Show Notes
"If I give you that, you'll look like an alien. A hot alien, but not you."
That's what Giulianna Romero tells women who walk in with a photo of someone else's face. She's my injector, the one person I trust with my face, and the one who tells me no.
I asked her everything I've wanted to know since I started Botox at 32. Why my feed is full of 32-year-olds getting facelifts, and why she completely disagrees. Why she says "fat is king," and pulling your skin back won't fix what's actually missing. How she can tell what anyone has had done, celebrities included.
The story that stayed with me: in one week, three women sat in her chair, each wanting to look like the next. The last one said her own face was falling. Which is wild, because she was the one everyone wanted to look like.
And the question every woman asks in that chair, whether it's her first time or her third? "When is enough, enough?" Even Giulianna asks it. Tell me in the comments if you've asked it too. And subscribe so more women like you find us.
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What we talked about: 0:00 – Trailer 1:30 – Meet Giulianna Romero, the injector Valeria trusts 2:50 – The shift from overfilled to natural aesthetics 5:56 – "You'll look like an alien": bringing in a celebrity photo 7:45 – Injector red flags: when to walk out 9:29 – Facial balancing, and why you never "fill a hole" 10:35 – Why a good injector tells you no 12:10 – Is preventative Botox real? 15:00 – Valeria's Botox, Renuva and growth factors 19:47 – Filler migration and dissolving with ultrasound 22:38 – How to know when it's too much filler 29:32 – 12 syringes, and why fat is king 31:17 – Facelifts in your 30s: why she disagrees 35:29 – The two ages your face really changes 39:07 – Skincare, diet and the basics 41:15 – How an injector spots filler and work 43:22 – Filters, camera angles and celebrity faces 47:58 – Celebrity transformations: what really changed 54:50 – Lasers, skin tightening and treatments gone wrong 59:23 – Who has the best work in Hollywood? 1:01:24 – Under-eye filler and what young women are fixing now 1:03:36 – Your 40s, and what won't age well 1:06:39 – Unhinged requests and facial balancing 1:09:06 – "You're not ugly, you're just poor": aesthetics on a budget 1:11:17 – Plastic surgery culture and being honest about work 1:17:46 – When is enough actually enough?
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