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Why your cleanser turned on you
Why your cleanser turned on you ANNIE PALMER Beautiful Skin Why your cleanser turned on you You have used the same cleanser for years. Lately your face feels tight after you wash it, in a way it did not used to. The cleanser did not change. Here is the part almost nobody says out loud.…
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A Chair-Side Read For Fitzpatrick 5 & 6
ANNIE PALMERB E A U T I F U L SKIN| LICENSED ESTHETICIANYour skin isn’t difficult. It’s reactive — and the usualscale doesn’t measure that. How I read deep skin before I ever touch it. The scale most of us were handed — Fitzpatrick — was built in 1975 to predict one thing: how fair…
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A PARADIGM I WANT TO NAME
ANNIE PALMERBEAUTIFUL SKIN| LICENSED ESTHETICIAN The Fitzpatrick scale stopped at six. I want to name the seventh. Not another skin type. An ideal — the one deep skin was never given. Here’s a thing hiding in plain sight: the fair end of the spectrum has always had an ideal. Alabaster. Porcelain. Lotus. None of it…
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Brighten Now, Brighten Later
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18x7JmRw8w What “brightening” actually means – and why knowing the difference changes what you ask for ——————————————————— What “brightening” actually means – and why knowing the difference changes what you ask for “Brightening” is one of the most requested words in my treatmentroom. It’s also one of the most misunderstood – not because clientsget it…
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There is one ingredient I recommend to almost every client I see —regardless of age, skin type, or concern.
There is one ingredient I recommend to almost every client I see —regardless of age, skin type, or concern. It is not a peptide.It is not retinol.It is not vitamin C. It is niacinamide. And most people have no idea what it isactually doing inside their skin. 🔬 Niacinamide at 5% does four separate things…
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I Designed A Protocol For Your Skin. Here Is What It Does And Why.
By Annie Palmer | Beautiful Skin | Dermaceutical Architect If you are between 45 and 75 and your skin feels like it has stopped cooperating — dry no matter what you put on it, dull when it used to glow, showing lines that seem deeper than they should, carrying pigmentation you did not ask for…
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The Thing On Your Bathroom Shelf that is Aging Your Skin Every Single Morning
By Annie Palmer | Beautiful Skin I want to talk to you about your cleanser.Not the fancy serum. Not the retinol you are finally using consistently. Not the SPF you bought and sometimes actually remember to apply. Your cleanser. The thing you use first, every single day, that you probably think about the least.Because here…
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Sugar, Sun, Water & the Devil
or…why you are aging so fast and why you don’t have to. By Annie Palmer| Beautiful Skin Alright, Is this you? ”Why am I looking more like a French bull-dog each year? Who invented jowls? Why does my face look like an abused piece of parchment…with fractals? I hate math! My skin type is Lipid…
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Fat Free Foolishness
or…if it doesn’t kill you it will weaken you skin barrier and piss you off *Art Images are meant for educational purposes and depict reasonable facsimiles of clinical outcomes* The body needs fats, healthy ones of course but fats. Healthy fats are non‑negotiable for skincare: they feed the lipid barrier, helping to maintain keratinocyte membrane fluidity and…
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