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Frame 01 · Bare Face Days · 08.15
Bare Face Days
Tracking a Month of Bare Face Days: What the Numbers Showed
A four week log of bare days versus makeup days, rated the same way each morning, to see whether skipping base makeup actually changed anything measurable.
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02Skin & Sleep · 08.12
How Sleep Loss Shows Up on Your Skin
A single late night rarely changes much. A pattern of short sleep is a different story, and the signs tend to show up in…
03Bare Face Days · 08.09
What to Expect the First Time You Go Out Bare Faced
04Ingredients Explained · 08.05
Hyaluronic Acid: What It Can and Cannot Hold Onto
05Skin & Sleep · 07.31
Why Your Face Looks Puffy in the Morning
06Seasonal Skin · 07.28
What Air Conditioning Does to Skin Over a Long Summer
07Seasonal Skin · 07.27
What Summer Humidity Does to Oil Production
08Skin Basics · 07.25
What Skin Does All Day: A Basic Timeline
09Product Claims · 07.24
What “Natural” and “Clean” Mean on a Label
10Cleansing & Washing · 07.23
Makeup Removal Is Not the Same Step as Cleansing, and Treating It as One Skips Both
11Cleansing & Washing · 07.22
What Double Cleansing Actually Does, and When One Step Is Enough
12Cleansing & Washing · 07.18
How Often You Should Actually Wash Your Face, By Skin Type
13Product Claims · 07.15
What “Dermatologist Recommended” Actually Discloses
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I print the ones that hold up.
I spent six years writing about consumer health before I wrote about skin. The habit stuck: read the study, check the sample size, then decide whether the sentence on the box survives it.
Most of what I test does not make it here. What does gets the numbers attached, the dates attached, and the parts I could not verify said out loud.
Simone Okafor
