{"id":18622,"date":"2024-11-13T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/gen-x-is-getting-plastic-surgery-right\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:12:07","slug":"gen-x-is-getting-plastic-surgery-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/gen-x-is-getting-plastic-surgery-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen X Is Getting Plastic Surgery Right"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Nevertheless, this group is uniquely positioned to pursue cosmetic treatments, notes Dr. Williams: \u201cA lot of Gen Xers are done having children, their careers are established, and many are looking to do something for themselves.\u201d But not before they do their research. This generation is educated, not influenced. They \u201cconsider these procedures to be an investment, so they\u2019re willing to spend time and money finding the right surgeon,\u201d says Ashley Gordon, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Austin. What\u2019s more, \u201cthey\u2019re willing to wait for that specific doctor,\u201d knowing that some outshine others (and have the waitlists to prove it).<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all Gen X is getting right\u2026.<\/p>\n

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As reformed sun worshippers, Gen X leans into lasers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI call Gen X the oil-and-foil generation,\u201d says Dr. Sunder, a Florida native. \u201cWe were tanning like crazy and we did not do skin care growing up. A lot of us didn\u2019t get into sun protection and skin care until 10 or 15 years ago,\u201d she points out. \u201cNow, we\u2019re trying to reverse the damage, so we\u2019re doing more laser and skin treatments than the generation before us\u2014and that\u2019s allowing us to look younger than they did at our age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lasers are to Gen X what facials were to Boomers, she tells me. Many midlifers are loyal to fractional resurfacing lasers (some popular brand names are Halo and Moxi) and light-based devices (IPL or BBL). \u201cFor those seeing lines and discoloration, we\u2019re using \u201cstrong nonablative options\u201d\u2014like the Fraxel and newer Miria laser\u2014usually twice a year, says Robert Anolik, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City. These tools don\u2019t demand as much downtime (usually, a week of looking pinkish-bronze and puffy) as, say, the heavy-duty CO2 laser, so patients \u201ccan integrate them practically into their lives and still get a great impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

After resurfacing the full face, Dr. Anolik frequently targets discrete sunspots and broken capillaries with Q-switched and vascular lasers. Since sun damage is rarely limited to the face, he often extends treatment to the neck, chest, and backs of hands. \u201cAt this point,\u201d he says, \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve treated every part of the body with these lasers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Menopause is driving Gen X women to facelift surgery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If your social feeds aren\u2019t replete with menopause content, are you even a Gen Xer? Thanks to the proliferation of menopause advocates online, you may already know how dwindling estrogen affects your period, sleep, mood, waistline, heart health, sex life, and yes, your appearance. You\u2019ve likely read that women lose up to 30% of their collagen within the first five years of menopause. As estrogen wanes, skin also gets dry and lackluster. Less buzzed-about but equally consequential, adds Dr. Byrne, \u201cmany women experience a loss in facial volume and bony support after menopause, partly due to declining estrogen.\u201d Meaning: not only is our skin getting thinner and less resilient, but so, too, is the foundation that gives it shape and structure. When Dr. Sunder operates on postmenopausal patients, she finds their skin is \u201cnot as supple\u201d and their muscles \u201cnot as bouncy\u201d as those of patients who still have estrogen to spare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nevertheless, this group is uniquely positioned to pursue cosmetic treatments, notes Dr. Williams: \u201cA lot of Gen Xers are done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamorgrove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}