Bélinda Ibrahim, 16/10 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A California laboratory at the University of Irvine is revolutionizing dermatology. In 2022, Professor Maksim Plikus’s team isolated a molecule called SCUBE3, short for Signal peptide, CUB domain, EGF-like 3. Naturally produced by the dermal papilla, a tiny cluster of cells at the base of each hair follicle, this molecular messenger has a ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 22/06 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Makeup Summer Beauty Heat Hair Routines
When the thermometer climbs past 30°C and humidity settles in, our entire relationship to beauty gets turned on its head. Routines become lighter, gestures more instinctive—and more sincere. Gone are the heavily made-up looks, the perfectly sleek hairstyles, the thick layers of product suffocating the skin. Summer tells the truth: sweat, frizz, ...
Maroun Chahine, 26/03 12:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Afghanistan Kabul Taliban hair
In Kabul, Afghanistan, after every shower, Fatima carefully collects the hair that has fallen into the bathtub plug and keeps it preciously. When she reaches a few hundred grams, she discreetly sells it, like many Afghan women, to earn a modest income, despite the ban imposed by the Taliban authorities. Before the Taliban returned to power in ...