I came to skin the way most people do: through frustration. I'm the founder of Hapa Wellness and the creator of the Hapa Method, a Japanese-inspired facial lifting and lymphatic drainage practice. But before any of that had a name, I was just someone dealing with acne, puffiness, and breakouts that didn't respond to anything I put on my face. I tried the serums. I tried the expensive treatments. Nothing really stuck, because I was treating the surface of a problem that wasn't coming from the surface. But I started noticing a pattern.  

As interest in women’s hormone health continues to grow, so does the conversation around skin and perimenopause. In this conversation, Dr. J breaks down what happens to skin during perimenopause, why so many women feel caught off guard by these changes, and how aesthetic care is evolving to better support this stage of life. Her perspective offers a new way to understand skin, aging, and the changes women experience.

My name is Phonexay Lala Simon, and I'm a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist. I've been practicing acupuncture and herbal medicine for twelve years, and a few years ago I began weaving seed cycling into how I support my patients. What pulled me toward seed cycling was a question I kept returning to: how can I help people support their hormonal wellness in a way that feels nourishing rather than clinical? 

Menstruation has long been shaped by silence, stigma, and systems designed to keep women disconnected from their own bodies. For filmmaker Rebecca Snow, those forces became impossible to ignore while directing Pandora’s Box, a documentary exploring menstrual inequity and the cultural taboos that continue to shape cyclical health. In this conversation with Two Moons, she reflects on why Pandora’s Box was created to “fling open the lid” on menstrual stigma, why silence around women’s biological transitions is structural rather than accidental, and how female-led storytelling can shift who controls the narrative around women’s bodies.