A veteran magazine beauty editor/writer (and a member of the 40+ club), Genevieve Monsma created MediumBlonde to help Gen Xers and Baby Boomers age the way they want.
All tagged Botox
A reader recently emailed and asked me if there was an advantage to starting Botox at 40 before she had any lines etched—or if it made sense (and was more cost effective) to wait and do it once she noticed lines didn’t disappear anymore when her face was at rest. I started Botox at 33 so you already know where I fall on this issue, but I did ask Gary Goldenberg, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, for his opinion.
When we lived in New York, I was regimented about my Botox injections. In my thirties, I started getting them every six months. I believe in Botox’s wrinkle-prevention power, thus my early start. Once I entered my forties, I upped the frequency to every four months. However, since we’ve moved to Ann Arbor, but I’ve refused to give up my NYC dermatologist Neal Schultz, M.D, I’ve sdopted a whenever-I’m-in-New-York schedule. For most of the two years we’ve lived in Michigan, that’s allowed me to still get injected every four to five months. However, thanks to a busy summer and a hockey-filled fall, I’m now looking at seven months since I’ve seen Dr. Schultz—and forehead lines that are threatening to set up shop permanently.
