The WORST Of TikTok Beauty - Scary Beauty Scams, Deceptive Dr's And Gel Nail Emergencies
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
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In today's Worst Of Tiktok beauty, we dive into some of the most dangerous, interesting and interesting trends and stories on TikTok, focusing on misinformation spread by doctors who aren't exactly qualified to speak on skincare science. Like Dr. Amen and the growing trend of professionals stepping outside of their expertise.
We talked about the shocking trend of eye color-changing surgery.
Following the experience of a TikToker who underwent this surgery, and let’s just say... it did not go well.
Ever wondered what could go wrong with a luxury gel manicure? I share a nightmare story that left a woman’s fingers in ruins.
And A new viral spray on TikTok is showing some unexpected results-highlighting hidden facial hair!
AND A WARNING! Watch out for fake collagen peel-off masks that are mimicking the real viral sensations.
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#BeautyTikTok #Misinformation #DrAmen #SkincareScience #ViralBeautyFails #EyeSurgery #GelManicure #Skincare
Just wanted to add that there’s a fair bit of nuance surrounding how our skin absorbs cosmetics. As always, Dr Michelle won’t write a great article about this that I’d recommend you read if you are interested!
labmuffin.com/the-60-of-products-absorb-into-your-bloodstream-myth/
@@JamesWelsh Thanks. Will do. Scamming elderly- thats horrifying. Thank you for reply and information. Love your videos! XO
Won't write? 🤔
Think predictive changed ‘Wong’ to ‘won’t’! 😂
Wong lol
@CrystalFier yeah I read that whole thing 3 times before I went to the comments on it to see why I felt so dumb lol
If a doctor tells me to avoid sunscreen, I’m leaving the damn office.
Sun cancer isn’t worth it.
I’d be the exact same
Yep. Same. I take a biologic medication and sunscreen is extremely important due to side effects of sun exposure. I'm factor 50 all the way. All year round on sunny days. Any doctor who says sun screen is dodgy!
I’m taking anatomy and physiology right now and we just finished up the chapter on skin cancer and my professor was talking about the skin cancer he’s had cut off.
I got a problem around about Vit C synthesis in the skin and asked for clarification. He ended up saying he thinks it’s a scam & I said that vit c improves the efficiency of sunscreen….. that’s when we said “well you know sunscreens have been shown to cause cancer”
A man rarely leaves me speechless but he did😂
100%
@@alyssavictoria1792 wait wait wait- he wasn't talking about cancer he's seen cut off as an academic, he was talking about skin cancer he's had removed PERSONALLY? And followed up by badmouthing sunscreen?? Bruh
Would y’all see a psychiatrist for open heart surgery? How about a broken arm? If not, you probably shouldn’t see him for how shampoo interacts with the varied systems of your body either. Thanks for being so realistic. We need more people like you speaking up James.
honestly, i wouldn't see *that* psychiatrist for my OCD, let alone things outside his field of specialty.
Unless your shampoo has metabolic steroids in it I don’t think it’s changing your hormone levels. 😂😭
yes, for surgery you often need a certificate from a psychiatrist. We had to have an eye removed for surgery, so you are wrong.
Exactly, when he was like "I'm seeing with young males an epidemic of low testosterone" I was like .. how????! You're a psychologist!!!
To add to your *very* correct statement, people need to stop assuming that ANY doctor knows what they're talking about regarding any subject, including their own specialties. Always get a second opinion, always read up on whatever they tell you/give to you (diagnoses, medications, therapies, procedures, etc), and never ever EVER blindly trust any professional. My mother is a primary care physician, and she taught me to always question everything. She's had some pretty terrifying colleagues, and I've had some pretty terrifying doctors.
At this point "Dodgy Doctors" could just be its own series.
There are just too many 😭
I wonder if people who believe skin care Goes INTO the skin think about any other materials we are in constant contact with? Are we all filled with cotton bevause we wear clothes?
Right?! If that were the case surely we wouldn’t need noses to breathe through. We could just get oxygen through our pores
I mean, cotton particles are generally too large to be absorbed through the skin, while many chemicals can be absorbed through the skin, otherwise we wouldn't have topical steroids.
On the note of clothing, many fabrics contain compounds/chemicals that are getting into our bodies because the skin is the largest organ and absorbs these things. Microplastics in things like athletic wear are getting into human bodies. I’m not sure I’m 100% with James on this.
@@ChristinaLaetz-tq5zg there ARE studies showing that our bloodstreams are micro plastic soup and that men are kinda screwed but women can offload it onto their children through the placenta and lactation.
The amount of clothes made of plastic rather than natural materials is staggering.
“Epidemic of low testosterone” is such a buzzy phrase for TikTok bc it grabs all the incel type bros. These drs telling ppl their hormones are being ruined by big pharma know they’ll get the joe Rogan listener attention
They love just chucking that phrase in anywhere and everywhere
Right??? Every time someone says that. I’m just like good. Let the men suffer for a change. Maybe it will make them better.
@@alexaburks
It’ll make things worse since hormonal imbalance leads to a multitude of health issues, and dealing with sick people they will lash out a lot more
Healthy hormone balance = healthy body = better mental clarity
I’d know because I was born with hormone imbalance and as a woman it made my life fucking hell until it got under control. Maybe you’d like it for a change sweetheart
My best mate had dangerously low t, they thought he had been using it illegally in the past. Turns out he has a brain tumour. I'm really glad he didn't fall for any misinformation and kept looking for answers!
@@alexaburksoh :c that's really mean
Dang, I’m super thirsty. BRB just gonna hop in the shower real quick. Might dump a bowl of soup over my head while I’m in there and take care of lunch… what do you mean that’s not how any of this works ?!?!
LOOOOOOL 😭😂😂
Bahahahahaha😝😝😝
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You can't see your own peach fuzz on your face? Why do you need something to see it with? Good lighting and a clean mirror and BAM you will be able to see the peach fuzz! Why are so many people willing to buy crap products that fix problems that never existed? If someone else has to point out a problem you have, to you, there isn't a problem. I'd take the advice of a tik tok person about as fast as I'd take advice from a 3 year year old. (Just to be clear, I am NOT taking advice from either)
I’m crying over that psychiatrist saying “the dermatologists won, they made us afraid of the sun” as if he sees dermatologists as evil little creatures and not trained professionals.
At least dermatology is a real science.
Yes this! As if dermatologists want people to die from skincancer??
@@nmv33 Psychology is real science too. It's just that psychiatrists don't know about skins, similar to dermatologists having no idea how the mind works.
Not believing psychology to be a real science says more about your intelligence, than the subject itself.
@@jeon_artemisPsychology and Pshychiatry are two different things, but you are right, both are based on science.
@@rahsimch Agreed. Psychiatrists and psychologists are different. Didn't see that I wrote the other thing. Thanks for the heads up.
My biggest issue with the "hair revealing" spray is that it's just creating a new insecurity for women, then selling them a solution for the problem that didn't even exist. In the comments of these videos I saw so many people going "I didn't even know I was so hairy until I brought this" like girlypop that's literally why this marketing campaign is so effective. It's just a predatory strategy to get women to buy random overpriced beauty products they don't need.
I remember when nobody knew what "cellulite" was
It's actually just fully unnecessary. Using a a dermal razor doesn't require seeing the peach fuzz🤣
Our peach fuzz is a protective layer. We need to stop messing with this stuff.
@@CrystalFier The countless "this broke me out bad!" and "my hair grew back darker" also indicate that shaving peach fuzz is unnecessary in the first place.
@@DeadKraken shaving hair absolutely does not cause it to grow back darker (or thicker.)
Life Lessons with James..
"Don't F*☆k with your eyes " 😂
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Co-signing 🤣 I was an optometric tech for a few years and I’ve seen things. Don’t take risks!!! You get two working eyes if you’re lucky and that’s IT!
Coloured contacts… they look way better than these stupid colour changing, and you can change it up whenever you want.
That hair spray shit drives me nuts. THERES HAIR ON EVERY SURFACE IF YOUR BODY…minus soles and palms.
its almost as if humans are mammals and having hair all over is completely natural and normal.
The beauty community making people feel ugly for body hair and peach fuzz has me disgusted.
@@mrsgleek12I’ve found that my makeup lays better without my peach fuzz, but it’s not something that I would ever shame someone else for.
@@AlisonLeMay And that is all I ask cause at the end of the day it should be preference over pressure, ya know? I shave my legs only cause I like to rub them together after like a cricket, not because I fear ridicule.(and y'all cant just the cricket thing cause I know im not the only one).
Body hair is natural and you should be the only person making the decision of what you want to do with it. So shaving for a better makeup look that makes you feel good? helll yeah, go for it :3 Telling impressionable kids that you're wayyy hairier than you think and its gross like these influencers do? that's gonna be a hard no from me.
When I finish my doctorate in speech therapy I’m gonna go online and do chiropractic vids for fun
Because why not?! 🥲
You don't need a real medical doctorate to be a chiropractor in the first place. So you'd be just as qualified as "real" chiropractors.
@kodomoshawn6729 some do, but a chiropractor isn't always a Dr and it's illegal for them to say so when they aren't.
OMG please do! You'll probably still sound less crazy than they do.😂
Lmao
AI overview should not the primary source for your information. It is just a Cliffnotes of info, credible or not. Great video James.
Thank you!
I visited a doctor for lymphedema in my leg. He was a vascular specialist. He mentioned to me that losing a little weight might help with my condition. Okay, fair. But then he suggested this book that had just made the NYT bestseller list and everyone was reading it and he recommends it to everyone. I asked him if the research in the book was peer-reviewed and what studies were done. He immediately shut down and then acted annoyed at me the rest of the visit.
It's really disconcerting how many people don't know to ask for studies and peer-reviewed research when it comes to serious topics like health, but then when a *doctor* falls for the same stuff? It's even more disheartening.
Yeah... A lot of doctors do this and it's wild. My friend was told that vaping is worse than smoking, which is a dangerous myth. My mom and I both quit smoking by switching the vaping first. Even if we didn't then quit vaping, it's FAR less harmful and dangerous when you remove combustion. A lot of people are eating up the lie (a narrative originating with Big Tobacco) but to hear DOCTORS saying that is horrifying.
I've also been told vitamins and supplements are all useless. My boyfriend's psychiatrist had the motto "maximize the dosage!" I have heard nurses saying masks do nothing to prevent the spread of viruses. These people all use their credentials to push potentially dangerous ignorance on people who trust them.
Unfortunately doctors are people 😅 I also felt the same way when I entered healthcare. These doctors are “smart” but also very dumb in their owns ways 😅
Lmaooooo, I see that as an absolute win for you. Hopefully he's better at his actual job than he is at fact-checking other medical information. 💕
Also, I have leg swelling from shoddy circulation & wearing my compression socks constantly/using an under desk elliptical [since my joints suck & upright walking/running is hard] have helped... Not a tremendous amount, but it's helped. My skin feels less like it's fit to burst, lol
@@ZijnShayatanica Yeah I only saw him to get the diagnosis because I was wondering what was happening and why my feet really bothered me and got so painful sometimes. So whatever, he can keep pushing whatever NYT bestseller there is this week on The Healthy Diet and The Way To Lose Weight because you know, we're all the same and everything works the same for everyone.
Thank you for the advice! I actually haven't had issues in a while, but I do still have my compression socks if I do start to feel that oh so familiar pain. I'm glad you found something that helps you too!
Any time someone starts using the word “toxins,” I immediately tune out.
Saaaame 😭
This A.I. is truly frightening. The way its used to scam people is disturbing. Since Id never seen the last tic Tocker I would have assumed its her. I strongly believe A.I. generated content needs to post its A.I. I hate how its being used. Beyond that, great video!
I’ve heard they’re also using it to scam the elderly now! Somehow cloning family members voices through other phone calls
I work in ophthalmology. It is the one body part that we need to just be grateful for and leave alone. Change everything else if you want. Your eyes have so. Much. To. Them.
As someone who has problems wearing contacts for too long because of dry eyes, I simply cannot understand why they don’t just use colored contacts. I get it. It’s irritating. It might not be an option if your eyes are like mine (which means you CERTAINLY shouldn’t do this surgery). I’m just flabbergasted by it.
Seriously!! I used to spend a lot of time in the body mod community & every time someone did sclera tattoos, the red flags in my brain would go off... That & when people did procedures on their ears which could mess w/ their ability to sense the direction of sounds. DON'T MESS W/ THESE PRECIOUS SYSTEMS.
The conversation on hormone disruption is so fascinating to me as a person who’s started HRT. Like if it was so easy to fuss with hormones I wouldn’t be paying all this money and doing all of this work lol.
So true
You know, this hadn’t occurred to me but you are so correct.
Ugh!!! I hate the hormone disruption BS!! This MLM essential oil boss-babe-hun came to my house and saw my Bath and Body Works wallflower and about had a fit over it. She was telling I was hurting everyone’s hormones by using those and I should use an oil defusing. Ummm boss-babe what do you think that is. Also how much do you think I have to huff in order to impact my hormones…cause it’s a lot. lol.
I bet a bunch of these ladies freaking out are on hormonal birth control too
I understand what you're saying, but there's a big difference between disrupting random hormones in an unpredictable way and the strategic manipulation of specific hormones in HRT (I have a genetics and synthetic biology degree).
Ffs just get colored contacts if you want to change your eye color often. I'd rather not go blind.
The most important principle i ever learned at uni was to recognise what you dont know and be willing to be upfront about it.
Doesnt matter how many years you've been in any profession, there will always be things about it you dont know or that need more expertise than you have to fully interpret.
“Killing people with your skincare is not👏 a good👏 money👏 making👏 scheme👏” 😂😂😂
Regarding the eye colour change bit, the eye colour insert box states the colour as ‘MARRON’, which is the french word for chestnut. The paste used on a montblanc dessert is made of chestnuts. If you look at those pastes and what some of those whole (shelled) chestnuts sometimes looks like, they’re an ashy brown colour, not the reddish mahogany of the chestnut shells, and definitely not ‘MAROON’, which is an entirely different colour.
The ‘Marron’ colour she receive could arguably be that ashy grey brown that she got, which means she just didn’t understand what colour she was getting. Unless of course she picked the colour from a display booklet and that display showed the colour as a reddish brown or actual maroon colour and she got ashy brown instead.
I rather feel this is a misunderstanding in the same vein of ‘macaron’ =/= ‘macaroon’ (they sound similar but are entirely different cookies/biscuits).
I really wouldn’t call the color she got “marron” either, though. Just seems like a whole collection of bad decisions 😶
I mean, marron is just Brown. Not "chestnut": Brown.
@@UnderTheElm ‘brun’ is brown. Marron is literally chestnut but is used to mean brown as well. Depends on the context whether it means a very specific type of brown and I’d argue that in an aesthetic setting such as eye/hair/makeup colour it will.
@@shortcake66 That's interesting... I've definitely never (rarely) heard "brun" used for anything other than like hair color and *eye color* (guess theres a connection there, but idk, it has more of a natural context for me so I hadn't thought of it's application until just now) but maybe it is a regional thing... lots of different people speak lots of different french... terrible that it impacted the tiktokker.
i feel so sad that many people will mock this woman for that mistake, but that's really tragic. she's going to be so upset with her eye surgery because of a misunderstanding. like, she was told that the implants ofnte look different situated instead of noticing the color isnt maroon like she wanted beforehand.
I am pale and blond and my facial hair is mostly invisible. I pluck some of my mustache if it gets too long, but otherwise I also think it's just pointless removing the hair!
That’s what I was thinking like…if it’s invisible to the naked eye and doesn’t interfere with makeup etc…is there any point in removing it?!
And more over... Maybe they play a small but necessary role in our skin surface homeostatic balance, they're here for a purpose@@JamesWelsh
I'm very pale and my hair is almost black, some parts of my peach fuzz are visible on the palest areas of my face, like cheekbones and the jaw edge since my hair is darker.
This is the amount of f+cks I give about it:
@@DeadKraken Good! It's pointless and a waste of energy!
First, I'm a doctor in Greece (a neurologist) and would like to say that all of us need to set an example,stick to our own specialization and stop spreading irresponsible rumors and personal opinions with no scientific support. If our medical board could check all these out lots of my colleagues would definitely get disqualified over such statements.
Second, I m a mother of 2 daughters, really worried that they might want to remove tini tiny facial hair or increase collagen production at the age of 13....
I know a woman who has not worn real sunscreen in 20+ years. She is one of those who believe it causes cancer and causes hormonal issues.
Well, she had a section of her cheek removed a month ago because it was skin cancer and recently started seeing an endocrinologist for hormone issues....
Oh no
Then how did she get cancer if she didn’t use sunscreen?? Ask her that. Like where did the cancer come from then sway
@@keashanice2526 I'm tempted but she's so stubborn it would be a waste of breath honestly. She literally argued with me about blood types and I work in a blood bank as a medical laboratory tech -_- like ma'am its literally my job
that's really sad :( like her misguided beliefs caused such a serious condition(s?) for her, and she has to suffer with those consequences. its easy to say "she brought it on herself" (which, yeah) but i hope she'll be okay.
@@gwennorthcutt421 Agreed. That's why I bit my tongue for the sake of peace and wished her, and continue to wish, for her to have a happy, healthy life.
Additionally, I have accepted I can't change her mind if she's not willingly to listen. At least her kids can see what happened/her misguided mistake and make their own informed choices when they grow up.
[She's healing well by the way. The incision is closing nicely]
This psychiatrist would have 100% been trained around a concept we call "scope of practice" which every clinician and health practitioner on the planet is familiar with. Basically, it means we only treat people and dispense health advice around the things we have been specifically trained to do within our respective field. Anyone with a medical or science based accreditation who you catch stepping outside of their "scope of practice" should immediately be dismissed as unprofessional and unreliable, in my opinion.
Yes as a nurse I can lose my license for practicing outside my scope.
Also we’re taught how to properly research…. So I get so confused when a doctor just follows the misinformation train. I lose trust for those drs.
Even lay people shouldn’t just believe a random video as facts but a DOCTOR????? I don’t get it at all!
James, thanks for calling out misinformation and telling us why it’s BS
“Life lesson; don’t fuck with your eyes” could not have been put better
If I found out my psychiatrist was a sunscreen truther I’d find a new one. I’d be shocked if someone got into that and not adjacent conspiracy theories
Yyyyep
As a doctor (GP), I'm not performing any surgeries in my clinic. Bless you if you think we even have the equipment
"Don't f with your eyes" seems like basic common sense. Yeah, the people who choose to have this done are making an objectively poor life choice, but why are these practitioners allowed to offer actual disfigurement??
Absolutely. They could have body dysmorphia and no one should exploiting that.
When i worked 12 hr shifts, not allowed to sit except for my breaks, doing hard manual labor at a factory for 8 months, i got blisters under my big and pinkie toenails on both sides and actually ended up having my entire pinkie toenails detatch. They grew back unevenly (split into 2 sections growing at different rates) and it actually took a full 18 months to fully recover and have my nails growing evenly. The nails on my pinkie toes are twice as thick as they used to be, and my big toes' nails still occasionally detach in the center despite having properly fitted shoes.
If your nails get fucked up like that, they'll never be the same.
Fun fact: Humans aren't frogs. We do not absorb everything that comes in contact with our skin. In fact, our skin is so thick and has so many oils on it that it is generally very difficult to fully absorb much of anything on most parts of your body.
James:"Except us bc we know better than that"
*All of us at home with our horned rimmed glasses on
☆nods vigorously☆
It's so frustrating that many people believe the skin barrier is so permeable. If that were true, why would we need injections? Drs would just prescribe us some hand cream.
have you heard of the new studies of male birth control gel? in seattle, a university is testing a medicated gel men rub on their shoulders and has a spermicidal medication that penetrates through the skin into the bloodstream for men to use as a a male contraceptive
My nails also got fully destroyed from gel manicure. The nail tech filed down my nails to the nail bed in some spots. Very painful. After I finally removed them at home with an acetone soak, they were in recovery mode. The only thing that calmed down the pain and made them look nice at the same time were press on nails. I am using glue pads, and they last around 10 days. In between, I use nail oil after every handwash and keep them very short. Saw this tip on the salon life
The ingredients used in gel manicures are never supposed to come into contact with your skin because it can cause some really serious allergies. I hope you reported that salon/nail tech because that's so dangerous.
@@Kiterpussit’s only harmful if it’s remains uncured.
I love that you keep brining up beef tallow 😂 I can’t wait for that video breakdown to come up!
The psychiatrist also has a dreadful reputation for giving terrible ADHD advice
of course he does, it's always ADHD for some reason with psychiatrists like him.
spill the tea?
Marron and maroon are not the same thing. 🤦♀️ That was her first mistake.
Omg I didn’t notice that!
I think she was just misprnouncing it, but honestly I think most of the videos of people with blueish eyes should've been her warning sign.
I commented that too, but then I looked up the etymology of maroon and it does come from marron 😅
I mean, she basically wanted a chestnut brown, so it doesn’t matter too much if she got mixed up with the words. Marron or maroon, neither one of those should have turned out gray ☹️
A quick google shows marron being a term for the Spanish chestnut in both French and English. Merriam-Webster lists the origin of "maroon" meaning burgundy is from the French "marron." Plus "marrón" is a word for brown in Spanish. None of those would give someone a reason to expect a green grey
Why did this get 50 likes... She didn't make a mistake. The doctor even said he thought the color looked incorrect in the bottle. The picture of what color it is supposed to be provided by the company selling the pigment was the color she wanted, not the color she got. Her mispronouncing the word did not have any impact on the outcome and regardless of what you think about her getting the procedure, the mistake she is upset about was NOT hers so this isn't a cute comment.
Hey ho acrylate allergy sufferer here from literally the same situation (not the same salon) its a freaking nightmare
The woman with the eye colour should probably leave it alone. She can be happy she "only" got the wrong colour and no damage. So any undo/redo surgery is another risk ok damaging the function of the eyes
As a nail tec i audibly gasped at her nails omg I’d sue
😭😭😭
I had to look away several times, I could feel the pain through the screen
I NEVER use a Dremel on the natural nail bed. I prefer a 180 grit and gentle even crescent moon strokes a-crossed the nail bed. A dremel makes it to easy to damage someone’s nail bed. The dremel is for the gel polish, not the natural nails.
i saw the drill (dremel i assume?) on her nails and i was cringing so badly, it looked painful! like using those on the acrylic materials, or the artificial gel, sure, but not actual keratin!!
“Talking outside of their… education”
You wanted to say something else there, didn’t cha? lol
🤭 love how James says we know better when we discuss misinformation, makes me feel so brainy 😂🤓
This psychiatrist is speaking out of his Scope of Practice. That is dangerous to patients and the community.
It should be possible to report health professionals who spread false and harmful health information to their specialist professional body i.e in the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc. I think in the US it's the specialist board or state Medical Board. I don't think medical professionals will get disciplined unless people report stuff tbh.
Yeah derma planing has never interested me, I'll keep my cute little fuzzies!
I tried it once and it ruined my skin 😭
@@JamesWelsh yikes, yeah thats my fear...
Dermaplaning makes me break out no matter what I do. I'm better off just double cleansing regularly and sheet masking once a week😂
Peach fuzz is literally so cute!!!
@@alexanderk.6869said no one
3:01 Stuff like this makes me wish people would pay attention in basic biology classes growing up because it’s not how your body works
"Whatever you put on your skin is absorbed into your body, becomes your body!" Cool, just gonna lay all these superfoods on my skin then, since this means I don't have to eat.
I see this so much. Just because you are good at one thing doesn't mean you are good at everything. A lot of professionals aren't even that good in their own field but that's another topic. Even within medical doctors there are different specialists. Many psychologists don't know anything about autism, for example, so it's not even smart to trust a random psychologist about autism. Look up people's specializations and backgrounds before trusting them as a source 😭
I’m a nail tech of 15 years.. and the second I seen the girl talking about her nails I immediately thought bet they used the gel bottle! And yep I was right. I’ve seen some horrific issues that some of my nail tech friends have come across using that brand! The gel bottle can’t be trusted it’s as simple as that. Waaaayyyyy too many people have had massive issues with that brand that it can’t all be a coincidence!
How can you tell the nail tech used The Gel Bottle inc?
that last one wasn’t giving me any alarm bells as i have no idea who she is. brands are insane 😭
Why is a psychiatrist doing an interview about skincare..? People will see that video and believe everything he said. It’s ridiculous. I agree people like him should face some sort of punishment for misinformation.
like what I tell people who don't understand that there's a reason for different doctors: you wouldn't go to the dentist for an ingrown toenail. Or just things like my mum once didn't understand you have to get a special certification for filler and she was like "don't people just get it done where they get their nails and lashes done" or something like that 💀 not sure why we were talking about filler
I too feel like you are repeating yourself in every video- sunscreen is not toxic or poisonous!
Literally every video 😭 when will it stop?!
As a researcher it can be hard to work with clinicians/surgeons/doctors because a lot of them are not used to having to read the literature and look at the quality of the sources themselves.
This has been super helpful for me. I was recently diagnosed with lupus, and my nails have looked like sh*t for years because of it. I’ve debated getting something done to cover them up, but didn’t even think how that could be opening me up to even more issues 😬
Thank you for shedding a light onto this. I'm not a super regular viewer of yours but I WISH people, especially influencers, were more critical about what they watch and then show their audience. Huberman is just another example of someone stepping waaaaaay out of their expertise, even his guests! It's crazy to me how people can just sit there and think "sounds legit, Imma do all of this now." Like what? As a first semester in psychology it's so interesting to me how many biases we come across in these situations. I'm not quite sure what's ther right terminology but there is a fallacy where people believe a thing is true just because it "makes sense naturally". Just because something seems mechanically correct, e.g. "skin absorbs cremes", doesn't mean that it completely absorbs it into the body. There is many of those "mechanical" fallacies in medicine that people believe in and a lot of doctors that don't know anything about other fields argue like that. It's kinda like when kids learn that four legs and hair makes a dog, so when they see a cat they first say, "oh look, a dog!" LOL
It's crazy how I learn in my first semester (and I believe almost all students do ...) to be critical and be aware of biases, while doctors on the internet seem to be like credibility go brrrr just for the heck of it. It drives me crazy because in the end you can't blame "regular" people to believe doctors because "they seem credible", not everyone can be hyper aware of themselves, but that very thing makes it soso easy to influence and scam unknowing people. Rant over, it all bothers me so much, so thank you again for showing us how to be more aware ... the AI google search as a "source" is insane D:
So many people trust Huberman because he is a neuroscientist and a (or was a) professor in Neurobiology at Stanford, but I don't trust him at all. I think he was more trust worthy when he first started out on social media, but now he's just shilling psudoscience products for money, and he pushes a lot of medical conspiracies.
Trusting a psychiatrist about skincare because they have a medical degree is like asking me (a software dev) to fix your printer because I have a computer science degree. And still people do it all the time... *facepalm*
omg when you played that vid of Amelia I was like... that's not her!! its so scary what's going on nowadays online. who are you even meant to believe?!
I wish I could just bathe in collagen and be smooth like baby’s butt with perfect joints and digestion. It’s not that freaking easy 😭🤦♀️
I stopped getting my nails done because every single time I ended up with cuts from someone being rough with my basically non existent cuticles that barely needed dealing with. I gave up when someone used nail glue to patch up the cuts they had created on my hands and I just felt tense the last few times because I was waiting for someone to hurt me
Hi James. I’m a blonde with a lot of invisible baby hairs. I haven’t tried the product that you mentioned, but I wouldn’t need it. I know where the hairs grow. I dermaplane them off about once a week with a schick touch up razor. I put cosrx snail mucin on and let it fully absorb before shaving, then apply moisturizer and sunscreen. The reason to shave invisible hair? It becomes visible when you apply foundation or powder over it.
This makes me question these doctors ethics in their own practice. Such a dangerous slope to go down.
As someone who has gotten acrylics every month for 11yrs, I would NEVER get gel, or use gel polish. The UV lights used to cure it are no different from the ones in a tanning bed, and unless you're specifically putting on a barrier or sunscreen on your cuticles, you're doing the same damage and risking skin cancer the same as using a tanning bed for a few minutes at a time.
AH- I didn’t even know about that and I don’t do my nails all the time but AH-. If I use 30spf on my hands before I do my nails do you think that would be effective enough?
Nah , the power of the light are significantly less powerfull than a tanning bed you should be fine . But if you like acrylic better it s good in off😊
They do make UV free nail curing lights, cost a bit more so most salons don’t have them. Frankly most salons the technicians each own their own equipment and they are merely renting out a chair from the nail salon, so they really can’t afford the more expensive lights. I can’t say who will get cancer, but putting your hands in a UV light box every week is potentially causing damage.
I always put sunscreen on my hands before I do my gel nails lol - I kind of connected in my head with the Uv light but I read about it and I’d rather be safe than sorry. I use my usual 50spf on them.
Great video!! I was going to a nail tech pretty regularly until I had a severe reaction to the nails. It took me a while, but i finally linked it to the acrylates. The tech was so unhelpful and it took me months to recover from the reaction, at times i would just stand at the sink with my hands under cold water, looking for any kinda relief. I have to be really careful with any sort of nail care , threw out all my old polish and had to get hypoallergenic brands. I am always learning new tips will go much longer periods before TRIMMING ( not removing) the cuticle.
Just wanted to point out that vellus hairs (peach fuzz) become thicker and more prominent as you enter menopause, to the point where you can often see a cloud of fuzz above the surface of the skin when viewed at an angle. There’s definitely an argument for removing it periodically to keep it at manageable levels. I doubt that’s what’s happening with 20-somethings, though…
“Killing people with skincare isn’t a good money-making scheme” Giulia Tofana would like a word with you James
“I always say this…this is the first time I’m saying this” 😂😂 I always say I adore you and your brother.
Can confirm, in the current paradigm of highly specialised doctors, most know very little (if anything) outside their areas of expertise. And by the time you are 10-20 years in a specific subspecialty, your knowledge about other areas are very rudimentary (and outdated from medical school 20-30 years ago!).
I used to be amazed by how little the different surgical and clinical specialists know about diseases from other specialties - some don't recognise the names of diseases, especially with all the new entities and advances in molecular classification. Bottom line, don't assume doctors know everything about the human body or pharmacology! We do not!
That last story is terrifying with the fake masks! Must be eerie for her to watch it! I’d feel so violated!
the "luxury nail salon" thing is so funny, i've had my nails done at affordable local salons with no issue so idk how they are training their nail techs for that to happen... i'm sure there are some people who have particularly sensitive skin, but regardless if you notice the skin is BRIGHT RED around the cuticle you should do things differently, lol!
Sooo, if you take what this so called "dr" said as truth, if I accidentally stood in doggy doo doo with my bare foot, I would be absorbing all the nastiness into body 😂. Dam, I better not wash the dishes ever again as the washing up liquid could be slowly killing me 😅 insane xx
I have a friend who is a nail technician with 30 years experience. She is never rough and has a lot to say about some of these salons. She can rebuild nails that are damaged etc. I have been going to her for years with no damage ever. People don't realise how much some salons damage their nails
Thank you James. This was so informative.
the hair revealing spray thingy reminds me of when people were doing that "scan" that "revealed invisible sun damage" and I was working at a health + beauty store at the time... people were coming in asking me to fix invisible sun damage... I was like i literally cannot solve a problem that doesn't exist
It makes me sad that Dr. Amen is such a quack now. For a little while, he was popularizing the physical, brain-based causes of psychological disorders. For a long time, these were dismissed by the general public and people were told they just weren’t trying hard enough to improve. But he’s basically just been shilling his own supplements and expensive clinic for a while now. What a bummer.
We are in an information overload right now and the interpretation of it is often misconstrued, its great to hear someone debunking abd clarifying that a lab coat doesnt equal an expert in what they are talking about
Actually, the crossover with the psychiatrist saying that "sunscreens and living in a chemical soup is the reason so many young men are 'low testosterone' nowadays" is that he hates trans girls. Think about it. He's trying to medicalize a people he does not like and who he could be seeing in his office and trying to talk out of being trans. This type of person should not be anyone's psychiatrist. Imagine trying to go through the hoops of being approved for hrt or surgeries and you have a psychiatrist who keeps telling you that it's all that sunscreen and fragrances that you're wearing that makes you feel like a girl and you just have to stop doing all that girly stuff and you'll stop feeling like a girl. There is a crossover with his job and what he's saying, and it's horrifying to think about.
But for what? Im a psychologist, psychiatrists are the ones who just prescribe you medication. Psychologists are the ones that give therapy. Some psychiatrists learn a bit to be able to do somewhat of a therapy session but thats not their work. What medication wants a psychiatrist want to prescribe to trans people?? Again, their work is to prescribe medication associated with mental health like antipsychotics for someone schizophrenic or antidepressants to someone who they think they need it.
I had toxicology as a paper in my University, and the topic of hormone disruptor ensued panic in me. I was hypervigilant of any cosmetic I used and was on the "paraben free" mania at that time because of a research paper our teacher referenced.
But with time I realised, that data is outdated.. because the research was based on the chemicals/products itself.. the quantity taken for that experiments was more when compared to what is actually used in skincare and cosmetics or any other products. So it's unlikely, cosmetic formulators will put harmful level of hormone disrupting chemicals in their products.
So yes, the issue of hormone disruption is not fake.. and our skin does absorb chemicals..
However, the chemicals itself aren't the culprits, it's the quantity and dosage.
Anything is toxic when it's consumed in excess.
Sooo unrelated but you were in a dream of mine last night on a show based in Spain that did celebrity interviews. Spoke Spanish and everything. You were talking to a movie star and it was a vibe.
He needs an interview lol
The gel mani thing is basically faulty product! Bad batch! I have had this experience with a trusted brand, took the builder gel off within 24 hours and only had mild reaction, but leaving it would have been chemical burn! Overfiling or heat damage from curing gels that do cause heat spike (NOT all brands!!) wouldn't go this hard 😭
I hope she warned the salon so they could pull the product and might have even got a compensation from the gel brand. Communication is so important.
Have had that nail condition secondary to, of all things, my second EBV infection and lost both my thumb nails and first fingers. The fingers grew back fine in several months, but the nail beds on my thumbs have never been right since - nearly 30 years at this point. My GP back then thinks the EBV left me open to nail bed damage and, given I lost half my hair the first time round (and I lost hair again with Covid), I’m just susceptible to my hair/nails being affected by severe infections, plus I’ve got MCAS so I’m really prone to allergy issues.
Ok, dermaplaning really does make a huge difference in my skin and how my makeup sits but you’re correct about the tools. I have cut myself in the process and they can be irritating. Important to get good ones and make sure everything you’re using it super clean including your hands and face.
Yes, you can absorb things through your skin and into your bloodstream, a process called dermal absorption. Chemicals, such as pesticides, organic solvents, nicotine, hormones, and some medications, can be absorbed through the skin and enter the bloodstream.
Here are some things to know about skin absorption:
Absorption vs. penetration
Skin penetration is when a molecule passes through the skin's outermost layer, but doesn't reach the bloodstream. Absorption is when a molecule passes through the epidermis and dermis and into the bloodstream.
Absorption rate
The rate at which something is absorbed depends on how quickly it passes through the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the epidermis. Lipid-soluble chemicals pass through this layer faster.
Filtering out absorbed ingredients
The body can usually filter out ingredients that are absorbed through the skin, but some compounds, like lead and mercury, can't be filtered out.
Vitamins
Vitamins are more effectively absorbed from the inside of the body, not through the skin.
What is this beef tallow skincare insanity? 😂 I watched a video recently about McDonald's french fries being designed to be addictive and they used to fry them in beef tallow but now it is all "unhealthy seed oils" and other chemicals making them so addictive. But at the end of this video they started to shill their own skincare beef tallow products, I thought it was a damn parody! They were putting lavender oil in some of the face creams as well ! Nooooo! How is skincare going backwards 😭😭😭
when that nail lady was showing off her manicure i gasped at how angry and pushed back her cuticles were. however i was still not ready for what followed
A couple of plastic surgeons I followed on my old account (made a new one this week and subscribed to you immediately), do skin care content and sell products. One of them, Dr Anthony Youn has recently made a video rife with misinformation, ad for his own products included. It is so disappointing. I would trust your well-researched and cited word over his for skincare any day.
ETA: this is UA-cam I'm talking about.
Townhouse sucks. Over priced, grumpy staff and my gel manicure chipped after 6 days. Will never go back there
They should be fined for misinformation
I did two nail courses years back and I never understood why people clip the cuticle skin. Thankfully I never had any to clip, so people at college used to skip that step with me. Sometimes when I use gel, my cuticles get unbelievably itchy!
Omgosh wtf is the first guy talking about. He's so wrong.
Oh no. If he thinks and talks like that, I don't trust him as a psychiatrist. He's probably terrible
He is a well known quack
I've never been this early!!! Lunch time with James!
I completely sympathize with the nail girl. I had gel nails and they were grown out and I couldnt get in with my nail tech so I went where I could. The nail tech had no sanitized tools and she filled my nails down to NOTHING, and cut me with clippers several times. She didnt even clean them up so they were sharp on the edges and broke almost instantly. I eventually gave up and cut them down and it took MONTHS for them to heal. I get that nails under gel are fragile but this was insane
Having contact lenses stuck in permanently? 😱 No one should be offering that.
The licensed doctors and nurses who are spreading falsehoods are literally in it for the power trip 😢and that’s it.
Love you James STUN
Tiktok for me is just looking at what is viral at the moment but I still rely on youtube for recommendations and true reviews
I watched this while doing my nails -- specifically trimming the cuticle -- and I was SHOOK at the state of this poor gal's fingers
So, in other words, DO NOT USE internet doctors for health advice!! If you want to, MAKE SURE THEIR CRIDENTIALS MATCH WHAT THEY ARE THEY THAY TALK ABOUT! OMG! 🎉❤ Love these videos, please keep going!❤❤