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Product Fiend believes in looking your best through preservation and prevention rather than injections and surgery. Skin ages and loses elasticity--that's life. But when your face is seen on high def in millions of homes across the land, it's as if the world is seeing you under a dermatologist's magnifying lens. So. Not. Fair. Our mission: to help actresses combat high def scrutiny with care, not needles.

Confession: sometimes when I'm watching Gossip Girl, I get distracted from the storyline (especially the Rufus and Lily stuff, because parents should be smarter than their children, even fictional ones) and start focusing on Kelly Rutherford's parentheses lines. Not just her naso-labial folds (because most of us around the age of 35 are starting to see that slippage), but she's also got two little quirky apostrophes at the corners of her mouth. Blink, there they are! Blink, now they're gone! It's a little game, we play, me and Kelly Rutherford's mouth lines. Honestly, those little winkers are all that shows up on my ginormous HD, which isn't all that surprising, as the makeup artists at Gossip Girl must employ black magicks (or Perfekt Skin sprayed through a firehose) to be able to deal with smile lines and crow's feet on the oldsters AND nuclear, full-blown teenage acne on the teens.

Honestly, I've been a big fan of Kelly Rutherford since she was in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (and, okay, the really bad soap opera Generations). Then she fell off the face of the earth, and when The OC started, I was very excited that she was going to be back. Except that the blonde rich mom was actually played by Kelly Rowan, not Kelly Rutherford, and then I spent the next four seasons having angst, because really, the role of Kirsten Cohen was clearly written for the Original Awesome Kelly! Not this poser Kelly! But thankfully, the universe has corrected its wrongs and cast Rutherford as the very next rich-blonde-mom-on-a-Josh-Schwartz- teen-drama that came along. Phew.

However, check out the One True Kelly in real life. That's some crepe-tastic eye area, don't you think? Definitely a lack of proper eye ritual, like Olay Regenerist Eye Derma-Pod Anti-Aging System or something hardcore for those lines, like my travel partner, La Mer Eye Concentrate. And whoa with the major sun damage on her décolletage. Doesn't she know that the throat and chest require as much attention as the face when it comes to application of a great high-SPF daily treatment? How easy is it just to lube everything from the breastbone upward with a dual-purpose age defier/sun protector like Perricone's Target Care Solar Protection SPF 26 or Drugstore Cowgirl favorite Neutrogena's Age Shield SPF 55? And notice how her forehead is so smooth when everything else is so crizazy? Oh Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, what have you done to yourself? Worshipped the sun until your skin is ten years older than it should be and now you're poking it with injectibles? You deserve much better, darling, you really do. Put down the needles, stop tanning, grab some Retinol and some hardcore night cream and stop trying to look younger than Leighton Meester, because it's just not going to happen and your face can't keep taking the same abuse you could dish out 20 years ago. Besides, some of us wouldn't love you if it weren't for your history.