Tag Archives: Skin
Healthy Skin: How to Feed Your Complexion
In the June issue of ELLE magazine, senior editor April Long uncovers how to maintain glowing skin while on a diet—and gives a bevy of beauty-boosting nutrition tips. To build upon Long’s complexion-enhancing advice, we contacted Carrie Wiatt, nutritionist to the stars (Fergie is a client), who reveals her top good-for-your-face foods here.
1. Berries“Berries are [...]
Oily Skin Solutions: Sweatproof Your Face for Summer
A fringe benefit of breaking a sweat at the gym? Besides cooling and detoxifying the body, sweat cleanses pores of dirt, dead skin cells, and excess oil. (Just be sure that a towel is within arm’s reach; allowing these released toxins to sit on your face too long can result in reclogging and breakouts.) But [...]
Flawless Skin: How to Treat Premature Spider Veins
Spider veins aren’t just a problem for Grandma—according to Luis Navarro, MD, FACS, the founder and director of the Vein Treatment Center in NYC, the spindly lines can start creeping onto your legs as early as your twenty-seventh birthday. “Around 25 percent of my patients begin seeing spider veins in their late twenties or early [...]
Perfect Skin for Summer
Winning the battle against blemishes, fine lines, and dull skin isn’t easy—but with hot summer days looming, foundation, blush, and cover-up won’t be the steadfast companions they were in winter and spring. To avoid a meltdown (literally), lighten up: Jeanine Downie, MD, of Montclair, New Jersey, says the surest path to a brighter, smoother, and [...]
Get Glowing Skin From Head to Toe
Time to get even. Studies have shown that brown-spot-free complexions make for younger-looking faces: hence a recent upsurge in skin-brightening potions promising dermatologist-caliber results. “I believe that luminosity is as big a player as wrinkles in the appearance of aging,” says Cheryl Karcher, MD, consulting dermatologist for Avon Anew Clinical Luminosity Pro Brightening [...]
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The 10 Commandments for Youthful Looking Skin
Ready for some eye-opening news? According to a recent study by the University of Göttingen in Germany, the appearance of the skin on a woman’s hands, chest, and arms has a huge impact on her perceived age. The 240 participants of the P&G-sponsored study judged women with dull, dry skin to be older than their [...]
2010 Genius Awards: Skin
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New Skin Care Must-Have: Lancôme Génifique Cream Serum
Too short on time even to set your DVR? Try saving minutes—and face—by consolidating your skin care routine. After a recent study found that 59 percent of serum users skip moisturizer, Lancôme developed Génifique Cream Serum, which adds the hydrating properties of a moisturizer to its powerful best-selling anti-age serum Génifique.
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Albert Kligman, Groundbreaking Skin Doctor
The news was recently released that Albert Kligman, the man who developed Retin-A, died earlier this month at age 93. Kligman was a Philadelphia professor of dermatology who not only developed that anti-aging prescription product—the only drug allowed by the FDA to claim it is effective in treating acne and photo aging—but he came up [...]