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CARTER SMITH To transform Taraji P. Henson into a disco star for “Hear Her Roar,” Smith photographed the actress in a New York City nightclub, Gilded Lily. “They had just come through with some sort of industrial cleaner, so if you stood in one place too long, you would stick to the floor,” he says. And even though Henson portrays a diva in the photos, in person, she was anything but. “What was so great about Taraji was that she was game for anything,” says Smith. Unlike “someone who wants to micromanage everything from nail color to lash length, she was totally willing to try new looks.” CEDRIC BUCHET The inspiration for Buchet’s poolside shoot for “Summer Shade” was “a combination of childhood memories and the movies I grew up…
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Yoon-Soo Cindy Bae The clinical assistant professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City has written several chapters of books on laser surgery and scar revision. Bae talks about freezing body fat in “The Ice Age.” What does CoolSculpting feel like? “We place a cold gel pack on the area before we put on the device, which gently sucks in the tissue and gets cold, like a Popsicle. When we place the gel pack, the patient is like, ‘Oh, this is cold,’ but they get used to it.” What can’t it do? “Some patients think it will solve all of their weight problems or that they won’t have to exercise. But this is for treating pockets of fat that are resistant.” What dermatology trend surprises you?…
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2300 B.C.: Estimated year Egyptian hieroglyphics depicting people massaging one another’s hands and feet were created. 2,500: Number of years ago that Buddha received Thai massage from his physician, Shivago Komarpaj, who is arguably the forefather of the technique. 400 B.C.: Approximate year in which Hippocrates recommended relaxing body rubs for medicinal purposes. 10th: Street in Washington, D.C., where former gymnast Hartvig Nissen (who introduced Swedish massage to the United States) treated General Ulysses S. Grant for rheumatoid arthritis in 1883. 40: Percentage of physical therapy treatments for which massage was prescribed at U.S. Army hospitals in 1918. By the 1950s, massage had almost disappeared from military hospitals in favor of more active therapy. 2013: Year that 25 prehypertensive women received short weekly massages in an Iranian study, decreasing their…
