On beauty / The Botox issue

Facial expressions are
your secret superpower.

Melanie Petro MD

Most people that I see are afraid of looking weird. And it's a very real fear because this is the kind of thing that you only notice if it's bad or weird. And no one wants to look weird. No one wants to be that person that everyone talks about.

“This is not a cookie cutter thing.”

Not everybody has the same motion.

Charcoal portrait illustration of Dr. Petro

But if you do Botox, there is a chance that your brows will drop. And someone needs to tell you that.

It's all about the experience of the person doing it. And even then sometimes, I mean, nothing in life is perfect. God knows we all wish it was, but it's not. And so you have to have someone that you're comfortable going back to and saying, hey, I don't like this. And somebody that takes the time to look at you and figure out what happened. So, like all relationships, it goes back to trust.

And it's not about not having the answer. It's more about being honest about what you can do and what you can't do.

“So, like all relationships,
it goes back to trust.”
Charcoal portrait illustration of Dr. Petro