"My skin has gotten so much worse after I moved to Italy! What's going on?" Amy's voice was a mix of frustration and hope.
We were sitting on chic stools in a Milanese café, catching up after a decade apart since graduating from high school. Amy, now getting her Master's in Food and Wine Management, had recently reached out. After we've discussed our coffee's important things, such as the essentials, such as relationship and professional statuses and milestones, clarified, our conversation, as it often does, soon turned to more current matters - skincare.
"Maybe it's the water, or the pizza and ice cream I'm eating, or the stress," Amy prompted, pointing to the bumps on her jawline.
"It's probably a combination of everything—water, diet, stress," I said, knowing how these factors can wreak havoc on our skin. Amy nodded thoughtfully, sipping her iced Americano, hoping for more concrete advice.
Conversations effortlessly drift toward skincare when people learn about my line of work. The intrigue lingers even as I clarify that I'm not a doctor and can't dispense medical advice. Instead, I lean on the expert insights of my co-founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hughes, a dermatologist who handles the science behind beauty.
We were sitting on chic stools in a Milanese café, catching up after a decade apart since graduating from high school. Amy, now getting her Master's in Food and Wine Management, had recently reached out. After we've discussed our coffee's important things, such as the essentials, such as relationship and professional statuses and milestones, clarified, our conversation, as it often does, soon turned to more current matters - skincare.
"Maybe it's the water, or the pizza and ice cream I'm eating, or the stress," Amy prompted, pointing to the bumps on her jawline.
"It's probably a combination of everything—water, diet, stress," I said, knowing how these factors can wreak havoc on our skin. Amy nodded thoughtfully, sipping her iced Americano, hoping for more concrete advice.
Conversations effortlessly drift toward skincare when people learn about my line of work. The intrigue lingers even as I clarify that I'm not a doctor and can't dispense medical advice. Instead, I lean on the expert insights of my co-founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hughes, a dermatologist who handles the science behind beauty.
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