxidize in the tissue. This causes the color to...
Treating Hair Loss Issues With Permanent Makeup in Springfield MO
When filling out our health form for permanent cosmetics, many people ask us what Trichotillomania and Alopecia are as these two conditions are listed on our form. Trichotillomania is a condition that is characterized by the compulsive urge to pull out one’s hair,...
Choosing Warm or Cool Colors For Your Permanent Makeup Springfield MO
When considering colors for yourself in terms of permanent makeup or really anything, such as clothing, jewelry, makeup or accessories, one should really consider the undertones of your coloring. Your skin tone or undertone, doesn’t really relate to the shade of your...
Age Spot Removal with Micro Needling Springfield MO
Brown spots on the face, neck, chest, arms, hands, etc. are essentially from sun damage. You may have had them as freckles when you were younger, but they get larger and often darker as you get older. It is a good idea to have your skin checked every year or so to...
The Benefits of Permanent Eyeliner Springfield MO
The thought of a “tattoo” on the face, to many people, sounds frightening. In terms of permanent cosmetics, which is technically a tattoo, there are many positive things that can be done with this. Tattoo simply means to implant pigment or color, into the skin. This...
What’s Your Best Color – Black Isn’t Always The Best
I like women to wear their makeup into my studio the way they like to wear their makeup on a daily basis, or at least as close to that as they can get on their own. Some gals have trouble with their vision to be able to see close enough to get their makeup on evenly...
Winter Newsletter
Positive Aging
If you’re like me, you are constantly seeing marketing campaigns on television, social media, and in print; shared by friends, family and acquaintances; all designed to improve, reduce, emphasize, and sometimes altogether change your appearance. It can be overwhelming...
What Does Exercise Have To Do With Aging Beautifully?
I don’t know about you, but I am noticing many changes in my body the last couple of years as I enter my mid-50s. My body doesn’t respond as quickly to weight loss. Physical fitness changes one used to expect to see after a...
What is Beauty to You?
"Beauty is skin deep," as the saying goes. According to a Global Advisor Study done by 18,000 participants across 27 countries in 2019, the top five attributes of beauty included confidence, kindness, happiness, dignity, and intelligence. These attributes are...
Sunshine Through the Rain
Are you as tired of hearing about Covid as I am? How long is this bug going to be around? Last year at this time, I thought we were on our way out of this mess from a day-to-day, moment-by-moment basis. My daughter recently got married over Labor Day weekend and we...
Kissed by the Sun
Remember those days when you couldn’t get enough sun? For me, it started as a teenager when each spring, my sister, cousins, friends and I would sign up for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) fundraiser walk-a-thon. Preparing for the event included finding an...