My college roommate and I stood worlds apart. She’d slap some body lotion on her face, as in lotion left over from her arms and legs, straight from the pump bottle. Meanwhile, I moisturized with special facial moisturizers. I thought she was doing more harm than good, but her method wasn’t as harmful as I thought.
The Happiness is a Learning Center day care in Vinita, Oklahoma was forced to immediately shutter its doors after two of its students were badly sunburnt.
Here, have a little weird futurism with your cosmetics! Apparently, L’Oreal is teaming up with a French “bioprinting” startup to develop 3D-printed skin for product testing. Very cool but speaking of skin, mine is crawling just a little.
During what can only be described as a hellaciously stressful past six months, my skin rebelled: the flawless visage I had at 16 became overrun by blemishes — a mutant strain that continued to multiply no matter what over-the-counter washes and drying treatments I used. Coupled with extreme sensitivity, the war I was…
Acne suffers will likely find the following news both unsurprising and disheartening: The Wall Street Journal reports that an increasing number of dermatologists are leaning away from prescribing antibiotics to treat acne, because they're not working with the same efficacy that they used to.
As we head into the fall, you're probably wondering how to hold on to that tan you've accrued over the summer months. (I assume? This isn't an issue for me #humblebrag.) Research suggests that instead of stepping into the tanning booth, eating a big salad could be the key to that "inner glow."
Finally, at long last, it seems people who once flocked to tanning beds for a ritual equatorial bronzing have begun to accept that there is no such thing as a healthy tan, and that achieving the color + texture of a buckskin jacket is not worth all the future skin cancer, wrinkles, and newly acquired shame it…
A recent spate of suicides among users of the acne drug has prompted the UK to put together a governmental review of its risks and benefits to establish whether it should be taken off the market.
Science keeps coming up with more reasons as to why we should get up off our asses on a regular basis and actually move around. The latest: exercise not only keeps skin looking young, it may also reverse the aging of skin for people who start working out later in life.
The compound used in chemical peels—the anti-aging procedure performed by dermatologists—is raising concern after a growing number of studies suggest it could be a carcinogen. It turns out that pouring acid all over your face could actually be dangerous. Huh.
Some woman had a clogged pore for 25 years that had enlarged to the size of an eraser head. It took six minutes to extract what looks to be a rotting Tootsie Roll.
You know how you're told to wear sunscreen all the time or else you'll turn into the Crypt Keeper's great grandma by the time you're 35? And then you're all WHATEVER I'M DRUNK? Turns out, you reallllly shoulda been listening, because sunscreen is the closest thing we have to Tuck Everlasting.
Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented sunscreen. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection—screw it up and you could get burned.
Calling it "tinted moisturizer" instead of "makeup" seems to make men more comfortable with the idea of wearing it. But are you comfortable with men wearing it? You should be. In case you needed any convincing of its unisex benefits, we applied tinted moisturizer to the faces of our colleagues at Deadspin. Check out…
Every spring, concerned citizens spring up like so many tulips (or boners) to share their opinions on how women should and shouldn't dress when it's warm outside. Unfortunately, unlike pollen allergies, there's no known antidote for these five most obnoxious types of seasonal "Ladies! Put your clothes on/take them…
What are some words you associate with the phrase "temporary tattoo?" Probably things like "boardwalk," "awesome," "vacation," "crooked," and "flaky." If you're talking about henna tattoos, however, your temporary tattoo word cloud might include things like: "hives," "boils," and "rash." That's because, according to a…
Have you ever gotten a pimple? Of course you have, you zit-riddled monster! Like many acne sufferers, you too probably turned to the commercial smorgasbord of topical acne treatments hawked by celebrities and clear-skinned teenagers from a parallel universe where everyone is attractive at every stage of development.…
Everyone knows that their fingers get all wrinkled after spending too much time in the tub or swimming, but apparently nobody was really certain as to why—until now. According to a new study, it has to do with evolution and the way our ancestors lived.
You've done everything you could to deny that you're getting older — you've suppressed your love of knitting, you've continued to wear uncomfortable shoes and then there's that old aging portrait of you that you keep hidden in the attic — but the fact remains that time marches on and there's not a lot you can do about…
Okay. Apparently this is the newest thing in face science. You spit in a jar. Then a fake scientist looks at your spit and is like, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, YES, birch and phoenix feather! This will do nicely!" And they hand you a jar of customized face goop that "matches" your spit, and you go home and goop up your face with…
