Why Good Cosmetic Work Slowly Turns Into Bad Cosmetic Work
The psychology behind overfilled faces, moving goalposts, and why even cosmetic experts aren't immune to chasing perfection
Dermatologist · Educator · Founder
Taylor Bullock, MD
Clear, practical dermatology education for people who want to make better decisions about their skin, hair, and long-term health.
A central home for my dermatology blog posts, personal projects, product experiments, and deeper guides that do not fit neatly inside a short-form post.
Current focus
Projects with a skin-health point of view.
Hair loss video course
The Hair Playbook
62 focused video lessons across 10 modules, combining my experience as a dermatologist and hair-loss patient with treatment evidence, practical tradeoffs, and the questions to bring to your clinician.
Sun care companySalt & Shade
A skin-health-focused project built around better everyday sun protection, outdoor life, and dermatologist-led product thinking.
Sensitive skincareUntoxicated
A skincare project focused on sensitive, reactive skin and formulas designed around avoiding common cosmetic irritants and supporting the skin barrier.
ArticlesDermatologist Next Door
Clear blog posts on hair, skin, sunscreen, procedures, medications, and the small decisions that shape long-term skin health.
Hair loss, organized
The Hair Playbook
A self-paced video course for men who want to understand hair loss and make more informed decisions with their own clinician. Across 62 focused lessons and 10 modules, I share my own hair-loss story, treatment priorities, and the lessons I wish I had learned sooner.
Explore minoxidil, finasteride and dutasteride, light therapy, scalp health, supplements, experimental treatments, and hair transplants. I explain how I weigh evidence, risk, cost, and convenience, then walk through what I would consider at different stages of hair loss.
For search and for depth
Blog posts that answer the questions people actually search.
America’s First New Sunscreen Filter in 25 Years Is Here
Meet bemotrizinol, the long-awaited UV filter that could make U.S. sunscreens lighter, stronger, and easier to wear.
They Are Diluting Your Botox!
How to know you’re actually getting what you paid for.
The Truth About Vitamin C Serums: What Dermatologists Know (and Most Marketing Leaves Out)
A practical, insider guide to choosing, using, and understanding vitamin C — without the marketing confusion
Founder project
Salt & Shade
A place to connect the dots between dermatology, sunscreen, outdoor-friendly habits, and the practical product decisions behind a sun-care company.
Visit Salt & ShadeWhy I build
Revenue from this work helps fund future dermatologist-led education projects.
I am building these products because trustworthy dermatology education can genuinely change people's lives. Revenue from this work helps support future projects around hair loss, skin health, skin cancer awareness, and accessible patient education.
About
Dermatology became personal long before it became my career.
I am a dermatologist, educator, researcher, and founder with a particular interest in the parts of dermatology that change how people feel in their own skin: acne, hair loss, skin cancer, cosmetic treatments, and practical skin care.
My goal is to make dermatology easier to understand without stripping away the nuance. I care about the science, but I also care about the person trying to decide what is worth doing, what is hype, and when they need an in-person medical evaluation.
Skin cancerAcneCosmetic dermatologyHair lossResearch
Acne
I know what stubborn acne can feel like.
Growing up, I struggled with acne severe enough that it took two courses of isotretinoin to get it under control. That experience shaped how I talk about acne now: with evidence, realism, and a lot of respect for how much it can affect confidence.
Hair loss
Hair loss runs hard in my family.
My hair genes were not exactly working in my favor. I started losing hair more than a decade ago, and it was devastating in a way that people who have been through it understand immediately. The Hair Playbook grew out of that combination of personal experience and dermatology training: what I tried, what helped, what did not, and how I would think about it if I were starting again today.
How I practice
Evidence matters, but so does judgment.
The same philosophy runs through the topics I care about most: prevent what you can, treat what matters, avoid chasing every trend, and make decisions with enough context to understand the tradeoffs. That applies to skin cancer prevention, acne, hair loss, skin care, and cosmetic treatments.