June 9, 2026
A Recap of The Beauty Series: 10 Principles for Smarter Decisions
The aesthetics marketplace moves billions of dollars a year and is built to sell, which makes a clear, unhurried head your strongest asset.
Across the ten episodes of the Beauty Series, Dr. Lawrence Bass curates a guide to navigating cosmetic treatments, and this final installment is a reflection on the most important takeaways:
- A steady relationship with one provider beats scattered, one-off Botox or filler appointments because it gives you someone who knows your preferences and watches how you age over time.
- Planning gets right-sized to the moment: what you need before the holidays, what to address this year, and a comprehensive view of the next several years.
These frameworks anchor your decision-making:
- The beauty lens is the feature that actually bothers you, weighed against whether a reliable treatment for it exists
- The beauty thermostat is how sensitive you are to change, where turning it up earlier favors small, low-recovery tweakments over bigger corrections later.
Dr. Bass also flags the real risks of traveling abroad for treatment, the gap between restoring your appearance and changing it, and the daily essentials that hold everything together: sunscreen, a barrier-protecting moisturizer, and a prescription retinoid. The payoff of doing your homework is spending the least time and money while landing closest to your goals, and steering clear of buyer’s remorse.
Questions answered by this episode:
1. What is the Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Class Beauty Series?
2. Why is an ongoing relationship with one aesthetic provider better than one-off treatments?
3. What are the risks of traveling abroad for cosmetic surgery?
4. How should you plan beauty treatments for the short and long term?
5. What is the “beauty lens” and how does it guide treatment choices?
6. What is the “beauty thermostat” and why does its sensitivity matter?
7. Are trendy aesthetic treatments worth trying?
8. What are tweakments, and how do they fit into a beauty plan?
9. What skincare products belong in every routine?
10. How big is the beauty industry, and why should that change how you shop for treatments?
About Dr. Lawrence Bass
Innovator. Industry veteran. In-demand Park Avenue board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Lawrence Bass is a true master of his craft, not only in the OR but as an industry pioneer in the development and evaluation of new aesthetic technologies. With locations in both Manhattan (on Park Avenue between 62nd and 63rd Streets) and in Great Neck, Long Island, Dr. Bass has earned his reputation as the plastic surgeon for the most discerning patients in NYC and beyond.
To learn more, visit the Bass Plastic Surgery website or follow the team on Instagram @drbassnyc
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Welcome to Park Avenue Classic Surgery Class, the podcast where we explore controversies in breaking issues in plastic surgery. I'm your co-host, Summer Hardy, a medical student in New York City. I'm excited to be here with Dr. Lawrence Bass, Park Avenue Classic Surgeon, Educator and Technology Innovator. Today's episode is Beauty Series Summary. One of the series we've presented on the podcast has been the Beauty Series. This episode will summarize what we've covered over the course of that series.
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We've had 10 episodes covering a wide range of topics.
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Can you remind her of the snors of the idea behind the series Dr. Bass?
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So this series started in 2024 towards the end of the year and it ran for all of 2025 and into 2026. Basically I kept noticing particular good and bad ways to go about getting and BD treatments, so I'd organize an episode to discuss that issue.
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That makes sense, and I think you came up with a really interesting group of topics.
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Thank you. I think they're all really important to avoid major missteps in your BD journey. The content is mostly common sense, but I've tried to organize it around simple principles or truths that I think are intuitive.
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- Just the titles convey a lot. They're really evocative. So to list out all 10, number one, beauty insights. Number two, hit and run beauty. Number three, boring beauty. Number four, right size beauty. Number five, travel beauty. Number six, beauty lens. Number seven, beauty thermostat. Number eight, beauty trends. Number nine, beauty tweakments. and last number 10 beauty essentials.
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- In today's episode, the final in our beauty series, I'd like to go back and summarize what we've discussed as a set of bottom line principles.
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- That sounds like a great idea, Dr. Bass. Shall we go through them episode by episode? Let's start with episode number one beauty insights.
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- In this episode, we spoke with my friend and colleague, facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Steve Diane. He practices in Chicago and lectures very widely. And we were discussing the concept of beauty itself. The desire for beauty is universal, young people, older people, everyone regardless of gender, and really it's an extension of hygiene and grooming. It's a basic part of self-care to pursue and maintain your beauty. It's part of our identity and our self image, and it's also part of how the world sees us.
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00:02:53,919 --> 00:03:01,740
- That was a really great episode to start this series with. So episode number two was hit and run beauty. What's the key message there?
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- The idea behind that is a lot of people going in to see someone for a beauty treatment who they've never seen before they'll never seen again. They just kind of get a little Botox or get a little filler gets app with an energy device. That's hidden run beauty and that doesn't give you as much as you really deserve. A relationship with a medical aesthetic provider rather than sporadic piecemail treatments and providers will make the full range of options available to you. It will give you someone who knows your preferences and also can see how you're aging over time. It will help you form a unified plan that avoids duplication and the ineffective steps, and that's also the most efficient and most cost-effective way to pursue B.D. treatments.
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That makes sense. So then episode three is boring beauty, which I thought was a fun name since I didn't think a plastic surgeon would ever call beauty boring.
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Of course, no plastic surgeon thinks beauty is boring. We're all in love with the pursuit of beauty, And I certainly don't think beauty is boring, but the point of that episode was that an unemotional reality-based analysis and plan is the best way to make your beauty dreams come true. It's okay to have fun, but be sure to do your homework on facts. Don't get carried away by impulse or excitement. Having a boring decision-making process is going to make the end results that much more please.
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Okay, so then episode four is right-sized beauty.
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So we talked about planning and for sure you need a set of plans and different kinds of planning. So sort of right-sizing your planning for what you need at the moment. So one set of plans is for immediate needs. The holidays are coming up and you need to get some treatments or there's some little features starting to show you need to chase, then there's short-term planning what you need to do over the course of this year, based on what's showing up, and comprehensive planning for all of your features and what's expected to take place over the next several years. Don't do things unless there's a noticeable benefit that you're going to get from a treatment, except for preventive items, but by picking the right treatment for the right feature, the right magnitude of tree and you'll get right-sized beauty.
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So then from there, you move to a different subject number five travel beauty.
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So travel beauty is something that's increasingly popular and it can be tricky. There's risk there along with potential benefit. So one challenge is to determine what standards are being applied in the care. The standards are not the same in other geographic areas from the United States. Internet looks can be deceiving. I took an international trip this year and boy, every restaurant knew exactly how to make themselves look great on the internet, but they range from literally Michelin-star dressed rods to restaurants that were really just very mediocre, neighbor who dressed But they all looked like a foodie's gourmet dream on the internet. And the same thing happens these days with plastic surgery. Looks great on the internet, but you may be surprised when you show up and see what's really going on there. Many other parts of the world don't have malpractice, the way we do in the United States. And that means there's no recourse and that modulates the behavior of some of the providers. having a treatment very far from home means that there's going to be a lack of follow-up care, and it may be very hard to do any kind of revision if needed. One of the big issues with travel beauty is anesthesia risk. A lot of surgery can be revised, but if you have a life-threatening problem, because the anesthesia service, anesthesia, quitment is not what it would be in the United States. That may be a permanent thing that can't be undone later on. So at the end of the day, you have to really ask how much economy prices may be lower, but they may not be very much lower, especially when you had in travel costs.
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These are all valuable caution, Dr. Bass.
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So next we come to number six beauty this is really where we focus our thoughts, our concerns, what features do we see that are meaningful to us? So this defines the beauty lens where your lens is focused, the thing is that you're personally concerned about with your appearance. Your The plastic surgeon provides a reality check for that if the features visible to you and your plastic surgeon and there is a reliable treatment to improve that feature than this is probably a good focus. It helps you avoid worrying about things or treating things that you are not concerned with even if others can see it.
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I understand the idea of Lens and Focus, but can you remind me what the beauty thermostat is that you talk about episode number seven?
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So let me define beauty thermostat and try to make it clear. It's about what level of beauty and perfection you want, where the thermostat is set. But also, and more important, it's about the sensitivity of the thermostat. You know, a thermostat works by holding you at a certain temperature, or in this case a certain BD set point. And, you know, it can't hold you exactly there if you drift more than a certain amount the thermostat will turn on, and you'll heat or cool the location. And some thermostats are set with very high sensitivity if it changes just a little bit, thermostat kicks in and others have less sensitivity. The temperature has to deviate a couple of degrees before the thermostat kicks in. So how much change or that sensitivity is a critically important issue, a lower beauty sensitivity, makes it easier to live with your appearance, but it means that bigger fixes are needed because things have gone on longer and gotten further out of range before you jump on them. And it also means you don't look your best to the outside world. A higher beauty or sensitivity setting means you live with more ongoing anxiety about your appearance day-to-day little things bother you much more. the possibility of pursuing a series of smaller main-in steps, particularly in early aging, helps you avoid big treatments and keep things looking their best. So Beauty Thermostat together with Beauty Lens forms a key paradigm about how to approach planning and decision-making for your beauty treatments.
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Thank you for that explanation. So, for more than halfway through, number eight is beauty trends?
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This one is pretty clear, but again, it's a cautionary tale about not getting caught up with trends, especially when it comes to surgery. So, some things are trends they're going to come and go. You don't want to etch that into your skin surgically. And remember, true beauty is timeless. it doesn't tend to follow trends. You can do that with hair styles and fashion and makeup, but not so much with medical and medy treatments. The other thing is some things are trendy, they're popular treatments because they're new, but they may not represent a true advance. So it's better to see that something is sorted out as real advance In how we're creating maintaining beauty rather than something that's just trendy because it's new. And remember there are treatments that are focused on restoring your appearance and their treatments that are focused on changing your appearance. So, Rejuvenation versus improving the balance of your natural features. And it's very important to remember which one of those you're trying to pursue because if you're changing your features, you will predictably look different. Versus just setting the clock back and looking more like you looked a few years ago. Overall, small and subtle is usually the best approach and usually beats dramatic and noticeably unnatural beauty changes.
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Okay, so next is number nine beauty tweakments, which is talking about a new trend in beauty treatments.
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That's right, summer. So even though I said that trends are something to avoid, some trends work out to be good in tweakments or small treatments that address small features have become increasingly popular. And so this is an example of big things come in small packages. Tweetments make small future changes or push beauty or rejuvenation gently, with little or no recovery, and this fits really well with everybody's busy modern lifestyle. Some component of these is part of every beauty plan and can keep you looking your best while delaying the appearance of bigger aging changes. By not ignoring the small things features stay coherent and coordinated rather than mismatched. So you have a youthful face, but you have wrinkly hands or a wrinkly neck that that mismatches evident to others. You're not completing the appearance that you're trying to create and tweakments can help you do that.
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00:13:51,980 --> 00:13:58,580
And the final episode is number 10, Beauty Essentials. That almost seems like it should have been in the first episode.
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Well, there's no question that in Essentials episode was clearly essential if you'll forgive me saying it to have as part of this series. But I wanted to find a guest who would make this very complex topic approachable for the listeners. So in that episode, we talked to my friend and colleague, Dr. Jennifer Vickers, who's a dermatologist in Austin,
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Texas,
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00:14:24,760 --> 00:15:09,599
and she gave us some really great advice about beauty essentials that everybody should be working with. Sunscreen was number one and a moisturizer to help protect the skin's barrier or a malian layer. She also said a prescription retinoid, so a doctor's office level or a prescription level retinoid is a key part of everybody's skin care to keep their skin healthy and youthful. So looking a little bit at the future, we talked about the growing role of regenerative skin care and maintaining and restoring skin health.
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Well, I didn't remember how much territory we covered in the series. Having summarized each episode can you now summarize the entire series, Dr. Bass?
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00:15:18,979 --> 00:17:04,439
As I reviewed the episodes in the Beauty Series to prepare this podcast, I came away feeling series contains a lot of wisdom about how to plan and consume all manner beauty services, especially plastic surgery. You can go back and stream any past episodes to hear all the details again if you want. Beauty has always been important to all of us as people, everyone wants to feel beautiful. But BDS become big business in the US alone, estimated to be more than $38 billion in 2023, and expected to reach more than $136 billion by 2030. The marketplace has become very aggressive in pursuing customers with a lot of noise and misinformation. Media which we think of as fact-based and objective tends to focus our attention on the extremes, whatever's attention getting, and attracts viewers, readers, or listeners. To be a competent consumer, you need weapons and armor to fight and win in this very noisy, very aggressive market place. The tools provided in this series and summarized in this episode are a wonderful resource to help with your beauty decision making. They'll help you spend the least time in money and come closest to achieving your beauty goals, all of which is most likely to leave you in a happy place, rather than facing buyers remorse.
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This concludes our beauty series designed to help you understand and plan for all your beauty needs. I hope these principles laid out by Dr. Bass in the series serve you well. Thank you for listening to the Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Class podcast. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, write a review and share the show with your friends. Be sure to join us next time to avoid missing all the great content that is coming your way. If you want to contact us with comment to questions we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at podcast@doctorbass.net or DM us on Instagram at Dr.BassNYC.
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Welcome to Park Avenue Classic Surgery Class, the podcast where we explore controversies in breaking issues in plastic surgery. I'm your co-host, Summer Hardy, a medical student in New York City. I'm excited to be here with Dr. Lawrence Bass, Park Avenue Classic Surgeon, Educator and Technology Innovator. Today's episode is Beauty Series Summary. One of the series we've presented on the podcast has been the Beauty Series. This episode will summarize what we've covered over the course of that series.
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00:00:28,959 --> 00:00:33,220
We've had 10 episodes covering a wide range of topics.
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00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,299
Can you remind her of the snors of the idea behind the series Dr. Bass?
4
00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:58,060
So this series started in 2024 towards the end of the year and it ran for all of 2025 and into 2026. Basically I kept noticing particular good and bad ways to go about getting and BD treatments, so I'd organize an episode to discuss that issue.
5
00:00:59,599 --> 00:01:03,680
That makes sense, and I think you came up with a really interesting group of topics.
6
00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:23,919
Thank you. I think they're all really important to avoid major missteps in your BD journey. The content is mostly common sense, but I've tried to organize it around simple principles or truths that I think are intuitive.
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00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:51,279
- Just the titles convey a lot. They're really evocative. So to list out all 10, number one, beauty insights. Number two, hit and run beauty. Number three, boring beauty. Number four, right size beauty. Number five, travel beauty. Number six, beauty lens. Number seven, beauty thermostat. Number eight, beauty trends. Number nine, beauty tweakments. and last number 10 beauty essentials.
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00:01:52,080 --> 00:02:03,019
- In today's episode, the final in our beauty series, I'd like to go back and summarize what we've discussed as a set of bottom line principles.
9
00:02:03,919 --> 00:02:11,119
- That sounds like a great idea, Dr. Bass. Shall we go through them episode by episode? Let's start with episode number one beauty insights.
10
00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:53,300
- In this episode, we spoke with my friend and colleague, facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Steve Diane. He practices in Chicago and lectures very widely. And we were discussing the concept of beauty itself. The desire for beauty is universal, young people, older people, everyone regardless of gender, and really it's an extension of hygiene and grooming. It's a basic part of self-care to pursue and maintain your beauty. It's part of our identity and our self image, and it's also part of how the world sees us.
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00:02:53,919 --> 00:03:01,740
- That was a really great episode to start this series with. So episode number two was hit and run beauty. What's the key message there?
12
00:03:02,679 --> 00:03:56,880
- The idea behind that is a lot of people going in to see someone for a beauty treatment who they've never seen before they'll never seen again. They just kind of get a little Botox or get a little filler gets app with an energy device. That's hidden run beauty and that doesn't give you as much as you really deserve. A relationship with a medical aesthetic provider rather than sporadic piecemail treatments and providers will make the full range of options available to you. It will give you someone who knows your preferences and also can see how you're aging over time. It will help you form a unified plan that avoids duplication and the ineffective steps, and that's also the most efficient and most cost-effective way to pursue B.D. treatments.
13
00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:06,580
That makes sense. So then episode three is boring beauty, which I thought was a fun name since I didn't think a plastic surgeon would ever call beauty boring.
14
00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:43,559
Of course, no plastic surgeon thinks beauty is boring. We're all in love with the pursuit of beauty, And I certainly don't think beauty is boring, but the point of that episode was that an unemotional reality-based analysis and plan is the best way to make your beauty dreams come true. It's okay to have fun, but be sure to do your homework on facts. Don't get carried away by impulse or excitement. Having a boring decision-making process is going to make the end results that much more please.
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00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,320
Okay, so then episode four is right-sized beauty.
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00:04:49,279 --> 00:05:43,380
So we talked about planning and for sure you need a set of plans and different kinds of planning. So sort of right-sizing your planning for what you need at the moment. So one set of plans is for immediate needs. The holidays are coming up and you need to get some treatments or there's some little features starting to show you need to chase, then there's short-term planning what you need to do over the course of this year, based on what's showing up, and comprehensive planning for all of your features and what's expected to take place over the next several years. Don't do things unless there's a noticeable benefit that you're going to get from a treatment, except for preventive items, but by picking the right treatment for the right feature, the right magnitude of tree and you'll get right-sized beauty.
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00:05:44,290 --> 00:05:48,480
So then from there, you move to a different subject number five travel beauty.
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00:05:49,179 --> 00:07:52,299
So travel beauty is something that's increasingly popular and it can be tricky. There's risk there along with potential benefit. So one challenge is to determine what standards are being applied in the care. The standards are not the same in other geographic areas from the United States. Internet looks can be deceiving. I took an international trip this year and boy, every restaurant knew exactly how to make themselves look great on the internet, but they range from literally Michelin-star dressed rods to restaurants that were really just very mediocre, neighbor who dressed But they all looked like a foodie's gourmet dream on the internet. And the same thing happens these days with plastic surgery. Looks great on the internet, but you may be surprised when you show up and see what's really going on there. Many other parts of the world don't have malpractice, the way we do in the United States. And that means there's no recourse and that modulates the behavior of some of the providers. having a treatment very far from home means that there's going to be a lack of follow-up care, and it may be very hard to do any kind of revision if needed. One of the big issues with travel beauty is anesthesia risk. A lot of surgery can be revised, but if you have a life-threatening problem, because the anesthesia service, anesthesia, quitment is not what it would be in the United States. That may be a permanent thing that can't be undone later on. So at the end of the day, you have to really ask how much economy prices may be lower, but they may not be very much lower, especially when you had in travel costs.
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These are all valuable caution, Dr. Bass.
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00:07:55,619 --> 00:08:44,099
So next we come to number six beauty this is really where we focus our thoughts, our concerns, what features do we see that are meaningful to us? So this defines the beauty lens where your lens is focused, the thing is that you're personally concerned about with your appearance. Your The plastic surgeon provides a reality check for that if the features visible to you and your plastic surgeon and there is a reliable treatment to improve that feature than this is probably a good focus. It helps you avoid worrying about things or treating things that you are not concerned with even if others can see it.
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00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:51,900
I understand the idea of Lens and Focus, but can you remind me what the beauty thermostat is that you talk about episode number seven?
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00:08:52,679 --> 00:10:56,219
So let me define beauty thermostat and try to make it clear. It's about what level of beauty and perfection you want, where the thermostat is set. But also, and more important, it's about the sensitivity of the thermostat. You know, a thermostat works by holding you at a certain temperature, or in this case a certain BD set point. And, you know, it can't hold you exactly there if you drift more than a certain amount the thermostat will turn on, and you'll heat or cool the location. And some thermostats are set with very high sensitivity if it changes just a little bit, thermostat kicks in and others have less sensitivity. The temperature has to deviate a couple of degrees before the thermostat kicks in. So how much change or that sensitivity is a critically important issue, a lower beauty sensitivity, makes it easier to live with your appearance, but it means that bigger fixes are needed because things have gone on longer and gotten further out of range before you jump on them. And it also means you don't look your best to the outside world. A higher beauty or sensitivity setting means you live with more ongoing anxiety about your appearance day-to-day little things bother you much more. the possibility of pursuing a series of smaller main-in steps, particularly in early aging, helps you avoid big treatments and keep things looking their best. So Beauty Thermostat together with Beauty Lens forms a key paradigm about how to approach planning and decision-making for your beauty treatments.
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00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,440
Thank you for that explanation. So, for more than halfway through, number eight is beauty trends?
24
00:11:03,119 --> 00:12:37,739
This one is pretty clear, but again, it's a cautionary tale about not getting caught up with trends, especially when it comes to surgery. So, some things are trends they're going to come and go. You don't want to etch that into your skin surgically. And remember, true beauty is timeless. it doesn't tend to follow trends. You can do that with hair styles and fashion and makeup, but not so much with medical and medy treatments. The other thing is some things are trendy, they're popular treatments because they're new, but they may not represent a true advance. So it's better to see that something is sorted out as real advance In how we're creating maintaining beauty rather than something that's just trendy because it's new. And remember there are treatments that are focused on restoring your appearance and their treatments that are focused on changing your appearance. So, Rejuvenation versus improving the balance of your natural features. And it's very important to remember which one of those you're trying to pursue because if you're changing your features, you will predictably look different. Versus just setting the clock back and looking more like you looked a few years ago. Overall, small and subtle is usually the best approach and usually beats dramatic and noticeably unnatural beauty changes.
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00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:44,659
Okay, so next is number nine beauty tweakments, which is talking about a new trend in beauty treatments.
26
00:12:45,580 --> 00:13:51,200
That's right, summer. So even though I said that trends are something to avoid, some trends work out to be good in tweakments or small treatments that address small features have become increasingly popular. And so this is an example of big things come in small packages. Tweetments make small future changes or push beauty or rejuvenation gently, with little or no recovery, and this fits really well with everybody's busy modern lifestyle. Some component of these is part of every beauty plan and can keep you looking your best while delaying the appearance of bigger aging changes. By not ignoring the small things features stay coherent and coordinated rather than mismatched. So you have a youthful face, but you have wrinkly hands or a wrinkly neck that that mismatches evident to others. You're not completing the appearance that you're trying to create and tweakments can help you do that.
27
00:13:51,980 --> 00:13:58,580
And the final episode is number 10, Beauty Essentials. That almost seems like it should have been in the first episode.
28
00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:23,340
Well, there's no question that in Essentials episode was clearly essential if you'll forgive me saying it to have as part of this series. But I wanted to find a guest who would make this very complex topic approachable for the listeners. So in that episode, we talked to my friend and colleague, Dr. Jennifer Vickers, who's a dermatologist in Austin,
29
00:14:24,429 --> 00:14:24,559
Texas,
30
00:14:24,760 --> 00:15:09,599
and she gave us some really great advice about beauty essentials that everybody should be working with. Sunscreen was number one and a moisturizer to help protect the skin's barrier or a malian layer. She also said a prescription retinoid, so a doctor's office level or a prescription level retinoid is a key part of everybody's skin care to keep their skin healthy and youthful. So looking a little bit at the future, we talked about the growing role of regenerative skin care and maintaining and restoring skin health.
31
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:18,059
Well, I didn't remember how much territory we covered in the series. Having summarized each episode can you now summarize the entire series, Dr. Bass?
32
00:15:18,979 --> 00:17:04,439
As I reviewed the episodes in the Beauty Series to prepare this podcast, I came away feeling series contains a lot of wisdom about how to plan and consume all manner beauty services, especially plastic surgery. You can go back and stream any past episodes to hear all the details again if you want. Beauty has always been important to all of us as people, everyone wants to feel beautiful. But BDS become big business in the US alone, estimated to be more than $38 billion in 2023, and expected to reach more than $136 billion by 2030. The marketplace has become very aggressive in pursuing customers with a lot of noise and misinformation. Media which we think of as fact-based and objective tends to focus our attention on the extremes, whatever's attention getting, and attracts viewers, readers, or listeners. To be a competent consumer, you need weapons and armor to fight and win in this very noisy, very aggressive market place. The tools provided in this series and summarized in this episode are a wonderful resource to help with your beauty decision making. They'll help you spend the least time in money and come closest to achieving your beauty goals, all of which is most likely to leave you in a happy place, rather than facing buyers remorse.
33
00:17:04,739 --> 00:17:38,479
This concludes our beauty series designed to help you understand and plan for all your beauty needs. I hope these principles laid out by Dr. Bass in the series serve you well. Thank you for listening to the Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Class podcast. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, write a review and share the show with your friends. Be sure to join us next time to avoid missing all the great content that is coming your way. If you want to contact us with comment to questions we'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at podcast@doctorbass.net or DM us on Instagram at Dr.BassNYC.
