356: Five Minute Friday: All about the Décolletage !
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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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