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

687: Botox, Biohacking, & LA Beauty Standards with Nikki Howard

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

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

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

5604 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kay sits down with comedian Nikki Howard for a fun, honest conversation about beauty trends, biohacking, and the pressures of living in Los Angeles. They dive into hot topics like salmon sperm facials, microneedling with polynucleotides, and why retaining facial fat is crucial for aging gracefully. Don’t miss this candid and hilarious look at the science behind beauty and self-care.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:20.1

and I'm here with this amazing girl. It's Nikki Howard. Thank you so much for having me. This is such a blast. I'm so excited to dig into your information. She's an L.A. comedian. She's one of the fabulous girls who's doing all the things look so glily, beautiful, and L.A. like. Thank you. I try. I really do. And it's hard.

0:39.0

As you know. It is hard. Being a woman is hard. Anywhere in the world, but I think in L.A. in

0:43.2

particular, maybe some of the big cities like New York, Miami, Houston, like people have pressure

0:48.6

to be something. And like social media's put it on everybody. Yeah. I i sometimes i try to be as relatable and just like

0:56.5

honest as possible because i think it's important as someone with that has a platform to show people like

1:03.6

look it's not i didn't wake up looking like this like this is not real you know what i mean

1:08.7

because i sometimes will look on instagram and see even my peers and i'm like, how do they look like that? And then I have to remember like, oh, right. I'm seeing her. I know what she looks like in her sweats. Yeah. Yeah. That's so true. I have the privilege of seeing everybody and they come with sweats and a bun and like there's no makeup. And they're like tired and p puffy and you get like the best because you get those

1:28.6

you get to like take those like terrible before pictures where you're like frown make the ugliest

1:33.4

face you can possibly make and then you're like and then i don't get to see them when they're in their

1:37.7

beautiful stage a week later and i'm like i'll see them on the gram and i'll be like oh i did

1:42.6

work so good nailed it

1:44.6

how symmetrical she is I know is there is there anyone you know who's not doing shots in one

1:51.8

form or the other like Botox ozumic shots anything everybody's doing shots I actually my dear

1:58.1

friend is she turned 40 and I asked her if she got Botox

2:02.6

and she said no and I truly believe her

2:04.6

and she's like one of those people that like

2:06.5

she's like very fair-skinned

2:08.2

and like she's super smart so she like

2:10.8

spent most of her life in like a library

2:12.6

and she's beautiful and I'm just like that's not fair

2:15.0

that you exist as a human

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