There is a particular kind of event that does not just promote something. It becomes something. A gathering where the products on display are secondary to the experience they produce, where the conversation is elevated, and where guests leave feeling genuinely changed. The Art of Lift was that kind of event. Hosted by Jan Medical Group (JMG) in partnership with global medical aesthetics leader BTL Aesthetics (makers of EMFACE) and iconic luxury skincare house La Mer, The Art

A small clinical population has been quietly accumulating in Manila dermatology practices: women whose foreheads no longer respond to Botox. There is also a second, larger population that never agreed to Botox in the first place. Dr. Jan Dipasupil, medical director of Jan Medical Group, on EMFACE Forehead, the lift designed for both. Three women walk into a Bonifacio Global City consultation room across the course of a single Wednesday morning. The first is forty-six. She h

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 M

Every summer, Filipino professionals face the same quiet pressure: weddings to attend, beach trips booked, reunions on the calendar — and a face that does not quite look as rested or defined as they would like. For years, the go-to answer was injectables. Botox for the lines. Fillers for the hollows. Thread lifts for the sag. But in 2026, a growing number of patients across Metro Manila are choosing a different path. The EMFACE no-needle face lift has become one of the most r