The Alexis Page questionnaire · Storyflo

Welcome back to High Touch. Did you even notice we took Independence Day off? That’s wellness. Before I even launched this newsletter, people were telling me I had to talk to . She was, apparently, the beauty industry’s Swiss army knife, a Leónese fountain of knowledge, and at least as enthralled with the worlds of aesthetics and longevity—high tech and low, low brow and high—as I.

Today’s send is the outcome of that inevitable yet still entirely engrossing meeting: a nearly 2-hour interview, which you can watch in full above or read in highlights via her questionnaire below. It’s really good. Surprising and full of threads to pull and refreshingly honest about everything from hand cream to hormones to calisthenics to “RFK-coded” supplements that did for her what other interventions couldn’t.

But first, a few things heard, spotted, injected???? maybe??? in the High Touch universe this week:

Spencer’s Spa, the Sohofacialandmassageemporium with the design-y living room lobby, is now HSA/FSA eligible. Something to think about late in the year when your tax-advantaged dollars are expiring and you receive one of its ransom note-styled email blasts: “you have 1 HOUR to get 50% off all services…”Been happening for a while now, but a recent deluge of products really shows how beauty brands are bolting to trade on longevity ingredients.

Gooplaunches theNAD+Peptide Rich Cream,ANUArolls out aPDRN (salmon sperm) eye cream, Korean brandnumbuzinlaunched theNAD+and PDRN-containing no.9 toner. Natively biotechy skincare brands are also rolling out new formulas at a fast clip:Sweet Chemistrybecomes the first brand based onMatrikynes ECM-extracted polypeptides, at-home laser deviceLYMArolls outtopicals leveraging exosomes , peptides, and(the next big conversation we’ll be having), andsenolyticsThe Ordinaryintroducesescinto the skincare lexicon with itsnewest anti-inflammatory complex. More evidence of explosion in this space:, which sells MD-designed topical solutions for hair, brows, and lashes, just sold to private equity for $640 million.Obagi Medical, an elevated medspa group that gets mentioned in the Magasin chat and in Reddit groups not limited to r/bitcheswithtaste (I know), adds laser services to its offerings—Velour MedicalLaseMD Ultra by Lutronic, a fractional that targets pigment and fine lines, andOligioX by Wontech, a K-beauty radiofrequency device that lifts through collagen remodeling.

I do product development. I make skincare formulas. I test lab samples. When I’m sick of testing and I need to go back to simplicity, I go back to ** Biologique Recherche** every time. I like a lot of drugstore stuff. Currently I’m using this really lame

Hair is the one thing that I’ve never gotten quite a handle on. I did the ** Harklinikken** program for a few years. I was using their shampoo and conditioner and

Prior to ** Nécessaire** launching from Nick Axelrod, who’s one of my closest friends, I would never have spent $30 on a body product like a lotion or a gel. I was using

I hate hand cream. Nécessaire is the only one I’ve used nightly. It feels waxy and there’s a dry down to it. You don’t feel greasy. You’re still using your phone in bed or whatever. It’s really nice. This Dr. Scholl’s stick that I won’t shut up about, which is just like a giant Chapstick for your feet. It’s called cracked heel repair, or something disgusting. I use that a lot, especially in the summer because I like not wearing shoes. I do my own nails at home, I’ve turned into that person. The only shade that I’ll use is one coat of OPI Put it in Neutral. That’s my manicure shade. And OPI Big Apple Red is the only pedicure shade that I use.

Lumify eye drops, the purple ones. Lash lifts don’t work on me.** I very rarely wear mascara. I like getting my lashes tinted, but I don’t keep up with it. I do it once in a while if I remember, and I just do it at ** Benefit. Brows I don’t do, I just sort of maintain them myself. I was on a brow lamination journey for a long time and I would go to

For many years, probably a decade, I was just using Crest Glamorous White because I liked the name. A friend told me she bought this new toothpaste and liked it, called ** Boka**. So I tried that. It’s fine. I did

It took me a really long time to get on the LED mask thing. I like the Omnilux men’s. It’s the one that I bought because I read or heard somewhere that it has more lights. I travel all the time. It’s easy to bring with me. I got that ** Medicube** thing. I don’t really care about it. I have a

The Alexis Page questionnaire · Storyflo