429: Naughty, Nice, Necessary, or Never Again: Our End of Year Beauty & Wellness Audit with Dr. Miguel Mascaró

Well with Arielle Lorre

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals, Arts, Alternative Health, Fashion & Beauty

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This holiday episode is part aesthetic audit, part emotional clean out and part unfiltered group chat with my friend—and yours—Dr. Miguel Mascaró.

We’re unpacking the ghosts of aesthetic past, present, and future, what beauty trends are quietly dying, what we’ve misunderstood about peptides, and why “branding facelifts” (yes, those) are everywhere. We get honest about practitioners photoshopping their own faces, the pressure to look perfect and how to stop hyper-fixating on appearance in a world that profits from insecurity.

We also zoom out: what we’re leaving behind in 2025 for the sake of mental health, how meditation and emotional minimalism help us drop unnecessary emotional baggage and the internal pressure we’re all navigating heading into a new year.

Plus:

Holiday icks
Unpopular beauty opinions
Trends we hope never come back
A game of Naughty or Necessary
Miguel judges my beauty routine
The most transformative wellness tip shared on the podcast this year
And a few business truths you might not hear anywhere else

Consider this your permission slip to let go of bad habits, outdated trends, and anything that no longer serves you in 2025.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.8	This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms.
0:10.0	I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look.
0:17.2	Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out.
0:25.3	How should we start?
0:28.2	Do you want me to start?
0:30.0	What?
0:30.4	You start?
0:30.9	Should I start?
0:32.3	I feel like I can start this.
0:34.4	Okay.
0:35.2	Can I start this?
0:36.6	Yeah.
0:37.1	Sure. Okay, so. We're going to cut so much from this. This could be so much good. Because I am hanging on by a thread. Well, so I think that the most important thing is for the audio only audience. They're missing out. Go on YouTube, everybody. You're missing out.
0:54.6	I really hope that we say something slightly controversial.
0:57.1	And by we, I mean you, not me, because I don't want to go viral for anything.
1:01.1	But if we do go viral, I want to look like this.
1:03.4	So that when it gets aggregated on social media, I look ridiculous.
1:06.8	I think our chances of going viral are higher, given what we're wearing.
1:28.4	You have a blinking Christmas tree headband on and an ugly sweater. Ugly sweater. Ugly Christmas sweater. You've got a blinking something on your head. It's like a swirly kind of like Santa hat. But it's got bells on it. Yeah, it has a bell. So that's... I can't move.
1:29.1	Can't move.
1:29.5	So if anyone's... People will be like, why can't she move her face? She's not expressive. I'm not moving because I have a bell in my head. Because there's a bell on her head and we actually checked before and it gets picked up by the microphone. It's going to be very annoying. Yeah. The interesting thing about this, though, when we were coming up with the idea of the holiday spectacular, because this is what this episode's called, it's the holiday spectacular.
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