Santa Monica
Even though is not a very big city, Santa Monica compensates by its famous landscape
and setting for numerous movies filmed here along the years. Santa Monica Pier is
shown in many movies, including Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Forrest Gump (1994),
Cellular (2004) and Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). And, of course, you will surely
find an equally good place to have a laser rejuvenating treatment and remove the
wrinkles and spots from your face or other parts of the body.
This non-ablative laser treatment goes deep into the layers of the skin and stimulates
the collagen to form and bring the skin back to its initial form. Since it doesn’t
affect the epidermal, is much more used nowadays than the ablative skin resurfacing.
This last one is not recommended to darker skinned people, who can experience discolorations,
burns or even scars.
But, after undergoing this treatment, you will be feeling perfectly walking along
the Third Street Promenade, a major shopping area where people get together, shop
and enjoy street shows. Bergamot Station includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art
and the musicians can still get the best instruments at McCabe's Guitar Shop.
And best treatment there is for wrinkles on the forehead, cheeks, nose or around
the mouth or even “spider” veins and brown spots. Fraxel is one such procedure,
using a fractional laser that limits the surface of the skin touched by the light
and reduces the chances of redness and swelling.
While you do that, the rest of the family can enjoy a ride at the Santa Monica Hippodrome
(carousel) and, in the evening, go together at the La Monica Ballroom, once the
biggest of its kind in the country. The next day, if lasers aren’t to your liking
or you consider the risks to high, try Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), a technique that
still uses powerful light, but it’s not a laser. After a few sessions’ weeks apart,
you will see how your skin smooth out and takes 10 years off your face, so you will
be able to spend the 310 days of sunshine that Santa Monica has every year.
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