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Celebrity Plastic Surgeon Opens Walk-In Botox Medical Boutique in Georgetown
July 14, 2010Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki has returned to Georgetown, with a new concept in beauty, the walk-in Botox clinic. Dr. Hakki’s medical boutique, Luxxery Express, opened this month on Wisconsin Avenue.
“You don’t need an appointment and you won’t waste hours in a waiting room,” says Dr. Hakki, who is Board Certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
“Patients can see me for their Botox or injectables and then walk to Social Safeway or go shopping.”
The first walk-in patient to the practice, Carmen Phelps, 35, came in last week after seeing the NBC4 feature on Luxxery Express.
Phelps knew she wanted a filler, which is now requested as much Botox in the practice. “I exercise a lot, so I don’t have a lot of fat. But my face was looking sunken, drawn. I looked tired,” she says.
“Dr. Hakki looked at my face -- from a point of physiology and biology --and then decided exactly where to put the Radiesse injections, based on my bone structure. He knew by giving fullness, here, at the top of my cheekbones, it would decrease the shadows under my eyes. It’s really artistry,” says Phelps.
Thrilled with the results, Phelps is back in the office on Wednesday (without an appointment) to discuss a permanent filler, which entails injecting her own body’s fat into her face.
“I never had any plastic surgery or Botox or anything else before," she explains "so the injectable let me test if I liked the results."
Asked about reaction from friends and family, Phelps says that “the best part is that no one notices I had anything done. My brother said ‘Wow, yoga is really helping you!'”
Another patient, Lauren Lewis, 27, who is at the clinic for Botox, echoes Phelps sentiment about the subtlety of Dr. Hakki’s work. “Not one person thinks I had plastic surgery. Friends keep saying I look ‘rested’," she says.
Lewis had liposuction on her stomach and back, rhinoplasty (to narrow her nose bridge) and fat injected into her chin to balance her profile. “I’m just feeling more confident. I used to second guess myself, ‘do I look okay?’ But now I wake up the morning, and I know, I look good,” s
Dr. Hakki says a plastic surgeon’s expertise in how to make Botox and injectables safe and subtle-looking. “When I was in my residency at Georgetown-- 25 years ago -- every Monday, we’d cut open the whole forehead. So I know every muscle in this area underneath the skin,” he says gesturing to the patient's forehead and brow.
Also, he believes strongly that a plastic surgeon is the only kind of medical doctor who can fully understand the bones, fascia and muscles in the face to effectively perform the Botox procedure.
Dr. Hakki is a familiar face in Georgetown. He was Chief Resident in Plastic Surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. He then opened his first practice in the heart of Georgetown at Thomas Jefferson and M Streets in 1987.
Dr. Hakki has come full circle with the opening of this new Georgetown practice, but he has changed with the times. “Back then, it was all about lifting,” he says, while pulling the skin on his cheeks back, towards his ears.
“Now, plastic surgery is all about filling the face. Fillers are sweeping the country because we’ve learned that the key to youth is not a tight face, but a full face.”
Luxxery Express medical boutique is located at 2141 Wisconsin Avenue, NW. Walk-in hours: Monday 11am-2pm, Wednesday 3pm-6pm, Friday 3pm-6pm and Saturday 11am-2pm. For additional information, call (202) 333–9294.
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"Kirk McEwen & Mike O'Meara Show” Premieres on 105-9 The EDGE
July 7, 2010A new morning radio show in D.C. premiered today on 105-9 The EDGE which will bring classic rock to Washingtonian’s commutes. At the inaugural "Kirk McEwen & Mike O'Meara Show” show this morning, the EDGE studio was filled with TV cameras and local celebrities. The new classic rock radio show will be live Monday-Friday from 5am-9am on 105.9 FM
"This is going to be like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones coming together!” Kirk McEwensaid of his co-host.
“For the first time in my career, my favorite music will be on the same station as my favorite personality, me,” Mike O’Meara said.
Local TV news stations --- ABC 7, FOX 5 and WUSA 9 -- had cameras in The Edge studios to cover the first day on air. Channel 9’s Angie Goff hung out with the guys during the last hour.
MIX107.3 top-rated Tommy McFly was at the studio at 4:30 a.m. to support his fellow DJ’s show launch. “Kirk and Mike are DC LEGENDS in the rock-radio world,” McFly said. “The show will take on Washington with a new brand of dude talk with the greatest rock tunes ever made.”
McEwen and O’Meara are legends in DC radio. McEwen has been on air in D.C. and Baltimore for 25 years. He is also a stand-up who has opened for Lewis Black, Larry the Cable Guy and Carrot Top.
O’Mears is familiar to listeners from his national “Don & Mike Show” show, which was on the air from 1985 to 2008.
Operations Manager of 105.9 The EDGE Kenny King said he’s thrilled to get “two incredibly talented guys like Kirk and Mike in the same studio.”
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ArtJamz Launch: Washington Painting Party
June 24, 2010Walking into the all-white room at the Corcoran Gallery and faced with 25 blank white canvases on easels, I got nervous.
Michael Clements spent four years bringing his vision of a social event centered around creativity through painting to fruition. And, Wednesday night's launch of ArtJamz was sold out.
Near the door, Clements stood smiling with blue paint on his hand.
“I’ve never painted before in my life,” I said worriedly.
“Neither have I,” my friend Tara Palmeri added.
“Start with getting a glass of wine,” Clements said smiling, pointing at the bar. “Then you should find a canvas that feels right.”
I guzzled an excellent Sauvignon Blanc and ate some of the hors d’oeurves from the table next to the paint.
Walking around the room with my wine, the only difference I could tell among the blank canvases – which other guests hadn’t chosen yet -- was some were clipped horizontally and others vertically.
So, reverting to my practical, left-brain thinking, I chose a canvas far enough away from the DJ to talk with my friend Tara easily, and close enough to the bar for quick refills.
Instead of painting, I avoided my canvas by chatting with the other guests who I already knew and meeting new people. The atmosphere was relaxed, jovial and light-hearted.
Clements saw me tweeting on my Blackberry and staged an intervention. “Go, put that down. Look, the hardest part of painting is the first stroke. You just need to start.”
“I can’t Michael...I can’t do it," I pleaded as if he was telling me to perform open heart surgery.
"I’m not artistic," I begged, to no avial.
“I need inspiration!” I said, trying to appeal to the artist on his own level. Clements just smiled knowingly, like Buddha.
Suddenly, Tara came up behind us chirping, “HEY! I got our sticks. Let’s go.”
“Paint brushes,” I replied laughed, pointing at the bunch of brushes in her hand.
“I’ve already started, look!” Tara said pointing to her formerly all-white canvas, now bright pink fuchsia, like a tutu.
“Michael said to get started, you just have to pick your favorite color and put it on!” she said cheerfully, having broken through her fear.
Fine, I thought, I don’t have an inspiration, but I can pick a color. So I went to the paint table and squirted a wad of blue acrylic paint onto a small plate and added white paint and mixed them together until I made a pretty cornflower blue color.
Suddenly, I knew what I wanted to paint. A peaceful scene of pale blue sky and ocean, a view that I knew would sooth me hanging at home.
Back at my canvas, I paused, unsure where to start. “Don’t worry,” Clements said, “remember whatever you do, you can always paint over it.”
Tara looked up from her now black and hot pink canvas, “that’s a metaphor for life actually,” she mused.
I swiped the first line of cornflower pale blue across the top of the canvas and felt a huge sense of relief and excitement.
After three glasses of wine, several new friends’ encouragement, one re-do scrape of my canvas, paint covered arms and shirt, I become -- in just four hours --an artist.
Stepping back, I smiled broadly at the formerly blank canvas which now had my vision of a peaceful sky and beach landscape.
As I leaned in to add more white to the sky, Clements came up behind me. “Remember the hardest part about painting is knowing when to stop.”
“I thought you said the hardest part about painting was the first brush stroke?”
“Nah, I just said that to help you get started,” he said laughing.
“Really, Michael, this has been the most fun night of the summer,” I told him while he wiped down the brushes, smiling.
“This is just so much better than being in crowded parties in passing, making small talk and feeling empty at the end fo the night.”
Tara was dancing to the DJ near her completed painting which Clements entitled “Hot Mess.”
“I’m living my life’s dream tonight," Clement said, his eyes twinkled with joy.
"It took me four years to make this happen, and seeing everyone here painting such different visions and having such a good time, well, it just amazing it’s all finally happening.”
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Wednesday, June 23, Thursday, June 24, Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26, 2010 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. each night at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The cost is $60 which includes brushes, paints, drinks, and food plus a canvas you get to keep.
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