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COVID-19 Special: The pandemic and plastic surgery

source: the Financial Express By Dr Rajat Gupta, While cosmetic surgery initially witnessed a dip due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as “lockdown face” entered the lexicon, the industry faced a spike in cases, now called the “Zoom boom”. It is no secret, two years later, that the global Covid-19 outbreak brought the world economy to […]

How the beauty industry is coping in the era of COVID

The COVID pandemic has been an extreme time for the beauty industry. People have whipsawed between feeling nearly invisible to being super-exposed: Masks covered half of our faces for much of the last 18 months — and, after a brief hiatus, the Delta variant means they’re back — while our looks have moved front-and-center during […]

Did The Pandemic End Botox Stigma Once And For All?

source: Elle Magazine Like so many of us, I’ve spent the pandemic gazing into the computerized glaze of my own bedraggled face. And while I’ve used Botox since my mid-20s, thanks to the early-onset brow creases that run in my family, I felt a new urgency around getting those injections as the world around me […]

A Plastic Surgery Recovery Nurse Explains What Her ‘Successful’ Patients Do After Surgery

by Kelly Greytok It’s day three after plastic surgery and my last client says, “Kelly this is really going so well.” Immediately, I burst out laughing. After a breast reduction and liposuction to her abdomen, flanks, arms and upper back, she was surprised to be doing so well. However, her revelation didn’t faze me at […]

The Zoom Boom: How Video Calling Impacts Attitudes Towards Aesthetic Surgery in the COVID-19 Era

source: DocWireNews ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the widespread adoption of video calling. A parallel growth in aesthetic surgery demand has been documented. OBJECTIVES: To identify associations between video call engagement and aesthetic surgery attitudes. METHODS: We distributed a cross-sectional survey via Amazon Mechanical Turk in November 2020. Respondents were asked to […]

Is It Safe to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine If You Have Botox?

by Dr. Kathryn Watson If you have or are considering Botox or dermal fillers, you may have some extra questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. These questions are most likely the result of a side effect reported specifically from the Moderna vaccine. During the phase 3 trial for the Moderna vaccine, 15,184 trial participants were given […]

Is It Safe to Get Botox After the COVID-19 Vaccine? Here’s What Doctors Say

by Korin Miller As more and more people get vaccinated against COVID-19, all kinds of questions are popping up, from wondering if you can drink alcohol afterward to questioning whether it’s OK to take OTC pain meds to ease any side effects. If you’re someone who regularly gets Botox—whether it’s to smooth wrinkles or manage a chronic health issue […]

‘Bachelor’ alum Cassie Randolph says she’s gotten Botox and fillers

by Leah Bitsky Cassie Randolph admitted to getting Botox and fillers in the past in a new video addressing plastic surgery rumors. “I know people have a bunch of opinions on filler and Botox and all that kind of stuff,” the “Bachelor” alum, 26, said on her YouTube channel on Thursday. “Personally, I like to keep it […]

Lockdown Isolation is Spurring Millennial Men to Go In For a Nip and Tuck

by John Jones How are you really feeling about your body lately? Has more than a year of not venturing much further than the fridge, the couch, or the bedroom taken its toll? You tried the home workouts — which weren’t very inspiring — and now even if you’re back at the gym, that beach-ready […]

Some South Koreans prepare for post-pandemic days with a facelift

source: The Washington Post SEOUL — In the offices of Grand Plastic Surgery in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district, Rhee Se-whan has been busy nipping, tucking and keeping up with clients who see the coronavirus pandemic health rules as the ideal time to tweak their looks. The doctor — and many others in South Korea’s […]