
Festoons vs malar bags vs allergic shiners: the under-eye that creams cannot fix
A woman in her late forties messaged me a side-by-side photo last spring. Her left photo showed her at 38, smooth under-eyes,…
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A woman in her late forties messaged me a side-by-side photo last spring. Her left photo showed her at 38, smooth under-eyes,…

A reader I will call M emailed me last autumn with what looked, at first, like a normal skincare question. She had…

A reader emailed me a list of products she had been using on her external genital skin. Body wash with fragrance. A…

A reader sent me four photos of her under-eyes taken in different lights and asked which eye cream she should try next.…

A reader sent me photos of her upper back. She had been treating what she thought was post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation from old body…

A reader sent me a photo of her cheek next to a moisturiser bottle and asked whether she should switch brands. Her…

A reader wrote in last month asking why her skin had gotten worse since she switched to a “dry skin” routine. She…

A friend spent 3,400 dollars over eighteen months on fractional laser sessions for her acne scars. The dermatologist took before-and-after photos. The…

TL;DR: Excoriation disorder entered the DSM-5 in 2013, and dermatology referrals citing it have climbed every year since. Lifetime prevalence sits at…

TL;DR: When a serum lists ‘Lactobacillus ferment lysate,’ four manufacturing steps have happened and you cannot tell which one was the primary…