Allure

Yeah.

So that was for a cover of Allure with Michael Thompson and probably Paul Cavaco and Surgeon Ramon, I'm going to say.

And I hadn't seen her in anything but a nude lip.

So I said, we spoke, you know, the team in advance and I said, I want to do a red lip.

I also really enjoyed the chance to have a freewheeling conversation about beauty, plastic surgery, and the aesthetics industry with Joan Krohn.

the former plastic surgery editor at Allure magazine.

And after doing that interview with her, I realized that my career in plastic surgery and her career as a plastic surgery editor started at right about the same time.

And so we sort of lived through a number of decades of plastic surgery that we've shared between the two of us.

Well, Ki actually brought this to my attention.

The Allure Best of Beauty Awards.

You sent me a link to a podcast the other day.

Yes.

It was a Gloss Angeles episode that goes way back into the history of the awards because this is actually their 30th year.

Yeah.

Of doing the Allure Best of Beauty Awards.

So we've linked that in the show notes because you should definitely go and listen to that.

Professor Sainani has received several teaching awards, including Stanford's 2018 Biosciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

She has authored the health column, Body Muse for Allure Magazine for a decade.

And she is also the statistical direct editor for the journal, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

And she authors the statistics column, Statistically Speaking for this journal.

Okay, let's roll it back.

Who said that? Y'all need to go and watch and read the story that Allure did about the women on Rikers Island.

Go watch it.

The videos are incredible.

At the 2136 mark, the character of Janet is asked about her new job.

She says she's writing the same dreary column on how to keep the body beautiful for an untidy little magazine known as Allure.

However, that magazine actually wouldn't exist until 43 years later in 1991 when a magazine named Allure debuted, which focused in fashion, beauty, and women's health.

I think it came from this? I don't know, but I just assumed that Allure was still a magazine back then.

Apparently it was made up.

I just thought that was fun.

alluring.

I see what you did there.

Right.

So as you know, I was the editor-in-chief of Allure for six years, um, was editor-in-chief and chief marketing officer at Nylon before that.

Yes, very casual.

And so, yeah.

All right, this is amazing.

Yeah, no way.

I was actually gonna say Allure, so I'm so glad you said that first.

Really?

Um, so I think it's a natural next step, and I also, I do think the med spa world, speaking of, like, what's coming next, it is, it is about to, I think, be very competitive in a different way than we've seen.

I saw Allure just announced in 2027 and 2028 they're gonna start including med spas in their Best of Beauty.

Mm.

So there will be injectors and, I don't know exactly all of the categories, but I think that's brilliant because I think as editors, the number of people, and you- y'all, like, the number of people who come to us and ask, "Where should I go to do this or go to do that?" And to have, like, Allure, Allure back in the day, they had their directory-

Yeah

... which was phenomenal.