Topic: wrinkles

Smooth Skin for a Substantial Price: Beauty Products No One Needs

Smooth Skin for a Substantial Price: Beauty Products No One Needs

Let’s think about how much money we spend on our foundations of choice: $20, $30, maybe even $40 a bottle. Wait — you pay $115 for your foundation? What could a $115 foundation possibly have in it to justify that ridiculous price? Let’s see: Phyto-Teint Eclat Oil-Free foundation is oil-free, long lasting, and makes your skin silky smooth while covering blemishes. Hmm. Sounds suspiciously like every other foundation on the market. More »

The Pose That Smooths Wrinkles? Magazines That Give Fitness a Bad Name

The Pose That Smooths Wrinkles? Magazines That Give Fitness a Bad Name

Sometimes, magazines are full of exercise tips that can really get you strong and fit (and, if you’re lucky, looking a little more buff). But sometimes, they’re full of exercise tips like this one, from the September issue of Health Magazine. The Pose That Smooths Wrinkles? Come on, people. Yoga can be one of the toughest workouts we’ve ever tried, but suggesting that tilting your head upside down on a mat can make your wrinkles go away is exactly why certain skeptics laugh off yoga as just a bunch of new-agey stretches. We thought we liked Kristin McGee (yoga instructor to Tina Fey), but we wish she’d dish out some real yoga tips instead of trying to catch the attention of women who want to look good without putting in the work. More »

Oh, Please: Overpriced Beauty Products No One Needs

Oh, Please: Overpriced Beauty Products No One Needs

Osmotics Blue Copper 5 Firming Elasticity Repair

8 ounces

$325, Lord and Taylor

5-chain Pentapeptide is a group of five amino acids that has been shown to reduce wrinkles and increase skin firmness. Obviously, a lot of women are willing to dole out a pretty penny for younger looking skin, but come on — $325 for eight ounces? Is it because of the cool packaging? Because, yeah — we’ll admit that the packaging is pretty futuristic.

Here’s a shocker: You can find this much-lauded compound in other products that won’t cost you almost half your rent. Of course, they don’t come in frosted glass containers and they aren’t blue, but they also might not contain retinyl palmitate, a type of vitamin A that researchers think accelerates the growth of skin cancer. Ms. Futuristic must have missed that memo.
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