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The Eyes Have It

March 2008

Spring. Nature reawakens and renews itself from what seems an almost endless hiatus. Suddenly everything is brighter - grass becomes greener, blue skies are bluer, flowers and foliage vividly reappear. It's as if we're seeing everything for the very first time.

Now, this spring, your eyes can experience their own unique reawakening and renewal with RéVive's Masques des Yeux, an innovative new formula that gently stimulates the eye area for a dramatically brighter appearance. A cooling, soothing, protective eye masque for all skin types, Masques des Yeux is formulated with healthy Probiotics, nature's method of providing natural and necessary growth factors that stimulate cell renewal, reverse signs of aging, and increase cellular respiration and metabolism that become sluggish with age. This hypoallergenic masque also contains Hyaluronic Filling Spheres, a resorbable ingredient that enters the skin in a dehydrated state to fill in deep lines and wrinkles as it captures the water that evaporates from the skin, while increasing long-term hydration.

And talk about renewal… upon application you'll see a dramatically smoother, brighter eye area within one-half hour. Masques des Yeux is a treatment, not a typical daily eye cream, that should be applied once or twice a week only, and is recommended for evening use prior to bedtime. Apply liberally on freshly cleansed skin to the lower and corner eye perimeter only (not for use on upper lid) and Masques des Yeux will be naturally absorbed into the skin as you sleep. Then awaken to a world where it's always spring, where everything will appear much brighter, including your eyes.
It's as if you're seeing everything for the very first time.

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The Gift of Beauty as Art

November 2007

RéVive to me is an art form, not merely a cosmetic.

And while I have been blessed with the great fortune of making beauty the central focus of my career, it has also been an integral part of my personal life as an art collector. I firmly believe that the natural synergy between art and beauty is quite profound. It is this philosophy that was the inspiration for a very special creation we present to you this holiday season.

The 2007 Limited-Edition Artbox is the ultimate expression of beauty, art and science within a keepsake box, created by internationally renowned artist Ann Craven. The evergreen beauty of nature as illustrated on the outside of the box beckons the discovery of ageless beauty treasures inside - Moisturizing Renewal Cream, Sensitif Cellular Repair Cream, Eye Renewal Cream, and Serum Prôtectif - four luxurious core products that represent the foundation of the RéVive skincare collection, all at a very special price. As part of a daily beauty regimen, the four products, packaged together for the first time, will allow both long-time clients and first-time customers the opportunity to experience the patented skincare system that works on a molecular level, producing glowing, beautiful skin.

The Artbox is created for those who admire the beauty and uniqueness of contemporary art, as well as the allure of science and beauty found in the RéVive collection. Ms. Craven's oil on canvas work as reproduced on this year's Artbox, 'Deer in Emerald Field, 2007', celebrates the triumph of nature in the ever-changing 21st Century environment. The gentle beauty of the fawn and flora with its vivid palette evokes the pastoral simplicity of days gone by, yet remains thoroughly modern in feel.

RéVive's 2007 Limited-Edition Artbox premiers this month here at www.reviveskincare.com as well as at Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and select luxury boutiques nationwide and abroad.

Have a joyous holiday.

Introducing Intensité Fluide Superbe, The Ruling Antidote For Dry Skin

August 2007

You spoke and we listened.

In our ongoing pursuit to perfect and provide the most innovative and results-producing skincare needs for you, our clients and customers, I am thrilled to announce the newest addition to the RéVive skincare collection, Intensité Fluide Superbe, premiering this September.

Since the launch of RéVive many of you have expressed your desire and need for a product that can successfully conquer severely dry skin. And during my years as a practicing physician I repeatedly heard from patients that they were convinced no dry skin treatment or product would ever effectively work. With Intensité Fluide Superbe I can now address those needs and assist the legions of you battling relentlessly dry skin.

Intensité Fluide Superbe is a serum like no other. Applying hard science and a light, silky touch to reverse dry skin, the secret to its transformative powers lies within the cutting-edge technological liposome delivery system that captures and retains moisture. These particles significantly contribute to enhanced absorption of age-defying ingredients including EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor), RéVive’s proprietary patented cell regenerating solution, also found in many of our other products. It will leave your skin supple, even-toned, hydrated and soothed.

In closing I want to acknowledge a very important milestone as 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of RéVive. While it is hard for me to believe that a decade has passed since we introduced our first product, Moisturizing Renewal Cream, it is also with tremendous pride and a wonderful sense of achievement to know that we have successfully built and sustained a formative skincare business unlike any other. Most importantly, however, none of this could have been possible without you, my loyal friends and clients, who so lovingly embraced and supported RéVive, as you continue to do so. I sincerely thank you all.

Recruiting Youth with Peau Magnifique

It is with great excitement and gratitude I write you, my friends and clients.

Peau Magnifique has been many years in the making, and once again, is an example of RéVive raising the scientific bar of life-changing skin care.

We’re all born with a cache of stem cells in our skin. They collectively act as a reserve in case injury. If an injury occurs, the stem cells differentiate into adult, newly-minted skin cells. This is God’s evolutionary protective reserve mechanism.

Many cosmetic, rejuvenating procedures take advantage of this process, e.g., lasers, peels and dermabrasion all cause trauma to the skin; thereby, sending signals to these resting stem cells to convert to new skin cells which is one of the reasons these procedures produce their youthful results. Peau Magnifique capitalizes on this process without the trauma and all of the potential complications that can arise from these quasi-surgical procedures, such as scarring, infection, pigmentation, etc.

Peau Magnifique contains telomerase which biochemically binds to stem cells and signals them to differentiate into adult, newly-minted skin cells without trauma. It is like getting an injection of youth. That is why I coined the phrase Peau Magnifique, Youth Recruit. Thank you for your continued support and loyalty to RéVive.

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

Adversity is often a Gift in life, a true opportunity for growth. Whether you believe in Yaweh, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Lord of the Universe or simply a Higher Power, we often have to call on It for support and growth. As W.H. Auden ( a vowed agnostic) said, there are NO atheists in the foxhole....and...there is definite truth in that. If we're human -- and most likely you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't -- we have adversity. How we deal with that adversity is what makes us attractive to others; and ultimately, to ourselves. We can spend tens of thousands of dollars on aesthetic surgery and l00's on bogus topical medicaments and still not achieve the beauty that comes with handling a difficult situation with humility and dignity.

Speaking from experience, I can attest to the portion about feeling good about oneself after a difficult situation. As a surgeon, I had to accept rheumatoid arthritis in my hands and subsequently retire...in addition, an addiction to prescription pain medication aimed at relieving the painful arthritis was also the result. Having come through the black tunnel of addiction -- by way of Promises, Malibu (a truly inspired and blessed rehabilitation haven) -- to the white light of recovery on the other side, I can honestly say, there is no greater beauty than that.

I certainly do not discount aesthetic surgery, it can certainly improve the quality of life as well as appropriate skin care, such as RéVive; however, as my new book "About Face; A Surgeon's Non-Surgical Approach to Beauty" all things in moderation and in perspective. Without that inner sense of 'self' and dignity, all the scalpels and topicals in the world will not result in a beautiful you.

Growth Factors: Cures to Cosmetics
The advent of biotechnology 25 years ago unleashed a juggernaut of potential change and redirection within the beauty industry; only now are these changes starting to be realized.

Human proteins -- the workhorses and structural standard bearers of the human body -- can now be synthetically manufactured due to breakthrough science -- become tattered, sluggish and encumbered with sugars after years of aging. Imagine trying to pull a glass rod across a wool carpet (youth); then attempt to pull that same glass rod, now sheathed in Velcro, across the same carpet (aging). This is a good analogy of what happens to our workhorse proteins with aging. By introducing brand-spanking new functional proteins to aging skin they are more capable of carrying out their specific duties at the breakneck speed and efficiency of youth.

This is the basis and rationale for including bioengineered growth factors in your skincare regimen. These bioengineered growth factors by virtue of their sleek, youthful structure can now perform their functions similar to when aging was only a distant reality in our minds (i.e. our 20's). As more and more novel and functionally important proteins are discovered, along with improved delivery systems; aesthetic surgery as we know it will become less and less a right of passage as we cross to our mature years.

Having practiced aesthetic surgery for 20 years I understand completely the improvements, risks and limitations offered by surgery. Surgery cannot recreate youth -- biotechnology in the beauty industry potentially and practically can. Hence, my unwavering passion and enthusiasm for pushing the envelope with RéVive and its future product pipeline. Try RéVive and say good-bye to scalpels, bruises and stereotypical surgerized faces.
The Oft' Missed Subtleties of Facial Beauty
Western minds, especially Americans, often fixate on wrinkles and droops or sags -- the obvious signs of aging -- when seeking anti-aging expertise, no matter what the discipline, ie, dermatologist, plastic surgeon, aesthetician..etc..-- I truly believe there is something vitally lost in that myopic focus as the barometer of facial aging.

We frequently miss the significant subtleties that significantly belie age -- loss of facial volume, loss of skin homogeneity and vitality. It is one thing to have sags and wrinkles; however, if the skin overlying these tell-tale stigmata is beautiful, robust and voluminous -- the oft' encountered phrase when meeting an old acquaintance is "you look great" and after all, that very statement is the whole point of the entire process (plastic surgery, aesthetic dermatologists, aestheticians..etc)

Most people do not realize that the actual volume, ie, space occupied, of the face decreases with age, hence sags. It is equivalent to letting air out of a balloon. So much of aesthetic skin care is dermatologist driven whose perspective is primarily surface or 2 dimensional; whereas, we aesthetic surgeons think in terms of 3 dimensions or the entire face, NOT just the surface. Therefore, one of the most important aspects of skin care is to re-establish the lost facial volume. That is why I searched for ingredients which address these issues and found IGF. Insulin-like growth factor when applied to the skin over time will incite the epidermis to 'speak' to the dermis and underlying tissues to bring about re-volumization. Therefore, after a steady course of Intensité (our IGF and KGF containing facial moisturizer) despite some persistent sags & wrinkles, but with glowing, succulent skin overlying these well-earned badges of aging; the quip, "you look great" takes on a whole new meaning without ever having submitted to the scalpel.

Another tiny step in the direction of reversing the signs of aging without surgery. There's LOTS more to come!