There is a particular kind of Manila beauty conversation that has been ongoing, mostly in whispers, for the last decade. It is the conversation about the celebrity who appears on a magazine cover and looks twenty-eight when she is forty-two, and the polite agreement, in the absence of any honest disclosure, to attribute the result to good genes, good lighting, and good water. On Tuesday, Anne Curtis-Smith did something unusual. She told us what she actually does. At the BTL Medical...

If you have booked, or are about to book, an Emsculpt NEO consultation at Jan Medical Group in BGC and want to know exactly what happens from the moment you walk in, this guide is written for you. It walks through the consultation, the preparation, the session itself, the recovery window, and the results timeline, so you can arrive prepared and leave with realistic expectations. Emsculpt NEO has become one of the most searched body contouring options in BGC and Taguig, and the reason makes...

A stretch mark begins as a wound she cannot see. The skin has been pulled, by pregnancy or by adolescence or by a Wegovy gain that came too fast and a Wegovy loss that came too suddenly, beyond the elastic capacity of its dermal scaffolding. Collagen fibres fracture. Elastin networks tear. A small inflammatory cascade follows, beneath the surface. B y the time the line appears on her skin, the injury underneath is weeks old. This is the first thing worth understanding about a stretch mark. It...