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Insights on longevity, aesthetics & wellness
402+ evidence-based articles from the Body Tonic RX clinical team on hormone health, peptide therapy, metabolic optimization, and the future of aesthetic medicine.
August 14, 2017
Micro Laser Peel Treatment: Get Your Hands Looking Like You’re in College Again
I’m having a hard time concentrating on just about anything the last few weeks, especially tonight. Last Wednesday I left my baby girl in her dorm room at college for the first time. That’s a bizarre…
July 17, 2017
Bottoms Up: Sculptra, Vanquish and Kybella are the New Cocktail for Your Backside
Butts are pretty trendy these days. Well, for awhile now. Not to say people didn’t desire a great butt before, but over the last several years, it seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Genetical…
July 2, 2017
All the Right Moves: Sculptra and Kybella Treatments for Shaping and Augmenting in All the Right Pla
There’s been an awful lot happening in my life lately. My baby girl is off to college at OU next month so the last two months have been a series of “lasts” including her prom, baccalaureate, graduatio…
June 21, 2017
The New SkinBetter Science Alto Defense Serum May Be The Secret to Stopping Premature Aging
As beauty editors — especially ones of Allure lineage — our proverbial antennae are always scanning for the next big thing. So when an award-winning brand with a track record for breakthrough formulas…
June 19, 2017
Dermaplaning: How a Surgical Blade is Going to Make You Love Your Skin
The other morning I walked in on Kit with a surgical blade to her face in Room 1. She has the magical talent of being able to dermaplane herself. I am very jealous of this. I’ve seen Iris do it too. T…
June 6, 2017
PRP: A Real Hair Miracle
Boys and their hair! A few of the ladies of Body Tonic RX have husbands or boyfriends who are losing their hair. And it’s pretty much always a source of discussion for them. My boyfriend is pretty muc…
April 30, 2017
Butter for Your Face: Vollure Makes a Smooth Entrance
I rarely see our injectors get overly excited about a new product. But just a few weeks ago a new filler hit the market called Vollure. Right after Iris injected it the first time she came in my offic…
April 21, 2017
5 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Skincare
None of my friends do any kind of med spa treatments, nor do they use professional skin care products. No facials, no peels, no Botox, no retinoids….Nothing! I never really bring it up because 1) I fi…
April 9, 2017
How to Not Be Bald: PRP for Hair Restoration
My boyfriend was at Body Tonic RX this past week (blush). Even though we’ve been together for a long time he still makes me giddy. So I was very happy to see him at my place of business for a few hour…
March 24, 2017
Eat Your Way Out of Bruising and Swelling: an Anti-Inflammatory Solution
Am I going to swell? Will I bruise? How long will I be swollen? These are very common questions we get from injectable clients. If you want to avoid the worst of it, try out this anti-inflammatory die…
March 15, 2017
The Girl’s Got Skills: A Text From the Gym Floor Showed Me First Hand How Talented Our Julie Rea
My back is hurting so bad today I’ve brought my laptop into Gina’s room so I can sit in her bed and write. If you have chronic back pain you’re probably used to the questions and slew of advice proffe…
March 1, 2017
Puerto Vallarta Pretty: Tint, Lift, Inject, Spray…Repeat
We are getting super excited about our upcoming girls trip to Puerto Vallarta! We are incredibly fortunate to seriously have the best boss ever, who takes us on a super vacay about every 2 years!! As…
February 24, 2017
H.A. Intensifier: A New Level of Anti-Aging
Skin Ceuticals, a company we all love for their amazingly effective serums, has just released a new product: H.A. Intensifier. H.A. is short for hyaluronic acid. It’s what almost all dermal fillers ar…
February 9, 2017
Redefyning Beauty? Welcome the Newest Fillers: Restylane Refyne and Defyne
If you’ve ever had a filler appointment with us you know we always ask for pre-filler stipulations: no Advil, no fish oil, no melatonin, no Vitamin E for a week before, and no alcohol for at least 24-…
January 27, 2017
Countdown to Mexico: Body Tonic Rx Help for Being Beach Body Ready
Holy moly it’s practically spring break already! OK, I mean it’s really about 7 to 8 weeks away, but if you’re at all concerned with wearing a bathing suit, 7 to 8 weeks is practically tomorrow. We Bo…
January 2, 2017
2017. And So It Begins: Make It Count
I was all out of blog ideas for this week. I took my laptop into Leslie’s empty treatment room on the afternoon of the 30th (I do this sometimes when my back hurts and her super comfy room is open). I…
December 22, 2016
A Deviation on the Five-Year Plan and Our Top Five of 2016
About five years ago I left a relationship and found myself, at 37, on my own for the first time ever in my life. I got married at 23 so I went straight from a college roommate to married with a baby.…
December 12, 2016
African Children’s Choir and Kit’s New Husband
There’s a movie clip that comes back to me very often in my life….it generally pops up when I think back on my time in college and when I left the doctoral program at UT in History and African-America…
November 17, 2016
Skincare Topics from Divorce Central: Affordable Products to Keep You Beautiful
I live in an apartment in Westlake Hills, which I sometimes lovingly call “divorce central”. They are high-end apartments and so the demographic there is generally newly divorced, or people who want t…
November 13, 2016
Leslie is a Microblading “Guru”: Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin Winner for Microbla
I got a group text a few days ago from Leslie, to me and Stacey: look who made it into the Chronicle! Our Leslie Sazon won Austin Chronicle’s Critic’s Choice for Best Of Austin for microblading! Here’…
November 7, 2016
Blog from the Couch: Beauty Recap from a Crip
I am not sure I am even qualified to write a beauty blog right now! I’ve been out of the spa for a week now. I currently sit on my couch, where I’ve mostly been since Tuesday, watching the Big Chill (…
October 16, 2016
The Before and Afters of Better Skin
We will be featuring our new skincare line, Skin Better, as part of our Open House on November 3rd. Truly I haven’t seen our staff this excited about skincare products since I’ve worked here (that’s a…
September 25, 2016
Eight Things To Do If You Want to Avoid Wearing Makeup
Some girls like to wear makeup. In this industry I am surrounded by very made-up ladies. Gorgeous women everywhere. On top of that, I feel like we are in the middle of some pretty strong beauty trends…
September 18, 2016
Rules Are Made to Be Broken…Until It’s Time to Try a New Product
My summer started off with a literal bang, as my daughter was in a car wreck in June. Not to be outdone by the start of summer, my daughter book-ended it with an appendicitis scare and a day at Seton…