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TRIED & TESTED chemical peels

‘Anyone keen to try out a chemical peel?’ The office was dead silent; not a single volunteer.

A quick Google search revealed the source of everyone’s hesitation: an episode of Sex and the City from the early 2000s had given the treatment a bad rep. In season five, Samantha Jones has ‘a little something’ done (a chemical peel) and ends up looking like Freddy Krueger at Carrie’s book launch.

Look, I get it – chemical peels in the ’90s and early ‘aughts’ were painful affairs that left your skin

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