The Body Is The New Face

The lines on our faces have been frozen, the dark spots faded, the flaky cells blasted away, the collagen revived with retinol. Our faces, it's safe to say, are in a good place. But what of our knees?

- APRIL LONG

We are, it seems, collectively turning our eyes downward and realizing...one of these things is not like the other. Dermatologists and surgeons are noting a tremendous upswing in requests for anti-aging interventions below the jaw, from erasing forearm freckles to de-wrinkling crepe-textured ankles to re-plumping thin-skinned hands. "It's not as if we have new technology or treatments to address these issues," says Dr. Robert Anolik, who practices at the Laser & Skin Surgery Center of New York, "but people are more aware of what can be done to improve skin on the body-whether it's from reading about some of these procedures in magazines or seeing them on TikTok-and there's a big wave of interest." Essentially, anything that can be injected into or directed at the face is now being used elsewhere: microneedling on the stomach, hyaluronic acid in the derriere and the soles of the feet, radiofrequency on the thighs, you name it.