Facelift Forward: Why Women Holding Off On Intervention Until The Big One [Video]

Because we both know the limits of even the most diligent retinol routine, an actor famous for her kittenish smile and tailored separates levels with me. For a woman on the rise in this business, there are not just parts to consider, but procedures.

Her face is her instrument, and it will require maintenance, but instead of using fillers—which she calls “the devil”—she will stall out the aging process with treatments and lasers like Morpheus8 and Fraxel. And then, before she turns 50, she will invest in a surgical solution. With a grin, she deems it a kind of au naturel aging: It’s her same skin, just less of it. As she explains: “It’s low intervention until the facelift.”

Despite the omnipresence of so-​called Instagram face, with its characteristic puffed-up cheeks, button noses, and smoothed-out nasolabial folds, fillers are, in fact, a somewhat recent invention—and the actor is not alone …