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Being the extremely superficial person that I am, naturally I've been thinking a lot about the first U.S. face transplant. (Who wasn't obsessed with Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who received the first partial one in 2005 after her labrador mauled her when she OD'd on sleeping pills? (Um, yeah, Jesus.)) It's astounding. Of course, part of the fascination stems from the fact that we can all identify with these women, on a few levels at least. The human face is so intensely personal--it's a bit more important than a kidney. And this seminal moment has precipitated a national dialogue about the breakthrough's ramifications: Should organ donors consider the fact that their face might be used in this way?
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Dear Product Fiends, I have a stretching / cellulite / unsure-what-it-is skin problem and I'm only a teenager! Across my hips and butt, I have raised lines that are darker than the rest of the surrounding skin -- they almost looks like scars. The marks are less than a pencil's width and are 1.5 to 2 inches long and spread across both my butt cheeks following the same pattern for the most part. I have a tan complexion and these marks are reddish-brown in color. I'm roughly 105 pounds, don't exercise actively, and I'm looking for a way to get rid of these marks. I'm very worried about them, especially since I live in an area where you go swimming everyday in the summer. I definitely don't want to go about wearing a bikini with marks like these. Do you have any products or exercises I could use to reduce or get rid of these? Thanks, Another self-conscious teen Read More »
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In a society that gobbles up trashy celeb rags and watches Access Hollywood before dinner, we tend to well, take it kinda personally when our favorite stars start f*cking with the faces we originally fell in love with. That seems to be the overriding sentiment behind The Frisky's look into the method behind the madness of ten famous examples of disastrous cosmetic surgery meltdowns. While Nicole Kidman, Heather Locklear, Meg Ryan and Jennifer Grey were somewhat surprisingly absent from the list, they did manage to remind me of the pain I felt when Jennifer chopped off her famous nose in order to look, quite frankly, more boring. Who made the, ahem, "cut"? Read More »
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Since I am reeling from Wendy's fascinating connection between wrinkles and eating, I picked up my tube of Neocutis ($90 for 1.69 ounces) and read the following excerpt from a press release aloud:
"A dedicated cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments using a single donated biopsy of fetal skin. Originally established for wound healing and burn treatments, the same cell bank provides a lasting supply of fibroblasts for producing Neocutis proprietary skincare ingredient PSP, or Processed Skin Cell Proteins."
My domestic partner jokingly said, "Whatever happened to butter?" (Hilarious, right? Um, maybe we just haven't had enough coffee yet this morning.) Anyway, how we can believe it's not actually butter, after the you know what...
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I'm so crazy interested in why some people seem to start to age quickly and others look like they're 20, even when they have a 25-year-old kid. Like, what the heck is Rachel Zoedoing wrong (besides rocking the 'tox )? Because either she's lying about her age or has the worst skincare routine on the planet, right? Since Ms. Zoe has been fighting the Scary Skinny label for years, it reminds me of a very interesting study out of Monash University in Australia where many elderly subjects offered up their wrinkles in the name of science. Specifically, researchers found that what you're sticking down your gullet is a good predictor of how many wrinkles you have to fight. Maybe the question shouldn't be what Raisinface is doing to her skin, but rather what she's feeding her piehole. Check out the bad news, Diet Coke and cake lovers: Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (6) | Blog
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If you could go back in time and tell your teenage self something about beauty, what would you say?
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"People used to say, just throw me in a pine box and bury me in the back yard," says Mark Duffey, president and CEO of Everest Funeral, a national funeral planning and concierge service. "But that's all changing. Now people want to be remembered. A funeral is their last major event and they want to look good for it. I've even had people say, 'I want you to get rid of my wrinkles and make me look younger'.
Um, excuse me, but I'm not sure I ever heard anyone suggest their loved ones should throw 'em in a box and bury them in the yard next to Fido. Still, I am absolutely fascinated by this MSNBC article regarding the high demand for plastic surgery among the dead. Apparently, as our society comes to accept cosmetic procedures as a normal--and even necessary--tool in the fight against aging, morticians are facing more requests to make their stiff clients look even better than they did in life. Um, seriously, after the jump... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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Wendy,
I was diagnosed last year with rosacea at 37. My doctor must think I'm rich, because when I picked the creams up at the pharmacy, they cost $200 (with insurance). For $200, I expected a MIRACLE! But the stuff didn't work. I am due to see my doctor again in a couple weeks, but I'd love to get your opinion on skin products. What do you use? Moisturizers, powders/foundation, treatments, cleansers?
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Each week, Dr. Dennis Gross and other well-known derms tackle a different skin issue submitted by readers. Send us your questions, and we'll get the Good Doctor to prescribe your skin solution.
Dear Dr. Gross,
I'll be 30 in October, and my skin is prone to deep, hormonal cystic pimples that I never used to get before. My skin was always acne-prone but easily treatable with a toner and some Persa-Gel. Now, I even get painful zits in my ear or under my chin--places where I NEVER had any sort of skin issues before. Do I need Accutane?
-- 30 Going on 13
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Finally, we skincare obsessives are validated in our narrow mores! A recent study conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by a Product Fiend favorite, ZO Skincare, showed that women think about their skin more than their health, weight and love lives. Not only did the 1,131 U.S. adult women surveyed claim Read More »
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