The new K-beauty glass skin secrets with Amy Chang - plus the top 3 treatments that transformed her skin
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Is the “medical tourism” hype real? This week, we’re chatting with Los Angeles-based aesthetic expert and host of “Mirror, Mirror” podcast, Amy Chang. Amy is pulling back the curtain on the 2026 K-beauty boom, from Seoul’s high-tech clinics to the “Botox disaster” that changed her face — and her philosophy on injectables today.
Listen in as we dive into the science of exosome serums, the reality of Rejuran (the “salmon sperm facial” treatment everyone is talking about), and why everyone is obsessed with “liquid” microneedling. Plus, Amy shares the internal health shift that finally cleared her brain fog, and restored Carlene’s skin’s glow, too.
In this episode, we cover:
- As published in the Los Angeles Times, Amy’s take on why more than one million travellers headed to Korea last year for Rejuran, silk peptide threads and non-surgical facelifts.
- The top top 3 K-Beauty-informed treatments, products and habits contributing to Amy’s glass skin of late.
- The one thing that Amy’s mental clarity and Carlene’s glowing skin have in common.
- Everything you need to know about the TikTok-viral VT Reedle Shot: the “spicule” technology driving the Korean glass skin trend.
- A cautionary tale: Why the self-proclaimed “treatment guinea pig” blames neuromodulators for causing her “collapsed” lower face, and how she approaches injectables now.
- Psssst! Podswap alert. Don't miss our guest appearance—click here to listen to our episode on Mirror Mirror podcast coming soon!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:13.8 | We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. |
| 0:27.0 | Happy to be with you on this fine Wednesday. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm one of your co-host, Jill Dunn and I'm here with Carleen Higgins, sitting on the couch, as per usual. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, Jill, hey Jill. |
| 0:40.2 | And we're, of course, two longtime magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. We're now in our ninth year. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah. I can't believe we're saying that. We're going into a whole other decade very soon with each other. |
| 0:49.7 | And every week we're chatting about the breakthrough people products and moments in beauty. |
| 1:15.1 | That's right. And if it's your first time tuning in, welcome. We do have a catalog of over 430 episodes, though, where we've been fortunate enough to share the microphone with makeup artists like makeup by Mario and Lisa Eldridge and airtime with legendary beauty insiders like Dr. Shereen Idris and even Jennifer Aniston's hairstylist, Chris Chris McMillan as well as celebs like Tracy Ellis Ross, Haley Bieber. |
| 1:17.6 | So there's a whole catalog to explore. |
| 1:18.5 | That's right. |
| 1:29.4 | Plus, we have solo episodes once a month with our damn good edit, honest reviews of everything from viral skin care to budget-friendly fines dominating the beauty aisles. And we've gotten to interview Carleen so many incredible beauty creators over the last decade almost together, |
| 1:34.7 | like Michaela makeup, Lab Muffin Beauty Science, Gothamista. And today we are thrilled to welcome |
| 1:40.1 | one of the most preeminent skincare influencers of the moment, L.A. based beauty creator Amy |
| 1:46.3 | Chang. And many of you might be familiar with Amy. Her handle is at Bonne Avant. In French, |
| 1:52.2 | it translates to leap forward. And Amy has more than 2.4 million followers across social media. |
| 1:58.6 | So Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. Yes. And what began at the Shasado |
| 2:03.1 | counter has evolved into a decades-long career covering beauty's most innovative developments from |
| 2:08.8 | around the world. So from skincare to medical aesthetic treatments, Amy is also a contributing |
| 2:14.2 | writer for the Los Angeles Times and was named one of Marie Claire's |
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