If you are going into any kind of surgery, it is common knowledge that you should stop smoking.  While this is documented, do the same health risks come in with vaping?  The answer is a resounding yes.  For any kind of surgery, especially plastic surgery, you should stop intake of all tobacco products.  The primary reason is that all tobacco, smoking, vaping, and chewing, have nicotine.  Here is why you should stop vaping before plastic surgery.

Nicotine is the big bad guy for the equation.  Nicotine is known as a vasoconstrictor, or blood vessel reducer.  The effects of nicotine on the body reduces how fast your body can recover by decreasing circulation.  While this is normally alright, having this effect while healing from surgery can lengthen how long it takes to get better and lead to the need for additional surgery.  The effects are worse with plastic surgery due to all the micro vessels in the skin.

Another risk for surgery is anesthesia.  Intaking nicotine alters the basic chemistry of your body over time.  This makes it difficult to predict how certain chemicals and medicines will affect your body.  The same can be said for the  effectiveness of pain medication for recovery.  Either of these not working as they should can make the surgery more painful than it should be.  For long term nicotine users, you also deplete the oxygen in your blood, which could make it harder to breather under anesthesia.

Vaping is safer than smoking in this regard, but not by much.  Smoking can have the increased risk of blood clots and infections but vaping still contains nicotine.  Even if you switch to vaping, you still run the risks above and an additional risk of scarring.  For plastic surgery, scaring is the last thing you want, regardless of how skilled your surgeon is.  For facelifts, tummy tucks, or even breast augmentation, the goal is to reduce the scarring size.  Nicotine intake can make these scars more pronounced.

The news is not all bad. When you decide that you are going to have surgery, you should take steps to stop your nicotine intake as soon as possible.  With vaping, you can stage down the amount of nicotine inside your vapes.  This will help you ween yourself off quicker than with cigarettes.  Ideally, you want to stop as soon as possible.  You should aim to stop vaping at the very minimum of six weeks before any major surgery, or eight weeks for plastic surgery.

Vaping is considerably safer in several regards over cigarettes, but not in this arena.  There are several major complications that can happen with vaping before plastic surgery.  You do not want increased scaring, longer recovery time, or worse, additional surgery.  Take the word for the wise and reduce your use then quit altogether for at least two months before hand and one month after.  It may seem like a long stretch, but by practicing safe methods of vaping before plastic surgery, you increase your chances of success.

Pharrell Williams is a household name with adults and children alike dancing to his iconic works like “Happy” and “Shine”. His “ah shucks” smile instantly cements him as a favorite celeb.

But what impresses us more than his succession of 11 Grammy awards, is his ageless complexion.

The Pharell Williams Happy Music Video

In an industry that crushes the most optimistic of souls; his face shines with the youth and vigor of a freshman college student.

At 44 years old, Pharrell maintains the sex appeal of a man half his age. Combine his good looks with a 25-year music career, and you have a proven formula that puts him in league with the most legendary artists.

In his recent interview with Dazed, Williams revealed his simple, two-step process to maintaining an eternally youthful face.

1. Exfoliate

For Williams, clean skin is an acknowledged obsession. “To me, the key is just exfoliating, like a monster. There’s a lot of dead skin.” He continues, “All the time. Like a narcissistic madman.”

Exfoliation on this level requires a time commitment. It is clear that for Williams, his skin’s health is as important to him as his music career.

In addition to removing dead skin cells and excess oils, consistent exfoliation encourages the skin to produce more collagen, creating a tighter, smoother look.

People with thicker, oilier skin can get away with a more aggressive exfoliation routine. This includes over the counter formulas of 2% Salicylic Acid, Mechanical scrubbers and a daily routine.

Conversely, those with drier, more sensitive skin types will experience better results with less aggressive sugar scrubs and an every-other day schedule.

Thanks to an earlier interview we know that Williams uses a Glytone cleanser which offers a gentle exfoliating benefit for his consistent practice.

2. Hydrate

In addition to his daily skincare practice, Williams also credits his discipline of quality hydration for his good looks, saying “When you… you drink a lot of water, that does good for you.”

Most of us will immediately agree that we need to drink more water. After all, as many as 75% of Americans of may spend their lives chronically dehydrated

However, for Williams, hydration goes beyond just drinking more water. In a separate interview, given three years ago to US Magazine, Williams reveals that he drinks Pedialyte® almost every day.

Pedialyte® is a low-sugar electrolyte drink originally designed to promote hydration for children suffering from the flu. For Williams, it serves as the cornerstone to his hydration routine, supported by “lots of water”.

Granted, many of his fans are going to be disappointed with his simplistic answer. And, perhaps, even he is overlooking one important piece to his routine: consistency.

All of us can agree that hydration and exfoliation are essential components of a beauty routine. If Pharrell is as consistent with his beauty routine as he is with his 35+ year career, then, perhaps, it makes sense that he is seeing uncommon benefits.

The good news is that it is a simple routine and offers the potential of similar results for anyone with enough time and dedication to the process.

Recently, we spoke about removing dark under eye circles.  Today, we switch to those nasty bags!

Getting Rid of Eye Bags

Eye bags – minor periorbital puffiness generally recognizable beneath the eyes. Periorbital edema. Periorbital puffiness, otherwise called “puffy eyes”, or swelling around the eyes, is the presence of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the circles. Keeping a healthy lifestyle can help reduce the puffiness under the eyes. Keeping away from salty food, keeping up with a healthy regime can do wonders. From cosmetics to surgeries there’s a great deal of things that can be done to help drain the under eye bags.

Change your dietary routines. A salty food combined with a couple of mixed drinks is fine now and then, however in the event that you make an everyday habit for eating salt and drinking liquor, it can have a long haul impact on your eye bags. A long time of water detainment in the facial zone can prompt for all time extended bags. To keep this from transpiring, have a go at rolling out the accompanying improvements: Decrease the measure of salt you use in ordinary cooking. Have a go at slicing it down the middle or removing it – you’d be shocked how tasty nourishment can be without the expansion of a considerable measure of salt. Decrease the salt you use in heated products and maintaining a strategic distance from salt out and out at dinnertime, since your body won’t have sufficient energy to adjust things out before you sleep. Drink less liquor. Drinking liquor causes water retention, so the less you drink, the less puffy your under-eye bags will look in the morning. On the evenings when you do drink, take after every beverage with an equivalent measure of water. Attempt to quit drinking at early hour in night as opposed to having your last one recently before bed.

Get filler. Bags or circles created by maturing won’t react to way of life changes; however getting a hyaluronic filler can enhance the presence of the under-eye territory. The filler is infused under the eyes to make the shapes of the eye attachment seem younger. This system can be risky in the event that it’s not done by an expert. Do scrutinize before focusing on getting filler. Fillers for the most part cost a few hundred dollars, and can prompt negative reactions like wounding and swelling.

Get surgery. As individuals age, fat stores move down from the eyeballs and aggregate in the under-eye territory, prompting bags. Blepharoplasty is the procedure of evacuating or changing the position of the fat that has gathered, trailed by a laser treatment to fix the skin in the area. Blepharoplasty strategies more often than not cost amongst $2,000 and $5,000 dollars. The recuperation time frame can most recent a few weeks

If you’re done doing all the home remedies and make up techniques they’re still options that could be used such as surgeries and fillers. While a healthier approach is still maintaining a good healthy life style topped with good sleep that will definitely keep you away from the swollen eyes.

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