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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

356: Five Minute Friday: All about the Décolletage !

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Five Minute Friday, I am talking about the top 10 ways to care for your décolleté. We pay a lot of attention to our faces but we often forget about our chest areas! In the summer months we expose our décolleté to the sun through beach days, car windows, and not extending our sunscreen down our necks and chests. The décolleté is very delicate and is prone to sign of aging and scarring. To find out the rest of my secrets tune in to the podcast to listen! If you have a question or something you’d like covered on the podcast, send me a DM or email info@beautybydrkay.com and I’d be happy to respond!

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0:00.0

Well, hello, hello guys, and you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

0:20.0

and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

0:23.2

Today, let me teach you all about the decalate, the area of your chest, also known as decalitage.

0:31.1

What do we call it?

0:31.8

Declatatat.

0:32.8

Declatage.

0:34.1

It was a little controversy about how to pronounce it, what to call it.

0:39.2

Did you know that decolete is is an adjective and declatage is a noun? So I'm going to call it the declatage. It's a French term and it

0:45.8

means that area of the sternum or the skin right above the breast, right under the neck, that little

0:52.3

gorgeous area in between where your diamond

0:54.9

pendant hangs. This is an area that's prone to extreme sun damage. And if you live in

1:01.8

Southern California like myself, you know that this is an area that the sun beats down on. So let

1:06.7

me tell you the top 10 ways to care for your declatage.

1:15.8

Mostly we pay lots of attention to our face and we forget about the neck and definitely forget about the declatage.

1:17.2

But summertime, we become so aware of it because we have these plunging neck lines, gorgeous

1:22.2

strapless dresses.

1:23.9

And you do not want to get that leathery skin, textural change on your declatage in between your breasts,

1:31.0

those lines, the vertical lines, the crepey leather skin, the sun damage.

1:35.6

It just really gives you premature aging.

1:38.5

You just look a lot older than necessary.

1:41.2

The number one thing that's causing these skin changes is definitely over exposure

1:46.3

to harmful ultraviolet A and B, sun damage, basically sun damage. So when you're putting sunscreen

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