How Not To F*ck Up Your Face

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.

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a 73-year-old woman gets naked in public Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap the ❤️ above for encouragement to step out of your comfort zone (if, in fact, you still have a comfort zone). And about a discomfort zone: You might want to check out my recent story in Allure about the skeletal profiles we’ve been seeing recently on the red carpet.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap the ❤️ above to read the most intriguing headline of the week. Maybe hold off on that facelift! Speaking of aging and time travel (weren’t we?), have a look at this short post I wrote about Old Bad Bunny’s Met Gala costume. 🖼️ 🖼️ 🖼️ I returned last week from a trip to , a lush, hilly island in the Seto Inland Sea that’s been abundantly fertilized with art, immersive and otherwise.

Welcome readers, old and new! Please tap that ❤️ above for news suggesting “scarred for life” may one day be a thing of the past. The friends I traveled with last week deposited photos they’d taken into a shared album, so we could collectively access memories of our trip. Handy! One of the photos showed a woman with a sagging neck and a noteworthy pot belly. I’m bringing it up here because that woman was me. I immediately got this feeling that I’m slouching around in a body I have no awareness of.