Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York – who doesn’t know them? In the famous cult series Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker alias Carrie paints the town red with her best friends. Although they couldn’t be more different in personality, they get along famously. The ambitious columnist Carrie is unhappy in love with Mr. Big, the initial men-hating lawyer Miranda knows only at the end of the series how to appreciate men, Samantha is permanently in search of new sex adventures and Charlotte is showing off with being already married.
16 years by now the first episode of Sex and the City was shot, in 2004 the filming was wrapped up. The American series classic was continued in form of two films in 2008 and 2012. During that long shooting and broadcasting time fans also had the opportunity to follow the actresses’ aging process. Although tiny wrinkles and other aging signs get mellowed by make-up and other tricks, photos of paparazzi are showing us the naked truth.
Sarah’s eye and forehead wrinkles get masked at public events, whereas other parts of her body remain completely untouched. We are talking about her hands. Thick protruding veins are winding upwards the backs of her hands – media even talked about “scary hands”. But are we forced to face up to this?
Body parts that are especially hard to conceal, like our hands, often give away our secret about age. Fortunately modern medicine provides manifold treatments, often completely without the help of synthetic fillers, botox, or lifting surgeries. Treatments with autologous stem cells and stem cell-enriched autologous fat allow for gentle rejuvenation of skin areas of the face, hands, and also the cleavage.
A small amount of autologous fat – often taken from the belly, thighs, or hips – is harvested using thin microcannulas. Subsequently, the stem cells extracted from it get injected either directly into the skin, where they can show a regenerating effect, or in case of severe protruding veins they can be injected together with autologous fat in order to substitute missing subcutaneous volume. That’s the way to make protruding veins disappear. If Sarah Jessica Parker wants to add freshness to her performances on the red carpet, she should make use of the potential of her stem cells.
What Sarah definitely doesn’t need, but is asked for by many other women as an additional treatment, is a facial liposculpture, at which fat is removed from facial areas like cheeks, neck, or chin by special facial microcannulas in order to optimize their shape.
As an alternative to skin treatments with autologous stem cells we can also achieve good results by the use of growth factors from skin cells (Epidermal Growth Factors). These get injected into the skin by a micro-needle derma roller, where they can take their full effect. Because this treatment is very easy to handle, the patient can repeat it for herself after an introduction. The effect is quite of a temporary nature.
Another treatment of the skin that also uses a micro-needle derma roller is treatment with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) extracted from autologous blood, also called vampire lifting. PRP has the potential to regenerate the skin for a certain time and to give her new freshness. By the way, PRP is currently also very trendy in the starlet scene.
Anyway, the famous actress will be back on screen quite soon. Sarah grabbed one of the principal roles in the new crime series Busted and is thus able to celebrate her comeback after a few years break. We have to stay curious if we can admire Sarah with rejuvenated hands soon. First filming began in autumn; this means that we have to take a little patience with the satisfaction of our curiosity until the premiere.
DDr. Heinrich, MD