Beauty Tips

Beauty Procedures You Can Do on Your Lunch Break

We'd trade a turkey sandwich for any of these health and beauty treatments, any day of the week

by Anna Jimenez

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Varicose vein treatment As many as 35 percent of adults suffer from unsightly, bulging purple, or dark blue varicose veins in their legs or feet. What used to take invasive surgery and two to three days in the hospital to remedy, the "lunchtime leg lift" now only takes 25 to 30 minutes with no major downtime. Ladies, it's officially the future.

A newly FDA-approved radio frequency can get rid of varicose veins through a tiny catheter that seals the veins shut with little to no pain and zero recovery. More good news: Most insurance plans pay for the operation, which costs about $2,000.

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That's great that they can be done during lunch break.

by Monique3 Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 09:23AM Report as inappropriate

Cool procedures. I'd love to try the under eye one!

by yestfl Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 07:50PM Report as inappropriate

Interesting procedures! Thanks for mentioning the one for varicose veins, as my husband needs to have it done and claims it's horribly painful. I can show him this!

by GigiSD Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 04:40PM Report as inappropriate

Fascinating... in an "that's so alien, it will never be part of my world" sort of way.

by purple9a Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 04:03PM Report as inappropriate

I would love to have the V Beam

by EricaC123 Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 07:49AM Report as inappropriate

The LED teeth whitening treatment seems great. post regular whitening you have to be so careful as to what you expose your teeth to, as they're so porous, and even more susceptible to stains.

by robyne00 Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 06:41PM Report as inappropriate

I had IPL and it made my face very red all day, can't comment on VPL.

by lilas Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 05:47PM Report as inappropriate

The eyebrow HD seems super interesting! Definitely something non-invasive and relatively inexpensive that can have great results.

by schien Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 01:49PM Report as inappropriate

Good skin care routine, lots of water to drink along with great food, little sun and the attitude to enjoy the aging process with grace.

by Ydabney Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 12:55PM Report as inappropriate

The needles in the first two slides scare me, but the eyebrow HD treatment is something I'm interested in doing.

by MissXu Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 10:37AM Report as inappropriate