Little Magazine 22
Renee’s Top 3 Choices for Doctors in NYC
If I refer
someone to you, it’s because I trust them with my face. And I trust no one 🤷🏼♀️(almost). My good fortune has allowed me to cross paths with these three doctors, however. I refer them whole-heartedly to my clients with 100% confidence. They are the BEST at what they do, they continue to strive to master their craft, but most importantly, to me—they’re good people. This means they actually care about their clients. Isn’t that a concept!
This photo is of the mighty but petite Doctor Libby Rhee, of Liora Dermatology. She launched Liora Clinic earlier this year, and well… if she can pull it off in 2020, that’s pretty self-explanatory, isn’t it? Aside from being an absolute magician with botox and fillers (I’d know), her je ne sais quoi factor comes from her ability to intuitively know exactly what the client needs to look their absolute best—in a natural way. She’s also extremely kind and an inspiration. I, too, would like to look 20, forever. Did I mention that she has two of the cutest little pups I've ever seen? Picture: real-life mini ewoks.
Dr. James,
as I like to call him, or Dr. James Silberzweig, has a practice in midtown called Central Park Beauty. Dr. James is known for his medical specialty in Interventional Radiology, including uterine fibroid embolization, hysterosalpingography, and fallopian tube recanalization treatments. I know him, however, from his Aesthetic practices, which include non-invasive treatments such as Cool Sculpt, and is soon releasing Physiq—an “amped up” version of Emsculpt, which is a non-invasive muscle toner and fat burner. Michelle Calabrese is the uber-talented in-house Esthetician, who mastered her craft under the supervision of Plastic Surgeons as a medical Esthetician before going on her own to create her own approach: she treats the skin intuitively as well as scientifically for an all-around life-changing experience. Central Park Beauty also offers body contouring, radio frequency, injectables, skin rejuvenation, and lasers as well as medical treatments. Dr. James is probably the only doctor in Manhattan that checks up on his patients himself. If that's not humility and care, I don't know what is!
Not only is
Dr. Cindy Bae gorgeous—she has a cult following, and with legit reason. She’s been mentioned in every beauty-list-who’s-who possible, including: Allure, ELLE, In Style, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Self, Shape, Us Weekly, Yahoo, Popsugar, Byrdie, Total Beauty, Bustle, Today, New Beauty, Huffington Post, WebMD and the list goes on and on ad nauseum. Dr. Bae is such #baegoals, but sweep aside our jaw-drop and focus on the fact that she also happens to specialize in laser surgery and scar revisions (anyone else scar when they get breathed on?). Did I mention she wrote 40 academic articles on the aforementioned topic? Oh, silly me. I got distracted by her incandescent headshot. My apologies. Aside from that, she was one of the pioneering authorities on K-beauty, IMHO. She’s one of those crème de la crème superhumans that make NY one of the best cities in the world. Indeed, we’re fortunate to be in the proximity of Dr. Bae’s talents. Did I mention that she’s also lovely? Yup. Some people have it all. The important thing, here, is that she’s willing to share it with us. Lucky ducks we are!
I’ve had the great fortune of coming into awareness of these talented Doctors. I highly recommend them to any and all of my clients and anyone looking to trust someone who will have the knowledge-base and the honesty to advise, truthfully. And no, they had no idea I was going to write on them. If you do go to them, please let me know! I’d love to know how your experience was.
I’ll leave you with this poem, “Night Shift,” by Jericho Brown, scintillating human, on this moist, humid, eerie Tuesday evening in September. Treat yourself to the audio version read by the poet himself.
“When I am touched, brushed, and measured, I think of myself
As a painting. The artist works no matter the lack of sleep. I am made
Beautiful. I never eat. I once bothered with a man who called me
Snack, Midnight Snack to be exact. I’d oblige because he hurt me
With a violence I mistook for desire. I’d get left hanging
In one room of his dim house while he swept or folded laundry.
When you’ve been worked on for so long, you never know
You’re done. Paint dries. Midnight is many colors. Black and blue
Are only two. The man who tinted me best kept me looking a little
Like a chore. How do you say prepared
In French? How do you draw a man on the night shift? Security
At the museum for the blind, he eats to stay
Awake. He’s so full, he never has to eat again. And the moon goes.
”
Toodles, my poodles. See ya next Tuesday! -Renee :)