Hello, hello, this is Brooke DeVard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast.

Welcome back to a special mini episode on a topic I've been thinking a lot about.

It seems to me that beauty treatments are getting more intense and more extreme.

I'm hearing about facelifts constantly, and that's great for transparency. And it's also maybe a function of my age,

because now at 36, it seems as though all of the beauty content that I'm being served is

increasingly more about serious intervention and less about skincare.

It's more about like what heavy duty measures can be taken for extreme results for turning back the clock.

So I've always been on the skincare addiction subreddit.

That was one of my very, very early, early loves on Reddit.

Just talking to people in the skincare community about formulations

and what they were discovering and seeing before and afters. But recently I joined, and by

recently I mean maybe in the last two years, I joined the 30 plus skincare Reddit group. And

it's so interesting to see the stark difference between the posts in the skincare addiction subreddit and then the 30 plus skincare Reddit.

In this Reddit group, you hear from all sorts of people, men and women, and they are asking, what can I do to eliminate my jowls?

Or I hate the under eyebags that I have.

I think that they just make me look tired and worn out and I want

them gone. Am I a good candidate for a lower blef? Or am I a good candidate for an upper blithe?

Or what CO2 laser do I need to get to resurface my skin? It's almost as if a simple

moisturizer is no longer enough. People want these extreme results and they want them quickly.

Now, I want to talk about blephroplastries specifically because I feel like, again,

it's something that I've just been served with over and over again.

But it's this surgical procedure that removes excess skin and muscle and fat from either

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