Dr Victoria Manning

If you have been researching collagen stimulating treatments, you have probably come across all three of these names and wondered what actually separates them. It is a fair question. All three work with your body rather than against it, and all three sit within what I call the Regenerate edit: treatments that rebuild rather than simply fill. But they are not interchangeable, and the right choice depends entirely on what your skin needs. Here is how I think about the differences, and how I...

Ask ten people what a retinoid is and you'll get ten different answers. Anti ageing miracle. Purging nightmare. Something a dermatologist mentioned once that never got followed up on. The truth sits somewhere more useful than the marketing, and it starts with understanding that "retinoid" is a family of ingredients, not a single one. This guide walks through what retinoids actually are, how retinol, retinal and retinoic acid relate to each other, and how to introduce one without the purging...

by Dr Vix Manning Nora Ephron put it better than most of us ever will. "Oh, the necks," she wrote. "There are chicken necks. There are turkey gobbler necks. There are elephant necks. There are necks with wattles and necks with creases... Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth." "Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck." — Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck She was writing...