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. » 1/06/15 7:15pm 1/06/15 7:15pm

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." » 8/27/14 5:10pm 8/27/14 5:10pm

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. » 4/29/14 11:20am 4/29/14 11:20am

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. » 4/16/14 10:40am 4/16/14 10:40am

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. » 10/25/13 10:50am 10/25/13 10:50am

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. » 10/11/13 3:30pm 10/11/13 3:30pm

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. » 6/04/13 11:30pm 6/04/13 11:30pm

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. » 5/21/13 3:42pm 5/21/13 3:42pm

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… » 4/15/13 2:20pm 4/15/13 2:20pm

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… » 3/26/13 3:30pm 3/26/13 3:30pm

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.… » 3/03/13 4:30pm 3/03/13 4:30pm

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. » 1/09/13 12:15pm 1/09/13 12:15pm

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… » 12/14/12 11:50am 12/14/12 11:50am

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… » 12/13/12 3:40pm 12/13/12 3:40pm

Earlier this year, Salma Hayek chronicled her early showbiz travails in Lucky, including a bout with severe acne that led to a bout with severe depression that led to some weight gain, and eventually led her to reluctantly using Accutane and being in Desperado. A star was born, etc. » 10/04/12 10:50am 10/04/12 10:50am

Bugs are literally everywhere. They're on your sheets (probably), they're waiting in the dark corners of your shoes, they're hiding in pantry doors ready to jump out at you as if they've been spring-loaded and now, if you have rosacea, they might even be crawling in your pores, dying and leaving their bacteria-bloated… » 8/30/12 11:10am 8/30/12 11:10am

Brazilian artist Angelica Dass is attempting to catalog the entire range of human skin tones — to create what she calls a "chromatic inventory" of all humankind. Her infinite project, titled HUMANAE, involves photographing a subject, taking an 11x11 pixel "sample" of that person's skin from the resulting image, and… » 7/11/12 4:20pm 7/11/12 4:20pm