Dr. Lorrie Klein’s Blog

To celebrate the FDA approval of Latisse for Eyelashes we are having a contest, open to all of you who have been using Lumigan for eyelash growth.  Remember, Lumigan and Latisse are the same identical product (bimatoprost), both made by Allergan, but with different labels.  Over 1500 of our patients have been using Lumigan to create their own “natural” eyelash extensions for the last 2 years.  Submit a comment about your experience with Lumigan and one winner will be randomly chosen from all comments submitted.  Deadline will be February 28, 2009.  The Latisse eyelash growth winner will be notified by email.  As always, your information will never be shared with anyone else.
Read more about Lumigan and Latisse  and how to purchase them here.

Latisse is my favorite product of the week!
See this week’s Article of the Week about Latisse, now approved for eyelash growth by the FDA.

Latisse is the same medication as Lumigan, the prescription eye medication we have been using for almost 2 years to help our patients grow long, fuller eyelashes.  It has now been approved by the FDA specifically for eyelash growth under the name “Latisse.”   Click here to view a portion of Allergan’s Press Release or view our website page on Lumigan for more information.  You can also call our office for purchasing information of Latisse / Lumigan : 949-363-1788.

We have over 1500 patients using this product for eyelash growth and they LOVE IT!  I personally have been using Lumigan ( now Latisse) for almost 2 years and it’s been the best home use beauty product I have ever used in my 22 year in dermatology!

Latisse is my favorite product of the week!

Latisse is the official name for Lumigan when it comes out next year as an eyelash growth product.  Those of us in the know are already using it, and our eyelashes are loving it.  With the FDA’s expected approval early next year, the product can be sold and promoted for growing eyelashes under the new label “Latisse” , although it will be no different than Lumigan.  To celebrate this we now have a new special so that you can

Give the Gift of Eyelashes for the Holidays.  She’ll LOVE this unique gift!

Achieve Luxurious Lashes with Lumigan®. Only available through physicians this miracle solution stimulates your own eyelashes to grow longer and thicker. Easy to use at home with only a once daily application. Available at Lorrie Klein, M.D. Dermatology & Laser Center. This is the most popular product sold in Dr. Klein’s office!

Lumigan / Latisse Special - 2 days only

Monday December 22 and December 23, 2008, call 949-363-1788 or stop by Dr. Klein’s office and mention this email special to receive $20 off a second bottle of Lumigan when 2 are purchased.  Makes a great gift for your friends, sisters, daughters, mother, wife or for yourself!  There’s nothing like long, full lashes to put a smile on her face when she looks in the mirror.  Complimentary gift bag with purchase.

Lumigan is my Favorite Product of the Week!

Give the Gift of Eyelashes for the Holidays.  She’ll LOVE this unique gift!

Achieve Luxurious Lashes with Lumigan®. Only available through physicians this miracle solution stimulates your own eyelashes to grow longer and thicker. Easy to use at home with only a once daily application. Available at Lorrie Klein, M.D. Dermatology & Laser Center. This is the most popular product sold in Dr. Klein’s office!

Lumigan Special - 1 week only!

Now through December 19, 2008, call 949-363-1788 or stop by Dr. Klein’s office and mention this email special to receive $15 off Lumigan. Limit 3 bottles per person.  Makes a great gift for your friends, sisters, daughters, mother, wife or for yourself!  There’s nothing like long, full lashes to put a smile on her face when she looks in the mirror.  Complimentary gift bag with purchase.

These are tough economic times.  But we still want to feel good about ourselves and to look our best.  While many of my patients can still afford to do whatever they want to do for themselves, I have many patients who would love to do more for themselves than they can currently afford.  Luckily there are still many great cosmetic procedures you can do as a second choice treatment.  You can always put the first choice, best treatment on your “wish list” for the future.

Here are some common cosmetic treatments and their less expensive alternatives:

Instead of a:

Nose Job - get a filler nose job with Radiesse or Artefill (it takes just 10 minute and looks good immediately)

Face Lift - get a Liquid Face Lift or Fraxel CO2 re:pair laser treatment

Botox Crow’s Feet or Frown Lines - just get a Botox Brow Lift

Photo-Facial (IPL) for texture and brown spots- get a series of medical microdermabrasions

Microdermabrasion- get a series of light glycolic peels

Light Peels - use physician-strength skin care products

Vivite Complete Skin Care System - use Vivite Daily Moisturizer with SPF 30

Obagi Nu-derm System- use Vivite Vibrance with Obagi C-clarifying serum

Fraxel CO2 re:pair Laser - get a series of Fraxel re:store laser treatments

Fraxel re:store Laser - get a series of Photo-Facials (IPL) 

Juvederm lip plumping - get a half size syringe and just outline and define your lips 

Juvederm/Radiesse/Artefill treatment for wrinkles - get a smaller size syringe and treat the most important areas 

Laser Hair Removal on legs - just laser your underarms or bikini areas for now

Eyelashes Extensions - use Lumigan at home (it’s also better than extensions since it grows your own eyelashes)

Any comments from my readers and patients?

Coming Soon!  Lumilash

As reported in the news and several financial analysts’ reports, hopefully sometime in 2009 Allergan will receive approval to market its eyelash enhancing product Lumilash (note, this is the proposed name and has not been finalized.)  Lumilash contains the patented prescription medication Bimatoprost, currently approved as Lumigan, an ophthalmic eye drop for the treatment of glaucoma.  Lumigan is currently being used off label by thousands of my patients to grow their eyelashes longer and thicker.  It is applied to the base the eyelashes, on the eyelids, rather than in the eye, and has proven itself to be safe and 100% effective in all of my patients who have used it.  As I have never seen any drug be 100% effective, in my 23 years experience in medicine, these results are extraordinary to me!  I have even seen it grow lashes in patients who have lost them due to chemotherapy and alopecia areata (a disease that causes loss of scalp and sometimes facial and/or body hair.)  Patients who have had sparse lashes their entire lives, as many of my patients of Asian descent have, are especially thrilled with their longer and thicker lashes.

Within weeks of daily use, lashes grow longer and thicker, and will continue to grow until use of this medication is reduced.  In fact, many of my patients have to trim their eyelashes at this point.  They sometimes grow so long they look like extensions.  We recommend that daily use is reduced at this point to two to three times weekly for maintenance. 

We have over 1000 patients on it now and they love it!  I personally will continue to use it too!

My favorite product this week is Lumigan (see this week’s Article of the week below or visit this link), which we always carry at my dermatology office and also have at Euro Day Spa, Salon & Laser Center (La Paz Road) on Fridays when I am working there.  You do NOT need an appointment to get it, just stop by.  Print this page and bring it to my office and receive $10 off!  If you don’t live in the area and would like to call to order this product, call 949-363-1788 and mention this special.  This offer expires 8/8/08.

Lumigan is one of the most popular products we sell in my office.  It is a prescription eye drop that when applied to the base of the eyelashes also stimulates eyelash growth.  It has worked in 100% of the approximately 1000 patients we have sold it to.  In fact, your eyelashes continue to grow until you have to actually trim them (I know from personal experience!)  Continued maintenance at two-to-three times per week then keeps them at the perfect length of your choice.

One of my patients was having a romantic dinner with her husband recently and emailed me this story:

“Ken and I were having dinner during my birthday weekend and he leans toward me real romantically…stares into my eyes…and says….I’ve never seen your eyelashes so long.  I can’t stop looking at them.  I bust out laughing…thought of you and my lumigan solution…and the mood went right out the window.  So it must be working”

If you have a cute or funny story regarding a treatment or product you have received from my office or spas, please send it to me as a comment to this story.  I’m sure my other readers would love to read it too!  It can be about Lumigan or anything related to dermatology or spa treatments or products.