I once spent an entire Tuesday in March with a bleeding knuckle because I thought I could save four dollars on a generic gallon of ‘Mountain Spring’ soap. It was 2021, the heat in my apartment was cranked to a bone-dry 74 degrees, and my skin finally just gave up. It quit. My hands looked …
Stop looking for the 10-step miracle. Seriously. If you spend five minutes on r/AsianBeauty or r/SkincareAddiction, you’ll see these massive ‘shelfies’ with twenty different glass bottles and people claiming their life was changed by snail slime. It’s mostly nonsense. I know this because I fell for it. I spent three years obsessively tracking every ‘Holy …
I woke up on my 32nd birthday, looked in the mirror, and realized I looked exactly like a crumpled paper bag that had been smoothed out by a very tired person. It wasn’t just the hangover from the night before. There were these new, permanent little lines around my eyes that weren’t there during the …
Eye cream is a scam. I know this, you know this, and yet my bathroom cabinet looks like a graveyard of tiny, overpriced jars that promised to make me look like I didn’t stay up until 2 AM reading Wikipedia entries about deep-sea shipwrecks. We buy into the idea that the skin around our eyes …
