Paris Hilton Skin
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To some, Paris Hilton is considered 'Hot"... |
...While this character might be thought the opposite... |
...from blemished head to toenail.
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The producers of the Paris Hilton feature "The Hottie and the Nottie" know bad skin. Posing as a foxy Los Angeleno, Hilton's looks are contrasted with those of her not attractive girlfriend, a role thanklessly tossed to Christine Lakin. In person, Lakin looks quite good, so the makeup crew covered her with a dermatology textbook's worth of conditions. She's got a jutting mole on her chin. Her chest is dappled with acne. She has strange scrapes on her thighs, her hair is prematurely grey...and that toenail. Swollen, thick and crusted, this is toenail fungus as envisioned by a horror movie director.
All of this abnormal skin is supposed get teen filmgoers to chuckle, but there is little to laugh about nail fungus. Glamour issues aside, the presence of fungus can cause rigid nails to lift and cause discomfort. Treatment includes prescription topical creams, lacquers and antifungal pills. Results are maddeningly slow, much like stretches of the "Hottie and the Nottie." Consider some preventive medicine: To avoid the critters in the first place, wear flip flops or sandals in gym locker rooms, around pools and public showers. If fungus infects the skin (athlete's foot), treat aggressively with antifungal creams. And for your general wellbeing, consider passing on this uninspired flick.
Eric Dane has skin cancer?
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Eric Dane appears extremely well, just weeks after his bout with "cancer." |
Actor Eric Dane, star of TV's "Grey's Anatomy," has been reported to have skin cancer. Before his legions of fans panic, it appears that his prognosis is excellent. Though he is not our patient, he reportedly noticed an odd patch above his lips which a dermatologist treated with a freezing treatment, liquid nitrogen. In short, McSteamy got a quick freeze. This lesion is apparently not a life threatening melanoma, but rather a sun-induced pre-cancerous lesion called an actinic keratosis. If untreated, these scaly spots, due to sun exposure early in life, can turn into a form of non-melanoma skin cancer called squamous cell skin cancer (SCC). Unlike melanoma, SCC usually does not metastasize, go to lymph nodes, or act in a life-threatening manner. Actinic keratoses typically respond to freezing treatments and heal without scarring. Dane has since gone on record that the report was exaggerated, confirming our assessment. We don't have a problem with alerting the public about the dangers of long term sun exposure, but let's call a cancer a cancer and call a premalignant actinic keratosis...that.
