I Quit My ElaborateSkin Care RoutineI threw a lot of time and money at my face. It wasn’t worth it. Now, in the after, sunlight bounces off the medication- and money-induced smoothness with a glare similar to that emanating from car windows covered in tint film. My skin cleared up around the same time that I came into earning a reasonably livable salary. Like the many unmoored people of my generation who, in absence of the markers of stable life denied to us, embraced the deceptively seductive cult of skin care, I began spending madly on serums, exfoliants, humectants and occlusives.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2020 00:56 UTC