Ah, winter. A magical time of snow-covered landscapes, cuddling up by a crackling fire, cozy sweaters...and dry skin. If you’re battling dry skin this time of year, you’re certainly not alone. Cold air outside paired with hot, dry air inside can lead to dry, itchy, and red skin.

Take a break from the winter weather, cuddle up with a nice cup of tea, and browse through our top tips for improving dry winter skin. Your skin will be back to its supple self in no time.

Did you know there’s seasonality to skincare? Because there definitely is!

Different climate, temperature, humidity, sun exposure, and lifestyle all impact your skin differently. These seasonal variations also impact when some skincare treatments are best suited.

Exfoliation at home and in the salon is a big one that you want to cater to the time of year.

Why? The sun ☀️

I’m sure the very first thought you’re having when looking at the title of this blog post is, “Um, what?”

And yes, it is a bit creative and even a little unorthodox.

But today’s blog post is a special one because it’s a collaboration with our close friends at Merci’s Tailoring. Another business owned by the multi-talented and never bored skincare specialist and electrolysis professional: Teresa Dove!

Together with her daughter, Katherine, and the rest of the family, they operate an alterations and tailoring shop in Cedar Rapids working on all types of clothing, with a speciality in formal attire.

But what on earth do sunscreen and tailoring have in common?

We’re back with a new list of our top 5 best selling skincare products, — now updated for 2024!

The skincare counter can be really overwhelming, so let us (and our customers from 2023) do some paring down for you. Take a browse through our best skincare products by sales, and maybe you’ll see one that’s the skincare match you’ve been looking for.

So you’ve just had a facial treatment!

Feeling relaxed? Rejuvenated?

We hope so!

We recently shared a blog post on How to prepare for a facial that shared 5 steps to prepare for your first, or next, facial.

Well, as a natural companion to that post, today we’re sharing what logically happens next: facial treatment after-care!

Whether it was your first or your hundredth trip to the skincare salon, there are some steps you may need to follow after your treatment.

Let’s dive in!

We want to look and feel our best for our event. People aside, there are likely going to be tons of photos taken of us at this event, so we’d like the best version of our skin memorialized. Glowing, hydrated, youthful looking skin, all traits a facial can help achieve, is quite the seller!

So that’s exactly what we’re tackling today. Not only when to actually schedule your facial before an event, but also the side effects of facials from the various treatments they include, and how that impacts your skincare timeline.

Many of our clients have also been regular patrons of facials, but not everyone has already been introduced to this area of skincare, and trying to break into the world of facial treatments can be daunting.

So today we’re talking about facial prep! While chatting with Teresa about this topic, I gleaned these 5 steps to take to prepare for your first, or next, facial.

Choosing skincare products can be a huge challenge given the overwhelming section staring at us from the skincare counter. Eyes glaze over, and soon we can’t tell our cleansers from our toners. So we ask our friends and family, “what do you buy?” for a chance at a shortlist of products to sift through.

We read recommendations and scan reviews online, trying to narrow in even further. But sometimes numbers are the biggest talkers!

So today we’ve put together our shortlist our clients’ favorite skincare products at Professional Image Enhancement in Cedar Rapids - our top sellers in 2022!

So you’ve come up with the idea to gift them a pampering, relaxing facial at a local salon to show them how much you care for them. Sounds perfect and romantic, right? How do you know it really is the perfect gift you thought it was?

Today we’ll walk through how you can be confident in whether a relaxing and personalized facial is perfect for your Valentine.

Acne remains one of the most common skin conditions in the United States, and is well represented in the reasons many of our own clients come to see us. Famously, it is most often associated with those in their teen and young adult years. But as many of us know all too well, acne can also follow us far into adulthood.

Today we’re talking about just one of the treatments we offer in our Cedar Rapids salon to address, treat, and prevent acne for our clients: the acne facial.

No matter the gift giving holiday, we’re always looking for new and exciting ideas for our loved ones. Everyone wants to be that perfect gift-giver, don’t they? Well here are some ideas to send you in the right direction for your skincare loving friend or relative this Christmas (or whatever holiday!).

Happy Thanksgiving!

To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we decided to share the top 5 skincare ingredients we're the most thankful for. Some of these have been around for a while, while others are a bit newer. Use this list as inspiration for your next conversation with your skincare specialist, perhaps one of these ingredients is just what your skincare routine needs.

It's prom time! Like any big event, you want to look your best. Between the dresses, tuxes, flowers, dinner, and everything else, you might easily forget about your most important accessory -  your skin! So to make sure this accessory doesn't end up lack-luster, we put together 7 indispensable prom prep skin care tips from our Week of Prom Prep.

We've all heard the conventional wisdom - winter is bad on the skin, take care of it, moisturize... But why?