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Med school, beautified
Get-ready-with-mes for exam mornings, rotations, and the occasional rodeo. My stethoscope stays in frame, and every product gets named by brand and shade.
med student × beauty creator
Beauty content,
peer-reviewed.1
I'm Lacey, a medical student who reads the studies so you don't have to. Ingredient lists, price math, and the occasional ball gown: everything gets tested like it's an exam.
fig. 1 · evening fieldwork. Dior saddle bag included for scale.
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393,000+
views on one reel
The corner of the internet that wants a med student's read on beauty turns out to be bigger than you'd think.
4,700+
likes on one breakdown
Why Sephora and a brand's own site sell you different products, prices, and perks. Wholesale economics, explained with receipts. Posts like this are the norm here: tens of thousands of likes across the account.
13,000+
likes on one comment
Regularly online, medicine permitting, and seen well beyond my own grid: these likes happened in someone else's comment section, where I suggested med school deserves a push present. The internet agreed, so I bought the Dior Book Tote and reviewed it properly.
the work
receipts
Claims, checked2
Why the same lipstick is a different deal at Sephora than on the brand's own site. Wholesale economics, ingredient lists, and foundation graded against actual criteria.
the girly archive
Made by hand3
A Bridgerton-inspired gown I drafted and beaded by hand. Cow-print nails for rodeo season. Hauls that come with commentary, not just an unboxing.
about
Curiosity, with a citation habit.
Medicine is the career I'm training for. Beauty is what my brain does on its study breaks. The instincts that get me through exam season (criteria, sources, a deep love of a well-organized spreadsheet) turned out to be exactly what beauty content was missing.
So I grade foundations against actual rubrics. I check whether the viral claim survives the study it came from. I break down why the price tag says what it says. And when the exam block ends, I sew: the ball gown was not a phase.
the swatch test
Name that pink.
Three pinks with famous jobs: a movie poster, a trademark, a villa. Pick the real one. Wrong guesses cost a point.
question 1 of 3score 0
Which shade of pink is on the Legally Blonde poster?
method
- Every science claim traces to a source I actually read.
- Cosmetic and over-the-counter territory only. No diagnosing, no prescribing, no medical advice.
- Sponsored work is always disclosed.
- Products are named properly: brand, product, shade.
Also on the desk: free Goodnotes templates, a new to-do theme every month. See the templates
notes
- 1.Not literally peer-reviewed. But the standard is the standard.
- 2.My wholesale-versus-retail breakdown earned 4,700+ likes from people who also wanted to know where the money goes.
- 3.I beaded the bodice, seam-ripped it, and re-beaded it from scratch when the construction demanded it. I documented every lesson.