
“Dr. White, you know more about eye makeup than any other straight man in the world!”
I hear this several times every week in my daily clinic as I see women (and men) who have symptomatic dry eye disease (DED) and arrive at my slit lamp wearing all manner of makeup. Kinda unexpected when you think about it, me being a rather generic, cis-hetero middle-aged man. On the one hand, wearing all of that makeup can make it challenging to see what is going on underneath. On the other hand, however, nothing is quite as telling about how your patient is faring out in the wild than to have