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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Is Plastic Surgery the New Makeup?

    Sometime soon (or maybe already), you’re going to get some sort of injection for your face. You may get a needle full of Botox or Restylane, or take fat out of one area and inject it into another. That’s the thesis of Joel Stein’s article in Time magazine. Plastic surgery, he argues, is the new make up: everyone’s doing it.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 19, 2015 • 1 min read

    Sometime soon (or maybe already), you’re going to get some sort of injection for your face. You may get a needle full of Botox or Restylane, or take fat out of one area and inject it into another. That’s the thesis of Joel Stein’s article in Time magazine. Plastic surgery, he argues, is the new make up: everyone’s doing it. Why, and is that a bad thing?

    The full episode

    5 of 5
    AME in L.A., Juneteenth, Plastic Surgery as Makeup and Friday Film
    1. 0:00AME in Los Angeles
    2. 9:28Juneteenth
    3. 18:41Popular LA Teacher Forced to Take Leave
    4. 27:22Friday Film: 'Jurassic World' Mania Continues, and More
    5. 41:01Is Plastic Surgery the New Makeup?You’re reading this
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Joel Stein

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    AME in L.A., Juneteenth, Plastic Surgery as Makeup and Friday Film
    1. 0:00AME in Los Angeles
    2. 9:28Juneteenth
    3. 18:41Popular LA Teacher Forced to Take Leave
    4. 27:22Friday Film: 'Jurassic World' Mania Continues, and More
    5. 41:01Is Plastic Surgery the New Makeup?You’re reading this
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand