Face Taping: Karen's Mom is Loving This!

Itchy and Bitchy Podcast

KS Miller-Hnilica

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Medicine

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Karen breaks down the growing trend of face taping as a non-invasive approach to reducing wrinkles and lifting sagging skin. She explains the difference between aesthetic taping for red carpet-ready lift and overnight wrinkle patches like Frownies that aim to retrain facial muscles. Karen walks listeners through product options, techniques, and safety tips—while sharing her own experiences (and her mom’s timeless advice) about fighting the dreaded “11s.”

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0:00.0	The content of this podcast is provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended as,
0:06.4	nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical advice.
0:10.8	Oh, how I feel.
0:14.3	Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy, bitchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy.
0:18.2	Itchy and bitchy.
0:29.6	Hello, everyone. This is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and this is Itchy bitchy, bitchy and bitchy! Hello everyone, this is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and this is Itchy and Bitchy, a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions. So, you all may say, Karen, you are way behind the times. What rock have you been living under? Yes, you may be way ahead of me,
0:40.3	but I have recently noticed this big craze called face taping. If you have already heard about
0:47.9	face taping, you may want to go ahead and stick around, keep listening, because it appears there is a lot to learn about
0:55.4	this practice to reduce facial lines and wrinkles. Let me start by explaining that there are
1:02.6	two different types of face taping. One is when clear tape is applied so that it is ideally not seen, and it's applied to the temples,
1:14.4	cheeks, and jawline on both sides of the face, and they are connected behind the head with an elastic
1:22.6	band in order to gently lift the brows and cheeks and jowls. It's basically a non-surgical,
1:30.8	as-needed, facelift. This is often used in the theater or for red carpet events.
1:37.6	Celebrities and drag queens have been employing this technique for decades. You have to be pretty good at hiding the tape and the elastic when
1:46.7	using this method. Got to be pretty practiced at it. I thought about using this option back in the
1:52.2	day when I was performing as an opera singer, and I have no idea why I even considered it, because
1:58.9	especially compared to now, I really wasn't saggy back then.
2:04.0	Not sure what I was thinking.
2:06.1	Well, I never bothered doing it, so there you go.
2:09.6	Performing now, however, would be a whole different story, I'll tell you that.
2:13.8	I'd be thinking about getting good at that little technique.
2:20.5	There are all kinds of products online, I'm telling you. Back in the day, when I was thinking about doing it, I probably would have had
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