Jezebel: Wrinkles

We Tested A Wrinkle Patch On A Lady Who Earned Her Wrinkles

Anna North — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EDT

A while back we received a product that advertised itself as "a new treatment in beauty that's perfect for tonight's big date." That product was Biobliss, a patch that, when applied to your face for an hour, supposedly "reduces wrinkles up to 50%." Because of our commitment to science, we had to test it. More »

World's First Anti-Wrinkle Pill Proven To Make You Look (Sort Of) Younger

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:23:00 EDT

Soon instead of just rubbing yourself down with various creams in a futile attempt to get rid of wrinkles, you can start popping lots of pills. Unilever is releasing a capsule that combats wrinkling in deep layers of skin, and scientific testing shows that the drug may reduce the appearance of lines ever so slightly! More »

Docs Suspect Megan Fox Faked The No-Botox Pix

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:00:00 EDT

Remember the photos Megan Fox published last week, "proving" that she does not use Botox? Well! Some doctors saw those images. "Looks like Megan is just as talented with Photoshop as she is in entertainment," says plastic surgeon Dr. Nicholas Vendemia. "Those lines on her forehead are totally fake. …Muscles in the forehead and brow simply don't create curved wrinkles like that. The wrinkles Megan is showing us don't coincide with brow anatomy, nor do they match the facial expression she is making." Dermatologist Dr. Vince Afsahi says: "The photo looks altered. The muscles in the forehead do not usually create an arc-like pattern seen in the photo. …Anatomically [it] does not make sense." And! Dermatologic surgeon Dr. David Sire quips, "I have never seen the frontalis [forehead] muscle do this unless the muscle was surgically cut. It appears as if she is frowning and elevating her brow at the same time. Quite a feat!" [OC Register, High Society Plastic Surgery] More »

Botox Could Make You An Insensitive Jerk

Anna North — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:12:00 EDT

We've already read that Botox may dull people's emotions. Now it turns out the popular face-freezer may hamper users' ability to judge how others are feeling. More »

Finally, The Anti-Wrinkle Bra You Forgot You Needed

Lane Moore — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:50:00 EDT

At last! We finally have a bra designed to keep our breasts "in place" while we sleep. It's hard to believe that before today, women were forced to use all sorts of levers and pulleys to achieve this goal, but now there's a new bra that will finally spare us from the horrors of "cleavage wrinkles." More »

9 Bizarre Japanese Beauty Gadgets To Build A Better You

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:30:00 EDT

Beauty Nose

The Science Of Anti-Aging Still Kind Of Sucks

Anna North — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:01:00 EDT

There's a new anti-aging cream on the market which may work better than all the others. By which we mean: slightly better than nothing at all. More »

You Could Be Attacked By Aging At Any Moment

kate fridkis — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Nothing is permanent. And everything good goes away eventually. Right? That's life. That's the deal. More »

February Marie Claire Reveals Secret Horror Known As "Aging"

Anna North — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:20:00 EST

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There's a lot of scary shit in this month's Marie Claire, like an enormous blood-red flower blossoming from a pair of panties, or a dress that looks like sweetbreads. But most terrifying of all is the magazine's new discovery: aging. More »

Everybody Panic: President Obama Looks Old

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

"President Obama didn't look his age when he took office in January," writes Jane Ridley for the NY Daily News. "Ten months later, nobody would mistake him for a kid." We have a Commander in Chief who ages! The indecency! More »

Woman Invents Neck Bra, New Wrinkle Worries

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Is your fear of cleavage wrinkles keeping you up at night? La Decollette, a cupless bra that holds the breasts in place while sleeping, promises to help you "emphasize your femininity with a beautiful and smooth neckline." [Daily Express] More »

Attack Of The Fine Lines And Wrinkles

Sadie Stein — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:00 EDT

This weekend, I stayed with a friend - who, despite the mere three-month gap between our birthdays, is unquestionably a grownup. She has a mortgage, and people who answer to her. Most of all, she has anti-aging products. More »

A new wrinkle and scar injection called...

Maria — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:20:00 EST

A new wrinkle and scar injection called Vavelta promises to smooth out fine lines and scarring with a radical new ingredient: Cells from babies' foreskins, which are injected in the lower layers of the epidermis, eventually revealing younger-looking skin after a few months. The foreskins are donated by mothers of circumcised babies in U.S. hospitals. It's like a really strange type of recycling! [Daily Mail] More »

First Impressions

Maria — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:20:00 EDT

Ugh, just shoot us (up?): According to a new study, first impressions of a person related to his/her attractiveness and/or athleticism improve when the person has had Botox injections. However, the study did not find any positive correlation between Botox and heightened first impressions based on social skills, financial success, or "relationship success." Perhaps because part of having social skills includes the ability to emote? [Eureka Alert] More »

Making Billions From Bad Sausage: The History of Botox

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:30:00 EDT

It's been 15 years since researchers first realized injecting a neurotoxin called botulinum could eliminate eye and forehead wrinkles (the FDA approved the treatment a mere 5 years ago). But do you know the twisted tale behind the poison millions of women rely on to keep their faces wrinkle-free? MSNBC traces the history of Botox today, and the story is both hilarious and horrifying. It starts in the 1820s, when Dr. Justinus Kerner studied a "batch of improperly prepared blood sausages" that had killed several dozen people and ended up injecting himself with the poisonous sausage filler. Over half a century later, Dr. Emile Pierre van Ermengem of Belgium was asked to investigate funeral meal from which three people died and 23 were paralyzed. The cause? Botulinum toxin was in the ham! Cut to the 1940s, when the U.S. was researching using biological weapons in Word War II. One plan? To have Chinese prostitutes slip tiny toxic pills into the food and drink of high-ranking Japanese officers. More »

Get Smart.

Anna Holmes — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:36:43 EST

The reason your clothes get wrinkled. [Slate] More »