Why Blepharoplasty is Everywhere Right Now, the Best No-Surgery Eye Fixes and Could Contact Lenses be Bad for Your Eyes? With Oculoplastic Surgeon Dr. Babak Maleki

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Olympian Simone Biles recently opened up about it. Carlene has done it. And according to the latest polls, blepharoplasty is officially the #1 cosmetic surgery around the globe – surpassing liposuction, breast augmentation and even rhinoplasty.

To help us uncover everything to know about the latest eye opening procedures, we tapped Toronto-based Oculoplastic Surgeon and Board-Certified Ophthalmologist Dr. Babak Maleki, who Carlene trusted with her own ptosis correction and upper eyelid blepharoplasty.

Tune in to hear about:

What exactly is blepharoplasty, and who is a good candidate?
Bleph 101: How much you can reasonably expect to pay for a blepharoplasty, how much time to set aside for recovery, scar care and how long results last.
Don’t sign on the dotted line without asking your surgeon this #1 question at the consultation stage.
What happens when bleph goes too far, like some “surprised” celeb faces we’ve seen this year. Is there an “undo” button?
Why Carlene required *two* surgeries, and how she feels about the experience now.
Why Dr. Maleki is banking on “micro-fast” transfer for the future of fixing undereye hollows.
For the surgery shy, the in-office, non-invasive treatments that Dr. Maleki recommends to keep eyes looking fresh (including his fave eye cream!)

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:08.2	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.
0:24.0	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone.
0:25.8	I'm Jill Dunn, one of your co-hosts.
0:27.9	And of course, I'm here with Carleen Higgins.
0:28.3	Hello.
0:34.2	And we are two longtime beauty editors turned beauty podcasters here with the breakthrough,
0:37.1	people, products, and moments in beauty every single Wednesday.
0:42.4	Like we have been for eight years now. And if you haven't subscribed, liked, left us a review.
0:48.3	This is your last opportunity in 2025. Please do it. And Carleen, we have a very special guest of honor today. And I must say, you're looking very fresh. Oh, well, thank you, Jill. And honestly,
0:53.6	I have been feeling a little bit more face
0:56.4	confident this year. Love it. In part because as many of our listeners will know, in 2024,
1:01.9	I had the single most appearance altering procedure that I've done in my lifetime, maybe the second,
1:07.7	right up there with getting my ears pulled back when I was 13.
1:27.6	And that is blephroplasty. So at long last, we're going to be revealing all today. Yeah. And if you're listening right now and you're going, WTF is blephoroplasty? We've got you covered. We're going to let you know what it is. Everything's going to be explained today. And Carleen, I know you shared some of your journey on the podcast here and there and some stuff on social media. But for you, this just wasn't a one and done procedure. I think there's maybe a little bit more to the story that you haven't shared yet. So I'm excited for everyone to hear about that today. And beyond that, I live surgery, it's just the talk of the town. I was out to dinner last night. It comes up. It's in the ether. It's written about all people.com. It is a big deal this year. So I think it's very topical that we're talking about this right now. And apparently, blephoroplasty just surpassed liposuction for the first time ever as the most common surgical procedure. I would have thought it was breast
2:01.3	enhancement, to be honest. I know. I know. I can't believe it. So I definitely wasn't alone.
2:06.6	So more than 2.1 million eyelid procedures were done in 2024, according to the International
2:14.2	Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. And those are the most recent numbers, by the way.
2:19.3	So that means that there was a 13.4% year-over-year jump.
2:24.0	And I can't wait to unpack why this happened.
2:27.1	Right.
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