Skin

Day of terror in New York: Pages from a reporter's 9/11 journal

2011-08-21 00:00:00

The brown-leather journal is my passport to Sept. 11, 2001. When I hold it in my hands, images and memories are no further away than yesterday. I had no notebook with me when my husband and I dropped our children, 8 and 4, at school that morning. Then...

How to avoid 'hat hair'

2011-07-24 00:00:00

The best protection against skin cancer of the scalp is a hat, but it's tricky to wear one without collateral damage to your hairstyle. Caile Noble, hairstylist at Serge Normant at John Frieda Salon, offers tips on how to banish hat hair. Long and...

Experts look at new high-tech, at-home beauty devices

2011-07-24 00:00:00

Imagine having the fountain of youth as close at hand as the bathroom. We're not there yet — but there's a burgeoning number of at-home, high-tech beauty gadgets that claim to smooth wrinkles, whiten teeth and remove hair without the need to...

Nonsurgical cosmetic treatments growing in popularity

2011-07-24 00:00:00

Dr. W. Grant Stevens calls it his fire and ice room. Stocked with lasers, skin-tightening devices, fat-zapping machines and, on a recent Wednesday, a 65-year-old woman named Helen, the brightly lighted corner of the Marina del Rey medical facility is a...

How to protect the scalp from skin cancer

2011-07-24 00:00:00

As summer heats up, we've learned to slather SPF 15 or higher all over our bodies and faces in an effort to prevent sun damage and skin cancer. We've also been told to recite our ABCs when checking for unusual moles: asymmetry, border irregularity and...

Space NK to open store in Brentwood on Monday

2011-06-25 00:00:00

High-end beauty chain Space NK could be considered the luxury Sephora. The British retailer, which launched in 1993 in the form of a single, unassuming shop in Covent Garden, London, features an expertly edited selection of founder Nicky Kinnaird's...

Bye-bye blond, hello redhead

2011-05-29 00:00:00

Red is the blazing hot trend in hair color this season. Longtime redheads Christina Hendricks, Florence Welch and Karen Elson stand out with an almost angelic glow of gorgeous color framing their faces. And hardly a day goes by that we don't hear of...

Travel products and travel kits: Don't let those miles show

2011-06-12 00:00:00

Being on the move — be it by plane, train, automobile or cruise ship — is in the American DNA. And with the start of summer, the tendency kicks into high gear with road trips, beach forays, camping expeditions, out-of-town bachelor or...

Self-tanning products have come a long way

2011-06-12 00:00:00

The deleterious effects of self-tanning products — streaky brown or Oompa-Loompa orange skin — have faded considerably over the past couple years, due in large part to advances in formulations and delivery methods that make a DIY tan easier to...

Chronic itch: Every bit as debilitating and depressing as chronic pain

2011-06-17 16:23:00

If you've had it, you would know. Chronic itchiness -- often the result of skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema or allergies -- disrupts sleep, dims pleasure and limits activities. Just as much as chronic pain does. Now it's official: A study...

Fall Sneaks list

2011-09-04 00:00:00

SEPT. 9 All's Faire in Love A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...

Book review: 'The Man in the Rockefeller Suit' by Mark Seal

2011-06-03 00:00:00

Great con artists understand this about human nature: The suckers want to be taken. In 1978, a poor, semi-educated German teenager named Christian K. Gerhartsreiter arrived in New England on a falsified student visa. Brilliant, charismatic and twisted,...

deficiency, and a 2008 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that vitamin D levels were 14 percent lower in depressed people. The sun on your skin needs exposure time to bring about the change that produces vitamin D, according to Reinhold Vieth, Ph.D.

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, kidney and liver cancers. Overall, not including sex-specific or breast cancers, men's death rates are 1.9 times higher than women's, according to the new research. Lifestyle factors caused the divide.

2011-07-15 13:39:11

You're focused on getting to the front of the line to scream at the top of your lungs, but should you be more concerned about your skin while waiting to get on that amusement park ride? People wearing SPF 15 sunscreen can stay in the sun 15 times longer than someone wearing no protection. If you

2011-07-12 12:05:58