Botox users getting younger after a year of Zoom meetings, doctors say

Experts say people began noticing their "imperfections" for the first time after spending a year staring at themselves on Zoom.

As cities around the world start to reopen after COVID-19 lockdowns, the effects of the pandemic are starting to show on people's faces. Experts in cosmetic medicine say they have begun to notice an uptick in Botox treatments among younger generations. They say people, particularly women, in their early 20s -- aged from the pandemic and wearing less makeup than before -- spent so much time looking at themselves during Zoom meetings that they started to notice their "imperfections," and for the first time, turned to Botox and fillers. "I would say that my average age of patients shifted down considerably this year, and it's now early 20s," Skinly Aesthetics founder Dr. Dmitriy Schwarzburg said. "And they're coming not just for Botox, but for all kinds of procedures that they would otherwise consider at a much later point in their lives." Amy Shecter, the CEO of Ever/Body said, "The Zoom effect is real, and it has definitely been a catalyst for increased interest in cosmetic dermatology treatments."