Okay, okay, welcome to Fat Mascara. We're going to hear a thoughtful take on beauty culture and we're gonna unfilter the beauty industry.

I'm Jen Sullivan.

This episode is a listener request, a multiple listener request.

A lot of you have been messaging

dermatologists and but at the same time, you know I'm always out there

interviewing dermatologists and plastic surgeons

and I've been hearing more and more from them about how we're at this point in time where

non-surgical cosmetic enhancements like neurotoxins, failures, they've been available for

almost 30 years.

So people who have been getting them for decades might now be at that

point where they're wanting to do something more invasive like a facelift.

Well how do all those non-surgical treatments affect the results of a face lift down the line.

And also, what if you can't afford any of this stuff,

or you don't want any of this stuff?

Does skin care make a difference?

And if so, what skin care?

So, to help me get to the bottom of all of this, facial plastic and

reconstructive surgeon Dr. Kimberly Lee is here. So she's a graduate of

Stanford Medical School. Side note, as I was researching this episode, did you know that this medical school

only accepts 1% of the people who apply Stanford? I did not know that. Anyway, so of

course Dr Lee is you know, NBD. She's an assistant clinical professor in the

division of head and neck surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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