This holiday episode is part aesthetic audit, part emotional clean out and part unfiltered group chat with my friend—and yours—Dr. Miguel Mascaró.

We’re unpacking the ghosts of aesthetic past, present, and future, what beauty trends are quietly dying, what we’ve misunderstood about peptides, and why “branding facelifts” (yes, those) are everywhere. We get honest about practitioners photoshopping their own faces, the pressure to look perfect and how to stop hyper-fixating on appearance in a world that profits from insecurity.

We also zoom out: what we’re leaving behind in 2025 for the sake of mental health, how meditation and emotional minimalism help us drop unnecessary emotional baggage and the internal pressure we’re all navigating heading into a new year.

Plus:

Holiday icks
Unpopular beauty opinions
Trends we hope never come back
A game of Naughty or Necessary
Miguel judges my beauty routine
The most transformative wellness tip shared on the podcast this year
And a few business truths you might not hear anywhere else

Consider this your permission slip to let go of bad habits, outdated trends, and anything that no longer serves you in 2025.

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