823: Sass, Class, and Pop Culture: Life Advice for Your 20s with Shallon Lester
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Are you accidentally giving away your power by trying to "fix" the men in your life?
In this quick, hard-hitting "Five Minute Friday" episode of Beauty Bytes, I am joined by the fabulous YouTube creator Shallon Lester. Known for taking the guilty pleasure of celebrity drama and turning it into brilliant life advice with a heavy dose of "sass and class," Shalon pulls no punches when it comes to navigating modern relationships.
We dive into the harsh realities of dating in your 20s, why so many young women settle for less than they deserve, and the shocking psychological reason why immature men actually resent the women who try to coddle them. If you need a bold wake-up call to start putting yourself first and leveling up your life, consider this your personal intervention.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plastic surgeon. |
| 0:23.4 | And it's time for a five-minute Friday. |
| 0:28.2 | Today on our five-minute Friday, we have special guest Shalman Lester. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello. |
| 0:31.0 | Tell us all about you. |
| 0:32.4 | My name is Shalin. |
| 0:33.7 | I am a YouTube creator. |
| 0:39.3 | I take celebrity events and I turn them into advice with a whole lot of SaaSass and a whole lot of ranting. So if you like your guilty pleasure of celebrities but you want to like level up, come to me. |
| 0:44.3 | I love it. |
| 0:45.3 | What a good elevator pitch. |
| 0:46.3 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:47.3 | Sass and class. |
| 0:48.3 | Sass and class. |
| 0:49.3 | I love it. |
| 0:50.3 | Sometimes we're heavier on one and the other. |
| 0:51.3 | That's a good combo to have. |
| 0:52.3 | My favorite thing that you do is life |
| 0:54.6 | advice for women because so many women, especially in their 20s, they like just throw themselves |
| 1:00.4 | at everybody, give it away free. I was that girl. I know girls are like, where were you when I was |
| 1:05.3 | 25? I'm like also snorting out or all. Like I was not doing anything smarter or better. And like, now I can tell you what we should be doing. So I'm hoping to like put myself out of business eventually. The like girls are just smart. You don't need me. They need our help. This generation does not have amazing role models. I feel like we had a few. Not that many, but we had some. I don't know that you can grow up and be normal if your role models are Kardashians. |
| 1:29.6 | They're such easy people to pick on. |
| 1:31.5 | I also respect them tremendously for their entrepreneurship |
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