DR MICHELLE HENRY
SHOP MY BAG:
DR. MICHELLE
HENRY
The New York derm with a dialed-in touch.
- Written by
- Laura Regensdorf
What makes a modern-day renaissance woman? In the case of Dr. Michelle Henry, there’s an intuitive eye for beauty, a precise hand with Mohs micrographic surgery, a talent for holding space in the treatment room and for winning over Today show audiences. In 2021, Dr. Henry opened her own practice, Skin & Aesthetic Surgery of Manhattan, and joined Kiehl’s as a US consulting dermatologist. Three years later, she became the very rare MD to earn a cameo in a Super Bowl ad, alongside Michael Cera for CeraVe. “I thought I was going to be a breast cancer surgeon,” Dr. Henry says, recounting the conversations she had as an 8-year-old with her great aunt—“a very kind and forward-thinking woman”—before the disease took her life. But Dr. Henry, a self-described empath, wound up finding more light in dermatology, devoting herself to skin cancer work while also leaning into the creative side of aesthetic treatments. As a member of the VG Committee, she keeps close tabs on the beauty industry, from the boom in at-home devices to the “smarter and smarter skin care” that taps into the body’s own capacity for regeneration. “I always say peptides are kind of like Houdini,” she says, referring to the class of fortifying ingredients known to slip past the skin barrier. For more of beauty’s magic tricks, take a look inside her BAG.