God, it is such a thing<\/em> to turn 30. I wanted to believe that my friends and I wouldn\u2019t be defined by the stereotypes of this particular age, yet I\u2019m constantly affronted with all the clich\u00e9s that come with it. These days, we\u2019re all talking less about our adventures in dating over endless beers at the dive bar and instead detailing the minutia of our annual tax filings over an early dinner and single glass of wine (it\u2019s so easy to get hungover now).<\/p>\n One thing we\u2019re discussing more than ever: aesthetic treatments. As a beauty editor, I\u2019ve always been the person my friends come to for skin care recommendations or makeup tips. But in the past couple of years, those questions have started to revolve around age-related concerns and procedures: Do you know a good plastic surgeon? What\u2019s the difference between the different types of liposuction? Should I get Botox or filler?<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s the latter I get asked the most, and it\u2019s an increasingly hard question for me to answer. I got neuromodulators (Botox, Daxxify, etc.) and filler somewhat consistently throughout my mid-to-late 20s but I stopped a couple of years ago and have since decided to avoid them indefinitely. It\u2019s forced me to reexamine my relationship with injectables, which, despite being somewhat casual, had the potential to snowball into something toxic.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be honest, I wasn\u2019t all that aware or interested in injectables before entering the beauty industry\u2014but after getting hired at Allure<\/em> at 25, I was suddenly surrounded by them. In staff meetings and at industry events, people would casually exchange the details of their treatments, something I\u2019d never witnessed before. For the first time, I was writing content about those treatments, inadvertently educating myself on how they work. Publicists for dermatologists would email me every now and then to offer an appointment free of charge, which I quickly learned is pretty standard in this line of work.<\/p>\n Nicola Dall’Asen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Nicola Dall’Asen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n Some memories from my filler\/Botox era, circa 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n I figured if I had free access to these procedures that plenty of people would happily drop thousands of dollars for, why not take advantage? If I\u2019m going to be writing about them, I thought, shouldn\u2019t I have at least a little firsthand experience? I was younger than the target demographic for injectables, but I\u2019d heard so much talk of \u201cpreventative Botox\u201d that I thought it couldn\u2019t hurt to try them anyway. One curious visit to a dermatologist became a routine visit every six months wherein I\u2019d usually just tell the doctor, \u201cDo whatever you think I need.\u201d That often resulted in me getting neuromodulator injected into my forehead, around my eyes, and in my jaw muscles plus filler in my lips, cheeks, and jaw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God, it is such a thing to turn 30. I wanted to believe that my friends and I wouldn\u2019t be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/before20and20after20stopping20injectables.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tendancesetobjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"nicola](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.allure.com\/photos\/67d99ebcc8ba84fbd265395c\/master\/w_1600%252Cc_limit\/nicola%252520before%252520stopping%252520injectables%2525202.jpg?ssl=1\")
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