A Quick Fix for Frownies: Frownies

Ahh those nasty “elevens” in between the eyes – those vertical crater-creases from too much stress or from being REALLY puzzled most of the time. When your eyebrows veer down a hundred times a day, day after day, congratulations!  You just rolled an “eleven.”  Well, if you’re sick of seeing math on your forehead, and don’t want to inject yourself with Botox, enter Frownies to the rescue!

What are Frownies?  Shhh….they are touted as “Hollywood’s Beauty Secret.” It says so right there on the package, so who can argue?  I was introduced to mine in an Emmy Awards goodie bag and tried them out for myself.  Here’s the 411 on this “secret.”

Frownies are patches that you apply to your expression lines and creases.  You can wear them overnight or during the day for a minimum of 3 hours.  Essentially, they are unbleached natural kraft paper with a water-activated, vegetable-based adhesive. You spray on the Rose Water hydrator spray (with Vitamin E and Hyaluronic Acid – good stuff) to the shiny side of Frownies Facial Patches to activate the adhesive.  Apply the patch directly over the targeted wrinkle, being sure to smooth it out, and let it sit. 

The theory behind Frownies is that you are relaxing the face muscles which created the crease and are actually “re-training” your muscles to relax. You WILL see an improvement from just one night with your Frownies patch, but the Frownies website states that since this is a training process, you will get “continual results with continual use.”  Translation: Use it one night, and your wrinkles will soften, but they will come back later in the day….use it continuously and they will start coming back later, or won’t come back at all.

I like to call Frownies “Botox in a Box” – and if Frownies would like to call them that too, I’d be happy to sell that slogan to them – the fact is, you CAN soften lines without injecting yourself with a toxic substance produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum – if you’re an actress and have a big shoot the next day, or you have a major social event where you want to look line-less, why not give Frownies a try?  They are a great quick fix and much more economical and less painful than an injection.

Oh, Frownies are not just for sleeping – you can wear them while fiddling around the house…I’ve heard of people wearing them while driving on long road trips…and heck, why not be the first on your block to wear a big ol’ patch on your forehead on your first date?  Great ice-breaker!  You never know until you try.

Want more proof?  Actress Raquel Welch said she uses  Frownies.  She’s 69. And who knows who ELSE does – I mean, afterall, it IS a secret….(uhh, Rene Russo and Glenn Close to name a couple).

Now when you wake up with these patches on your face, you can peel them off like a Band-aid, or if you are the sensitive type, use some warm water to help remove them.

TIP:  Go ahead and cut your Frownies before-hand. I’ve found this is the best way to cover exactly what you want covered.  If the patch is too big, or you don’t smooth out your wrinkle before applying, this may even CAUSE an indentation on your skin from the patch’s edges…and you don’t want that but those slight indentations do seem to go away quickly.

A Combo of Corner of Eyes and Mouth Patches and Rose Water Hydrating Spray (144 patches) goes for $29.95.

        

Combo of Forehead and Between Eyes Patch and Rose Water Hydrating Spray (144 patches) is also $29.95.

        

The secret is out.  Pass it on and SMILE !

The Galvanic Home Spa Product Review

Women are boasting looking 8 years younger after just 2 months of using this skincare system for just five minutes, twice a week, so I JUMPED at the opportunity to see it first hand in a personal demo. I’ve heard it’s the skin care system Toni Braxton and Nicole Kidman uses, and it’s been popping up all over the news as the latest and greatest.

It’s the Galvanic Home Spa. Simply put, it’s a little gadget that uses negative and positive ions to increase circulation, remove impurities from your skin and deliver product into your skin. The device comes with four interchangeable conductors: the ageLOC facial conductor (to be used with ageLOC facial gels), a spot treatment conductor for targeting specific areas, a scalp conductor and a body conductor to be used with a body shaping gel.

First, let’s all transport back to 6th grade science class for a second. Eww….

“Galvanic” refers to electricity. Wait up! Electric current on MY FACE you ask? Yes, this gadget involves a low-level electric current and is SAFE. No, it doesn’t even prick. Back to school - The basic laws of electricity are:

1. like repels like
2. opposites attract

Good, now that that’s over… here’s the basics on how the gadget works and the process for a facial.

Step One is a negatively charged Pre-treat gel. You use this with a negative ion current. The two negative charges repel each other, so essentially, this “forces” the purifying ingredients into your pores, where they adhere to impurities like oil and pollutants.

Step Two is another gel that is positively charged. You use this with a positive ion current on the instrument. The positive charges attract the negatively charged impurities and pull them out, while delivering more good stuff in.

The online instructional video made it look a lot more complicated than it actually is. For Step 1, you just select the setting to “1” and step 2, set it to “2”, so it’s pretty simple…

For a “spot treatment” – say one of those nasty creases - just snap on a different attachment “head” and you are good to go on setting #3.  You can use the Galvanic's recommended line corrector product – a product scientifically designed to increase collagen in your skin - or use one of your high-quality wrinkle products (just make it high-quality because you are getting the benefit of it permeating into your skin much faster along with the Galvanic Spa than applying a wrinkle product alone - and of note, you do NOT want to use a product with Retin-A here).

I did one side of my face with the two-step facial process with the gels described above. The technique takes a little practice, as you should not remove the metal head from your face (this is to keep the current going) and you should glide the instrument over your face in sweeping motions. I didn’t feel any electrical current going through my face but the device beeps to let you know current is going through. And, you must wet your hands for this facial – this is because the water helps conduct the current. But all in all the process is simple and just takes some getting used to.

Now…for the RESULTS – the right side of my face had a nice glow to it and amazingly, I could tell that the skin around my mouth area tightened up. Someone pointed out that my eyebrows looked more lifted…. But the big test was a wrinkle that had softened to nearly zero visibility! That’s pretty good from 2 steps that total up to five minutes!

The gels are very soothing and from what I’ve read, the science behind the AgeLOC gels and the whole AgeLOC product line is some of the most advanced out there. The system is also supposed to decrease pigmentation – heard lots of stories from users who say their brown patches and freckles are gone!

After one of these facials, I was told that you will absorb 80% more of whatever you put on your face afterwards. That’s insanely amazing…remember the days of getting a new wrinkle cream, using it religiously and then not seeing results until oh Week 5? Gone. If your skin is absorbing more of a product (and it’s high quality), then results from that product are going to show dramatically sooner.

With visible results after using the device and gels after only one time, I’m snagging up one of these babies and plan on turning back that age clock! Not to worry, I’ll be posting updates on my progress!

The link below features testimonials from people who methodically used the product on one side of their face only for weeks or months. You can see the dramatic difference and can tell which side they used the product on. These poor souls have to do some catching up on the other sides of their faces – but it shows the dramatic difference that can take place in a short period of time.  Soooo exciting !!!

Galvanic Home Spa Testimonials