There are thousands of skincare products on the market - literally thousands. Amazon and companies like Wish and YesStyle have given us access to products from all over the world - skincare we wouldn't have dreamed of trying even ten years ago. My (happy) job is to determine which of those are worth your time. I always start with the 'ingredient deck' - what's on the back of the tube/bottle/box says a lot more about what's inside than the promises in the companies' marketing.

*Please note: the thumbnail pic for this blog and corresponding video was made black and white and with contrast to show the pigment irregularities (much like a woods lamp would). Up until recently, the most effective at-home ‘toolkit’ to clear hyperpigmentation involved a combination of hydroquinone and tretinoin - both in strengths available only with a prescription. I know from personal experience in treating both clients and my own melasma that the Obagi Nuderm works.

I'm a sucker for cool packaging. Whether it's a Tiffany Blue box, the muted packaging on a Jo Malone candle, or a screaming yellow...

Retinol, Retinaldehyde, Tret and Retin-A, oh my!! Making sense of Retinoids. If you’re on the anti-aging path, you’ve surely heard of the...

A few years ago I tested a silicone patch designed for the eye area. I tried the patch for one night. With high hopes, I awoke in the morning to peel away the Sio patch and found that my under eye was a little pink and very puffy. I thought 'hmm, not what I'd hoped for', tossed the rest back in the drawer, and made an 'it was too good to be true' mental note about the promises of silicone patches. Well, two years later I decided to give the Sio patches (along with several

Have you noticed that as we get older it can appear that our eyes get smaller as our face seems to get bigger?  Well, you aren’t just seeing things (no pun intended LOL)! It's a sad fact: as we age, our brow starts to drop, eyelids sag, and many of us develop dark circles and puffiness. Combine all that with less eyebrow hair and shorter, lighter eyelashes, and our eyes do indeed appear to be shrinking!!  I've seen first-hand that when we address these key elements we can hav

You'll often hear people talking about skincare 'actives' when they talk about things like retinoids, Vitamin C and AHAs. But what ...

Here we are in the last days of summer 2020 and if your skin is anything like mine, it’s feeling a bit parched. You might be thinking that sun exposure is the main reason our skin gets dry in the summer - and that sunscreen should provide all the protection we need. In fact, it’s more complex than that. Points to you if you’ve been judicious about slathering on SPF all summer. As we know, sunscreen protects the skin from UV damage. Interestingly, recent studies have concluded