How Not To F*ck Up Your Face

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap that ❤️ before you peep into the life of a few sexy spiders. In honor of… okay, more sexy news! July 31 was National Orgasm Day, which feels like a good enough reason to offer all HNTFUYF-ers an extra 20% off the current sale price of the Laura Geller Baked Starter Kit.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap that ❤️ above before checking out the unlikely people keeping Taiwan’s marine harvest tradition from drowning. 🥸 😲 😀 A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned a study that debunks the notion that long-married couples grow to look more alike, but seems to confirm that we choose mates who generally look like us. My friend Bernhard Fink, an evolutionary anthropologist, had more to add.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap that ❤️ above to learn what makes you especially vulnerable when online shopping. 🌊 🌊 🌊 As you read this, I plan to be frolicking in the Pacific with my family (arriving from Japan) on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap the ❤️ above before reading a few useful hints about how to determine whether that face you see online is real or AI generated. 🪞 🪞 🪞 TikTok evidently now has a whadayacallit that lets you scan your face and then have the app match you with another person who looks almost exactly like you. I don’t recommend scanning your face on TikTok or any other app (except for Global Entry) but twinning is a fascinating idea, don’t you think?

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap that ❤️ above before you check out this notification from The Department of Useful Body Parts. Sometimes a PR email inadvertently captures something in the zeitgeist we hope we might all soon forget. A pitch I recently received began, “Sweating? Sobbing? Both?

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Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap the ❤️ above and then look at the very best way to use a treadmill. Can’t help myself: one more! 🛁 🛁 🛁 I had a tremendously fun (and distracting) time a few weeks ago when self-described makeup, skincare, and style entrepreneur Trinny Woodall invited me to her hotel bathroom to make a video.

Welcome readers, old and new! Every time you tap that ❤️ above, a little bell rings in the halls of HNTFUYF and we know another reader has gotten her post. Since I returned from my most recent trip to Tokyo several weeks ago, I’ve had a more difficult transition than I can remember. Tokyo was magnificent when I left in the middle of May: the breezes temperate; the shrines and temples glinting gold and serene; the giant, majestic trees flaunting their lush, emerald canopies.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please hit the ❤️ above and then read a funny/sad story about a shrinking face. I like The Beauty Brains podcast, hosted by two cosmetic chemists: Perry Romanowski (always delightfully quirky) and Valerie George (always cool-headed and a new mom). They’re terrific at explaining the mysteries of skincare and haircare, and are appropriately skeptical about beauty marketing’s often preposterous claims.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please hit the ❤️ above for a clue as to why your anger might feel different these days. 👤 👤 👤 A few weeks ago I shared a conversation I had with my friend Pamela Redmond about her play, Old Woman Naked. A favorite dermatologist friend, Laurel Geraghty, MD, was motivated to share her response with me, which I think HNTFUYF-ers might find helpful. I have been thinking a lot about Old Woman Naked. I’m someone who looks at old women naked for a living.