Yasmin Tayag

One of the women I spoke to actually brought this up.

She felt like she was in competition with women to look youthful.

And her concern was that all of these younger women started baby Botox earlier than she did.

And so she's like...

they've got a head start.

You know, I only started in my late 20s.

These women have seven years on me.

And if we're going to end up continuing to do this procedure, I'm not going to ever catch up to where they are.

And it's funny because intellectually, I can understand, yes, we're supposed to be celebrating aging and

feeling good about the wrinkles and the gray hairs and all of the wisdom and experience that come with it.

But at the same time, I'm still looking at myself in the mirror trying to pull out my white hairs.

And it comes from this immense cultural pressure, especially on women, to look good for their age.

But I wonder if looking good for your age isn't even going to be good enough.

if this trend keeps up.

You don't want to just look good for 30 or 40, you want to look 20.

One thing that has come up for me a lot as I think about this baby Botox trend is that if you manage to stay looking 20 for the next 30 years of your life, what do you miss out on?

You know, as I got older,

I found that people treated me differently, often in a positive way.

I was taken more seriously.

I was told I had more gravitas.