HeyJaredDara Kennedy | Brighter Beauty
Straight talk about skin, with a side of health & wellness, from a beauty industry veteran
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The salve I think we all need right now (opens the original)
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My next product is a particularly personal one; all the products I’ve made are very close to my heart, but the nature of this one scoots it just a liiiittle closer than the others.So, in keeping with my general plan for this Substack—most personal stories stay pretty personal—I’m introducing it to the smaller community of paid subscribers here first. As a thank you for your support, you’ll get the full story behind it, along with the details that will eventually be on both darakennedy.com and ay
Can you leave in a rinse-out conditioner? (opens the original)
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Sensitive skin: what is it, really? (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about sensitive skin lately, and I thought it could be a fun topic to dive into here.Over the years, Ayla seems to have become known as something of a home base for sensitive-skinned shoppers, maybe because I have sensitive skin myself and tend to select products for others from that point of view.It’s always bugged me, though, that to many in the outside world, “made for sensitive skin” is frequently thought of as a euphemism for “doesn’t do much, aside from not messing
Protein, fasting, and perimenopause pasta panic: a nutritionist answers everything (opens the original)
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Second fiddle: what playing the violin again taught me about aging well (opens the original)
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