Is there ever such thing as a ‘preventative facelift’?
“Dr Melissa Doft, a double board-certified plastic surgeon in New York, says she’s recently had more 30-year-old customers asking for facelifts. “Young people are afraid of fillers,” she says. “They’re saying, ‘Why would I want fillers? I’ll just get a facelift’”. After combining a new-found fear of looking “overfilled” with the extreme weight loss achieved through new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Dr Doft says younger patients are becoming more inclined to go under the knife. This, however, by no way means they’re bypassing the need for a future facelift. “The person who’s going to want a facelift at 30 is not going to want to see the signs of ageing at all,” she says. “They’re probably, just because of their personality, going to be more likely to get it again in eight, ten or 15 years.””