If my husband had even the foggiest notion of how much of our hard-earned cash I fritter away on trying to look good, he might have a small cow. Scratch that. He'd have a big, honking moose. But, what's a girl to do? There are just some things that you simply cannot scrimp on. And, what's interesting to me is that we all have different ideas of what's splurge-worthy. My friend Whitney, for…  

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I need to confess something; at this very moment, I have a genuine, honest to goodness suntan. One from that big ball in the sky, and not from a tube. It was an accident, I swear but, yep -- I'm brown as can be. Here's how it happened. I was playing my weekly game of tennis and halfway into the third set I realized I'd neglected to apply sunscreen. Gasp. The amazing thing was the intense feelings…  

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Get the straightforward answers you've been wanting to hear from Ariel Ostad, M.D..

Let's face it. In these crazy times, when you're barely able to squeeze in a Starbucks run, let alone a half-hour wait in a doctor's office, seeing a dermatologist can feel on par with sailing off on your yacht or taking the helicopter to work. (Translation: way out of yours, and our, realm of possibility.) But, just because we can't make it to a dermatologist, doesn't mean we don't have tons of…  

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