I don't use it. I don't like how it looks on me, and I'm so active so it only lasts about 6 weeks tops.

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Anonymous wrote:La Mer is not that great anymore. So many other brands have surpassed it.

I honestly judge anyone I see using cosmetic skincare in 2025. Medical grade skincare is far superior.

This .. Ugh

Medical grade skincare is not a thing. Prescription Tret is a thing.

Tret is an old thing tho.

Were you trying to say something? Tret has clinically measurable results. “Medical grade skincare” doesn’t. That’s what gives your celebrity derm with a YouTube following second home funding.

So many of you are stupid and then smugly try to tell other women that xyz works when it absolutely doesn’t. Botox looks fqd on so many people. So many others can’t afford it. Why not discuss what actual non-scumbag dermatologists say works?

Tret works, I don't think anyone is arguing that. Prescription Tret is also just retinoic acid in a cream base, which tends to be very irritating to skin, and cannot be tolerated well by many people.

I told my cosmetic derm (who never pushes any product or procedure on anyone) that I didn't tolerate even the lowest concentration prescription tret and could only use OTC differin. He told me to try the skinbetter retinol which is equivalent in strength to the lowest strength prescription tret. He said that unlike the prescription products retinols from skincare companies are allowed to add other ingredients which hydrate and counteract the irritating/drying action, which makes them much more tolerable for many people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:La Mer is not that great anymore. So many other brands have surpassed it.

I honestly judge anyone I see using cosmetic skincare in 2025. Medical grade skincare is far superior.

This .. Ugh

Medical grade skincare is not a thing. Prescription Tret is a thing.

Tret is an old thing tho.

Were you trying to say something? Tret has clinically measurable results. “Medical grade skincare” doesn’t. That’s what gives your celebrity derm with a YouTube following second home funding.

So many of you are stupid and then smugly try to tell other women that xyz works when it absolutely doesn’t. Botox looks fqd on so many people. So many others can’t afford it. Why not discuss what actual non-scumbag dermatologists say works?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:La Mer is not that great anymore. So many other brands have surpassed it.

I honestly judge anyone I see using cosmetic skincare in 2025. Medical grade skincare is far superior.

This .. Ugh

Medical grade skincare is not a thing. Prescription Tret is a thing.

Tret is an old thing tho.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 45 and have been using Botox for a few years but it started giving me terrible brain fog for about 2 weeks post injection earlier this year (and that’s not uncommon, per Reddit), so I’m not sure if I will keep getting it in the future.

Yikes. That’s disconcerting.

No kidding. I had not heard this before.

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Anonymous wrote:La Mer is not that great anymore. So many other brands have surpassed it.

I honestly judge anyone I see using cosmetic skincare in 2025. Medical grade skincare is far superior.

This .. Ugh

Medical grade skincare is not a thing. Prescription Tret is a thing.

Anonymous wrote:I do not.

I have a wrinkle trying to develop between my eyes but I use tret + Aquaphor + light massage for that. It gets better and then shows up again. Constant battle. lol

The elders in my family (the ones I look like the most) do not tend to wrinkle until very old. I used hats and sunscreen when in the sun.

For other health reasons, I had to give up sugar and alcohol, and I think that can only have helped.

Do you sleep on your side? Try putting a piece of medical tape on it before bed. At first I did this to prolong my Botox per the Skincare addict subreddit and then I stopped using Botox altogether.

I know most people who do not do this- only a few that do. And they don't keep it up.

I do not.

I have a wrinkle trying to develop between my eyes but I use tret + Aquaphor + light massage for that. It gets better and then shows up again. Constant battle. lol

The elders in my family (the ones I look like the most) do not tend to wrinkle until very old. I used hats and sunscreen when in the sun.

For other health reasons, I had to give up sugar and alcohol, and I think that can only have helped.

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Anonymous wrote:45 y o here, don't do Botox. I do a lot of other things, though:

Don't drink
Retinol at night and SPF during the day
Gua sha every morning
Hanacure mask once a week (my face pulses while it's on -- this mask is crazy)

Ooh. Tell me more about the Hanacure mask.

It works for me (my face looks plumper and softer for a couple days). The key is that you can't move your face AT ALL for 30 minutes while it's working. No expressions whatsoever, no talking, etc.

When I do that, after about 15 minutes I feel all this blood pulsing throughout my face. It's wild!

When I move my face even a little bit, the mask "breaks" and I don't feel any pulsing or see a difference afterwards.

I think that's why the reviews vary. But when you use it right, it really works.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.self.com/story/medical-grade-skin-care-truth

Yep. I don't use any OTC products for my skin care. All Dermatologists prescribed.

Meh. Derms get kickbacks.

I use it less frequently and instead use Frownies. It extends the life of my Botox.

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Anonymous wrote:La Mer is not that great anymore. So many other brands have surpassed it.

I honestly judge anyone I see using cosmetic skincare in 2025. Medical grade skincare is far superior.

This .. Ugh

There's a Botox gone wrongpage on Facebook that gives me pause (systemic botulism poisoning). Apparently, it does happen.

Anonymous wrote:45 y o here, don't do Botox. I do a lot of other things, though:

Don't drink
Retinol at night and SPF during the day
Gua sha every morning
Hanacure mask once a week (my face pulses while it's on -- this mask is crazy)

Ooh. Tell me more about the Hanacure mask.