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Skin Care, Tips & Awareness, Uncategorized

No-Shave November: 10 Reasons To Participate

On behalf of Dr. Lawrence Jaeger and the medical staff at Advanced Dermatology Associates, are extremely focused on ensuring optimum health is a choice of life for everyone. As the leading Dermatologist provider network in New York City, we strongly encourage both men and women to educate themselves with the proper knowledge and to seek the necessary medical care for decreasing the incidences of cancer. So, we’re putting down the razors for a month here and participating in No-Shave November: 10 Reasons To Participate.

What is No-Shave November?

No-Shave November is a month-long journey during which participants forgo shaving and grooming in order to evoke conversation and raise cancer awareness.It’s become an extremely popular and unique way to grow cancer awareness through non-shaving or growing your hair.

What is the Goal?

The goal of No-Shave November (organization) is to grow awareness by embracing our hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free. Donate the money you typically spend on shaving and grooming to educate about cancer prevention, save lives, and aid those fighting the battle.

No-Shave November: 10 Reasons to Participate

How Can I Participate?

The rules of No-Shave November are simple: put down your razor for 30 days and donate your monthly hair-maintenance expenses to the cause. Strict dress-code at work? Don’t worry about it! They encourage participation of any kind; grooming and trimming are perfectly acceptable.

NO-SHAVE NOVEMBER: 10 REASONS TO PARTICIPATE 

1. No-Shave November is proud to be working with the following organizations in 2016 to achieve their mission. Those Funded Programs are: American Cancer Society,  Prevent Cancer Foundation, Fight Colorectal Cancer & St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

2. The least you can do is “Like, Retweet, Snap & More”
Help spread awareness by sharing No-Shave November on social media. Now that you’re rocking that new look, snap it and let the world know that you’re participating in the fun! Every like and every re-tweet grows the No-Shave November community.

3. Anyone Can Participate. Male or Female. Men, Women, Boys & Girls. Even let your furry family members participate.

4. Monies Donated (2016) $458,446 has been raised by 15,998 members, 1,454 teams and 224 organizations.

5. We Are All Allowed to be a Little Lazier This Month – because shaving is a chore. It takes up time that you could use to sleep, shower, eat, or do just about anything else. Most men don’t really care for shaving anyway… so, it’s nice to have a whole month off.

6. Give Your Skin Time to Breathe – Taking a break from shaving gives your skin time to recover. When you grow the hair out, you avoid opening pores to infection. You also aren’t dealing with the bacteria that thrives on razors.

7. Not Shaving Controls Pseudofolliculitis Barbae (PFB), or ingrown hairs under control for at least a month. Folliculitis which commonly occurs in men of color who have coarse, curly facial hair – is a result of hair follicle infections as a result of shaving/razor blades.

8. Stop Shaving & Save the environment – If men skip the five minutes to shave daily, they can save up to 375 gallons of water in the month of November. If women skip those five minutes to shave their legs every other day, then they can save about 188 gallons of water in just four weeks.

9. Reap the Benefits. Beards can actually reduce allergic reactions because it acts as a barrier for allergen particles. Beards can also keep your skin moisturized, help battle colds, limit the risk of infections, and can act as a natural sunblock.

10. Do you really need another reason for not shaving? Let that facial, arm or leg hair grow a little. Flaunt a beard or refrain from shaving for a month and become part of a “doing good campaign”.

Tips & Awareness, Uncategorized

What Is World Smile Day?

Curious minds always want to know.

So, did you know that today is World Smile Day?

Although a smile should consume every moment of our short lives. Today is a reminder established by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts.

After World War II, Ball was employed by a local advertising firm until he started his own business, Harvey Ball

Harvey Ball - World Smile Day History
Harvey Ball – World Smile Day History – established in 1999.

Advertising, in 1959. He designed the smiley in 1963.

The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts (now known as Hanover Insurance) had purchased Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio. The merger resulted in low employee morale. In an attempt to solve this, Ball was employed in 1963 as a freelance artist, to come up with an image to increase morale. What he created was a smiley face, with one eye bigger than the other. In less than ten minutes, Harvey Ball came up with the simple yet world-changing smiley face. The simplicity of the image brought smiles to the faces of the executives, who paid him $45 for his creation.[2]

This image went on to become the most recognizable symbol of good will and good cheer on the planet.

Yes, the infamous smiley face that knows NO politics, NO geography and NO religion.

But unhappy with how the smiley face was being used across the world (i.e. over-commercialization of his creation), Harvey believed that we, all of us, should devote one day each year to smiles and kind acts throughout the world. Harvey’s idea was that for at least one day each year, neither should we. He declared that the first Friday in October each year would henceforth be World Smile Day®. Ever since then, the first World Smile Day® was held in 1999, and has continued every year in Smiley’s hometown of Worcester, MA & around the world.

Harvey Ball died on April 12, 2001 of liver failure at the age of 79. Nearly 50 years after commissioning its creation, the company now known as Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance still uses his Smiley Face in its promo materials.

Just as Harvey believed in… We so believe that”Everyday should be World Smile Day” here at Advanced Dermatology Associates. – Lawrence Jaeger, DO

For a fuller sexier smile stop by one of our medical facilities and schedule a Juvederm treatment.  Juvederm is a hyaluronic acid.  You can expect to get a great set of lips from Juvederm treatment. Juvederm is a naturally occurring sugar in our body and because it is easily accepted by the body; it’s not likely to create a reaction. Typical of reactions you can get with man-made synthetic agents like silicone and Artefill.

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