Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick.

Together, they are the Bostics.

Okay, so I'm so excited about this episode.

I have 8 million questions.

I love it.

I think let's just throw you right in.

What makes a bad facelift? Ooh, well, facelists have been through an evolution. In a nutshell,

if I could answer it in one is the facelift that you can tell happened, basically. You see it,

you know. And we all know what that looks like. There's no subtleties around that. It's people

call it wind blown. There's some very telltale signs that are kind of fun because once I explain them, you'll see them everywhere. One of them is where your ear lobe is pulled down, which is called a pixie ear deformity. Or if you can see inside of somebody's ear, like the front anatomy of their ears pulled forward and it looks, we call

that like a gun sight deformity. You can look down inside of their ear. There's all kinds of these

little telltale signs. The most obvious one walking around is what we call sweep. And that is where

there's like a Nike swoosh going from the corner of your mouth to your ear, like this tight

sweeping motion that happens when the lower face is pulled too tight and the upper face continues

to sink down on it. These are all very much, they're still walking around now, but they're

somewhat dependent on technique and some of the older school techniques are notorious for those.

Because facelifting started with just cutting and pulling skin and then it went to some slightly

more, slightly deeper,

but still superficial layers. And now we're just in a whole different avenue of, in a pretty

rapid evolution, even over the past, call it five or six years in how facelifts are being performed.

So would those faceless of the past not happen any longer?

They still happen now. It's in transition, I would say, based off of training, belief. And, you know, I can't take it away from somebody who does an older school technique. If they've done it tens of thousands of times and have good successful, happy patients, then so be it. Like, that's a successful measure. That's a good question. What makes a successful facelift? If it's when the

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