All that time staring at ourselves on Zoom has led to a rise in procedures like “baby botox.” The Atlantic’s Yasmin Tayag explains the lure and Dr. Michelle Hure injects some caution. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Image credit Visoot Uthairam/Getty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Okay, so the other day I was in Portland, Oregon on vacation. I'm hanging out, feeling really good about myself. And I walk past this store where a guy is offering free skincare samples. I say, sure, I'll take one. Then he literally grabs me by the hand and pulls me into his store. And suddenly he's putting like this goop under my eyes. And I'm not a big skincare girly, but I dabble.
And I'm telling you that this stuff was magic. Like, I have the beginnings of crow's feet, but I'm looking in the mirror and they're gone. And he tells me, this stuff costs $1,300, but it is so worth it because you won't need Botox for another three years. How old are you, Amanda? I'm 28 years old. Coming up on Today Explained... The pressure to fix your face.
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It's Today Explained. I'm Noelle King. Yasmin Tayag is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she also hosts a podcast called How to Age Up. This is a show about rethinking aging, which Yasmin recently found herself doing when she noticed that many of her friends have been looking suspiciously good. Yeah.
Well, as a woman in her late 30s who is on Instagram all the time, I couldn't help but notice that some of my friends who are the same age as me look amazing. And I was like, wait, I know you're in your late 30s. Your face should not look that tight. What's going on here? So in person, I started to ask casually, like, what's your secret?
And everyone I spoke to was very happy to tell me that they've been doing baby Botox since their mid-20s.
What is baby Botox?
You can interpret baby Botox in two ways. The main way is that you use baby doses of Botox. So typically, a normal Botox procedure might use 20 to 40 units of Botox. A baby Botox procedure uses only 10 to 20. But I think it can also be interpreted to mean that it keeps you looking kind of like a baby from the moment you start. So baby Botox is thought of as a preventative procedure.
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