Doshas and Skincare: Identifying Your Skin Type

Understanding one’s dominant Dosha in Ayurveda can help with a variety of things including your behaviour, your relationships with others, as well as your overall wellness, skincare, and body. It takes a professional Ayurvedic expert to assess your dominant Doshas, something I assist my clients with when seeing them in-person. If Ayurveda is...

Total Body Wellness at Total Glow MD: Introducing the Emsculpt NEO for Clinically Proven 30% Fat Loss and 25% More Muscle Toning

At Total Glow, total body wellness is our top priority every day. With quarantine orders that have stretched on and on and many gyms closed or operating with reduced capacity, it’s difficult to prioritize a wellness routine. Now that we’re in a new year, it’s a perfect time to consider making total body wellness your top priority,...

Ayurveda: How an Ancient Healing System and Modern Esthetics Come Together at Total Glow

One thing that makes the experience at Total Glow so unique, is the blend of multiple Wellness practices and clinical methods to create the most effective treatments possible. The Total Glow approach is taken from my own cultural heritage, decades of clinical experience, and appreciation of education which integrates Eastern and Western medicine...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A Breast Cancer Survivor’s Guide to Healthy, Glowing Skin

According to BreastCancer.org, one in eight women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. With an estimated 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer this year, we’re all likely to be affected by breast cancer in one way or another. Whether it’s a personal diagnosis or that of a friend, mother,...

Men’s Grooming: A Gentleman’s Guide to Quick & Easy Skin Care

In my 17 years as a licensed medical esthetician, many men have come into my practice looking for tips and tricks on how to step-up their grooming routines. Whether you’re a guy who needs help finding where to start with skincare or a wife/girlfriend who wants her man looking and feeling his best, this blog post is for you. Here are my top tips...

HydraFacial Treatments 101: What Clients Should Know About This Popular Facial

Terrie Absher In my two-decades as a Licensed Esthetician, I’ve noticed many skincare trends come and go, but the HydraFacial, a patented vortex fusion technology, delivers a unique treatment with staying power. When I began performing the treatment in 2003, not many people knew about it and I rarely had clients come in to ask for it by name....

Skin Care Tips for the Summer

With Summertime in full swing and everyone spending more time outdoors, it’s the perfect time for a Summer skincare reminder. While going out to soak up some sun and get a glowing tan might be tempting after spending the past few months in quarantine indoors, spending extended time in the sun without taking care of your skin can have lasting,...

Skincare While Wearing a Mask

Wearing a mask while out in public is increasingly becoming a significant part of our “new normal”. While wearing a mask is an important health and safety measure, many of my clients are experiencing irritation and breakouts, or what I’ve coined as ‘maskne’. There are two main culprits behind the skin sensitivities that result from...

When body, mind, and spirit are in harmony, you feel it with every breath. That level of wellness lets you live with vitality and purpose, and achieve your Total Glow. Schedule a free consultation today.

1906 El Camino Real, Suite 102, Menlo Park, CA 94027

BlogTotal Glow