I Did Halo Laser Resurfacing On My Way to a Dance Recital

After Eva went in for Halo laser resurfacing with a friend (who happens to be one of the best in the world), she walked out looking horrifying (according to the 8 year old) then drove straight to a dance recital tearing a cooling mask in half and swapping it between cheeks.

She’s back with the whole before-and-after saga: the time-lapse, the nitrous oxide she thought she wouldn’t need, a wicked fever-blister flare, and ten full seconds of obsessing over her jawline.

An opportunity to do Junera came up — a thin, spaghetti-like fiber laser that works under the skin to melt a little fat and tighten the jaw and neck, which happens August 10.

Kami placed her first EpixNxt order for tirzepatide, coupon code and all, with an unboxing and an honest weigh-in coming next week. Eva weighs a switch from her compounded progesterone pill to the injectable version, and the two compare notes on why injections beat pills and how gummies and chewable magnesium became dessert.

Eva’s kids head to a brand-new school with nine kids per class after a rough kindergarten year, and Kami’s daughter starts the high-ability track — plus a Barbie convention where Eva met the woman who designed Barbie’s clothes for three decades, still holding court in her 90s on a scooter. Kami signs off with a cliffhanger about her lawsuit.

Questions answered by this episode

1. What is recovery from a Halo laser resurfacing actually like, day by day?
2. Why do laser providers offer nitrous oxide during a resurfacing treatment?
3. Can a laser skin treatment trigger a cold sore or fever-blister flare?
4. What is Junera, and how does a subdermal laser tighten the jaw and neck?
5. What is it like to be a training or model patient for a new aesthetic device?
6. How does ordering weight-loss medication like tirzepatide through EpixNxt work?
7. Can you switch from a compounded progesterone pill to injectable progesterone?
8. Why do some people end up preferring injections over pills for hormones and GLP-1s?

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Co-hosts: Eva Sheie & Kami Gamlem
Assistant Producer: Mary Ellen Clarkson
Engineering: Victoria Cheng
Theme music: Old Grump, Smartface

Less of You is a production of The Axis.