The Great Cosmetic Undoing Is Here
“We have patients who had years and years of fillers,” says Melissa Doft, MD, who runs the kind of low-key Park Avenue office that’s a magnet for wealthy moms clad head to toe in The Row. One patient wanted her filler dissolved because she missed her natural bone structure—only to be horrified when she could see how much she’d aged. So she requested a very subtle facelift, the sort of procedure some younger women plan ahead for—to the extent that they’re skipping filler so it won’t interfere with their future nip and tuck.As women seek smaller lips, they’re also seeking daintier breast implants. Or removing the implants altogether, sometimes adding a breast lift and some fat grafting from the stomach, thighs, or flanks to create a subtly natural shape.“Big breasts might have looked sexy at a certain time in your life, but you get older and it makes you look chubby and matronly,” says Doft. And don’t downplay the effects of mass semaglutide usage, either. Using it gives devotees a hollowed-out so-called Ozempic face—and the combination of implants and rapid weight loss, Doft says, makes women look “like boobs on a stick.”The easiest way to avoid having to undo cosmetic procedures, of course, is not to get them in the first place.Few procedures are harder to reverse than a buttock augmentation. Trying to undo a Brazilian butt lift (or BBL) by sucking it out of the body carries the risk for nerve damage, asymmetry, and skin laxity. Last year Anastasia “Stas” Karanikolaou, a friend of Jenner’s, documented the arduous process of getting hers reversed. She said on her debut podcast that her BBL is “something that I regret and that I’ve been actively trying to fix for so long...I literally have another surgery, like, in a few weeks to try and reduce the size of it even more.”The easiest way to avoid having to undo cosmetic procedures, of course, is not to get them in the first place. Or at least to think very carefully before tapping the AmEx to pay for lip filler. In other words: Caveat injector.Prop stylist Yasmin Leutwyler.
