Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Save Face

Finally, months after the "Big Day", the article written by Greg Vanderpyl for AUGUST MAN magazine is published.

The feature was a promise made by the ex-editor in exchange for exclusive rights (amongst men's magazines) for our beloved Chocolate (Diamond Contours Biomesosculpture) machine. That was in Spring 2007...

Their excuse? They couldn't see how to write such a "long" article about one treatment.

So they eventually decided to feature the clinic instead, and a few treatments, not just one. Then came the big problem... They could not find a male writer to brave an aesthetic clinic! Finally, they approached Greg. Big, brave, American Greg with tattoos down both arms. He was due to get married 3 weeks after the initial consultation. Our brief was to get him looking his best for the big day.

I hate deadlines like this. Big day, little time for error... Little time to get fantastic results.

Greg's almost forty and in pretty good shape. A few wrinkles and early signs of sagging, but otherwise excellent nick. He wanted some sun damage removed, lifting and reduction of double chin. Solution: IPL & RF.

The results from the first session alone were pretty good. We squeezed in 3 sessions with the RF before the big day. Unfortunately the IPL was out of order after that, so we could not give him another session.

He said the results did not last. That is to be expected since he did not complete the treatment program. He also did not complement the treatment with creams for daily maintenance treatment. I'm sure there's an element of forgetting baseline too. That's quite normal.

Anyway, he looked good on the "Big Day", and that's what matters.

For those who want to read the article, it's on page 90 of AUGUST MAN June 2008. Greg in full tattooed glory can be see on his other article on page 128-9 of the same issue.