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

The landscape of medical weight management in the Philippines has evolved rapidly as we enter 2026. Two names dominate the conversation: Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) and Wegovy (Semaglutide) . Both are FDA-approved, once-weekly injectables that have changed the lives of thousands, but they are not identical. As patients in Bonifacio Global City and across Taguig look for the most effective way to reach their health goals, the debate often centers on which medication delivers s

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is often a blur of leftovers and reflection. While most people wait until January 1st to begin their resolutions, the most successful health journeys actually start now. The "New Year, New You" rush often leads to crowded gyms and waitlists for medical consultations. By planning your 2026 transformation during the final week of December, you transition from a mindset of "hoping for results" to "executing a strategy." Success in 2