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When the Weather Starts Fussing, So Does Your Skin

Skin, the temperamental lounge act, does not enjoy a change of scenery. One day it’s all calm and cucumber; the next, a cold wind arrives like an uninvited trombone player and the whole face starts fizzing, flaring, scratching, or staging a little red rebellion.

Rosacea hates heat shifts, wind, and central heating turning your cheeks into tiny furnaces. Eczema loathes dry air, stripping away moisture until skin barrier says, “I’m off.” Acne can spike when stress, sweat, and heavier creams clog things up. Psoriasis often worsens with less sunlight, more dryness, and the general faff of seasonal upheaval.

The answer is not to bully your skin into behaving. Be gentle: switch to a mild cleanser, moisturise while skin is damp, use sunscreen year-round, and avoid hot showers that steam you like a dumpling. If symptoms keep flaring, a dermatologist can tune the orchestra properly.

Gloria Reuben on Menopause, ER and the End of Polite Silence

Gloria Reuben speaks with the sort of calm that makes silence feel slightly embarrassed. In this exclusive chat, she turns menopause into something far less polite and far more useful: a public conversation with the lights on. Not a whisper. Not a wellness-brochure murmur. A proper discussion about bodies changing, and the absurd expectation that women should simply absorb that change like well-behaved furniture.

She also looks back at ER with the clear-eyed tenderness of someone who knows a big part of TV history was built by people pretending exhaustion was glamour. But the real sting here is her point that silence helps no one. Silence is the little upholstered monster in the corner, making symptoms feel shameful and ordinary at the same time.

Reuben isn’t asking for a frenzy. Just honesty. Which, frankly, is the most radical form of care.