Dr Motox: Facelifts In Your 30s & The TRUTH about Injectables

9 Apr 2026 · 59 min · 36 chapters

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In short

Aesthetic medicine and skincare myth-busting: dermal fillers (including why they don’t fully dissolve), Botox (called a “poison” that paralyzes muscles), under-eye filler risks, facelift trends in younger patients, and at-home anti-aging routines (double cleansing, retinoids, LED masks, de-puffing devices).

Key claims

filler is usually hyaluronic acid and can leave a “layer” that never fully dissolves; under-eye filler can worsen puffiness unless there’s deep hollowness and correct placement; Botox is medically used for muscle control and sweating; retinoids (retinol/retinal/tretinoin) are the only anti-aging ingredient “proven” to work by increasing skin cell turnover; LED masks help healing/inflammation/blemishes; facelift surgery can be done with filler present; vet injectors medically trained and able to manage complications.

Notable examples

Michelle Keegan cited as “natural” filler work; Kris Jenner’s facelift plus clinic/home regimen; a 30-year-old patient who had a facelift with upward technique.

Guests

Dr Motox (injector/medical aesthetics professional) with Olivia (host; cosmetics/skincare enthusiast; previously had knees injected with “salmon sperm,” plus Morpheus and Profilo).

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Chapters

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Risks and Realities of Aesthetic Procedures

0:00 to 0:51

Discuss the potential dangers of cosmetic procedures and why some choices may lead to severe consequences.

“There is also the other side of it where people do go too far.”

Welcome Back to Olivia's House

0:51 to 1:03

Introduction to the episode and overview of the discussion about skincare and injectables.

“What's the youngest person you know you've been aware of that's had a facelift?”

Olivia and Dr. Motox: Personal Experiences

1:09 to 2:14

Olivia shares her experiences with aesthetic treatments while welcoming Dr. Motox.

“Love me some skincare, love some injectables, love some laser, an occasional surgical tweak I might even throw in there.”

Leaving Judgments at the Door

2:14 to 4:16

Discussion about the societal judgments surrounding cosmetic procedures and the importance of personal choice.

“Well, so if you say what you do for a living.”

Understanding Personal Choices in Aesthetics

4:16 to 5:27

Explore the influence of societal standards on personal choices regarding beauty and cosmetic enhancements.

“Like if you want huge, massive lips, even I shouldn't really judge.”

Myth Busting: The Truth About Fillers

5:27 to 7:20

Discussion about the myths surrounding dermal fillers, including risks and expectations.

Revisiting Dermal Fillers: Longevity and Effects

7:20 to 8:28

Insights on the longevity of fillers and how they interact with the body over time.

“They leave out the bit where they're actually being re-injected, but well.”

Understanding Under Eye Fillers

8:28 to 10:36

Discussion on the challenges and common misconceptions associated with under eye fillers.

“But when we talk about things staying in the body and they don't dissolve, like I've had conversations with my friends, and they're like freaking out of this information.”

The Science Behind Botox: Poisons and Paralyzation

10:36 to 14:01

Explaining the origins of Botox, its medical uses, and why it is considered a poison.

“Why is it such a difficult place to inject?”

Understanding Botox and Its Uses

14:01 to 15:19

Learn about the medical and cosmetic uses of Botox, its origins, and applications.

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The Changing Facelift Culture

15:20 to 18:21

Explore how facelift trends are shifting towards younger demographics and the reasons behind it.

“And some of them are interlinked as well.”

The Realities of Cosmetic Surgery

18:22 to 19:54

Discuss the implications and societal pressures surrounding cosmetic surgery for women.

“So the brow lift that you get from that is incredible.”

Skin Care Beyond Surgery

19:55 to 21:47

Understand the importance of maintaining skin health alongside cosmetic procedures.

“Like sometimes people write to me like, oh, you looked so much younger on Love Island.”

Choosing Qualified Professionals for Treatments

21:48 to 24:26

Get insights on the qualifications necessary for injectors and the importance of safety.

“And there's things that you can't use, impossible to lift without any surgical procedure.”

Navigating Social Media and Cosmetic Procedures

24:27 to 26:18

Learn about the dangers of misinformation and unrealistic expectations from social media.

“in a difficult situation because I'm technically not really allowed to help according to my insurance.”

Effective Skincare Routines

26:19 to 28:00

Discover the principles of double cleansing and the importance of skincare routines.

“Yeah, and the stuff that, you know, everyone can be doing at home in some form.”

Skin Hydration Essentials

28:00 to 28:40

Learn about the importance of hyaluronic acid and vitamin C in skincare.

The Power of Retinol

28:40 to 29:40

Discover the benefits and application methods of retinol for skincare.

“So for me, it was like using a very low percentage chair and I just use it like every three, every third night.”

Understanding Retinoids

29:40 to 31:10

Get insights on the different forms of vitamin A and their effects on skin.

“So vitamin A comes in lots of different strengths.”

Cell Turnover and Its Effects

31:10 to 32:50

Learn how cell turnover affects skin aging and how to improve it.

“If you're going to start your journey, just start low, start slow.”

Debunking Skincare Myths

32:50 to 34:10

Explore common myths about LED masks and their benefits for skin health.

“So when I've got someone in clinic, there's six things I tell them about.”

LED Masks Explained

34:10 to 36:20

Understand how LED masks work and their role in skincare routines.

“Number four are supplements, which I'm sure we'll come back to.”

Injectable Treatments for Eyes

36:20 to 37:50

Discuss the best injectable options for treating under-eye concerns.

“So what I generally do is profile it everywhere else and fill the under-eye polynucides.”

Lymphatic Drainage Techniques

37:50 to 39:20

Learn about routines and devices to reduce puffiness and improve skin appearance.

“stimulates your collagen, your elastin thickens things up and just makes things smoother.”

First Botox Appointment Insights

39:20 to 40:50

Get tips on what to discuss during your first Botox consultation.

“showed like 90 of people felt sculpted just by using it for four minutes it's not a bad step We'll take it.”

Treating Blemishes Effectively

40:50 to 42:00

Discover effective treatments for blemishes and the role of collagen supplements.

“Going for my first Botox appointment, what should I ask for?”

The Role of Collagen in Skin Health

42:00 to 43:36

Discover how collagen supplements can impact skin treatments and acne.

“is within four weeks, it will reduce blemishes.”

Trends in Skin Treatments: PDRN and NAD

43:36 to 44:49

Learn about the benefits and misconceptions around PDRN and NAD treatments.

“Those two work beautifully hand in hand.”

K-Beauty Influence on Skincare

44:49 to 47:58

Explore the impact of Korean beauty trends and products on skincare.

“Like, let's be sensible what we're putting to our bodies.”

Hair Growth Treatments and Men's Concerns

47:58 to 50:39

Understand effective treatments for hair loss including minoxidil and finasteride.

“and their government is even putting money into that because that's bringing them a lot of money via K-Beauty.”

Skincare Hacks: Debunking Myths

50:39 to 56:00

Get the real scoop on popular skincare trends and hacks such as face taping and dermaplaning.

“And I want your unfiltered, honest opinion.”

The Benefits of Mouth Taping

56:00 to 56:38

Learn how mouth taping can improve breathing and facial structure.

“that you haven't double cleansed off will be in that little tank.”

Reflections on the Episode

56:38 to 57:04

A recap of the enlightening discussion and shout-out to sponsors.

“I personally struggle because I feel way too claustrophobic doing it.”

Introducing Dr. Jean: The Botox Pioneer

57:04 to 57:52

Discover the groundbreaking work of Dr. Jean, the co-discoverer of Botox.

“Jean is because most people don't know her and you should know her Dr.”

The Origins of Botox Use

57:52 to 58:37

Learn how Botox transitioned from treating eye twitching to cosmetic use.

“you wouldn't be here what like is she are they loaded?”

Who Should and Shouldn't Appear on the Show

58:37 to 58:56

A lighthearted discussion about guest preferences for the podcast.

“And equally importantly, who should I ban?”
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Transcript

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0:00There is also the other side of it where people do go too far. We've been there.

0:03Olivia Attwood:You could have stuck me to a window. Yeah, exactly. Botox. Yes. Is it poison? Yes, it's poison. Let's talk about filler. So you're going to do lip filler with Sally down the road and you go in a garden shed and you do it. I would say you're just rolling the dice. They physically can't reverse that, which means the skin can die, your lip can fall off, you can go blind. Skincare step you should never skip. Your retinols. So out of all the research there is, this is the only one that's proven to be anti-aging. Wow. Let's do some myth debunking. Dermoplaning. Don't just start shaving your face. Beef tallow.

0:36Don't put things on your skin that shouldn't be on your skin.

0:39Olivia Attwood:Mouth taping. It actually changes your bone structure. Collagen supplements work beautifully. So you're actually a fan? I love... Poor vacuums. Absolutely no. Let's talk about facelifts. What's the youngest person you know you've been aware of that's had a facelift?

1:02Olivia Attwood:Hi dolls, welcome back to Olivia's house. This episode is brought to you by Shark Beauty. I'm going to tell you a big secret now. Love me some skincare, love some injectables, love some laser, an occasional surgical tweak I might even throw in there. I love it so much, I've made documentaries about it. I've tried most of the products. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to sit down, talk all things aesthetics, cosmetics, skincare, and actually get a professional to weigh in rather than me just spouting what I think I know. So on that note, I would like to welcome Dr. Motox to Olivia's house.

1:41Olivia Attwood:Come on. Thank you so much for having me. I think at this stage, you probably are an expert. You probably know more than I do. Unlikely. just the medical side I'll do the medical you do the reviews I feel my knowledge is ample I mean I'm that's why I wanted to do price correction because it's like I genuinely apart from like liking having stuff myself I think it's fascinating I just I love anything to do with cosmetics aesthetics we know each other Dr Mo you've injected my knees I've injected your knees with salmon sperm salmon sperm we did some Morpheus what else did we do we did some Profilo in there we did a whole combi didn't we and actually they are looking very plump and smooth we last saw each other though at one of my parties the uh one of one of i think it was well you were here at the olivia house launch yes when we opened the house which was incredible did you like it it was great it was an open bar like i don't know what else you could ask for that's all we needed open bar wall-to-wall pictures of me i mean i was very happy with it um so on that note i'll talk about the house what would you like to leave the door that's our policy when guest comes into the house we leave something at the door what are you just one thing there's so many things i could leave at the door everyone's saying that this week okay so many no but the main thing is i tell you what we're leaving at the door those karens who when i speak to them the first thing they say as soon as they find out i'm dr motox is i would never have any of that stuff in my face and my answer is you're not my demographic you're not the kind of person i'm reaching out to and that's fine no one's forcing you to have this done no absolutely fine no problem I always say that to you into your face or it's like online?

3:15No, to my face.

3:16Olivia Attwood:Well, so if you say what you do for a living. Oh my God. That's actually like, that's fine. It's fine. It's okay. But you don't need to educate me on what I do. My worst is when someone comes at me with a face like a map and says, I've never done anything. I'm like, bitch, we fucking know. Like throw an LED mask on and do yourself a favor. The absolute basic LED mask. That's all you need for now. Literally. a bit of moisturized a bit of sunscreen something it's not going to hurt right let's get into it so we're leaving those at the door leave at the door judgmental and I actually to be honest I'll be sensible now my take always on aesthetics and anything like that is like it's personal like it's it's you your own what you want to do what your priorities are so like I don't judge anyone for what they want to do as long as they're safe and they've done their research but I just think we should remove the judgment agreed and that's the important thing is that you're doing it for yourself.

4:13You're making your own decisions. No one's making you do it. So I've got no place to judge. Like if you want huge, massive lips, even I shouldn't really judge. You do what you want. As long as you're having it safely, you're doing it correctly, you're not harming anyone, go for it.

4:27Olivia Attwood:Absolutely. I think the hard thing is, and I've definitely battled with this myself in my 20s. I think in my 30s now, I know a lot more my own mind. But it's trying to work out if you want something for yourself or if you have been influenced. that is that's the difficult part because you don't because you influence the funny thing because you don't know it's happening it's happening to your subconscious like when i had the massive fake boobs when i was like 21 i looked like someone had blown me up with a foot pump i now know i wanted those boobs because jordan katie price pamela anderson like the girls next door in a playboy mansion that's why i didn't actually know if they looked good on me or they suited me i wanted them because they had them so as i'm older now i'm like more thinking okay what do i want what suits me but did you love them at that time i did for like i did it for like a year you enjoyed it you didn't harm anyone no one no one was harmed in the making of live then and now my wallet when i had to get them out and get them made smaller right let's get into it because we've got a lot you want to tackle today and you're a very busy man um let's do some myth debunking let's talk about filler it's very conversational at the moment everyone's talking about everyone's kind of demonizing filler yes online a lot of armchair experts yes what are some top-line positive negatives when it comes to dermal fillers dermal fillers are incredible if they're done correctly if any treatment is done correctly you should never ever know no one should turn around and say have you had filler here you should just look like the best version of yourself if anything is done too much if you take anything slightly too far you go to the wrong person have the wrong stuff injected you will look like you've had it done so i think those armchair experts are basing their expertise on bad work rather than on good work like one of the most common things that i get in clinic is or the one that i the example i give people is michelle keegan michelle keegan looks incredible she is stunning and that's the first thing i would say to a lot of these people who tell me phyllis look fake is what do you think michelle keegan that oh my god incredible i'm like yes that's because she's had work done but had it done so naturally so well that you will never know yeah however there is also the other side of it where people do go too far we've been there right you know what it's like where you've been there you know what happens you could have stuck me to a window yeah exactly not anymore we've moved on um and i think it also follows trends so a couple of years ago there was a huge trend where everything was bigger it was kind of like a status to have those big juicy lips it looked like you had money you look like the celebrities but now that has been that's all been taken back so i think it's definitely been demonized and it's stayed with us that but people are having it done they're having it reversed but they're also having it put back in so everyone's going on this like reversal journey having everything reversed they're not having it reversed they're having to reverse and put back in i always say to my friends i'm like perpetrators who do this who go on like i'm dissolving everything but They leave out the bit where they're actually being re-injected, but well.

7:27And that is so annoying for me because people come to me and they're like, oh, this person... To solve everything, I want to look like that.

7:32Olivia Attwood:And you're like, you won't look like that. You won't look like that because she's just had it back, but done properly. And that's why she looks great. Is it true that we're learning obviously more about dermal fillers, like in the last second, we're kind of... Because they were in the infancy and now we're seeing what they look like in the body seven, eight years, nine years down the line. Is it true they can last longer than we thought? What? Filler does not dissolve. So we were all, even as an injector, I was told. These will disintegrate? These will dissolve. Six months later, it's gone. But that doesn't happen.

8:01So what happens is you put it in, it swells slightly. So you look a bit crazy. People usually enjoy the swelling for a couple of days, then it goes down. And then after that, your body does take a little bit of it away. But there's a little layer that never, ever dissolves. It will always be there unless you have it injected and removed. now what was happening is people thought six months later people come back in the chair like oh I had it on six months ago it's all gone I'm like are you crazy this is not what your lips look like and then slowly we've realized that actually they don't dissolve so the way that you do filler to make it look natural is you have a little bit of put in, you wait, you have a little bit more by slowly building up you'll never look like you've had it done and then the time frame increases so people's lips I don't see them really for like once every two years I might do someone's lips after we've built them up because it just doesn't dissolve

8:47Olivia Attwood:I've not had filler in my lips for easily two years. Yeah, and you won't need it. And they don't change. And they won't change. But when we talk about things staying in the body and they don't dissolve, like I've had conversations with my friends, and they're like freaking out of this information. You know it never dissolves. So I'm like, but hold on a second. If it's in the right place and it's not causing any problems, what's the issue? There isn't. I think it's that people are, there's a lot of misinformation around facelift surgeries, for example. like oh if you've got filler you can't have a facelift if from my knowledge from meeting and speaking to surgeons any facelift worth his due in this day and age now should know and be able to operate with filler or around filler and it doesn't stop surgeries they can remove it they can leave it in it depends on their basically their preference doesn't it yeah a filler is just a gel right so it's hyaluronic acid which is what in layman's terms so your skin naturally has something called hyaluronic acid in it, which is a gel.

9:45It absorbs water and it feeds it to the skin. So its job is to hydrate and give skin plumpness. Now over time, you lose that naturally. Some older people have filler to replace that or you'll have products to replace that hyaluronic acid. So it's just a synthetic version of that same thing. So the most common things in filler are hyaluronic acid and they come in lots of different thicknesses, super thin, just super thick. And the other thing in there usually is a little bit of numbing just to make it a little bit comfortable.

10:12Olivia Attwood:So basically the thickness of the filler needs to be chosen by your injector to be correct for the correct part of your face? Correct. So for example, like something underneath your eyes, you'd have a super soft filler because it's a delicate area. Lips, you want like a medium thickness filler because otherwise it'll expand and move. Things like jawlines and noses, you'd put something super thick because you're trying to mimic bone structure. Why are a lot of people unsatisfied with results of under eye filler? Why is it such a difficult place to inject? So yeah, under eye filler is one filler that I am very careful with.

10:43You have to be the right person to have it done. A lot of people were misled, mostly by social media, many years ago, to say you'll have under eye filler to reduce your darkness or your puffiness underneath your eyes. And it does not do that. It makes it more puffy because the water... See, me and you can...

11:01Olivia Attwood:We got this. We know, yeah. But sometimes people don't. Okay, so people have been told the wrong things so then they're expecting a different result from it. Exactly. So if you have puffiness and you put filler underneath your eye, it's going to add more puffiness. It's going to look worse. So you see loads of people have puffiness underneath their eyes and it's there for years. I see people like 12 years later, they come back, they're like, I've had this puffiness. I was like, that's filler. And we dissolve, we take it out. So the only time you can have filler underneath your eyes is if you have deep wholeness.

11:29If you have a deep hollow, you put a little bit of filler in there, it lifts it up, it looks incredible. It will look smooth. but the other trouble with under eye filler is if you inject it in the wrong area if you inject it really superficially so really close to the skin it will go puffy you will see it because it's a really really thin filler it goes bumpy and you get like this blue tinge and it looks

11:48Olivia Attwood:awful so it needs to be done by someone who's experienced what they're doing and you have to be the right patient or it's the thing i turn away the most is under eye filler so when people come in i'm like this is not this is not what you need you need something else and you know they're not going to be happy they're going to just keep coming back and yeah and under eyes there's three main problems right so number one is puffiness yeah number two is hollowness so hollowness can make it look darker especially in photos and number three is the thin skin when your skin is thinner it's see-through yeah so you see the blood vessel showing through which then makes it look darker so most of those things you can't do much so the hollowness you can do a bit of filler the thinness potentially polynuclides to thicken it up the puffiness the only thing that really works are like de-puffing devices so for example like the shark de-puffy works beautifully for that because it just drains or just improves the lymphatic flow underneath the eye with the shark de-puffy what is your favorite setting warm or cold cold really yeah see i like the warm to wake up my face and that is exactly how you use it do you know what i mean and then to go if i was like if i'd had a late night whatever i'd probably go with the cold and it gets really cold it gets really cold so it's got three settings and i was this girl pissing around with the ice bucket and all that malarkey no more no more just plug it in off you get it used botox yes what is it so is it poison yes it's poison i'm sorry it is i think the stat is something like if you have like a gram or something it might be less um it can like kill like the whole population or something Are you being serious?

13:25Olivia Attwood:No, no. It's like really toxic. Really toxic. It's so toxic. So it's made an island. Okay. And it's like flown all over the world. Random. Very random. It's made an island. And when it gets flown over to the US, it has two fighter jets with the plane. Are you being... I never knew this. Yeah, it's serious stuff. So two fighter jets takes it all the way to the US, where then it's like packaged and done whatever, and they're sent all over the world. That's mental. Because it's so dangerous, the product on its own. it's a poison it can it can it kills people so is injecting it in our face unhealthy no so that's a contradiction then and if it was would you still have it yes so would i um so what botox is the way botox was discovered is it comes from a bacteria that causes food poisoning which paralyzes the stomach jesus so then it was taken and then used medically to paralyze muscles for medical reasons so for example people with twitchy eyes they used to put it there to relax that people for bladder problems it helps to tighten it up and allow you to control your bladder and we use it we use it in so many different places now and then from that then the cosmetics came in okay but all it does is it's a poison that paralyzes muscles so it stops that muscle from being able to engage contract exactly and there's not that many places that you can't put it the list is growing there's new there's new things i'm learning about i've had it in my traps yeah obviously all over my face yeah i've met a girl the other day and she was having it in her calves because she has massive calf muscles that she was self-conscious of and she was on her second like course of it and she said her calves had reduced like literally by like 30 and she already felt so much more confident it's like it's crazy it's crazy because now we use it for medical reasons and for cosmetic reasons.

15:21And some of them are interlinked as well. So you can have it pretty much anywhere. Sweating, incredible. My favorite treatment. It's the best thing I ever had.

15:29Olivia Attwood:Before summer, I might do that. It's insane. How soon after having Botox, could you resume your at-home skincare routine, use your devices? So I'd give it a little bit of time to settle. Like 24, 48 hours, allow it to settle. Any devices that's really massaging and moving things around, I'll probably give it a week or so. Fine. But some devices, for example, your LED mask, the Shark Cry Glow, incredible. Give it about 24 hours and then you can use that because that is going to help reduce some of the inflammation and redness and just help healing. So that I actually recommend my clients to start using not long after they've had their treatments.

16:03Olivia Attwood:Because the LED as well will help with bruising, recovery? Bruising, no, but it helps with blemishes, healing and inflammation. Let's talk about facelifts. Let's talk about them. Obsessed. facelift culture has changed dramatically i'd say would you say it's like over the last two or three years i think last two or three years it's gone absolutely mental and i think it's changed for who's having it done yes i think the younger population are having it done people in like their mid-30s are having facelifts now and i'm on board we can speculate yeah and we can't we can't say anyone we can't confirm any we can't confirm but speculating i'm looking at faces of like Anne Hathaway, Lindsay Loham, Emma Stone.

16:47Olivia Attwood:They're all people that a lot of surgeons have weighed in online and they're saying this is really well done surgery. Because you look at them five years ago and the positioning of their soft tissue is like... It's completely different. Yeah. So do you think this is something we're going to see more and more of people opting for facial surgeries younger? And why do you think there's such a curve? i think people are seeing what you can actually achieve for surgery you don't have to have that type of lift where it's pulled backwards yeah where an older person generally will need that pulled backwards younger people are pulling it upwards and i think the reason is people want to look their best when they're younger so generally it was facelift oh you'll have it when you're 60 when you're when you're looking haggard you lift everything up i don't i want to look good now yeah and when i'm 60 and you know there's i've spoken to a lot of surgeons obviously you recover better when you're younger.

17:41Correct.

17:42Olivia Attwood:What's the youngest person you know, you've been aware of, that's had a facelift? 30. 30? 30. And did she have lax skin? Because there's a lot of a Zen pic face causing people wanting facelifts. What was her concerns that made her go for a facelift so young? So I actually had the conversation with her before she went, I was like, you don't need it. Don't be ridiculous. Because it sounds so extreme. It is very extreme. It is extreme. It's a surgery. But honestly, she looks incredible. So you're like, you can't... I can't argue with it because she came back and she was like, what do you think? I was like, honestly, you do look incredible.

18:14Because it is done slightly differently. So on a younger person, normally they'll do the one from the hairline. So where you go in and things are lifted upwards rather than backwards. So the brow lift that you get from that is incredible. The results I'm seeing are honestly, they're getting better and better because the surgeons are getting better and better at it. And the downtime for it is getting lower and lower. But I'm on board. I think people look great. if it's going to make you feel better, if it's within your budget and you think it works, absolutely go for it. But I think it's going to grow.

18:46Olivia Attwood:Yeah, I agree. People are definitely going down that route. Would you ever? Yeah, 100%. Yeah. That was a stupid question. No doubt. Yeah, it doesn't scare me. But I also, I'm cautious of like, not normalizing, like you say to my younger audience, like surgery is surgery. So anytime you're too put to sleep, you know you are putting your life in someone's hands there's so many things that can go wrong i think that the the need for women you know we feel the need i feel the need we all feel to you know to to not show our signs of aging is is a misogynistic world that we live in unfortunately and you know men are kind of embraced and celebrated as they age and and women are treated you know like we're past our best and all the rest of it so i think that i want to be really aware of that while also I want to look and feel my best so it's like we went back to the beginning it's like I want to always be doing things for myself and not because I feel like I have to I should do you want people tell me that the thing I say to them is a really nice line is if you're not aging you're dead yeah that's the only time you stop aging so aging is amazing we should be very grateful that we go down that rate but you can slow it down and you can improve things by doing little things and it doesn't have to be surgery it doesn't have to be injectables i know we love surgery we love injectables that's just that is my job you love it um but there are other things that you can be doing that will make huge differences at home just to slow things down without making you look like a different person and i think that my thing and i know the word anti-aging is is kind of becoming is being weaned out of your industry slightly and it kind of feels a little bit dated because i'm not interested in looking like i'm 20 no i just want to look the best version of myself at this age.

20:32Olivia Attwood:Like sometimes people write to me like, oh, you looked so much younger on Love Island. I'm like, yes, it was a decade ago. How old were you on that? 24, 23. Like, do you know what I mean? It's like, what do you want from me? So yeah, I've never tried, or someone, they might write to me and go, oh, that haircut makes you look older. I'm like, fine, I don't care. I don't actually care about the age. I just want to look good. Yeah. Like I want to look hot. I want to look good. You just want to look the best version of yourself for wherever you are at that stage. And that's where your home stuff is really, really important.

21:03Olivia Attwood:Because it all supports each other. Absolutely. So if you do have a facelift, like for example, Kris Jenner's facelift, incredible, obsessed, but she's not just having a facelift. She's doing everything else in clinic and at home. We know she'll be using her mask. She'll be using her DeepFive devices. She's having her facials. She's doing these things to support it. Without it, you will lose the results. I think this is something that a lot of people are catching on to now. and I always am banging this drum as well. Like you said, you can lift skin, but if the skin is old, damaged by the sun, like you've not cared for it, you're still not going to look good.

21:39Olivia Attwood:You're just going to look tighter. But looking after your skin, like you said, using your LED mask, protecting your skin from the sun, using your products, skin quality is like the first giveaway, regardless of anything else. And there's things that you can't use, impossible to lift without any surgical procedure. People come in all the time to me, they're like, can you just do this? I'm like honestly no and if anyone can tell you they can non-surgically they're lying to you it's impossible talking of being lied to it is the wild west out there I've obviously I've seen the good the bad the ugly and you know unfortunately in the UK we do still have a lot of baggy guidelines around no guidelines yeah trying to be like around aesthetics who can do them who should do them all the rest of it what would be your kind of top tips for someone before they go for a treatment research wise where should they be looking how should they vet their injector so that is a huge problem because there isn't really anywhere to vet your injectors if i'm honest with you hopefully that's going to come in in the next couple of years but it's not there at the moment but you just want to make sure one of first of all they're medically trained yeah if they've got a medical background they're going to know how to deal with complications because complications happen things go wrong and someone needs to be able to treat that and bring you back because things can go horribly wrong very very quickly when they're going well fine easy but when they're going wrong it goes really wrong this is how i always say this sorry to cut you off but i get i catch a lot of heat when i talk about this on instagram and i get obviously all the beauty therapists and people that do injections who are not medically trained they all cast that coming at me and i was what i say to my friends is like when you do filler so you're gonna do lip filler with sally down the road you go in a garden shed and you do it i would say you're just rolling the dice every time and every time it goes right fine lucky but the minute you get an occlusion or like a blocked vessel or something she's not going to know what to she can't help you she's legally not allowed to help you because she can't have the drugs to reverse it in her clinics which is crazy because you anyone can buy the fill and the Botox but you need a prescription to get the dissolver so the dissolver is a prescription medication so I can hold as a doctor I can hold it in my clinic without having a prescription whereas the beauty therapists can't and some of the beauty therapists don't get me wrong they do some fantastic work honestly some of the work I think could be better than mine but if that goes wrong they don't know how they won't they physically can't reverse that which means the skin can die your lip can fall off you can go blind part of your nose can fall off and it's really really really scary and I just couldn't put myself in that position Have you had people walk into your clinic or call up in dire situations?

24:17Yeah I have and it's scary and it's a really difficult position to be put into because I want to help and generally I will help. But it also puts me in a difficult situation because I'm technically not really allowed to help according to my insurance.

24:33Olivia Attwood:Because also you put, you don't know what they've been injected with. No idea. Where it was injected. You're sort of like coming in like out late to the party. And I'm hoping for the best. And the problem is they then, they're told to go to A &E. The doctors in A &E are not trained to reverse your filler. They don't go to medical school. to learn how to reverse filler. That's not what you go to medical school for. You learn to go save lives. So you'll turn up at the NHS and they won't be able to help you as well. So it is very, very, very scary. So just make sure you're going to someone who is qualified, who has experience, who is on some sort of register.

25:06So there's like the GDC, the GMC, the NMC. All of these registers have qualified professionals on them, which means if I do something wrong, I have someone to answer to. I could lose my title. I could lose my whole career. the beauty therapist down the road has no one to answer to in fact get away with it

25:23Olivia Attwood:they can just basically delete their Instagram page and disappear off the face of the earth absolutely and I also I think I would say to my friends is this replies to surgeons and injectors don't let Instagram be your like complete and utter point of reference a lot of people are stealing other people's work a lot of people buy followers like I know my friend she's so this guy's got a million followers though and I just looked at the page for two minutes I said they're all bought they're all bought I said they hasn't got a million followers so don't let that be your point of comfort like you need to look a little bit deeper than just followers and the problem with social media as well now is super scary what i'm seeing more now is ed we saw edited photos years ago but you could pick it up because we could all see where things were edited but now i struggle when someone shows me like an ai generated before and after i know i'm like i is that real isn't it videos videos as well you cannot tell if the naked eye It's absolutely terrifying.

26:16Olivia Attwood:Okay, let's talk about skincare. Let's bring it back a little bit to routines. To the good stuff. The good stuff. The most important thing, actually. Yeah, and the stuff that, you know, everyone can be doing at home in some form. What is double cleansing? Is it what it says on the tin? Kind of, but actually not totally. I'll let you off. So we'll let you off forever right now. So double cleansing is about washing your face twice. Okay. But it's not just that. So when I tell people to double cleanse, usually I get them to do it at night. Okay. So in the day, the kind of makeup you're wearing, the skincare you're wearing normally is oily.

26:49So if you try and wash something oily with water, oil and water don't mix. So most of your cleansers are water-based. So it won't take it all off. So what you want to do is use oil-based cleanser first. Now the oil melts away your makeup, melts away the oil, melts away the SPF. And then you don't keep that oil on your face because people always go crazy when I tell them to wash their face with oil. You then use your normal skin.

27:11Olivia Attwood:I like oil-based because I've got dry skin. But someone with like acne prone skin, if I tell them to use it, they will throw me off a cliff. So I get them to wash with oil-based cleanser first. Get the makeup off, get the SPF off. Exactly that. And then use your normal cleanser, your gentle cleanser to wash the oil off. Got it. And that just makes sure that everything is removed, ready for whatever you're going to do. Whether it's your LED mask, whether it's your de-puffing, whether you're just putting your retinols on, whatever it is. you just got a clean base skin because if you just use a cleanser i can guarantee they're still the pores are still filled with whatever you got on okay that's actually that's that's not a bit more useful so i i am humbled there you go hyaluronic acid yes in a serum form for example fan or no yeah like i'm not against it it's nice if you're dehyde if you're someone who's dehydrated you put hyaluronic acid on it absorbs water it feeds it to your skin your skin might absorb a little bit of it not life-changing but really nice just to give you a bit of hydration vitamin c serum very important most people not everybody but most people should be using vitamin c if you've got no skin concerns you should be using a vitamin c it's like a anti-aging product it's an antioxidant so most people don't know what that is all that does it just protects your skin from like pollution uv anything that wants to damage your skin it just helps to protect it and give it a little bit of a barrier so that's like one of the most important day serums you should be putting on your face so highly recommend always a big talking point retinols the most after spf the most important thing to be put on your face is a retinol wow are you using a retinol i use retinol yeah i use you look like using a retinol that's why do i could you're giving tre i'm giving tre i'm giving tre um i've been on a journey with it and i've got a drier skin and i have to wear makeup every day for work so i it was finding a product and a way of using the product that didn't basically leave me with like peeling and pilling because I'm dedicated to skincare, but I'm also dedicated to the beat.

29:15Yeah.

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29:15Olivia Attwood:So for me, it was like using a very low percentage chair and I just use it like every three, every third night. I basically put it in and I pack a heavy moisturizer on top. And that's how I do it. That works. Could I up it a little bit? Yeah. Okay. What, every night? If you can. Really? That's the idea. That's the one-time plan. Let's bring it back. Like what is a TRET or a retinoid for people that don't know? So people don't know. So a retinol is a vitamin A. So vitamin A comes in lots of different strengths. So you can get it as a retinol, a retinal, and a tretinoin. Okay. It's all the same thing.

29:50Olivia Attwood:It's all the same thing. Now, if you put retinol on your face, your body turns it into retinal and then turns it into tretinoin and then it uses it to do whatever it's doing. And we'll come to what it does because it's very important. So you can get it in any of those forms. The higher you go, the stronger it is because your body is converting it less and less. Retinols, I don't really like generally because how much your body converts the retinol to a tretinoin is very unpredictable. So that, for me, kind of stays at the door. So if we're doing Olivia's house thing staying at the door, that's our goal.

30:20At the door, not on the list. The next things are retinols and tretinoins. Okay. Retinols, I love. If someone's got a sense of skin, they're scared about using retinols, scared about putting those kind of things on your skin, you start with a retinol. Okay. Now, every brand seems to be making their retinol nowadays. Every brand. A load of them are a load of rubbish. We won't name them. Okay. But some of them are incredible. Okay. And the ones that are incredible are the ones that have a ladder of strength from very weak to very strong, which means someone who's got super sensitive skin should be on retinol, but they should start on the really low one.

30:52Olivia Attwood:Okay. Those ones, you'd start like twice a week initially. You work your way up until you're using it every night, and then you go up higher and higher and higher. Like Medicaid, for example, do the best retinols on the market. Like Medicaid. There is no better retinol on the market, in my opinion. Because they do a ladder of strength from super weak to super street. So you can decide if you want to be beginner level or expert level. Don't start on expert. If you're going to start your journey, just start low, start slow. And just listen to your skin. So you'll put it on. If you go dry, stop using it for a couple of days.

31:21Absolutely fine. Then start using it again. You can put a bit of moisturizer on top to hydrate on top of it. Fine. I prefer without.

31:29Olivia Attwood:Oh, do you? Because it's like a medication. so you put it on your skin if you put anything on top it buffers it so for example the Medicaid ones are crystal retinols they go like 1, 3, 6, 10, 20 so if you're using a 6 and you're putting some moisturiser on it you might be actually using it as a 3 if that makes sense so those are lovely and then when you work your way up then ideally I do like to get people on tretinone so tretinone is the prescription level vitamin A and they get that in clinic it comes in like a little tube it comes in a little tube you have to get it from your clinic and that that i can always tell if someone's using tretinoin because when they come into clinic they've got that shine they've got that glow and that is from tretinoin but you have to work your way up again if you if someone's got a really problematic like acne pigmentation skin i will put them straight on tretinoin and we just go through the journey of a little bit of dryness and redness that you start like using twice a week and then you slowly increase that ideally most of my very well-behaved clients will be on it every night if i can get them to every night and what does it do for the skin what is this active like behaviors that we want so out of all the research there is it's the this the only one that's proven to be anti-aging wow yes and because what it does is it increases your skin cell turnover which means how long it takes for that new baby skin that's just been made to come off to the surface and show off so at the age of 20 it takes about 20 days for that skin that's been created to come and show off which means in 20 days not much happened to it it's hydrated it's smooth it's glowing at the age of 60 it takes 60 days for that skin that's just been created to come all the way through which means it's had time to come damaged pigmented dry so it's cell turnover basically cell turnover so how quickly those cells are being made the quicker the cells are made the smoother things look yeah so it really increases that so someone at the age of 60 i won't be able to get you down to 20 it's impossible no but you can i can get it down to like 40 days yeah so at 60 your age can be looking 40 which is fantastic but you have to be consistent and you have to start now today's the day if you're not using it today is the day watching get yourself on a retinel or a trap from a doctor exactly led masks yes we obviously love the shark ones we love it like let's do some a bit of myth debunking what do you love them for as a doctor as a skincare expert what are you what do you kind What are their pros that you say to your clients, look, you need to get yourself one of these?

33:57So when I've got someone in clinic, there's six things I tell them about. So number one is Botox. I don't care who you are. Botox makes you look better. That's number one. Number two are skin boosters. Profilo, polynucetides, whatever, give you a little bit of hydration. Number three are facials. Number four are supplements, which I'm sure we'll come back to. Number five is the devices. so in particular led masks i love an led mask the reason i love it is because how it works what it does it energizes all the cells that heal the skin right yeah so we've got lots of different layers of the skin the red light and the infrared light energizes the cell which is the mitochondria which sorry to take you back to science but no i like it i don't know if you ever remember mitochondria from back in your gcse it does it brings a bell it does it's bringing something and what that does that helps it acts like a battery underneath your skin so energizes things and allows things to heal it reduces inflammation it reduces redness so you have less blemishes the skin is smoother the pores appear smaller and the skin just it will just show up in your skin because your skin will glow so led generally was used in dermatology clinics so you go in for a dermatology appointment you'd be put on under led mask because it would help with wound healing and all of that kind of stuff but now that's been taken into your own home now the at home ones you can't compare to the ones that you get at dermatology clinics because they can't be made as the same power of course but for you to get results you just have to be consistent so i tell my clients to be using it five days a week to seven days a week if you can every night that's first thing I do, I wash my face, put my shark LED mask on.

35:46I just let it do its thing.

35:47Olivia Attwood:Go around the house. You can cook your dinner with it. Or go watch a film, do whatever. Do whatever you want. You just got to make sure there's nothing on your skin. So you've got to cleanse your skin, make sure there's nothing on, and then you put it on. And it's doing lots of different things. So it has the blue light, it's got the red light, and it's got the infrared light. And all those lights penetrate the skin at different depths. So the blue light works on the top surface layer of the skin, whereas layers like blemishes. Then the red light goes just underneath a little bit further to again stimulate healing and reduce inflammation and the infrared light goes a lot deeper to help firmness of the skin it's so clever isn't it it's incredible and people who came up with this i'm so we're so grateful to these kind of people who came up with this it was actually nasa who started led lights wow nasa nasa because what they found is astronauts who'd have like cuts or anything up in space when if their hand was underneath the led delight it would heal a bit quicker yeah and they were like there's something going on there so they brought it back down did research on it and were like this is great for wound healing then it was taken to dermatology clinics where we use it for wound healing and regeneration and then now it's for you to use at your own home amazing incredible amazing okay we've got audience questions a little bit of a quick fire so give me your um your professional take what are your favorite treatments for under eyes depends on the concern okay but generally injectable treatments polynucleides are the only thing really I like because it makes you produce lots of collagen lots of elastin helps to smoothen skin quality have you had that one yet?

37:18Olivia Attwood:I've had the polys nice under the eyes whole face I love love I love I was a big fan of Profilo yes but I think I actually like the polynucleides better interesting yeah I'm going to disagree Profilo incredible for the rest of your face but you can't inject it underneath your eyes. So what I generally do is profile it everywhere else and fill the under-eye polynucides. Go crazy. It's like injectable skincare. Is that a really basic way to kind of describe it? It just does a lot of the things that your skincare does i.e. stimulates your collagen, your elastin thickens things up and just makes things smoother.

37:55It just gives it a little boost alongside your skincare. Stunning. That's number one. Number two for puffiness, like I said, the only thing that's really going to work is improving your lymphatic flow. So puffiness under the eyes happens because there's water retention. When there's water retention, usually in the mornings, you'll find everything's a little bit puffier. The under eyes are a bit puffier. The rest of the face is always a little bit rounder because we've got pipework around our face, which drains the water. Overnight, that kind of gets blocked. And because it gets blocked, that slows down.

38:25So the water isn't draining.

38:27Olivia Attwood:Then it just sits there and things look puffy. So all you need is like a four to ten minute routine to de-puff that wow and that's where you would generally we were using gouaches where we would like put in the freezer let get cold and then try and de-puff that area whereas now we can use devices which are just what you can leave at your bedside yeah wake up the first thing you do in the morning use the de-puffy and that will improve the lymphatic flow and just help to reduce the amount of water retention in your face i've used that i've you talked about my socials it's a real game changer and i love the fact it goes from hot to cold so you kind of can jump to those two settings depending on like what you want it for so generally you would start with the warm to increase the blood circulation in that area and then cold to kind of cold helps to reduce the blood vessels it helps to shrink things which means your pores appear less visible yeah and you will look sculpted i think there's a study on it that showed like 90 of people felt sculpted just by using it for four minutes it's not a bad step We'll take it.

39:28Olivia Attwood:Oh, I mean, you just answered this question. Lymphatic drainage, what does it actually do? So essentially, by using the de-puffy, you are doing some manual lymphatic drainage. Absolutely. So what will happen is your under eyes will be de-puffed, your cheeks will look sculpted, and your jawline will look sculpted. And you just do that on a daily basis. Skincare step you should never skip. Apart from SPF, always SPF, but that's a boring answer, is your retinols. SPF retinols. Well, retinals, remember, we learned that. Retinals, yes. I remember that now because actually I didn't even know that. Getting filler in your 20s, does it age you more long term?

40:04Long term, no, unless you have too much. If you have too much of anything, it's going to go wrong so you can stretch the skin.

40:09Olivia Attwood:Why does filler wear off so quickly on me? Not me personally. I was going to say. Why does some people, like why do they, does their Botox wear off faster than others? Generally, it's because of your metabolism. So anyone that works out, eats healthy, taking their supplements, looking after themselves. They get penalized by less Botox. You get penalized, unfortunately. Rude! It just doesn't last as long. So you basically break it down quicker. Correct. By, if you're caning the Barry's boot camp, it will unfortunately break your Botox down. My Barry's clients are in my chair a lot more often than anyone else.

40:42And I love it.

40:42Olivia Attwood:The couch potatoes. No, I shouldn't say that. Sun. The sun will also expedite how quickly things break down, including Botox filler, etc. Going for my first Botox appointment, what should I ask for? or is it for the doctor to decide? The conversation you need to have is what do you want to achieve out of it? So when someone's in my chair for the first time, they're always absolutely petrified because they don't want to look like they've had Botox, which is fine. And I always tell people Botox is done on a scale of strength. Super weak baby Botox where you look the same. It's completely frozen where nothing is moving.

41:16Everybody always wants to start on this side of the scale, right? And then they slowly go. And you know the conversation it always has? I bet you any money. give me a year, give me two years max, you will be on the other side. So the conversation you have to have with your injector is that you want to start natural. Because if you start high, you will hate it because you look different and you'll get a jump scare because it feels heavy.

41:39Olivia Attwood:Something that actually works for helping blemishes. Easy. Three things. So number one is your skincare. So your salicylic acids and your retinols, which we discussed, are really going to help reduce that. Number two is your LED mask. So your LED mask has that blue wavelength and that is going to help reduce blemishes. And studies have shown on this mask in particular, the Shark Cry Glow, is within four weeks, it will reduce blemishes. Wow. Last thing are collagen supplements. Collagen supplements work beautifully just generally. So you're actually a fan? I actually love... So taking them orally, basically.

42:13Take them orally, only if you're having treatments. So if you're using your retinols, if you're having microneedling, if you're having injectables, collagen works beautifully. if you're not doing any of that it's a waste of time and most of them are a load of rubbish so there's only one brand that i actually like they're called luna and solace stunning best

42:30Olivia Attwood:collagen on the market how much do you think diet plays into acne huge amounts diet your genetics and what you're putting on your skin what i find is a lot of people actually using dirty makeup brushes or dirty makeup putting on putting that back on their skin and then that's got bacteria in it pillowcases not changing them enough these little things will make a huge difference sugar is the worst for skin it's horrendous favourite way to reduce redness redness is a really really difficult thing to treat so lasers can help quite a lot retinols and tretinoin in particular will help very long term but you have to just stick with it and it will but otherwise your LED mask again it's going to help to reduce inflammation it's going to help reduce blemishes and then using your gua sha inspired devices like the de-puffy because that will help shrink things and make things less red.

43:25Olivia Attwood:Someone has some money to spend. Where would you invest in terms of long-term skin health? Two things. One is skincare and it's consistency with skincare. So your retinals in particular. And two, an LED mask. Those two work beautifully hand in hand. Everyone should have it. Perfect. Like combination, basically. Let's get into some trends of 2026. things that people are talking about a lot what you think versus what you think so i've been overhyped the first one it's actually new to me pdrn yes what is that that's just the fancy version of saying salmon sperm or polynucleotide oh so i do know you you know you've had it it's not your first radio so i do know um fan or overrated fan in the right person so the problem again there's that is with tiktok so when when the salmon sperm rejections first came out um they've been around around for a long time i've been injecting it for years way before it was way way before it became popular but then um social media decided that having salmon spam injected was super cool and trend which i love is great um but they were telling you that it gets rid of like your darkness they were telling you it gets rid of your puffiness they were telling you it's brightening things it does not do that it's a skin booster it just helps improve the quality of your skin not life-changing but love it in certain areas especially underneath the eye nad nad you're you do nad right i was gonna say i wrote for i just outing you then no i do i so i inject it i like i go i go on and off it and i've had any d drips in clinic it's a hard one uh it's like when i do the the i do some hyperbaric oxygen therapy when i'm tired there's a there is obviously some entire scientific backing especially to hyperbaric oxygen yeah there's a bit of a placebo effect i feel like it helps my energy levels but i mean it's hard to like on a scale like you know prove what is a little bit in your mind like what do you what's your opinion um great if you are doing it consistently you need to do it on a daily basis if you're not doing on a daily basis you're not going to see much from it but again what that does that stimulates your energy cells and helps it produce energy a bit quicker which means you are going to be energized and your cells are going to heal quicker so yes if you're doing if you're consistent in doing it every day what um for listeners how would you explain nad like if they don't they're like what the hell are you talking about live so it's an injectable product because everything's being injected nowadays um it's injectable product and it's something that's so i don't know if you you might remember this again from your biology lessons you would have seen nad in one of those equations that creates atp atp is energy okay and that's how much energy you're producing you need ATP to create to do anything yes so it just stimulates that ATP production so you're going to have more energy because you're adding something into your body that makes that chain reaction happen a bit easier and the other thing I would say to people because I have used it is there are a lot of bogus companies now flogging it everyone's making it everyone's like so make sure it's a high quality product FDA approved you know don't don't just go injecting things No, off the back of a van.

46:31Olivia Attwood:Like, let's be sensible what we're putting to our bodies. This one, I haven't even told you yet, I'm off to Korea next week. Nice. For the show. So, K-Beauty. What's the influence from Korea in your industry and skin? Huge, huge. Is it true that we're basically always a little bit behind them? Always. They're doing it and then a few years later we'll go, oh, what are you doing over there? Let's have a go. Always. And that's where I got the salmon spam injection from years ago was Korea. Okay. So they are really quite ahead of us when it comes to skin. way ahead of us I'm taking one whole suitcase by the way just for skin I would take two so can you send me a list because I am going to load up can I come?

47:06Olivia Attwood:can you come as my come as my medical consult I will and I'll come with an extra suitcase and we'll have half on it I'm only joking customs I'll draw another run in with them no I think we're allowed okay yeah K-beauty they are ahead of us they are very ahead of us because they they are they have always been very into their skin care if you go there you'll see the Korean girls and boys they look insane They never put their faces in the sun. They do not fuck with anti-aging, with getting aged. Like their skin is insane. Their SPFs are incredible. Okay. They sit beautiful. Most of the SPFs that we have are not very nice.

47:42You find they're really claggy. They clog up your skin because they're just not very well formulated. Their ones are incredible. So their sun exposure, first of all, their education on that is brilliant. But they are just ahead. They put a lot of money and there's a huge amount of investment that goes into skincare. and their government is even putting money into that because that's bringing them a lot of money via K-Beauty. Which means they are so ahead of us. So they're injectable products. They're fillers. Incredible. I've been using their fillers for years and they are amazing. They're polynucleotides.

48:11So they're salmon sperms. Incredible. Nothing better than the ones that they have. So they are very, very ahead. And even their devices, I'm trying to bring some of their device over. It's really not easy. So if you find a contact there, please let me know.

48:23Olivia Attwood:Three suitcases? Yeah, three. What's new in scalp and hair growth treatments? are we still looking at the same things is it minoxidil PRP what are your what do you recommend to people with concerns around similar sort of things but they are getting better especially for men actually so men nowadays shock shock horror yeah I know sorry guys all the investment goes to the same I'm sorry you guys kind of have the capital on balding I don't know why I'm looking at you I'm so sorry I've got no competition in the room Liv yeah you are the baldest one here I'll let you have that I was as well I've had it sorted did you have a hair transplant?

49:01Olivia Attwood:yeah and then what did well also post hair transplant you have to look after that too because if you don't because I stopped looking after it because I was like yeah I'm looking cute I'm done I'm done and then no it starts falling out it starts falling out so men generally you don't have to be bold no but you have to start very early on also a lot of men aren't good at straight men I'm going to actually say yes it's consistently using a product absolutely of course so minoxidil works beautifully because what it does it increases the blood flow to your hair cells so they will be thicker so females should be using minoxidil 100 % and men as well now the men's one also has something called finasteride in it so you'll see they were we were taking tablets to try and grow hair which works beautifully but you would get issues in terms of bedroom issues so now like your sex drive sex drive reduces massively because it affects your testosterone and so now what we have is male ones will have the that hormone in it along with a really high monoxidil percentage which means you can put it topically and not get any systemic results and with women um i'm just treating loads of women with hair loss because everyone's on the zempick um what we're doing is we're putting them on a higher percentage monoxidil so general monoxidil you can buy legally as five percent on market you can get prescription levels which are 10 which is incredible it's game-changing debunk something for me let's just say you're in boots and you see like the regain and there is the women's version the men's version like is it just a pink tax thing like can we use the men ones I would if my clients so it doesn't matter that that hormone's in there it's not going to do there's no hormone in that one oh so it's a pink tax so you can use it's a pink tax so use the men's one works the same in fact it works better because it's got a higher percentage of minoxidil there we go you heard it here first guys before you go I want to play a game so I'm going to read you a list of trending skincare hacks, if you will.

50:53Olivia Attwood:And I want your unfiltered, honest opinion. Go on. Face taping. Fine, it'll work for about half an hour and then you lose all the results from it. So if you're just going, just about to go to an event and you just want things to look a little bit snatched, then yeah, you can put your face tapes on. Like people post rhinoplasty when they tape their nose, helps the swelling. You're better off using the Shark D Puffy because that will sculpt you for a lot longer for the rest of the day. and also I've seen people taping their face and then they're ripping the table for the morning it's not necessary you're kind of damaged in barrier as well face wraps again so the idea of those face wraps are like mostly for under the jaw to make things look a bit more lifted almost like what you'd wear post-surgery yes so again so I think Kim K had one didn't she she released one for about two seconds um again you're gonna see like you will see an instant result for about an hour or so and then you've lost it so don't waste your time don't waste your money dermaplaning dermaplaning there's so much about dermaplaning um just for people that don't know it's using a blade yeah it's using like a like a blade just to remove there's those really thin hairs on the top surface there of the blonde that we all have yeah and they're usually really light and really blonde mine aren't blonde but but they you just remove them and it will make your skin look absolutely glowing you will shine but the problem with it you just have to have it done regularly yeah so if you're okay and it's part of your plan and you can go and have it done regularly and professionally absolutely be wary of the big packs of them by the till at tk max yeah please don't don't don't just start shaving your face they're not sharp are they and then you can cut yourself silk pillowcases silk pillowcases lovely really nice the idea is i'm a big stan Yeah, the idea is your face doesn't crease as much when you're laid on them because they're silk.

52:45Really nice. Just make sure you change your pillowcases. It's probably more important.

52:48Olivia Attwood:Yeah. How often would you recommend people to change their pillowcases? I change mine twice a week. Same. And if you've got acne? If you've got acne, yeah. More, or at least flip it over. So twice a week and keep flipping over. Pore vacuums. These little machines we see on Instagram where people suck their pores. So pore vacuums per se, absolute no. No. Believe it or not. Oh, really? So nothing that vacuums because it will pull things out and damage your skin. Now, what you want to do instead is kind of like jet wash those pores. So you wash them out rather than sucking. So one that we've got here, which is stunning, it's my favorite one, is the Facial Pro Glow by Shark.

53:27Now, what that does, rather than vacuuming, it will hydrate and wash out the pores.

53:36Olivia Attwood:so you fill this with solution like skincare so that comes with two korean inspired skincare solutions and we just spoke about korean care we know how amazing it is so the first solution you put on your skin and what it does it just helps to soften this top surface layer of dead skin cells ready for it to be extracted and then initially you put water into it and that just removes the derm detox that you've just put on your skin which is removing that top surface layer of dead skin ready to then be extracted. And then you use something called the Derm Detox. Now that has got hyaluronic acid in it and it's got a little bit of BHA in there.

54:13What that's going to do is going to hydrate and infuse the pores with hydration, with nanohyaluronic acid. So your pores will appear smoother. The skin will be smoother and your pores will be unclogged without causing any damage. Now the beauty of that is then you can actually put the Depuffy onto that. So the Depuffy that comes separately, it has an attachment that goes straight onto that same machine.

54:36Olivia Attwood:So you can change the end, basically. You change the top, so it comes off. Oh, so you basically pull the whole thing off. Correct. Like that. Yeah. And then the de-puffy attachment goes on. You use the cold contrast therapy on there. So the InstaChill technology will help to shrink pores, will help to de-puff, sculpt, and you're ready for the day. This is the Sharp Facial Pro Glow. It's very cute. Very nice. It's very cute. Look aesthetic on your... Very aesthetic. And it's very good for traveling. it's like compact so you've got the liquid in there I'm going to put it on the back of my hand oh yeah you can just like sort of can you hear that?

55:11Olivia Attwood:I can can the listeners hear that? they can hear that yeah it's like just like like a very light suction and then I can understand that so it basically would jet wash your pores exactly so it just hydrates and then it infuses that hyaluronic acid into your skin so you're just going to be looking glowing for the rest of your day that's really satisfying so if you if you don't have time to go into clinic for a facial. I'm taking this. That's what you use. That's mine now. Use that. And you can use that as many times as you want. Generally, like once a week is fine. Yeah. For like a deep clean. For a deep clean.

55:42Wash it out the pores. You're ready to go. Your pores will be smaller.

55:46Olivia Attwood:And then will you see the kind of the gunk build up in there from your skin in the other part? Yeah. So all the dirt that gets pulled out of your skin goes into that tank there. That will be so satisfying. And you'll see blackheads. So what I do in my own honesty, you'll see like little blackheads, you'll see whiteheads, you'll see all the dirt, all the makeup that you've left over that you haven't double cleansed off will be in that little tank. I want it. Okay. Beef tallow. Please just don't waste your money. Don't put things on your skin that shouldn't be on your skin. Beef tallow doesn't deserve...

56:15Just keep it for cooking. Just cook with it.

56:17Olivia Attwood:Mouth taping. Mouth taping actually works quite nicely because it stops you breathing through your mouth. Okay. A lot of people, when they breathe through your mouth, it actually changes your bone structure and the lower part on your face where your face is a little bit sunken back or protruded. So mouth taping helps to control your breathing, helps to reduce your heart rate overnight. I personally struggle because I feel way too claustrophobic doing it. But if you can, really, really nice. I tried it and then I was like every night at like midnight, I was like whipping it off. Like an hour into my sleep, I was waking up in the morning, I'd be like, oh, and it'd be on the floor.

56:53Yeah, so great if you can handle it.

56:57Olivia Attwood:right Dr Motox that has been education for myself and hopefully the listeners as well shout out to Sharp Beauty for bringing us this ep and I think we've all had yeah a massive education I've enjoyed it thoroughly I'm glad yeah before you go I would like you to play the game that we all play it's basically a referral so who would you like to refer to Olivia's house who would you like me to put on the list an interview Olivia there's only one person that needs to be here who? and that is Dr. Jean and I'll tell you who Dr. Jean is because most people don't know her and you should know her Dr. Jean is the one that discovered Botox for cosmetic reasons what?

57:37yes and she's still alive she's around she's in California somewhere she's here so she can actually come to Liva's house

57:42Olivia Attwood:okay great so her and her husband are the ones that discovered Botox for cosmetic reasons and without her I wouldn't exist Dr. Botox would not be a thing my face wouldn't be a thing you wouldn't be here what like is she are they loaded? I don't she doesn't look loaded online she has to be loaded no but she's not she doesn't own botox so the way that she discovered it is she's like the scientist she's a scientist so they were true her and her husband were treating patients with um eye twitching and they found those patients that would come in would be like oh would you mind just injecting the other side and they're like why what's going on and then all the everyone who came in would be like i just look younger when i have this stuff injected and they just sat back they're like what is going on why is everyone asking for more of this stuff.

58:27And they put two and two together and were like, we can use this everywhere. That's incredible. And that's how, that's where Dr. Mozart came from.

58:34Olivia Attwood:I owe my career to Dr. G. And equally importantly, who should I ban? Who don't you want to see on that chair ever? There's only one group of people. Go on. Straight men. I don't think any straight men should be allowed in Olivia's house. I have little so many. Girls on the gays only. Yeah, that's, yeah. If I see one on here, Liv, I will. If you see one on here, you know that they are very special. Oh my God. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. Thank you so much. Dr. Mo, everyone.

From the publisher

We’re joined by aesthetics expert Dr Motox for an unfiltered deep dive into the world of beauty, skincare, and cosmetic treatments - brought to you by Shark Beauty. From Botox myths and filler facts to the rise of facelifts in your 30s, nothing is off limits. They also explore the rise of skin tech tools, and how at-home devices are transforming everyday skincare routines.

Olivia and Dr Motox break down the truth behind trending treatments, debunk social media misinformation, and share insider advice on how to approach aesthetics safely and confidently. Dr Motox offers expert insight into what actually works, from injectables to at home skin care tools while Olivia opens up about her own experiences, from the treatments she swears by and the lessons she’s learned along the way.

Plus, they get into the importance of skin health, the role of devices such as the Shark Beauty CryoGlow LED Mask, FacialPro Glow and Depuffi, and how to build a routine that supports long-term results. Whether you’re curious about cosmetic tweaks or just want to feel your best in your own skin, this episode is packed with practical tips, honest insights, and clear do’s and don’ts to help you navigate the world of skincare and aesthetics.

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