About Informed Girl
Research you can trust, explained so you can act.
Social media is full of pseudoscience. Medical papers are written for clinicians, not patients. Appointments are short, brand marketing is loud, and there is rarely time to work through the evidence together before a decision needs to be made.
Informed Girl wants to solve this problem.
Every entry is anchored to peer-reviewed evidence. Every score is explained. The goal is to give you the information that makes the decision clearly yours.
Editorial Methodology
How research is selected
Every procedure and ingredient guide is built from peer-reviewed literature sourced from PubMed, Cochrane, and major dermatology and plastic surgery journals (JAAD, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Dermatologic Surgery, JAMA Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology). Priority is given to randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, and large prospective cohort studies. Case reports and opinion pieces are noted as such and are not used to establish efficacy claims.
How scores are assigned
Each guide includes four scores on a 1-10 scale: Medical Promise (strength of efficacy evidence), Short-term Safety (adverse event rates within 3 months), Long-term Safety (adverse events beyond 3 months including delayed complications), and a composite Should You Try This score (benefit-to-risk ratio, accounting for reversibility and evidence quality). Scores are calibrated relative to each other, not absolute. A score of 5 means “the evidence is mixed or weak” not “the procedure is mediocre.”
Editorial independence
Every page you read was written because the topic warranted coverage, not because someone paid for it to exist. Scores and recommendations are based entirely on peer-reviewed evidence.
What this site is not
Informed Girl is educational content, not medical advice. Nothing on this site should replace a consultation with a qualified healthcare provider. The goal is to help you arrive at that consultation better informed, not to substitute for it. Clinical decisions depend on individual health history, contraindications, and factors no website can assess.
Get in Touch
For research questions, editorial feedback, corrections, or press enquiries, reach us at:
contact@informedgirl.comIf you believe something on this site is factually incorrect or misrepresents the underlying research, please write to us with the specific claim and the evidence you believe contradicts it. We take corrections seriously and publish them promptly.
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