Welcome to the Who What Wear podcast, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion.

I'm Who What Wears co-founder and chief content officer Hillary Kerr, and today on the podcast,

I'm joined by Vanessa Lee, who is a celebrity medical aesthetic provider and the founder

of the beauty concept bar, The Things We Do.

Vanessa is one of the most highly sought after aesthetic providers in Hollywood and, for good reason.

She's one of the few who puts natural outcomes at the forefront of her services.

Vanessa is incredibly knowledgeable about every treatment under the sun, so I was eager to have her join the pod and give us the intel on the most efficacious science-backed services to try in 26.

Plus, she shares her tangible fail-proof tips to improve your skincare routine post-holidays and all year long. It's all coming up on who what where. Vanessa, I'm so excited that you're here. Welcome to the pod. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

Truly my pleasure. Okay, so full disclosure, I am deeply familiar with your work and a patron of your business, the things we do. But for anyone who is not a client like myself, can you share a little bit

about how you got your start in beauty and skin care and really what your expertise is?

Yes, totally. Okay, so I'm Filipino American first generation and my mom was like,

you want to go to school for art? And I was like, yes. And she was like, wrong answer.

We're going to nursing school. And I was like, you know what? Let's just do this. I can do art on the

side. And maybe after like a year or two, I can ditch the nursing thing and go full time with writing and

creating and all of that stuff. I was also always the girl in junior high and high school to do everyone's

hair and makeup for all the dances. And I loved that part so much, just like being in a room

filled with girls and getting ready and the conversations and all of that. And I knew earlier on

that my superpower was helping women feel confident and feel good about themselves.

So ended up doing the nursing route, was working at a plastic surgery office when I first started,

but was working in their minimally invasive wing.

This was back in 2008, 2009, where the business that it is now is not what it was back then.

Our industry, minimally invasive aesthetics, has really

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