(I was frankly relieved not to have a bunch of different products for various parts of my face.) I also got an email introducing me to my assigned dermatologist, a San Diego–based clinician who, in a note, explained that he’d prescribed a custom leave-on lotion I was supposed to apply before bed. A cleanser, a moisturizer and (the hero of the bunch) a lotion with some prescription ingredients mixed into it. Ten days later, I got a little box with three products. Then I took left-, right- and forward-facing snaps of my face with my phone, uploaded, hit send and forgot about it. The questions were about my skin care regimen now (erratic), any meds I’m on and what’s stressing me out about my face (uneven tone, large pores, dryness). To start, I answered a skin care quiz that was something like 15 questions (which, btw, was way faster than the never-ending forms you get when you see a new doctor). That, and the ease of the service they promised. I discovered the three-year-old brand via its Insta feed, where upbeat inspo and dewy faces won me over.
This San Francisco tech start-up is on a mission to give people all over the country access to affordable and customized care from skin doctors. So when I heard about Curology, the $20-a-month skin care subscription service where you chat with dermatologists on your computer, I was curious. Instead, I did nothing and my skin continued to look like one big meh-shrug emoji.
After all, it’s not as though my face was full of pustules that needed emergency seeing to. That was my predicament, but I’d be damned if I was going to spend countless hours finding a dermatologist and driving to their office, only to fork over hundreds of dollars for a quick consult. Finally, maybe none of the products you’ve heard about from your friends or read about on a trusted website are really doing the trick.
Maybe you’re trying to deal with your breakouts, dark spots, dull complexion or loss of tone-all by using the flavor-of-the-month brand/ingredient/skin care tool (love you, rose quartz roller). Maybe, like me, you’ve got less-than-glowing skin.
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