00:01Courtney 10 years ago would be like Botox that's for white people like to be honest but now I can
00:08do whatever I want hey it's Courtney I'm in New York City about to go visit Dr. Love to try
00:23out
00:24Botox for the very first time I'm very nervous but I'm gonna see if it's worth the pain the
00:29time and the money and would I recommend it to a friend so I really want to get Botox because
00:43I
00:43don't want my forehead to I don't want any lines here or here or under my eyes you know black
00:49don't
00:49crack that's what they say I truly believe that but I do want to take some preventative measures
00:55I just stepped into my 30s I want to feel as confident as possible I'm feeling actually a
01:02little nervous not because of the pain but mainly because I don't know what to expect it's not
01:07something that's widely talked about in my community I think and it's kind of taboo a little bit I don't
01:13have that first-person experience from a friend who's tried this before but I honestly think that
01:18whatever you want to do to your body that will make you feel more confident in who you are you
01:23should do
01:23that hi guys my name is Dr. Love I am a board certified dermatologist and I practice cosmetic
01:30and medical dermatology in New York City today we are in my office this is Gramercy laser and medical
01:36dermatology also called Glamderm I discovered dermatology actually as a patient growing up as
01:43a teenager I had pretty severe acne I just had a really hard time finding someone who I felt like
01:50understood my skin we finally found a black dermatologist the difference it made in my skin
01:55my confidence and the difference it made in really the entire outlook of my life inspired me to pursue
02:01dermatology black don't crack is a really popular saying and dermatology we like to say it might not
02:07crack but it does sag fine lines and wrinkles appear about a decade later and black patients than
02:13they do compared to fair skin what that means is that in my fair skin patients they may come in
02:18for
02:19Botox in their 20s whereas I find that black patients tend to come in more around the 30s I
02:26consider Botox to be preventative not a post-treatment when you start Botox on the earlier side you don't
02:34have to look crazy you don't have to look frozen you don't have to look like some of the things
02:39you've
02:39maybe seen on reality TV you can actually have a very natural effect and people really probably
02:44won't even know that you had Botox but they'll just know that you look very glowy and your skin looks
02:49good this is my first time getting Botox best appointment my favorites I'm glad to hear that yes
02:55tell me everything where do you want to start what is Botox great question so Botox is a purified protein
03:02it's called botulinum and essentially what it does is it just decreases the intensity of muscle
03:09contractions that's going to decrease the intensity of wrinkles when you make expressions is it really
03:15painful I have patients who are very afraid of needles who like come religiously for their Botox
03:20how often should I come back what I tell people the way to think about Botox is that it is
03:26a wrinkle
03:27rest the treatment we do today will last you somewhere between three to four months so that's
03:33three to four months that you're not pushing into this wrinkle and you're not making this wrinkle
03:38worse the one thing to be prepared for it takes two weeks for Botox to kick in about a week
03:44from now
03:45you'll start to kind of feel like you see it but it's really at the two week mark that it
03:50fully kicks
03:51in okay and so what are we gonna do today we're gonna do whatever you want oh great do you
03:56want
03:56to do a big raise for us you're so great for doing this on camera so essentially you have this
04:02line
04:02right here and you can start to see that when you initially relax it you can still see where the
04:08line
04:09is our treatment today is going to be focused on minimizing that while also giving you some of the
04:15just like smoothening of the forehead we're gonna put a tiny bit in your frown muscles just because we
04:20want to balance out where your eyebrows are so if we only treat these you can feel a little heavy
04:25so we'll treat here and here okay and then big smile for me we're gonna do a little bit of
04:30Botox
04:31underneath the eye on both sides how much will this cost general cost for what you were doing if you
04:37came to the office would be 550 I was gonna say 500 perfect yeah right now I'm feeling a combination
04:47of a
04:47lot of things I'm feeling nervous I'm feeling excited so I'm most excited to show my girls in
04:55the group chat my results they have been super supportive of me exploring this and going down
05:01this journey I am still nervous about being judged and people asking me why do I think that I need
05:08to do
05:09this for insecurity reasons so I'm feeling optimistic excited and nervous first I'm going to remove your
05:19makeup again this is not small great so I apologize your eyes may water perfect now I'm going to have
05:30you make the facial expressions and I'm going to mark you so that your treatment is individual to you
05:35raise your most aggressive raise you can ever do perfect and relax for me and then big raise for me
05:43again all right so now it's time for treatment this is honestly the easiest part we're gonna start with
05:53your frown lines give me your biggest frown ever there we go that's a real frown okay and relax for
06:00me
06:00you're gonna feel one tiny little poco cut one two three and that is your first Botox perfect that was
06:10easy
06:10that's it so we're just gonna do that a handful of times okay big frown for me grab this muscle
06:17one two
06:18three perfect and relax for me one two three perfect okay now we're going to treat your forehead wrinkles
06:28so you can keep your eyes closed you can keep your eyes closed and just relax you don't have to
06:31move
06:31okay so one two three big raise for me here one two perfect and then now we're going to do
06:42the
06:42under eye area full disclosure all my patients hate this okay but it's also everyone's favorite so it'll be
06:49be fairly good and smile and relax look all the way up one two three perfect excellent
07:05and that's it good to go all right so you're all done um you can essentially go about your day
07:14you
07:14can put makeup back on if you have somewhere to go um the big things is that you don't want
07:19to do
07:20anything that's going to move the Botox so that's going to be no inversions no working out no cardio no
07:27strength training no Pilates or yoga no massages and no facials and don't get your eyebrows done you're
07:33good for normal skincare and you can pick up everything completely normal at midnight no restrictions
07:40perfect all right and then it will take two weeks to see your results thank you you're very welcome
07:46it's a pleasure so I definitely see where she poked me my under eyes it looks a little swollen under
07:55there I definitely feel like I could put some concealer on and go about my day which is great
08:00my first Botox experience was amazing Dr. Love was so caring so informative so thoughtful and in the way
08:08that she handled everything too she made me feel really comfortable and that I trusted her and was
08:12a lot less painful than I thought it would be but also in some areas a little bit more painful
08:17than
08:17I thought it would be like under my eyes it's definitely a little more sensitive I think another
08:21thing that made this this experience so amazing is it's hard to find a dermatologist that you feel
08:29comfortable with who understands you as a black woman who knows my skin type worked with other black women
08:35and I think that this experience was something that I could not have wished to go better thank you Dr.
08:42Love
08:42and with that we'll see how I look in two weeks so it's been officially two weeks since I got
08:53Botox for
08:54the first time I definitely think that I notice a difference my under eyes seem to be definitely just a
09:02little bit more plump like there's less lines as you can kind of see when I do this no lines
09:08like I just
09:10think that that's so crazy I definitely had a I have a line kind of here it's always been there
09:17and I
09:17talked to Dr. Love about this and you know kind of just saying that I wanted that line to go
09:21away
09:21especially when I wear makeup and it's like way less noticeable than it was before even when I do them
09:28I'm so bad at this but there's no lines here I'm taking my glasses off I did have a couple
09:35of bruises
09:35under my eyes but those went away like the next day overall very very happy with my results as a
09:43black
09:43woman a lot of times cosmetic procedures or enhancements are kind of a little bit of a taboo
09:50and it's something that I did not realize you know or learn about or I wasn't educated on
09:58and I think that it's something that I want to explore more something that I want to do my research
10:03on and
10:03learn and have doctors like Dr. Love who can come in and really make me feel safe and comfortable and
10:09and explain why things like this are you know for me too for the investment the time the money the
10:17pain
10:18which was very minimal I would highly recommend this to a friend and I am excited to continue on this
10:26journey but overall very happy
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