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Plumped, Injected, Relaxed, Perfected! RAND RUSHER THE GO TO FOR BOTOX AND FILLERS

November 12, 2008



Just
saying his name, the way it rolls off my tongue like the name of an exotic
dessert I could never make at home, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Here,
try it for yourself :
RAND RUSHER 

Could
anything sound more perfect? And wait until you see him, this gorgeous hunk of
male-nurse-ness. Take my face, you’ll want to say. Take it and stick your
needles into it. Do with it whatever you wish. It’s yours. I’m yours. Let’s do
this.

The Mathematics of
a Beautiful Face
is
what Rand exudes, knows, teaches and performs. I first read about Rand in a
magazine while sweating out last night’s Ben and Jerry's on the elliptical – Vogue or
Elle or something. It was a piece on how brilliant he was at doing things like
fixing bad Botox and overly-injected faces – basically undoing the hideous
anti-handiwork of others. This fascinated me. Could there be a bigger fear in
life?

Ok
may be a few, I get it, but let’s just pretend for a second that this really is
as important as I am going to make it sound…

So I
went to meet Rand. And he filled my life with all sorts of new joys and well,
fillers. First I tested the waters with a little old school basic forehead
Botox, to get a feel for his aesthetic. I loved it. He goes for an
organic, natural look. He will not freeze your face like a daytime TV actress
or one of those freaky looking women binging on Angelina Yogurt after a
facelift consult on Bedford Drive. He will not erase every little crow's foot.
He likes expression and realness. This is the wave of the future after years of
that frozen Housewives of Orange County look that gave Botox a bad name. No,
no, Rand puts the ‘balanced’ back into Botox.

Then we
got creative. He told me that a little Botox to those muscle-cord-bandy-things
on my neck would soften the appearance of tension and take yet another few
years off.
  Obviously, I didn’t
wait a beat. Now I am totally hooked on it. It’s so incredibly
subtle yet makes a huge difference.

Then I
wanted some filler action. Restylane, Juvederm. Anything with three syllables
and youth enhancing properties, shoot me up please.

 “Do your math on me!” is what I believe I said to Rand. Rand is a Beauty
Scientist; he knows the matrix of facial perfection and will give you just the
slightest tweaks with these fillers to balance things out in the most natural,
non-obvious way possible. No one ever notices anything other than, ‘Wow, Em,
you look friggen amazing!’
  What he
does is beyond subtle and totally non-Bev-Hills looking 'work'.  I recall
a needle to the nasal labial folds, some action under my eyes, a squirt to my
chin, somewhere on my cheek and maybe the lip lines above my top lip?? There was
no Angelina Jolie lip plumping for me (on my face, he said, no way!), no
fake-cheekbone puffing, just a little juice where that cruel mistress Age was
starting to take her hollow grip on things. Watch out, missy, Rand will get
you, he will!

Rand is
a master. Did I mention there was not a moment of bruising anywhere?! Not even
the delicate under eye skin. Nothing. I could have left and shot a movie that
afternoon. And he is so deliciously charming, sweet and fun that you really
will have to re-do your annual budget to fit him into your monthly beauty
calendar. You will start making up things to do just to go back because
whenever you leave you are simply guaranteed to look better and let’s face it
more importantly, younger and prettier.

Rand is
one half on the Leaf and Rusher Medical Skin Care Clinic on Bedford in Bev
Hills, around the corner from Anastasia and Angelina Yogurt. They have a
ridiculously amazing line of skin-care products, many of which I am way
addicted to like the Skin Tonic, TX Eyes and Rapid Resurface. All major yum!

Rand Rusher

Office of Rand Rusher RN
416 N Bedford Dr
Suite 204
Beverly Hills, Ca 90210
310-275-RAND(7263)

Rand Rand your the Man, if God can't do it you can!  


The Bronze That Made Mrs. Butterworth Jealous

November 10, 2008

'Aight look. We all know it. Nothing looks better on a naked body than a bad-ass tan. Ok, and maybe a Elsa Paretti vintage silver cuff. And I know this fact intimately, as the amazing, gorgeous waffle and maple syrup colored tan I had for about 48 toasty colored hours essentially washed down the drain this morning. Tears!

Because it was good. Real good. Not cheap good. But almost-free-good as I actually used one of those promotional cards that you find stuck in your car door. This was was stuck in the front door of my apartment, I think.

It was for a new swanky, uber, meta mecca of a tanning salon on Robertson called SUNSTYLE. This place is crazy. I can't imagine what the rent it. It's huge and 'futuristic'.  Blade Runner for tanners. Now I don't do this a lot…The only people that can afford it are:

CELEB ALERT: LANCE BASS AND LACEY SCWIMMER WHO I JUST SAW WALKING OUT OF HERE!!

Like ONCE a year on those god forsaken times when I have to be near naked. Like say, a bathing suit in Palm Springs. And I've always gone to UVA SUN on West 3rd street for this and done the ol Mystic Spray Tan. But last time I did it, before my best friends wedding, NOTHING HAPPENED. It sucked ass. And at $50 a pop or more (I've blocked it out) it was a total waste-o-rama.

So I was excited when, by chance the opportunity came up for me to get really naked (I'll keep those details to myself) and I got to use my free tan card at Sunstyle. I dug it out from a messy, deep drawer from where it was brilliantly stashed for a rainy day and made an appointment.

Turned out I could get the Mystic Tan only with this freebie and not to new super duper spray tan of the future whose name I don't remember and can't seem to find on the website. That one was $75 and my card was only good for $40. I sprung for the extra $35 and went for the gold. 

And gold it was. There were computerized voices telling me when to shift, when to turn, and what was happening as there were many things going on: like drying and prepping and conditioning. Bottom line, I walked outta there looking like I just got off the plane from Cabo. And it only got better. By that night I was looking like Ms. Butterworth.

For a day or two I could almost smell the ocean whose shores I had pretend sat upon on my pretend vacation at Las Ventanas. The tan made me skinny and sexy and I had to go out immediately and spend $250 at Vicky Secret to give it the lingerie it was worthy of and so deserved! 

And then it all washed away down the shower drown in an invisible creamy peanut butter wave not 72 hours later. 

As they say, it's good while it lasts. It's a cancer free tan so what do you expect. If you need to look rip roaring hot for a few hours. This is the spray tan for you. Now if only I could remember the name of the machine…?

I got it!! It's the VERSA SPA like 8 step process or something.
and…you can join for $200 and then get unlimited tans for $125/month.

There is also a girl there named JADE who I hear does amazing custom spray tanning and I cannot wait to try that next!

SUNSTYLE   

http://sunstyle.la/ 

627 N Robertson Blvd

West Hollywood, CA 90069

(310) 289-9200

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