Protect Your Private Parts While Exposed To The Sun We are committed to bringing you a continual stream of anecdotes and information that in some way helps protect you and yours from skin cancer and Melanoma. However, every once in a while we have a cross-referential opportunity that we’re happy to bring you. In other … Read more
NYFW Best and Worst It’s fall fashion week again – our favorite time of the year. The air is crisper, the pumpkin flavor has emerged in just about everything you can find on the shelves. I wish I saw the color “pumpkin” more on the runways as well but, you have to realize Fashion Week … Read more
It Protects You So Protect IT! Show your Skin Love! Many of us don’t realize how important our skin is, or how crucial it is to protect it. There are more than a few things about it that we take for granted. The truth is that, while the information is out there, we really don’t … Read more
As I sit here burned-out and tired from all the preparations involved with the upcoming New York Fashion Week, (NYFW) it’s occurred to me that I’m late for my dermatology follow-up. I survived a Beast, and in order to stay healthy I need to be proactive. So while I might be all over the place … Read more
Skin Trauma: Photosensitivity / Phototoxicity There are myriad ways that UV exposure from sunlight can negatively impact your skin and health. Several have already been mentioned in previous blog posts, and today I want to talk about one we haven’t discussed yet: photosensitivity and skin trauma. Photosensitivity is an allergic reaction to sunlight which, as its name … Read more
Hero: Samantha Channels of Got Sunblock? I first met my hero Samantha Channels in 2010 through social media. This extraordinarily beautiful woman, a lifelong Hawaiian, was much younger than me. And at the time we first became friends, she was taking care of her four children while having fought her way through years’ worth of struggles … Read more
As the weekend ends, like always, I find myself counting my blessings. Then it’s Monday, the start of a week that’ll be made or broken by nothing more than my own attitude. This was Compassion Therapy. Over the past few days, I got to spend time with a cancer patient who pulled in the reigns … Read more