# About Evermore Aesthetics

> Evermore Aesthetics is an editorial archive of published research on skin and repair, with no aesthetics business or medical advice behind the name.

**The reason for the archive**

The attraction is a lasting finish. The more interesting subject is its upkeep.

## Evermore and upkeep

Evermore has the sound of something completed: beauty made durable, the work done. A less settled possibility appeals to me. There is interest in the repair itself, in the material underneath a surface and in the awkward distance between an appealing idea and an observed change.

GHK-Cu gives that curiosity a particular subject. The [tissue-remodelling literature brings collagen and elastin synthesis together with matrix enzymes and their restraints](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18644225/). The activity in that account absorbs me; I have less affection for an image of youth held perfectly still.

My bias is toward maintenance. I like finding that an apparently simple surface has complicated work behind it. The word in the title is an invitation to linger over that work, with a little suspicion of the idea that anything is ever finished.

## An editorial archive

Evermore Aesthetics collects essays about published research on skin, copper peptides and repair. The name belongs to these essays. There is no aesthetics business here: no treatment service, no consultations and no products to order.

Nothing in this archive is medical advice. A passage about a study cannot assess a person's skin, health or treatment. My place here is editorial; the site creates no clinical relationship.

The pleasure of the subject is intellectual and sometimes visual: a cultured cell making collagen, copper retained in a skin preparation, a number that becomes more modest and more useful when its outcome is spelled out. Those are sufficient reasons for this site to exist.

## The unfinished question

Duration is the question the name leaves hanging. A measured change is interesting; knowing whether it lasts would deepen that interest. I am especially curious about observations made after an intervention ends, when the language of upkeep has to meet the passage of time.

For now, the archive has a manageable centre. The [collagen experiment](/collagen), [cosmetic results](/skin-results), [delivery study](/skin-delivery) and [hair trial](/hair-study) are different encounters with appearances and the material behind them. My enthusiasm can survive a small result. It has less patience for a large adjective doing a small result's job.

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At Evermore Aesthetics I sift published research on skin and repair for an editorial archive, with no aesthetics business or medical advice behind the name.