Yasmin Tayag

When you're looking at your face all the time, you're spending more time with the wrinkles and the fine lines that are forming.

I think broadly our culture has just become so visual.

We're always looking at faces on social media.

We're seeing our faces juxtaposed with those of celebrities who look incredible, possibly because they are doing so much baby Botox and other procedures.

Yes.

You know, it's supposed to make us look better on camera, but it also magnifies everything on your face.

So it's become really popular.

I saw this statistic that said between 2019 and 2022, the number of people in their 20s who got Botox rose 71%.

It's a lot.

It's a lot.

And these are people who in the early 2000s you wouldn't really think of as people who would get Botox.

Great question.

I mean, you're right.

Even baby Botox, which uses fewer units than normal Botox, is still expensive.

It can run up to between like $200 and $400 per session.

And if you were to keep it up, you'd probably have to do it at least twice a year because Botox—

Tends to wear off between three and six months.

Not nothing, but...

The way that my friends framed it, if you take it in the context of other procedures or other cosmetics that people are using to try to stay young, such as, you know, all the fancy anti-aging creams or facials, massages, all of these things that a lot of people do pretty regularly, those can cost easily up to a hundred bucks.

You know, in New York City, at least a