SOME LIKE IT TAUT!
Celebrity secrets for a toned beach bod the easy way
Like many of us stuck home over the past year, Sandra Hinke fell out of her beauty and fitness routines during the pandemic. When spring came and she was ready to trade her loungewear for more revealing clothes, the retired teacher wasn’t thrilled with her appearance.
“I usually work out a lot and I was always very consistent with my upkeep, but being in the house for a year really took a toll on my body,’’ said the 53-year-old, who lives in Dix Hills, LI. “I wanted to get myself beach-ready.’’
So, she signed on for radiofrequency microneedling treatments, meant to improve skin laxity and decrease wrinkling, from dermatologist Marina Peredo, who has offices in Dix Hills and on the Upper East Side. These were followed by the topical application of exosomes, an experimental cell-based therapy thought to promote tissue growth factors and speed healing.
“I immediately felt my skin was tighter,’’ she said of the procedure, which required three 30-minute sessions and cost $5,000 total for her neck, chest and arms. Her skin was only red for a day or two.
“I had done my face before and now my body matched,’’ she said.
Doctors say they’re now seeing an influx of people looking for ways to quickly take their look from housebound to hot girl summer.
“We have experienced a dramatic increase in [requests for] body treatments over the past few months,’’ said cosmetic dermatologist Anetta Reszko, who has offices on Park Avenue. “Eighty percent of the requests used to be for the face, but now at least 50 percent are for the body.’’
Being home so much over the past 18 months led Sher Jansen to become more critical of herself.
“I had a lot of time to fixate on the things that bothered me,’’ said the 26-year-old emergency room nurse who lives in Stamford, Conn., with her husband and toddler.
Jansen turned to Reszko for help tightening the skin on her tummy and around her elbows and knees. She underwent two radiofrequency microneedling sessions spaced two weeks apart at a total cost of $7,000.
To further target her abs, she added on two weeks of biweekly sessions of Emsculpt Neo at a total cost of $3,000. Emsculpt toning devices are hugely popular with celebrities, such as Kim Kardashian, Olivia Culpo, Megan Fox and Addison Rae, and claim to deliver the results of doing 20,000 crunches in 30 minutes, using a combination of electromagnetic energy to contract and tone the muscles and radiofrequency to melt fat.
“My skin is much tighter, my stretch marks dramatically lessened and I have my abs back,’’ Jansen said. “I’m headed to Spain this summer and I’m excited to buy some bikinis. I have a formfitting silk dress I love but it’s been sitting in my closet because it shows every imperfection. Now I’m definitely packing that!”
Dr. Paul Frank, a dermatologist with offices in the West Village and on the Upper East Side, notes that the demand is due to buzz about the latest machines as well as timing.
“The [Emsculpt] Neo addresses the trifecta of skin, fat and muscle,’’ said Frank, whose practice has a full range of cutting-edge devices. “These new technologies have created awareness, and there are so many requests because the coming-out party of people from COVID collates with summer.’’
Here’s a closer look at microneedling, Emsculpt and other
rapid ways New Yorkers are fasttracking a better body with no knives and no down time.