Being onstage isn’t necessarily her natural forté, but Saweetie is real and, of course, optimistic about it. “That’s not my strength,” she says, “and that’s okay because you’re supposed to turn your weaknesses into strengths.” While doing the best to put her artistry in her own hands, Saweetie was still taking jabs from what seemed … Read more
“Now people tell me that I look like my high school self. I was just on vacation and somebody thought my daughter and I were sisters, and I was like, ‘Thanks, but she’s my kid.’ Now just looking refreshed when I wake up is a great difference. I don’t look tired or withered. I feel … Read more
The American Academy of Dermatology’s annual meeting in San Diego next month will include sessions like “Biopsies in Challenging Locations” and “Critical Gaps and Controversies in Laser Treatment of Port Wine Birthmarks and Other Vascular Abnormalities.” But the real heat in those super-chilled convention rooms is likely to be a passion-filled topic that has caused … Read more
âI can’t tell you how many patients I have who have used tanning beds as a treatment for psoriasis and ultimately wind up with melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers,â says Dr. Geraghty. âI used to see such patients regularly to help care for their psoriasis rash and I would encourage them to stop tanning. Now … Read more
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
