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One of the most popular social media beauty hacks, “face taping” has people applying strips of tape to areas of their face to reduce wrinkles overnight. Many use kinesiology tape like the kind used by physiotherapists to treat muscle pain for example, sticking stripes of it to their forehead or cheeks and treating themselves to a supposed mini facelift. Sounds too good to be true? That’s because it is, says German dermatologist Uta Schlossberger. According to her, face taping doesn’t work: “On the contrary. It has more of a damaging effect.” The idea behind face taping sounds simple enough: Th…

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