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29 Nov

Cosmetic procedures are being classed as ‘skincare’ – and

When Lindsay Lohan appeared in public last month with what seemed to be a wholly latest face, her explanation was easy: skincare. Talking to Allure magazine, the actress credited her transformation to “a morning cold face towel, Avene redness solution, together with their recovery creme”. Later within the piece, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned trying treatments like Morpheus, IPL and lasers – though she was quick so as to add that she doesn’t do them “an excessive amount of”. Many beauty experts, including the people behind accounts like @IGfamousbyDana have speculated that visible scarring and drastic changes to Lohan’s appearance indicate she has, in reality, undergone multiple facial surgeries lately. Every part from blepharoplasty, buccal fat reduction and repositioning, a...

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29 Nov

Product Of The Week: EADEM Le ChouChou Lip Balm

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Product Of The Week: EADEM Le ChouChou Lip Balm

Composite by India Espy-Jones In an industry where there may be an awesome amount of product launches day by day, Product Of The Week helps you chop through the noise. To enable you find your latest beauty and wellness favorites, this series highlights the tried-and-true products that our writers can’t live without. 2024 has been the yr of lip balms and lip oils, with most beauty brands releasing at the very least one version of those products. The trend in lip balms, nevertheless, found a latest standard set by indie brand EADEM with its Le Chouchou Lip Softening Balm. EADEM is understood for its stellar products and formulas that work for everybody, but specially cater to the various needs of BIPOC skin. When...

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28 Nov

The H Word: What’s The Deal With Hydroquinone? –

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The H Word: What’s The Deal With Hydroquinone? –

Shutterstock / Dean Drobot Through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to supply economic assistance for American employees, small businesses, and industries. It also included a provision banning the sales of over-the-counter hydroquinone. Very similar to a Russian nesting doll, major laws passed in Washington is commonly full of smaller, less-publicized provisions. As an alternative of voting on each item individually, lawmakers can bundle multiple issues right into a single piece of laws. For a long time, dermatologists have referred to hydroquinone because the ‘gold standard’ on the subject of treating hyperpigmentation—which is more common on Black skin—including skin conditions like melasma. And studies have shown that when used under...

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27 Nov

A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)

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A popular culture timeline of the rise (and fall)

“Nice wig Janice, what’s it manufactured from?”…“Your mum’s chest hair!” This iconic one-liner (from the now-canonical 2004 film, Mean Girls) is indicative of just how far chest hair, be it your mum’s or your individual, is loaded with cultural connotation. In terms of body hair, a sort of ‘all or nothing’ politics abounds and chest hair is not any different. In fact, there was a time when humans were completely covered in body hair but, as our ape-adjacent ancestors migrated to warmer climes, and eventually indoors, we began to shed this coating through a technique of natural selection. Over time, any body hair that did remain became encoded in deep sociocultural associations. Due to chest hair’s correlation to higher levels of testosterone,...

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