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

and it's time for a five-minute

Friday. It's 2023 coming to an end, and I want to talk about skincare trends. So with this year

coming to a close, let's look at what's been trending. During 2023, certain things were transformative.

And skincare hair, makeup, seasonal looks, so many things took us by storm. This year, skin cycling

was hot. Skin cycling is alternating your nightly exfoliation with a retinoid, followed by two days

of calming down redness and then

hydrating what a great idea for people who are retinol sensitive skin cycling is a trend that had

650 million views 18,000 posts on tic-tok and has been super popular especially in countries like

Spain Greece and Poland and Poland. And Gen Z.

Gen Z loves a good skin cycling. I myself love it too. I think retinol sometimes is irritating

and disrupts your skin barrier because of that mild inflammatory irritation. So sometimes backing

off and letting things calm down.

Number two, and I've never even seen anything about this, the bowl method. Have you guys heard

of a hair trend that involves applying your curl cream to your hair? Then flipping your head upside

down to repeatedly immerse it in a bowl of water and that increases

hydration and reduces frizz that was the second most popular tic-tok hashtag for hair issues with

500 million views and 2,000 posts the bowl method i'm going to have to check that out because i've

never even heard of it the forehead reduction was a big trend. Surgical methods that make the forehead appear smaller by lowering

the hair line using microfeathering tattoo. These are trends that are here to stay. I predict that

forehead reduction and micro tattoos of hair loss are going to increase.

Microblading was so hot for eyebrows and now micro follicular tattooing to reduce baldness,

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