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Summer is meant for slowing down and unplugging, but my travels (somehow) took me around the globe — to Milan and Paris, for the men’s fashion shows, the Greek island of Hydra, Copenhagen, Provincetown (the latter three in the name of decompressing) and, finally, back to New York. There, I was reacquainted with my bathroom mirror — a bit harsher than any to be found in a hotel room — and I quickly noticed that my face was dry and blotchy because of overexposure to the sun, wind and salt water. Fortunately, I thought back to a tip from a good friend earlier in the year: I’d asked whether he’d done some sort of “procedure,” and he told me the change came not in the form of needles but in a half-dozen bottles from the German aesthetics doctor Barbara Sturm’s brand Molecular Cosmetics. For the past few weeks, I’ve been using the six products that make up her Men’s Discovery Kit ($175) — a cleanser, facial scrub, calming serum, super anti-aging serum, eye cream and face cream — each day along with spraying on her newer Hydrating Face Mist ($95) as needed. My overall skin tone is already much more even, and my shaving irritation has nearly disappeared. Best of all, I have one less thing to worry about as I gear up for, yes, my winter travels.

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