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6 Dec

Even Your Eyeballs Lose Collagen as You Age

Even Your Eyeballs Lose Collagen as You Age
After we discuss aging eyes, we are likely to mention crow’s-feet, dark circles, bags…. But what about your actual eyes?We notice collagen loss across the eyes first, because that's where our skin is thinnest. Crow’s-feet normally start to look within the early 30s, sometimes earlier. But collagen loss also leads to changes to the eyeball itself, which might result in every little thing from permanently drained looking eyes to ectropion, or “inside-out eyelids,” during which the lids don’t quite adhere to the eyeball like they used to and flip outward (think: Droopy the dog).Fortunately, the Cleveland Clinic reports that ectropion only occurs amongst 2.9 percent of the population — the over-60 population, specifically — but ectropion isn’t the one thing...
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17 Nov

The yearbook challenge and the explanation we love watching

The yearbook challenge and the explanation we love watching
From Boyhood and the Up series to TBT posts and TikTok’s yearbook challenge, there’s something compelling about watching people transform and the passage of time itself Should you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably come across the yearbook challenge. It’s when people post high-school yearbook photos of themselves and their friends after which flash forward to them in the current day, often at a marriage, ten-year and even 20-year reunion – to “Spirits” by The Strumbellas. These videos garner likes and views of their hundreds of thousands, proving just how obsessed we should not only with nostalgia and physical transformation but with the passage of time. Yearbook challenges have only recently grow to be popular on...
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11 Oct

Breast Cancer At Any Age: After Three Generations Of

Breast Cancer At Any Age: After Three Generations Of
While breast cancer is commonly regarded as something to be proactive about after 40, on this series, Breast Cancer At Any Age, we speak to women who had scares or battled breast cancer at a much younger age than expected. “Generational.” That’s how Ashley Dedmon would describe cancer and the impact the disease has had on her family. “On my maternal side, my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother were diagnosed with breast cancer,” she tells ESSENCE. Her mother was 49 when she was diagnosed with metastatic or Stage 4 breast cancer, dying from it on the age of 52. She passed in early 2007, and months afterward, Dedmon received a call that may turn her world the other way...
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8 Oct

Rabanne Beauty launches make-up for our alien-obsessed age

Rabanne Beauty launches make-up for our alien-obsessed age
Paco Rabanne was on the helm of the Space Age movement in fashion, which took off within the Nineteen Sixties. Alongside fellow designers, André Courrèges and Pierre Cardin, Rabanne pioneered a latest, intergalactic look, creating designs unlike anything people had seen before, with unconventional materials like plastic discs and aluminium plates. The designer prolonged his popular sci-fi reach when he designed the costumes worn by Jane Fonda within the 1968 cult classic Barbarella, which is ready within the forty first century. In brief, he was a futurist who helped shape the best way we imagine space travel and the cosmos today. It’s no surprise, then, that when the brand launched a beauty collection it could look straight out of outer space....
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