Acne Cream: Acne Cream - Acne

It's definitely interesting. I will give it that. Interesting and expensive.

Has anybody heard of light as an acne remedy? I never did, until now. Here is an article about light treatment from BBC News, which cites a study of acne "patients" who were treated with blue and red light wavelengths for 15 minutes a day for 12 weeks. The patients, on average, showed a 76 percent decrease in the number of visible acne spots on the area treated.

Basically, this product is the lightbox used in that study.

Here is the product description on Amazon.com: "This breakthrough personal care device uses the power of light to stimulate the body's natural processes to help clear skin. More>>

ASC-J9(TM) demonstrated a clinical benefit in reducing inflammatory lesions compared to placebo at certain dosages and at multiple time points during the study, though the study was not powered for statistical significance. ASC will now focus on bolstering efficacy through a new formulation and intends on forming a co-development or licensing partnership for future clinical development and commercialization. Through enhancing androgen receptor protein degradation, ASC-J9(TM) represents the first topical agent directed at modulating the effect of androgens (male hormones), through the androgen receptor, a key causative factor in the pathogenesis of acne. More>>

And yet, let me again be perfectly clear: Watchmen is still at its core a superhero action movie. There's an arch villain, there's plenty of battle-stoked action, there's plenty of superhero soul-searching. But there is also so much more in Snyder's adaptation. The swirling, mind-bending complexity of the plot -- made crystal clear by Snyder's exacting grasp of narrative as well as his refusal to stray from the structure of Moore's source material -- and the general atmosphere of moroseness and discontent, of doom and gloom, combine to foster an intense cinematic experience that makes Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight feel like an ant-free picnic on a sunny afternoon. More>>

As someone who made his living this past decade as a retoucher, I am in favor of full disclosure of retouching practices, and believe there should be more public awareness of same. I have no problem telling anyone I meet that 100% of the images they see in print have been retouched. Sometimes that just means that the levels and colors have been altered and sometimes it is 20-30 rounds result in what I like to call "frankenstein's monster images" like the Lucky cover used as an example in the editorial.

The question Epstein does not ask is this: What would this knowing do for us? If, on the table of contents page, where they credit the clothes, stylist, and photographer of the cover shot, they also showed the four un-retouched images, would that solve the problem? Would criminalizing this behavior so that all we would be allowed to publish would be photos-as-is, solve the problem? Should we mandate that only models who conform to national medians of height, weight, and ethnic makeup be allowed to be photographed? And what about celebrities? On the same day that Epstein's piece appeared, Kelly Clarkson was on Good Morning America promoting her new album, and when they showed the cover she said that she didn't really look that good, that they had "photoshopped" her. More>>