In the right hands, though, neuromodulator injections can work wonders (and on average, cost about $300 to $600 per area depending, yet again, on who your injector is and where you live). Iâve previously been treated along my brows and forehead to help visually open up my lids, which are naturally hooded. Still, my face … Read more
As doctors and nurses huddled around me, introducing themselves as hurriedly as they pricked my fingertips with needles and stuck IVs in my veins, and I tried my hardest to tune out the surrounding chaos of the emergency room on a holiday weekend, I had just one thought running through my mind: Please don’t be … Read more
They also, evidently, sometimes harbor hundreds of thousands of fans who don’t like it when it might be suggested that their intentions are not pure (or even just complex). After my byline appeared under the headline, “Was Pamela Anderson’s Makeup-Free Fashion Week Just a Stunt?,” I noticed a faint, unpleasant rumbling of discontent on Instagram … Read more
I stopped relaxing my hair in the early aughts, back when the natural hair movement was just starting to take off. Products for coily textures were still scarce. Now sometimes I think we’re in a be-careful-what-you-wish-for situation because the number of natural hair-care and styling products on the market is staggering. This embarrassment of riches … Read more
But, cautions Laura Scott, MD, a board-certified dermatologist based in San Diego with four young daughters, resist the knee-jerk reaction to immediately say no and instead try and start a dialogue with your child as they begin these first steps towards becoming more autonomous with their beauty routine. “That’s oftentimes where we struggle, when immediately … Read more
The result, over those five stages of puberty, can be varying degrees of acne breakouts. And while historically those breakouts were not emerging until kids were in their early teens, dermatologists are noticing younger patients coming to them with instances of acne. Laura Scott, MD, a board-certified dermatologist based in San Diego, says she gets … Read more
To really understand what’s going on inside the body and how malar edema presents, Dr. Parsa compares the lymphatic system to the plumbing in your house: “Its purpose around the eye is to remove fluid from the soft tissues, and when it’s blocked, it causes swelling in the places [where the fluid] isn’t flowing,” he … Read more
The year is 1953. A 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is crowned. The Oscars are broadcast on television for the first time. And a bath oil called Youth-Dew is brought to market by a budding beauty entrepreneur named Estée Lauder. The rest of the story goes a little something like this: While most women only wore … Read more
Psychologist Don Grant argues the reason dimples are so attractive is their synonymy with youth. For the Gen-Z woman, for whom girlhood is fundamental to identity (see: #GirlMath, #GirlDinner, #HotGirlSummer, and #ThatGirl), the fact that dimples are so appealing has been learned from decades of media reinforcement. Dr. Grant points to Shirley Temple, the earliest … Read more
“We don’t see that particular shade every time we look at the night sky, but when we do see a fabulous electric blue across the heavens, you absolutely can’t ignore it,” Eiseman says. “Some respondents might call those brighter blues scary, even…but that’s part and parcel of what the color means, too. If it’s scary, … Read more
